Tampon Tim

[Pogo]

Ugh. So what you're telling me is I'm going to be peeing at Tim Horton's for a long time to come.

Until you bite the bullet and fix it.

I lost my bathroom floor to a tiny leak I couldn't find whenever I looked for it.
Finally found it, only leaked when I sat on the toilet and the tank to bowl joint leaked down the back where it disappeared into the wall if you didn't catch it. Ten bucks for the toilet parts and an hour labor plus half the bathroom floor.

If you are renting you should be able to sue. They will fix it soon then, contractors are cheaper than lawyers.

Didn't help me, I owned it.

 

[Kathryn]

They both get equal coverage.

You know, basically the entire world, save for the USA has universal healthcare of some type, right? You should read up on that.

And in many places a person STILL has to buy insurance. Or should, or wait a very long time for basic care.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Btw, lots of people work just for the health care.
Give them free health care, no need to work. More time for fishing.

This doesn't bear out in reality.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Yes and its paid for by higher gas tax, etc. if I remember right.
IOW it equals out to more people paying for it.

Have you actually ever checked the cost of living in the US versus other similar countries?

 

[We Never Know]

Yes the system needs work, full time minimum wage is not enough to get by but people like you who object to helping others such that you won't raise minimum wage, support childcare adequately, provide health care other than through her job which at poverty level jobs is basically unheard of.
Result, she can't afford to work and so there you have yourself another welfare queen.

Alternatively you could reallize that this is the objective of universal healthcare, a fair health care policy at taxpayer expense to provide for those whose position on the economic scale does not allow them to afford it otherwise. You can still have your latte provided in the doctor's office if you want to pay for it, but at least everybody has a way to take care of medical needs without betting on luck and ending up in the emergency room when the scratch becomes massively infected because it was the one time in ten it would have been worth the $100 for strip mall health clinic.

Don't blame it on single mother who doesn't want to go back to the abusive husband,
Blame it on yourself because you wouldn't support things like universal health care so she can keep her job and have health care for the two children that knew she couldn't afford the second one but you wouldn't let her get an abortion because she didn't know she was pregnant for two weeks and daycare for two kids is half her daily wage at whatever minimum wage her state says is appropriate for minimally skilled maybe temp employees who may have to take time off for kids.

Look in the mirror if you want to know why.

"full time minimum wage is not enough to get by but people like you who object to helping others"

Lmao. You must have missed where I said "She was trying so why not help her?"

I'm done with your nonsense.

 

[F1fan]

Getting the US healthier AND lowering our overall costs is the goal. Not raising our taxes. Lowering them.

The idea is that we don't pay for health insurance anymore, but pay more in tax. So Instead of paying $735 a month your taxes will go up $1200 a year. You would have $7620 more in your pocket at the end of the year. Or it might be $2400 in more tax a year, but you will still have more money in your pocket. And all that with less out of pocket costs because we aren't dealing with a for-profit company whose primary concern is profit margin, not our health.

Of course the wealthy will see an increase in taxes. Will they feel it? No. They will only see the number on paper. And the rich will still have their premium healthcare access. Why? They can afford it.

 

[Pogo]

Some people only work to get healthcare.

Many who work get insurance through their job.
A few years ago I read where over 50% of Americans get their insurance through an employer.

If health care is free I could see some people quitting work.

And every few years there is a solar eclipse, in the mean time you pay extra for all those uninsured people who are stuck with using the emergency room for their health care.

You know why your insurance company wants you to get all those checks, because getting regular health care is cheaper than waiting for problems to get obvious.

 

[PureX]

Could it be coming in from like, the outer wall or something? If I walk along the entire side of the building, there seems to be water damage by the windows in all the offices all along the same side where our bathroom is. But it's also coming from underneath and above.

Well, I was waiting because our Landlord keeps telling us he's waiting to hear back from insurance and wait til we hear back and this and that ... only problem is, I don't think he's on top of this at all and he's just giving us the run around. He truly is King of the Cheapskates.

I'm just amazed that every time I check to see if anything's been done, I open the door and there's still water dripping from everywhere.

It's an office building so I don't know how this works, exactly, but there's a dentist office directly below us that is also leaking from above, apparently. Maybe I should unite with them and stir up some **** about this.

We've been trying to move out of this building for like a year now, but it's hard finding a half decent office building for a decent price around here these days.

I'm kind of afraid the floor might cave in ... can that happen?

Thanks for all your help and concern! If my father (plumber/contractor) and grandfather (master electrician) were still around, I would have nipped this in the bud myself long ago.

This keeps sounding worse and worse. I think I would get serious about moving out. The building may end up being condemned if the mold and water damage is severe enough.

 

[SkepticThinker]

He didn't quit after the orders came out officially, but he did quit after there were many rumors preceding the orders. He even took a lower rank to quit. He also never received any combat pay to my knowledge. I don't think he ever saw a day of combat.

Conjecture.

 

[We Never Know]

Have you actually ever checked the cost of living in the US versus other similar countries?

I see people from other countries on here talk about how cheap things are in the US compared to where they live.
If I remember correctly its been said because they have higher taxes on things like gas, etc to pay for healthcare.

