A quick google suggests prisoners have to pay 10-100$ copays in some states, but otherwise receive care.
Dude I know you're going for the absurdum but if your search term was "prison health care" and you'd wish for that level of treatment - the actual level provided, not the one the law promises - then one of us needs to check our search engine or treatment expectations. A felony conviction's not going to land you in the Cleveland clinic. You'll be lucky to get antibiotics and sewn up if you survive having the shiv pulled out of your stomach.
I promise you I am not trying to be absurd. Absurdum is flying you and your doctor 3000 miles away because the _ancillary_ cost savings make it a rational, no brainer decision.
I'm trying to look at the factors that build up this reality and see other ways to zag through it. My hypotheticals, properly evaluated, would take into consideration the expected quality of inmate care. You might notice by tone that I grabbed onto it as an idea more gingerly than enticing a doctor with waivers and cookies to cut me open in my living room.
Lawyers are the only thing that might possibly make that one not a winner in my way of grading. Prison requires a whole new calculus.
The situation is BAD. I have a vested interest in this. My consulting career was great for the people that live with me. Unfortunately, my abjectly poor father in-law needs a heart transplant, insulin, and much else.
Taking the system for granted, It's a shame I like him so much. Now I need to find a full time salaried position that's remote or in my area. My stochastic income can't be relied upon anymore, a life is on the line. I'm doing my best, but it makes me pretty angry to be in this position.
A remote position specifically would be great, then I could make sure this guy gets to spend his final years (months?) without financial stress living next to his daughter... I'll take any interview, I'm pretty good at most software engineering... React/Nodejs/C#/WPF/ASP/PHP/Python/Unity/GLSL/HSL/C++.
I understand (really!) You have every right to be angry. If we all were angry maybe we could get traction out of the shit for brains in office that keep the system the way it is. You shouldn't have to pick a job for health benefits, those should be a given whether or not you have a job, for you, for your in law too. WTF is wrong with this country that we have to put up with this horseshit? Peace
Thank you. Last time someone commended me on my writing I was all sorts of chuffed. This time, I'm just embarrassed. I'm ashamed I can't carry the weight of my dying family.
It's probable that I'm angry at a system as a proxy for anger I would otherwise direct myself. I should be able to handle this.
And where did you get your knowledge of prison, reality TV? The type of felony you would commit to get prison treatment isn't going to put you in a situation where that is commonplace...
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Dude I know you're going for the absurdum but if your search term was "prison health care" and you'd wish for that level of treatment - the actual level provided, not the one the law promises - then one of us needs to check our search engine or treatment expectations. A felony conviction's not going to land you in the Cleveland clinic. You'll be lucky to get antibiotics and sewn up if you survive having the shiv pulled out of your stomach.
I promise you I am not trying to be absurd. Absurdum is flying you and your doctor 3000 miles away because the _ancillary_ cost savings make it a rational, no brainer decision.
I'm trying to look at the factors that build up this reality and see other ways to zag through it. My hypotheticals, properly evaluated, would take into consideration the expected quality of inmate care. You might notice by tone that I grabbed onto it as an idea more gingerly than enticing a doctor with waivers and cookies to cut me open in my living room.
Lawyers are the only thing that might possibly make that one not a winner in my way of grading. Prison requires a whole new calculus.
The situation is BAD. I have a vested interest in this. My consulting career was great for the people that live with me. Unfortunately, my abjectly poor father in-law needs a heart transplant, insulin, and much else.
Taking the system for granted, It's a shame I like him so much. Now I need to find a full time salaried position that's remote or in my area. My stochastic income can't be relied upon anymore, a life is on the line. I'm doing my best, but it makes me pretty angry to be in this position.
A remote position specifically would be great, then I could make sure this guy gets to spend his final years (months?) without financial stress living next to his daughter... I'll take any interview, I'm pretty good at most software engineering... React/Nodejs/C#/WPF/ASP/PHP/Python/Unity/GLSL/HSL/C++.
Fuck the U.S. healthcare system.
I understand (really!) You have every right to be angry. If we all were angry maybe we could get traction out of the shit for brains in office that keep the system the way it is. You shouldn't have to pick a job for health benefits, those should be a given whether or not you have a job, for you, for your in law too. WTF is wrong with this country that we have to put up with this horseshit? Peace
hey, hopefully this doesn't come across as strange but you have an incredible talent for writing (or at least, writing HN comments)
best of luck and i hope things go as well as they can.
Thank you. Last time someone commended me on my writing I was all sorts of chuffed. This time, I'm just embarrassed. I'm ashamed I can't carry the weight of my dying family.
It's probable that I'm angry at a system as a proxy for anger I would otherwise direct myself. I should be able to handle this.
And where did you get your knowledge of prison, reality TV? The type of felony you would commit to get prison treatment isn't going to put you in a situation where that is commonplace...
The information was good, the snark was unnecessary.