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Dear Perfume Lovers,

Here's a map of the spread of the coronavirus, updated in real-time:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps ... 7b48e9ecf6

Dr. Shades wrote:Dear Perfume Lovers,

Here's a map of the spread of the coronavirus, updated in real-time:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps ... 7b48e9ecf6

Let's hope quarantine efforts are successful. The cases in China are growing at an alarming rate.

This is the kind of thing that makes me happy we have universal healthcare. I'd hate to think people are getting sick and afraid to go to the doctor.

Oh wait, I'm thinking of all the actual developed nations. This one thinks national security is limited to having big guns.

Forget what I said. Go virus go!

Dr. Shades wrote:Dear Perfume Lovers,

Here's a map of the spread of the coronavirus, updated in real-time:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps ... 7b48e9ecf6

Oh good. Now I can watch my travel plans disappear before my very eyes. Thanks so much.

Some Schmo wrote:This is the kind of thing that makes me happy we have universal healthcare. I'd hate to think people are getting sick and afraid to go to the doctor.

Oh wait, I'm thinking of all the actual developed nations. This one thinks national security is limited to having big guns.

Forget what I said. Go virus go!

What kind of healthcare does your home country have?

- Doc

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:

Some Schmo wrote:This is the kind of thing that makes me happy we have universal healthcare. I'd hate to think people are getting sick and afraid to go to the doctor.

Oh wait, I'm thinking of all the actual developed nations. This one thinks national security is limited to having big guns.

Forget what I said. Go virus go!

What kind of healthcare does your home country have?

- Doc

So far as I am aware, Schmo's home, like yours, is the US of A.

And I don't think Schmo is the only person to find it weird that the world's richest country still prefers a system of health care provision that can leave its citizens bankrupt as a result of illnesses that are elsewhere paid for by systems of (by and large) universal provision. I like Americans (well, I'm thought to be a bit old-fashioned where I come from, but I'm not alone), and I'd like to see them better treated than they currently are.

Chap wrote:

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What kind of healthcare does your home country have?

So far as I am aware, Schmo's home, like yours, is the US of A.

And I don't think Schmo is the only person to find it weird that the world's richest country still prefers a system of health care provision that can leave its citizens bankrupt as a result of illnesses that are elsewhere paid for by systems of (by and large) universal provision. I like Americans (well, I'm thought to be a bit old-fashioned where I come from, but I'm not alone), and I'd like to see them better treated than they currently are.

All true... even the stuff about Chap liking Americans.

SS,

Ok. My bad for poor wording. What kind of healthcare does your country of origin have?

- Doc

I could go to a doctor any time I needed to and it was free.

I will say this: I believe in co-pays. I think the patient should have some skin in the game. Call it a usage tax. That way, everyone who really needs it will seek it without abusing the system. There's a happy medium in there.

Some Schmo wrote:
I will say this: I believe in co-pays. I think the patient should have some skin in the game. Call it a usage tax. That way, everyone who really needs it will seek it without abusing the system. There's a happy medium in there.

I think I really agree with your reasoning on co-pays. I'm not sure how that would apply in the case of Medicare (only) for all, but I don't think that will ever pass so there's that, too.