 

[Pogo]

Nothing is really free. But healthcare may be free to some people. I guess we'll wait and see. Meanwhile, 60 percent of us pay some income tax, meaning 40 percent don't, at present.

If 40% of us are not making enough money working to even pay any tax, then we have a real problem with income stratification.
Link please.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Yes and its paid for by higher gas tax, etc. if I remember right.

It's paid with our taxes. Some people pay small premiums as well. I think I paid $300 last year.

IOW it equals out to more people paying for it.

And more people getting it.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

I see people from other countries on here talk about how cheap things are in the US compared to where they live.
If I remember correctly its been said because they have higher taxes on things like gas, etc to pay for healthcare.

No, not if you include that you can get unlucky with co-pay. And if you plan to have children having a higher education.

 

[The Hammer]

Then since you work, plus draw disabilty, let me go fishing and you feed me for free.

If you think that's how things *will* actually work. Go ahead. I can't stop you.

That sounds fair to you right?

Sure

 

[Pogo]

There are more costs to life than just gealthcare. There's food costs, housing, transportation, utilities, and entertainment. Your posts suggest none of these exist as crucial to living. Many uninsured have to put whatever money they have to all other areas except healthcare. This is the dilemma, healthcare insurance is a luxury some can't afford, and that means they risk a lot. If they end up in the healthcare system and can't pay their bills, the system absorbs the costs anyway. So why not design a system that offers healthcare to anyone so they don't let illnesses get so far along that the treatment is long and expensive. It is preventative care they keeps costs down. Catching cancers early is cheaper than treatment after cancer spreads.

Which is a system designed to make it more affordable and keep a work force healthy. Even with these efforts insurance policies are covering less, and costing individuals more.

Yeah, it's a way that helps both the insurers and the insured. If that can work at 50% it can't work to all citizens who aren't wealthy enough to pay for whatever healthcare they need.

How do they pay their bills? In the last decade I've seen more older folks working minimum wage jobs, like cashiers, and thinking how hard their lives must be that they need to work into their 70's just to survive. Meanwhile the wealthy accumulate more wealth.

They aren't working for employer health care, they are working to cover the $7000 donut hole in their medicare before it goes back to paying for their medicines etc.

 

[SkepticThinker]

And in many places a person STILL has to buy insurance. Or should, or wait a very long time for basic care.

No. Here in Canada, you CAN buy additional insurance if you want to, and some jobs provide it as well. Dentistry isn't covered by our healthcare here so a lot of people will get insurance to cover that.

Waiting a "very long time for basic care" is an old wives' tale Americans like to tell themselves about universal healthcare that just isn't true.

 

[We Never Know]

Nothing is really free. But healthcare may be free to some people. I guess we'll wait and see. Meanwhile, 60 percent of us pay some income tax, meaning 40 percent don't, at present.

True.

"In total, about 59.9 percent of U.S. households paid income tax in 2022. The remaining 40.1 percent of households paid no individual income tax. In that same year, about 47.1 percent of U.S. households with an income between 40,000 and 50,000 U.S. dollars paid no individual income taxes."

Households paying no income tax by income level U.S. 2022 | Statista

In total, about 59.9 percent of U.S.

www.statista.com

 

[wellwisher]

Whoa, what? We're talking about tampons in school bathrooms, right?

What does providing tampons in school bathrooms have to do with all of this??

I heard this was about tampons in the boys bathrooms. They are not complaining about them in girls bathrooms.

Back when I was young, if this had happened, many of the boys would be throwing them at each other, via tampon wars; variation of spitball wars. Some would soak them with water and then throw them at each other or even try to stick them to celling or the clock. That would be very wasteful and even awkward for the girls, if the games and the comedy, spills into the halls, classrooms and recess. Being crude would also happen. It could do some mild damage to the girls; friendly fire from the unruly boys looking for attention. Boys have way of inventing a new game with anything novel to them; just for laughs.

 

[F1fan]

Yes, the infanct needs care. Of course!
What you don't seem to be realizing here, is that we're talking about infants who are born with severe defects, who are not going to live long.

So many arguments against abortion are that fetuses can feel pain. Yup, pain is inevitable with any nervous system. But do the far right ever tlk about the pain of a defective infant suffers due to being born, and struggles as it dies of natural causes? No. I find that immoral. I also have a problem with the elderly dying slowly in hospice, as I witnessed for my mother. I don't want to wither away like that. There's no point to it, no quality of life. We don't let our pets die that way, we put them down out of mercy. I find it odd that we extend that love and concern for our pets but not humans.

Providing them with care until they pass away is the most compassionate and ethical thing to do in that situation.

Within the laws. I wouldn't have a problem with compassionate ending of life.

Strict abortion bans in places like Texas, are causing more and more of these births to occur, which is demonstrated in the 13% increase in infant mortality in that state, since they enacted their "heartbeat bill."

What would you suggest instead?

It's odd that the "pro-life" want to stand by and let nature take its course even if it causes pain and suffering. The label "pro-life" doesn't really mean moral and compassionate. It's a political label that has a political meaning.

 

[We Never Know]

They aren't working for employer health care, they are working to cover the $7000 donut hole in their medicare before it goes back to paying for their medicines etc.

Beat me to it.

Hey we found something we agree on. I'm shocked