(I totally stole this from Violet Socks)
{{ring}}
Dispatcher: Midvale Fire Department, how may I help you?
Homeowner: My house is on fire!
Dispatcher: May I have your policy number?
Homeowner: My what?
Dispatcher: Your homeowners insurance policy number.
Homeowner: What do you need that for? MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE!
Dispatcher: I have to verify coverage, sir.
Homeowner: What the f u . . .? Just a second, let me find the card in my wallet.
Dispatcher: I’ll hold, sir.
Homeowner: Here it is, it’s X123456789
Dispatcher: Thank you, sir. Okay, I see you are covered for basic fire. Is anyone trapped in the house?
Homeowner: No, everyone got out.
Dispatcher: That’s good, because you’re not covered for rescues from burning buildings.
Homeowner: No, everyone’s out. But the house is burning, can you please hurry?
Dispatcher: Just a few more questions, sir. There is a $10,000 co-pay due at the time of service, will you be paying with cash or major credit card?
Homeowner: I don’t have that kind of cash and my cards are maxed out. Will you take a check?
Dispatcher: I’m afraid not sir, would you like to fill out a credit application?
Homeowner: Yes, yes, whatever. Just send the damn fire trucks!
Dispatcher: There is no need for profanity sir. Do you know how the fire started?
Homeowner: I think my son was playing with matches.
Dispatcher: Oh, I’m sorry sir, your policy carries an exclusion for arson. Have a nice day.
{{click}}
Homeowner: Hello? Hello?
THE END
Total spending on health care, per person, 2007:
United States: $7290
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Italy: $2686
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The Confluence 
Have ever heard of ” fire marks”? In the beginning years of this country the fireman belonged to private companies. If your house caught fire if you did not have the fire mark it burned down. Thank God that changed.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Winston Churchill:
And more:
Lloyd Stark was my great uncle, a Democratic governor of MO. This is what the Democratic Party used to look like. The Ellis Fischel Cancer Center continues to treat all MO residents, regardless of their ability to pay. What have we become in this country?
Republicans
Yup
That’s what happens when you have two Republican parties. Government is evil in all ways. Get rid of education, heath, welfare, and while you’re at it, all human rights. What’s not to like.
I suspect part of the problem is the Democrats are caught in their own web. They don’t have the money to increase services without raising taxes and they don’t have the guts to tell people that because it might mean they would end up out on their backsides.
That’s a big incentive to privatize and let everyone pay their own share or have the private companies collect the money for services. The democratic party is gutless.
You need to add the life expectancies Myiq
Italy and France outlive us by 2 years and the Brits have the same life expectancy.
Evidently socialized medicine in two of the countries not only brought price down but still managed to produce longetivity that met or exceed our own “best medicine money can buy”
Glenzilla:
Failure is a feature, not a bug.
Interesting remark from Glenn in the comments section of his health care article:
Obviously even bright people like Glenn get rolled by their own “hope” (and, I suspect, CDS).
He’s exactly who he claimed to be, Glenn punked his own self.
the guy ran Harry and Louise ads and insisted that a government mandated program would amount to making the poor choose between rent and health care. Which part of that did Glenn take to mean fully supports universal coverage?
Yes, Glenn is continually shocked–shocked, I tell you–by Obama being worse than Bush. I’m tired of these people saying that McCain would have been worse than Obama. Obama is the ultimate corporate whore–always has been, always will be.
Why am I caught in moderation? Help, please.
Maybe cuz of wh@@e? Just a guess.
Bingo. Why didn’t anyone but us listen to what Obama himself said.
DT,
Because we agree with the POTUS that words matter. Because we also think that actions matter, we parted ways.
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If words and actions mattered then one only needed to actually weigh the words and action of Obama and his surrogates to see exactly who he was.
I do not agree with Glenn that Obama is not who he claimed to be. I think instead that what he isn’t is a reflection of what Glenn and others failed to take into account. Barack Obama is the equivalent of the guy who the left wished to drink a beer with(I can not even begin to count the number of times I tried to discuss policy difference on domestic policy and was poh poohed about how it didn’t matter since the legislative legwork would fall on Congress). It’s just a darn shame the rest of us are stuck with him as well.
Yep, they’re worse than Republicans. At least with Repubs they make it clear they’re for big mondo corporations having complete control and bankrupting the fed gov. to make that easier. Democrats are for exactly the same thing except they lie and pretend they’re for something else.
Stabbed in the front or stabbed in the back option.
With the Republicans they laugh while they knife you in the gut. With the Democrats they giggle and snicker behind your back while they knife you right in the kidneys.
I am so ready for a third choice.
Third choice? I’m not sure I want to be knifed anywhere else 🙂
Okay you got me, no knifing until and unless we get comprehensive health care coverage.
Should I prepare the snowballs for Hades?
😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
we’re number 35.
Soon the medicare qualifying age will be 76 and life expectancy will be at 65…with more and more people becoming uninsured.
Our life expectancy is going up. That being said so is the numbers of people who are losing everything due to medical are also going up.
http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/sixty-percent-of-us-bankruptcies-due-to.html
There’s been a 50% increase in 60 years. Guess what also has gone up? That’s right, profits at for profit insurance companies.
Stop giving the right side of the aisle ideas myiq.
Is that the GOP Fire Department. 😆
I would call the volunteer Fire Department and not risk being over bid.
What volunteer Fire Department you socialist you?
We can’t have volunteer Fire Department because if we did it would impede the ability of private industry to procure a profit.
I mean geez what do you think this is? Russia
But, but, but, I only carry 25 dollars!
Bureaucrats and the Privatization of the Government (Firemen/women not paid by private contractor– true not a joke)
I actually was kind of thinking this was somewhat interesting because I remember when the GOP was in power and cut money for first responders (like Fire and EMS). it was shortly after 9/11
Ayup, they could have let the whole forest burn down while at code ‘orange’…penny smart and dollar foolish.
Ah, spammy got me…
Obama has got to be the most shallow, vein President in American history:
http://alegrescorner.soapblox.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=3538
He’s the Gilderoy Lockhart of politics!
LOL, love the Gilderoy reference. Remember, Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that. 🙂
Even better:
Harry: You’re running away? After all that stuff you did in your books?
Gilderoy Lockhart: Books can be misleading…
Harry: You wrote them!
Gilderoy Lockhart: My dear boy, do use your common sense! My books wouldn’t have sold half as well if people didn’t think *I’d* done all those things!
Does rather fit Obama doesn’t it. 🙂
Too funny!
Inside USA – Privatised cities (run by international top defense contractor)- 17 Oct 08 – Part 1
I’ll see you one privatized city and raise you one foreign controlled toll road thanks to W and his grand scheme to “lease” assets.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy134.htm
Indiana has one of these toll roads I believe.
WOW, now I am going to have nightmares and wonder if the next bridge I cross is a foreign country and if I will need my passport and or a visa to cross. SO, the bridge is really for SALE! WOWZA!
Best play I’ve seen at TC 😀
Yea, but will you be able to sleep tonight? Make one do…Ah hemmm… wonder if?
Remember the movies with people passing buckets to put out the fire?