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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]REP
Ah one of them movies - yeah we do have some special movies - and Den brysomme mannen is verry weird for some reason... And if you want "silly" ones, you have to encounter two gentlemen who is dead now - but who have given countless hours of fun over more than 40 years - the two gentlemen name is Harald Eide Sten jr And Rolf Wesenlund - two men who made a lot of history both before and after the introduction of TV in Norway - but beware - it goes fast around the corners in Norwegian - and I am afraid of it would be lost in translation if you are not carefully and is trying to se them more than one time... We do have a lot of other actors, who is great, but at the spur of the moment, it is the two ones I remember.
Yeah - the kidney thing kind of scared me, as I got really sick from it.. But hopefully I am able to manage it now - by turning to more healthy things to do - and to drink a lot of water.. I have quit coffee some year ago - mostly because I often is staying up all night if I drink it to late -And I prefer a cop of tea...
Hopefully this was one of a kind - and I hope that I will never experience that again - the infection is over for the most part, even though I am on some medication for the moment - but I am better now than I was before, that is for sure...
The arthritis is less of a burden than the kidney but it is times I wish I had not having that illness - mostly because it is really painfully when cold, and the winters tend to be that, cold and far to long to my taste Oh well I manage that too
I hope you also get better - hopefully the surgery you will be given will give you less pain and better health overall - it is important for your health to have less pain and better health.. And it sounds great you also have insurance, and coverage enough to not get broke in the proses
I might ask you about managing the kidney thing - for the moment I'm not sure what to do really - I think I will try to get an appointment to my doctor - and try to ask him also about how to manage it better than I have being doing lately.
We do have some interesting history - even though most of the time we have been under other nations, like Denmark and Sweden - We had the same crown with Denmark for more than 400 years - who gave us a lot of common straits - specially when it came to the language. The language most people are using bokmål is in most cases a Norwegian form of danish - of course over the last century and a half Norwegian have changed a lot from what it was before 1814 - but most Norwegians and danish can communicate with each other with any problems, as long as it is not with the border with Germany - then we have to talk english - as many believe Norwegian to be swedish - and swedish are for some reason not something they want to talk to
We do have great landscapes here in Norway - thats for sure - and a lot of nature to be in, if we choose to do it. And it exist many places in our nature who no tourist walk - and who is great to put it bluntly... You can have your Grand Cannon - we have some nature pearl who is smaller than Gran Cannon, but who is as great as them
For the most part, we do have reasonable government - even our conservatives is to the left of the Democratic Party for the most part - and I doubt they will turn 180 degrees the next 4 years when it comes to the grand scam of things - maybe in the details - but I doubt they are willing to ditch everything we have managed to build up over the last 100 years... Even if the fear of communism have subsided a lot since 1991 - for the most part, it is just common sense to have a welfare system - and universal health care, and that is something every political party is in agreement about
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Well, before the ACA they could politely turn down a cancer patient who applied for insurance.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#131
One thing to bear in mind is that preventive care is free, regardless of the deductible.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#242
Preventive care doesn't do you any good if you can't afford any follow up you may need.
dflprincess
Sep 2013
#252
Yes -"a transfer of billions in public and private money into the pockets of ...crooks"
bread_and_roses
Sep 2013
#274
As far as I'm aware of, you are disqualified from the exchanges if the plans...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#196
So you would prefer $15,000 a month you can't pay to $300 a month you can't pay?
Ms. Toad
Sep 2013
#235
If you really don't understand how "more coverage" leads to "better health care"
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#32
Yep, that hate cause me to enthusiastically vote for him the first time & reluctantly the 2nd time.
RC
Sep 2013
#118
per Bernie there were < 10 votes in the senate for single payer, it;s sad, but bark up a
dionysus
Sep 2013
#238
i know.we're not really disageeing. it wasn't on the table because it didn't have support even in
dionysus
Sep 2013
#293
You still choose plan A B or C, depending what you can afford. Could you afford 30% of hospital care
SugarShack
Sep 2013
#63
I thought the annual out of pocket limits and lifetime limits have been suspended for a year...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#203
You have to meet the deductible first, which means a maximum of 5000 dollars for first admission...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#210
Follow the asterisks in your posts about the plan information you are given...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#215
That's at least 3 months pay, combined income, I guess we aren't supposed to pay for rent or food.
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#288
No, I don't qualify for subsidies or cost sharing, my work offers insurance...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#292
ah yes: Institutionalized inequality - Platinum people and Bronze people
bread_and_roses
Sep 2013
#275
Don't forget that if you have NO insurance, every service will cost you double, triple, or more
DebJ
Sep 2013
#170
My fiancee takes about 10 medications a month, for a chronic condition...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#165
Yes, though I heard they are renegotiating, but we won't know squat till December...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#188
Well, to be honest, I'm trying to switch jobs before that, but it really is going to depend on...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#201
"57% of Canadians reported waiting 30 days (4 weeks) or more to see a specialist".
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#245
I don't see anything wrong with a wait time to see specialists in non-life-threatening
delrem
Sep 2013
#249
So why did Paul Krugman describe Obamacare as "an approximation of a single payer system"?
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#248
Very sorry about your daughter. You hit the real problem we are having right now square on the head
jwirr
Sep 2013
#60
brings this to mind: how the TV show 'Breaking Bad' plays out in the rest of the civilized world.
KG
Sep 2013
#11
Thanks for posting that. I also live in a country with universal health care...
Violet_Crumble
Sep 2013
#15
Countries with single payer usually have small charges for patients. Not free.
Quantess
Sep 2013
#134
Quality of a country's health care measured by what the bottom 10% get, not the top 10%.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2013
#37
"often it is the sick and poor who need universal health care more than everyone else"
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2013
#44
If "We take care of our own" good enough for US Marines, it's good enough for the whole USA. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2013
#39
Don't forget the rampant profiteering of the medical/pharmaceutical community and the
Maineman
Sep 2013
#55
It is horrible, Diclotican. The worst thing is people who are so afraid of universal health
mountain grammy
Sep 2013
#153
If you don't go broke paying for life-sustaining healthcare it ain't freedom!
Arugula Latte
Sep 2013
#85
here in the states that would cost somewhere between 3-4 hundred thousand dollars
madrchsod
Sep 2013
#86
Diclotican, I'm sorry you had this health ordeal, but glad you did not have the added stress of
suffragette
Sep 2013
#101
Cost? Put it this way, break your leg on a ski trip and lose your house.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#114
This is why as a Canadian I don't agree that the US ACA is a "first-step to universal coverage".
delrem
Sep 2013
#237
Here's an experience of a loved one with Commonwealth Care (AKA Romneycare, precursor to Obamacare)
MADem
Sep 2013
#125
We are not going to get that. It's not going to happen. At least not soon, and maybe not ever.
MADem
Sep 2013
#149
I found this comparison between tax rates in Norway, in my state (blue Mass), and
MADem
Sep 2013
#155
thank you so much for your story. We have to have universal health care here in the US. There just
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#144
Thank you for sharing this with us. Just the fact that you were admitted and held in
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#162
Thank you for sharing this. Even in your non-native language, it makes sense and...
Triana
Sep 2013
#192
I am glad you were able to get medical care and now are on the mend. :^)
GreenPartyVoter
Sep 2013
#229
Your grammar and spelling are better than those of a couple of US Congress members
eridani
Sep 2013
#230