She wanted to buy her grandkids a bike for Christmas. Then came the shutdown.

Kacper said:
We have only 1 local hospital that is for profit, run like crap, and have a take us or leave us attitude toward workers and patients. As a result, a lot of top shelf people will commute to one of the larger nearby cities. Because our hospital and its network is run like crap a couple of those nearby hospitals have set up clinics in our city since crap for profit has managed to keep those hospitals from building their own in our city and run air medivacs which also has some of their medical staff rotating from where they are at to and from these clinics to provide both pre-surgery diagnosis and post-surgical follow up care (especially for heart patients). The long and short of it is that they are trying to reach around our fair weather facility and get to the patients before they are circling the drain in the local butcher shop. These are 4 lane 65 MPH highway commutes so 50-80 mile commutes are only like an hour hour fifteen minutes. Hell, the next county over lost their only hospital and those people have to go further just to get anything.

Wish I had taken a photo of the possibly worst hospital billboard I have ever seen that they put up at one point. It read basically like, "In the event of a heart attack or stroke, seconds matter, so you have no choice but to come to our hospital, so suck it up, snowflakes, we've got you by the balls".
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Even though I live in a rural area, we have an ever-expanding hospital with excellent doctors about 20 min. away. My family Dr. is about 15. The surgeon who put my stint in is an excellent Dr. I go twice a year to have it checked. He spends 5 minutes giving me the results, then we spend about 15 - 20 bullshitting about cars.
 
RB 60 said:
Even though I live in a rural area, we have an ever-expanding hospital with excellent doctors about 20 min. away. My family Dr. is about 15. The surgeon who put my stint in is an excellent Dr. I go twice a year to have it checked. He spends 5 minutes giving me the results, then we spend about 15 - 20 bullshitting about cars.
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Tale of Two Cities here. Our local hospital barely keeps itself from being shut down. An hour to the south is one of the best hospitals in the country. I am glad the latter recognizes that it needs to pick up the slack for the former.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
May have to pay their own healthcare unlike your deadbeat socialist ass.
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Not my fault you don't consider earning it as compensation as paying for it. When people like you come from a background where it's been handed to you all your life for nothing, you think it should continue without doing a thing.
 
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