YAY ME!!!

[Phaedrus]

Well, today was announced "incintive packages" defined as more stocks and a pay raise. It's actually good timing as my wife is no longer working full time starting next week, plus the added cost of insurance coverage for her. It's stupid expensive (like... $400 a month) which isn't completely covered, but it does ease that pain. So... PAY RAISE FOR ME!!! 5%, but hey... I can handle that. Up = good.

[Daweman]

5% more when you were already getting 175% more then the rest of us?


You Prick.

[grendyll]

Congrats! Timing couldn't have been better, eh?

[Phaedrus]

5% more when you were already getting 175% more then the rest of us?


You Prick.


Hey, I've got a family and a cocaine habit to support.

[Finnster]

grumble grumble grumble..... grrrrrrr

[dolemite]

I haven't had a raise in 5 years, but atleast full private medical coverage here costs my family $35US a month :)

[Finnster]

Wow....where do I sign up for that?

[Phaedrus]

Wow....where do I sign up for that?


http://www.voidofcontent.com/images/NZ.gif

[Daweman]

Thats funny, full coverage for me is $5 Canadian a month.

Free prescription drugs



Free "theraputic massages" too.


Some days I REALLY love Canada

[EvilTech]

Yea, Canada does have some pretty badass medical.

[Phaedrus]

What's the quality of treatment and medicine in Canada? Are there long waits for treatment? What about emergency room scenerios. In the US there are a lot of ideas that socialized medicine would mean poor quality and lines with a long enough wait to kill you if your ailment doesn't first.

[Daweman]

Last time I went to the ER it was for a stomach problem- I had to wait 2 hours because it was "non-critical". The guy who came in with a broken finger was helped in about 10 min. So it's not too bad, pretty appropriate I would think.

[Phaedrus]

That's about what I thought. A lot of theory with no real basis for it.

[Daweman]

Not sure what you mean by a lot of theory and no basis for it.

Explain...?

[Phaedrus]

A lot of theory that socialized medicine = very bad here in the US. Big Medicine is big business. I doubt very seriously pharmaceutical companies, along with hospitals, doctors, etc are a big fan of the idea, either.

[Finnster]

I agree... there's a lot of money to be had in the medical field.. Why change something like that?

[EvilTech]

I actually really hate the idea of the medical industry being a big money making business. It takes away the compassion for human life and turns treatment into dollar signs. Prescription drug companies have their tentacles in every area of the medical field and don't care about the people they are making the medicine for. Seems like every time I go to the doctors office, he's trying to push off free samples of drugs I don't need and I fuckin DARE you to find a pen or clipboard that doesn't have a prescription drug or drug companies name plastered all over it.

[Phaedrus]

pharmaceutical companies have the cure for what ails you -- and that is what they are counting on. Eventually there will be a drug for everything.

TV: "do you sleep at night and eat food during the day?"
Hypocondriatic perscription junkie: "Oh shit! I have that! I need to get me some of those pills!"

[Dismembered3po]

TV: "do you sleep at night and eat food during the day?"
Hypocondriatic perscription junkie: "Oh shit! I have that! I need to get me some of those pills!"

Actually...no. I don't have that malfunction. Well, at least not until the weekends....

On another note, I have a theory that pharmac...er, drug companies have cures for shit they're not releasing in favor of drugs that simply treat symptoms. They can make money for longer that way....

Could just be my paranoia....

[EvilTech]

Sounds like a valid conspiracy theory to me. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

[Phaedrus]

Yeah, I'll bite.

[Dismembered3po]

I mean, shit. Look at Magic Johnson. He's had HIV for what, 20 years now? He paid big$$ for the actual cure.

[Phaedrus]

umm...

[billtole]

Have some friends up in Canada and they are always whining that toward the end of the year its hard to get a doctor appt because of the salary limitations placed on the doctors. Apparantly to get around it a lot of them only practice a part of the year up there and then come down to the states to practice the rest.

Of course they have been know to be full of shit on occasion also, what do you other canadians have to say to that. I mean the salary limitations not the full of shit part.

[Phaedrus]

Actually, I'd like to hear comments on both -- ESPECIALLY the full of shit part. This should elevate some blood pressures. :)

[EvilTech]

I didn't even think about that aspect. OK Canadians, is that really true?

[Daweman]

That is not the case at all.

We do have locations around the provinces that have limited doctor support but never do we have times of the year that are tougher to get appointments. Most places you will find are "3 doctor regions" and we instead have 2. Just makes appointments take a little longer. (I recently got a scope done and the appointment for that was 30 days out)

As far as the full of shit comment goes you must be joking. The only reason we'd have anything to do with massive piles of shit is if we turned on an American News channel.

[Phaedrus]

...or travel to Quebec?

[Daweman]

Fuckin' Quebec'ers


Free loadin' bastards they be.

[EvilTech]

Wow, a Canadian pirate.... what's next?

[Phaedrus]

Wow, a Canadian pirate.... what's next?


Arrrrgh... I be havin' a french accent.