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It looks like the sort of nametag you
get at a corporate event (you know,
"Hello! My name is...").
But when people look closer, they
see
what it really says is: "Hello! I have
no
health insurance."
It should probably be a pin (more
durable than a sticker) and it should
probably
include an easy to read
URL where people
can go to get statistics on the
growing number of Americans who
have no insurance.
If these were easy to get and even a
fraction of uninsured people wore
one you could probably count on
seeing one in every subway car, at
every bus stop, on every flight, etc.
That would lead to press which in
turn would lead to frank discussion
of the lack of affordable coverage in
the US.
Sucks to be you!
http://news.bbc.co....mericas/3136522.stm
It's all fun and games until you slip and fall. [subpixel, Oct 04 2004]
But it's not my problem.
http://www.cnn.com/...sured.community.ap/
Wait a second, yes it is! [subpixel, Oct 04 2004]
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I must admit, I enjoy living in Canada for this exact reason. However, I don't enjoy the damn winter weather! |
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//It should probably be a pin// |
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If you're uninsured, the sticker's safer. Don't risk infection with a pin. |
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Maybe a patch. Or a custom t-shirt. Of course, if you wore that t-shirt all the time you'd be saying something else, too..."Hi! I have a limited wardobe and not-so-limited body odur!" |
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Let them die and decrease the surplus population, so I'd stick with a pin, and maybe they could walk on icy roads with it? |
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Wouldn't this put the wearer at risk of substandard emergency medical treatment? |
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...to go with your UNINSURED bumper stickers (front and rear of car please). |
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(is this a mild social rant disguised as an idea?) |
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I don't think it would work. The people that have insurance already won't care and the people that don't already know that they don't so making them wear a pin isn't telling them anything. |
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I'm sure Britain is on more than 1. |
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Ooh. Name tags. There's an original idea. |
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The idea of walking in to a health care facility, and have to pay them anything at all is so very strange. In Canada, doctor's offices and hospitals have no credit card readers, Interac devices, cash drawers or registers. No one sends you a bill in the mail. All you have to do is show your heath card, which simply proves your identity. |
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Outsiders are often amused with the strange impression in the USA that laws are a force of nature; this from a country born by revolution! Do something about it, ya wimps! |
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Why is there a lack of universal health care in the USA? |
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Good question. I don't know but I do know that what we have now is headed for crisis if it isn't, in fact, already in crisis. |
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I also know that privitization is making inroads in Canada (Bill 11, Alberta) and that there are many complaints of vastly overcrowded medical and trauma facilities in Canada, so don't boast too loudly. |
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I'm curious about what, if any, differences in care quality there is between a nationalized system and a private one. I'm sure that it varies from doctor to doctor but what the average health care differences might be. |
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When I lived overseas and was a patient in a nationalized plan, I wasn't too impressed with the medical care but the dental care was fantastic. |
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