We're also forcing you to purchase police and a military, but I don't see you complaining about having a justice system.

You can choose to not drive, which means you can forgo car insurance. Same thing with health insurance. You can choose to not be alive, which means you can forgo health insurance. But like driving, a person being alive means that on average, they will go to the doctors and cost society money. We're just asking that they pay their fair share before they drink it away at the bar.

I had a situation like this once. Then I talked to someone in my HR at work and they called the hospital and got my insurance on the phone and found out the price for me. The HR lady told me if I get a bill that is more expensive than that, she'll get it straitened out. I love the HR at my work.

They can't discharge you until you are stable and capable of taking care of yourself. Both of which, they must prove.

Some people go in to the ER for their yearly checkup. Can't afford the $200 doctor's visit, so they hit up the $2,000 emergency service and get the whole work-over. Then the hospital says, "you're good", and sends them home with a bill that gets forgotten about. It's cheaper to have them go into the $200 doctor's visit than to pony up for the ER.

How? Where I work, you get auto-enrolled. Every year, you must explicitly decline to get insurance and sign a waiver. Dental and Vision are not this way, the health insurance is.

Even if they pass a law stating it, no major medical educational center will support it. There are a lot of ethics involved with being a doctor and abandoning those ethics, even if support by law, will land you with no license to practice.

$60 for a doctor's visit?! Don't make me laugh. More like $200 for the visit and another $500 for all the tests like blood work. My wife recently went to the ER because she had a sharp burning pain in her pelvis and it was in the middle of the night when it started, so no other offices are open. All she did was sit in a room for 2 hours, a doctor stopped in, talked to her for 5 minutes, and told her it's a pinched nerve, sent us home with a $900 bill.

Don't tell people to pay for their own healthcare until we've made healthcare affordable.

You preach about managing your own money for healthcare, but most of the cost of healthcare has nothing to do with you. The largest cost to healthcare is the hospital taking losses on people who can't or won't pay, so the hospital charges everyone else exorbitant prices to cover their other losses. Around here, hospitals are not allow to turn away anyone that comes to the ER for any reason other than capacity. Even if they know the personal cannot or will not pay their bill or they fake issues, the hospital is required by law to see the person and only release the person once the hospital as proven that they are safe to send home.

I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember going to my University, the poli-sci went over the numbers and the amount of money we spent on the "war" over 3 years was enough to cover all hospital costs for all of the USA and send everyone to college, assuming the average cost, for 10 years. I would personally rather have a highly educated healthy society than running about the planet killing other people who pose less threat than pollution or drunk drivers.

Many times, the crazy hours do not increase your pay. If anything, having "crazy hours" reduces the number of people the employer will hire because they figure they can jsut get 40 hours out of you at work and another 60 hours at home.

I know the feeling. Every time I read about a SQL injection attack, I think, many, they need to get rid of relational databases and every time I read about someone's computer getting hacked, I think, man, they should get rid of the Internet.

Not "easy" to fix, but "simple" to fix. Digging a lake with a spoon is simple, but I wouldn't say easy.

Reminds me of viewing porn as a child and watching the images slowly "come into focus".

I was still using 33 on Windows until I read your message. At the time, I also did not have any arrows. Reloaded Chrome to apply 34, and now they're back.

I have to agree. I love my $15/month 1080p time-shifted TV. I no longer have to watch TV when it happens and I don't need my own DVR. My ISP automatically allows me to go back up-to 48 hours on most channels. DVR is required to manually time-shift any other channel.