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Heeeeeeere's Obamacare!

MattusMaximus said:
Damn you, Obama!!!11!1 :mad:
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Thanks, Obama!

:D

eeyore1954 said:
Or people who now are required to get insurance and those who are wondering if they can get a better deal.
I was looking for a relative and this is what I got.

Error 500: org.springframework.core.task.TaskRejectedException: Executor [java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@20495dc9] did not accept task: org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1@901a3b51

It is not surprising to me they would be overloaded people have been waiting a few years to find out.
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Well duh. I highlighted the problem. Cheap insurance!


I wonder how this lady feels tonight?

 
Dessi said:
tl;dr version: crappy password policies encourage users to create crappy passwords. Weak passwords that are hard for humans to remember, yet easy for computers to crack. FAIL.
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I work in IT for a medical group. You should see the hammer the government will swing if we take such a haphazard approach to patient PII.
 
Well, meanwhile in the UK my father had a stroke this morning. He got out of bed to go the loo and kept bumping into things, couldn't get back into bed. Mum phoned for an ambulance, and one arrived within 5 minutes - she was still on the phone.

I drove over to get her and we went to the A&E department, where we were shown straight to his bedside within less than 2 minutes. We watched doctors and nurses come and check on him every few minutes; he was sent for a CT scan, which was done and he was back in the space of 15 minutes. He was then wheeled off again 5 minutes later for a chest X Ray.

Shortly after he was moved to the Emergency Assessment Unit, where he is now. Mum and I sat in a waiting room next door, popping in to see him every so often. They came around and served us tea and biscuits at 11:00, and came back around 1 pm to serve up a nice three course meal.

My only complaint for the whole experience was that once he was moved we were left sitting in the waiting room without being given an update from the doctors until we eventually went and asked for it. When we did, a nurse went to fetch the registrar, who was with us within minutes.

The hospital was clean, quiet, and very uncrowded. The staff appeared very friendly, competent, and professional save for that minor hiccup.

At no point did anybody ask about my dads economic status or usefulness to society. At no point did anybody so much as mention money (even the food and drink they served to us was completely free.)

The horrors of socialised healthcare, UK style.
 
Seismosaurus said:
Well, meanwhile in the UK my father had a stroke this morning. He got out of bed to go the loo and kept bumping into things, couldn't get back into bed. Mum phoned for an ambulance, and one arrived within 5 minutes - she was still on the phone.

I drove over to get her and we went to the A&E department, where we were shown straight to his bedside within less than 2 minutes. We watched doctors and nurses come and check on him every few minutes; he was sent for a CT scan, which was done and he was back in the space of 15 minutes. He was then wheeled off again 5 minutes later for a chest X Ray.

Shortly after he was moved to the Emergency Assessment Unit, where he is now. Mum and I sat in a waiting room next door, popping in to see him every so often. They came around and served us tea and biscuits at 11:00, and came back around 1 pm to serve up a nice three course meal.

My only complaint for the whole experience was that once he was moved we were left sitting in the waiting room without being given an update from the doctors until we eventually went and asked for it. When we did, a nurse went to fetch the registrar, who was with us within minutes.

The hospital was clean, quiet, and very uncrowded. The staff appeared very friendly, competent, and professional save for that minor hiccup.

At no point did anybody ask about my dads economic status or usefulness to society. At no point did anybody so much as mention money (even the food and drink they served to us was completely free.)

The horrors of socialised healthcare, UK style.
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I hope everything is okay and he does well. Sounds like he is getting good care, though. We have no ambulance service here, so if someone has a stroke where I live, we have to call an ambulance from another state to come over and make the transport. It will be around 45 minutes drive time, one way - longer than it took your father to start getting definitive, and hopefully life and function-saving - care.
 
Dessi said:
tl;dr version: crappy password policies encourage users to create crappy passwords. Weak passwords that are hard for humans to remember, yet easy for computers to crack. FAIL.
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Criticizing anything to do with Obama is NOT ALLOWED.
 
Seismosaurus said:
Well, meanwhile in the UK my father had a stroke this morning. He got out of bed to go the loo and kept bumping into things, couldn't get back into bed. Mum phoned for an ambulance, and one arrived within 5 minutes - she was still on the phone.

I drove over to get her and we went to the A&E department, where we were shown straight to his bedside within less than 2 minutes. We watched doctors and nurses come and check on him every few minutes; he was sent for a CT scan, which was done and he was back in the space of 15 minutes. He was then wheeled off again 5 minutes later for a chest X Ray.

Shortly after he was moved to the Emergency Assessment Unit, where he is now. Mum and I sat in a waiting room next door, popping in to see him every so often. They came around and served us tea and biscuits at 11:00, and came back around 1 pm to serve up a nice three course meal.

My only complaint for the whole experience was that once he was moved we were left sitting in the waiting room without being given an update from the doctors until we eventually went and asked for it. When we did, a nurse went to fetch the registrar, who was with us within minutes.

The hospital was clean, quiet, and very uncrowded. The staff appeared very friendly, competent, and professional save for that minor hiccup.

At no point did anybody ask about my dads economic status or usefulness to society. At no point did anybody so much as mention money (even the food and drink they served to us was completely free.)

The horrors of socialised healthcare, UK style.
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Yea but you have no freedoms! ;)!
 
Newtons Bit said:
Criticizing anything to do with Obama is NOT ALLOWED.
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It's a tough time for Republicans. You could try to help the cause by deviating from their intellectually bankrupt style and actually articulating an argument. You know, perhaps pick apart the criticisms and show they are wrong. Or maybe you couldn't, hence the Applecorped solution.
 
DavidJames said:
It's a tough time for Republicans. You could try to help the cause by deviating from their intellectually bankrupt style and actually articulating an argument. You know, perhaps pick apart the criticisms and show they are wrong.
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I've posted my objections to Obamacare in another thread.

Or maybe you couldn't, hence the Applecorped solution.
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How did you confuse Dessi and applecorped?
 
It was kind of a knee jerk reaction to Dessi's legitimate criticism of the password policy. Especially since security is such a huge deal for the providers themselves that a second violation carries a fine in the millions.

It really isn't a secret how the old Windows password method is weak.
 
Newtons Bit said:
How did you confuse Dessi and applecorped?
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He's talking about the Goopers on these boards contributing absolutely nothing but snark as their party is in the process of holding the country hostage.
 
Tiktaalik said:
I hope everything is okay and he does well.
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Thanks.
Sounds like he is getting good care, though. We have no ambulance service here, so if someone has a stroke where I live, we have to call an ambulance from another state to come over and make the transport. It will be around 45 minutes drive time, one way - longer than it took your father to start getting definitive, and hopefully life and function-saving - care.
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From what I've heard, you *really* need to be able to get a victim to hospital within one hour of the event. Survival rates are seriously boosted if you can.

We're lucky here in that the nearest hospital with an A&E department is about 1 mile away from my parent's house, and about 500 yards from mine.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
So the president is a software engineer now, also.
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"Anything to do with Obama".

Presumably the website for Obamacare has "something" to do with Obama. It's not that hard of a logic leap, but thanks for providing more evidence for the rule.
 
Newtons Bit said:
"Anything to do with Obama".

Presumably the website for Obamacare has "something" to do with Obama. It's not that hard of a logic leap, but thanks for providing more evidence for the rule.
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It really doesn't, though, unless you count Obama being president. Did you know that the law isn't actually called "Obamacare"?
 
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