Not just the liberals! The conservatives are achieving every one of their goals as opposition, including obstructing the non-conservative leader, whining about taxes like it’s Texas and we don’t know better, and pitching trickle-down schemes without end. They’re doing very well on their entire platform!
Probably private. We found massive cost increases - what? We were lied to! - about the switch to private insurance.
And, with no one actually responsible for insuring you - if you can pick anything, no one’s on the hook - you can get dropped from an insurer, black-listed amongst friendly companies, and unable to actually get insurance. Consider this useless anecdote:
2004, raccoons rip up roof tiles and cause a small roof leak. Fixed easily via insurance claim (for safety because you never know).
2020, inflow connection to toilet pops off and begins spraying water on floors and walls of bathroom. When homeowners return home, floors in upstairs and foor/walls of kitchen water-damaged. Fixed under claim, phew.
insurance company drops customer for ‘persistent pattern of water-damage claims’ and other insurers won’t insure due to history.
bring on the loan-shark costs!
My dear friend has been through the ringer, but it seemed so well-executed, this scarlet-letter process, that it can’t be rare.
The regional-gov insurance programme may seem costly now, but an organization we can still manage indirectly through voting measures and who must insure without prejudice like this is in-fucking-valuable.
They could. It’s happening in the states, where people once labeled as rapists by the Commander in Cheese now support his re-election, simply because no one is reminding them that Biden quietly did a bunch a things, and they’ve been hoodwinked to voting “anyone but crooked old Biden”.
I’m not surprised hospitals are still loaded. Covid’s preventable “temporary” (2yr?3?) hit to hospitals incited people to retire in a permanent fashion. Now any issues with loading and staffing are complicated by recruitment from a really small pool. And family doctors? No one wants to be a family doctor.
While the plural of ‘anecdote’ isn’t ‘data’, I can confirm that wait times for injuries are stilll somewhat short. It’s proper triage in action. Procedures are scheduled fast and the cancellation call list is still your friend. If you’re coughing and it sounds like one of the big-three illnesses that are going to be a check-and-release kinda deal, you’re going to be there for-ev-er. I’d like to see a second queue to cherry-pick the fevers and colds and get their assessment out of the way, but working that will be a challenge.
It’s gonna be a rough winter, and I’m gonna have my face-diaper when I’m in groups or on transit. I don’t need that hassle.
But if you miss your doctor, thank your closest anti-vax horse-paste hillbilly; and Fox news for weaponizing them into belligerent know-it-all obstructionists. I haven’t heard a retirement story that doesn’t include a “belligerent advocate” trigger.
I love how the conservatives fixate so fucking hard on the imm’grints without acknowledging the need for them and the need for housing to simply support people living longer without paying into cpp/oap.
It must be refreshing to know that for every problem it’s either hyper-educated immigrants, refugees, or just the poors’ fault somehow, and that magically a strong bootstraps policy will trickle golden mana down from the aristocracy.
A thousand times it’ll be wrong, but they’re confident this time it’ll be right.
Well they can separate, but like any other renter they need to leave it as least as well as they found it. Leave a forwarding address, too, in case we need to send along contents or mail or bills.
I’m sure when they threw that money at Israel there wasn’t the abuses and settlement-creep goin-- nevermind. Don’t ever change, conservatives: it’ll be hard to explain the gap to our kids.