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[MetalSlimeHunt]

The FDA intends to reduce the MSM blood donor ban from lifetime to one year.

[Sirus]

The FDA intends to reduce the MSM blood donor ban from lifetime to one year.

Well, one good step.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's at least in line with most of their other deferral policies now. I'm on a year deferral myself. From an airport where there was a malaria scare, that is. Not gay sex. Definitely the airport.

[Frumple]

Please refrain from buggering tiger mosquitoes in the future, MSH.

FakeE: Though by the end of typing that, I realized it could be construed as a rather disparaging comment towards someone's personal endowment. Hrm. Eh. Roll with it.

[Baffler]

noncompete agreement stuffs

Aren't these basically unenforceable though? Jimmy Johns has no idea, and probably never will, that you work at Subway now. It would be a waste of their time to watch everyone who quits, and they would justifiably catch a lot of flak even if they did. That's not to say it's utterly ridiculous that agreements like that even exist, but it sounds more like they're just blowing hot air to try to reduce employee turnover.

[scriver]

It's to make employees feel uncertain and make them less likely to quit (because they are afraid they'll get sued if they get a new sandwich job) and more likely to put up with abusing behaviour from their employers.

[Helgoland]

Don't quote Truean, remember. Good point though.

[penguinofhonor]

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[smeeprocket]

When visiting America, it is of utmost importance that you avoid the healthcare system. It will try to eat you.

yep, getting ill can legitimately lead the average household deeply into debt and into bankruptcy. I've heard conspiracies about medical boards restricting approval of licenses to limit the number of doctors but who knows if it is true. The point is, we have much fewer, much richer, doctors.

[Sheb]

I know that when I travelled to the US the last time, I specifically took travel insurance to avoid this kind of shit. Although it only covered like 100,000 euros of medical care, so my family could still be screwed if I had something requiring very expensive treatment on the spot.

It also only cost less than 30 euros/year, so anyone going to the US should take one.

[UXLZ]

-sigh-... America.

[TheDarkStar]

Why can't we have a health system that works? Europe manages to do it pretty well.

[smeeprocket]

Neo-liberalism worked so well for Iraq, too.

The ACA is, while a handjob to insurance companies, somewhat effective, but since the medicaid portion was struck down, you have people like my boyfriend, my father-in-law, and to some extent my mother-in-law (she got breast cancer so they will pay for cancer stuff only,) without any medical coverage with their bodies falling apart at the seams.

[Bauglir]

The point is, we have much fewer, much richer, doctors.

This might technically be true because of the fact that it's a comparison, but the majority of doctors here aren't terrifically well off and tend to be drowning in student debt. They're kind of like lawyers in that regard. What we do have are rich insurance companies, and hospitals that overcharge on purpose because they need to start high so that when the insurance company haggles, they can negotiate down to the actual price of the service they provided. Protip: Always haggle with a hospital if you wind up paying yourself.

EDIT: Not that that will make things sane, as I imagine the 200,000 here was post-haggling, but it can make things somewhat less apocalyptic, like carrying an oxygen supply in case you ever find yourself suddenly stranded at the ocean floor.

[smeeprocket]

The point is, we have much fewer, much richer, doctors.

This might technically be true because of the fact that it's a comparison, but the majority of doctors here aren't terrifically well off and tend to be drowning in student debt. They're kind of like lawyers in that regard. What we do have are rich insurance companies, and hospitals that overcharge on purpose because they need to start high so that when the insurance company haggles, they can negotiate down to the actual price of the service they provided. Protip: Always haggle with a hospital if you wind up paying yourself.

EDIT: Not that that will make things sane, as I imagine the 200,000 here was post-haggling, but it can make things somewhat less apocalyptic, like carrying an oxygen supply in case you ever find yourself suddenly stranded at the ocean floor.

Before I got on medicaid I got stuck with a massive bill based around the reason I ended up with medicaid. But they don't pay retroactively. I don't even know how much it was, I was too out of it then to ask or care.

My mom was kind of slowly paying it off in an attempt to make a dent, but thankfully, there was this form you could fill out to just get it all erased if you were destitute, and I was, so that debt went away.