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    > > You're 100% banging on all 8 cylinders. . .   
      
    >    Of course, I'm always right, (he wrote modestly).  :)   
      
   I thought I was wrong, ONCE. . . but I was mistaken.   
      
    >   People down here do the same, they clog up ER's with all sorts of minor   
    > problems.   
      
   What kind of insurance give thenm that sort of freedom to do so?   
      
   I tghougght you usually have a copay or service fee?  They spoke of a $10 user   
   fee here for ER use.  I'm okay with it, if they'll drop the fee if your   
   complaint was worthy of an ER visit, & invoice later, especially for those not   
   well-flush with money.   
      
    >    I have a few recurring minor health problems, I've handled them in the   
    > past, know what to do and take care of it myself.   
      
   Same; & wat I don't know, my wife generally does. If I go to ER, you cvan bet I   
   NEED it!   
      
    >    And I have taken only one sick day in something like 40 years.   
      
   Sounds like my dad -- after 30+ years, at retirement, he had 8 months of full   
   pay from sick days accrued. Nice way to ease into the lower paycheques. . .   
      
   He also had all  his vacation pay, save 4 weeks, & spent he last ten years at   
   work working 2 days(doubles) then 4 days off, then take 2 vacay days, then 4   
   days off, & repeated until it was just routine.   
      
    > > Most of my last ERs were for kidney stones (the worst pain humans ever   
    > > suffer, I've been told, & believe it   
      
    >   I've heard the same thing and thankfully have never experienced them.   
      
   I hope you never do.   
      
    >   I can't recall the last time doctors down here made house calls.   
      
   I can: yesterday.   
      
   My conmpany has housecall doctors in every major city working for us.  Most are   
   24/7.  We don't pay more than $250 usually (we charge a higher fee, of course,   
   to keep ourselves in business & getting our case manager paycheques)   
      
    >   My father was a GP (general practitioner/family doctor) from 1922-62.  I   
    > can't count the number of times he would get a phone call in the middle of   
    > the night to go somewhere.   
      
   There still are doctors(GPs & various specialists) who do this, in the USA, &   
   globally.  I have personally made contracts with hundreds.   
      
    >   He delivered a lot of babies, to usually poor farm families.  People were   
    > proud then and didn't want charity.  Most of them were struggling and paid   
    > in kind when possible.  He was paid in produce, farm products (hams, sides   
    > of beef, etc) sometimes in chicke   
      
   I've heard it was like this at one time -- & why not, right? I'd take payment   
   like that, any time!   
      
    >    When I was about five or six to around 11 I often went him when he was   
    > delivering a baby.  I had one of two jobs.   
    >    One was if other kids around to get them out of the house and from   
    > underfoot and show me their farm, tell what they did, etc.   
      
   Fun & educatoinal!   
      
    >    If only the couple in the house the father helped delivering the baby   
    > and my father would bring a new born to me and tell me to watch it, and if   
    > it turned blue to call him when he went back to do whatever he and the   
    > father   
    > were doing.   
    >   I never saw a blue baby.   
      
   Thankfully -- imagine the trauma if you were witness to a baby not making it,   
   eh? :(    
      
   Closest I came was babysitting a baby, who died that night, after going home,   
   from SIDS (crib death)   
      
    > > It's like any gambling: the only way to truly come out ahead is to own the   
    > > house!   
      
    >   Number one rule of gambling: The house always wins.   
      
   Exaxcrtly why you want to be the house or at least own a profitable share of   
   it. . .   
      
   Works for casinos as well as insurance & stock trading. (all the same thing,   
   really, when you get down to it)   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
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