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Jack wrote:I have said this many times before that Japan, despite 20 years of poor economic growth, is still much better (economically) than many western country, including mine.
Jack wrote:1) Japan's unemployment is much lower than in western countries]
Yeah, all those oyaji directing traffic in parking lots and douzoing you to the doors and escalators keeps them from a life of crime.Jack wrote:2) Household savings is still more than three times its GDP ($17 trillion give or take)]
Stuffed in futons or put away in family safes....waiting for the next disaster to be swept away?Jack wrote:3) General lifestyle of the population is more affluent than in western countries]
Jack wrote:4) Healthcare has been improved and not deteriorated.
M Bison wrote:Then I walk around and think, shit, everyone's got money, even the homeless aren't on smack and heroin, everything works, there are loads of old people's homes, hospitals are generally good, there's enough food, and I think, what memo did I miss here?
chokonen888 wrote:Yeah, all those oyaji directing traffic in parking lots and douzoing you to the doors and escalators keeps them from a life of crime.
Stuffed in futons or put away in family safes....waiting for the next disaster to be swept away?
Improved, yes...reliable/safe/modern? Bwaahahahahhahaha
IparryU wrote:People bitch about the US hospitals and letting people bleed out on the floor because they aren't insured... well... dont be a cheap ass and get covered. when you are fucked up (and insured), they will fix you.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Do you have any idea what medical insurance costs in the US if you just join a plan as an individual?
IparryU wrote:i like the idea of giving "dont do shit jobs" to people cause it keeps them off the street.
IparryU wrote:i sure as fuck dont want to run into the ER with my son and hear that the Dr. is on vacation and no one else at the hospital is qualified to see him (Hiroo Metro Hospital)...
People bitch about the US hospitals and letting people bleed out on the floor because they aren't insured... well... dont be a cheap ass and get covered. when you are fucked up (and insured), they will fix you.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Do you have any idea what medical insurance costs in the US if you just join a plan as an individual?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Do you have any idea what medical insurance costs in the US if you just join a plan as an individual?
chokonen888 wrote:Last year one of me lemurs cut her finger open really bad....two hospitals were "closed" and the third one was like an hour wait in the ER only to have a doc (who was quite good but not a reg at this place) freak out because the hospital had no blood clotting spray/cream/etc. D00d even said something like he's worked at 28973984 different hospitals and never heard of one without it....all he could do was clean and wrap up her finger as best as he could without it and tell us to go to another ER. (...and the hospital charged her something like 20,000 Yen because they had no idea what to charge and their "computers were off for the day" and asked her to come back for change and a receipt. (was taking a piss when this happened or else I would have told em to fuck off)
Last quote I got was $60/month for decent coverage and reasonable co-pays. No dental thought...but I wasn't playing hockey at the time so...
Back in 2005 when I was working at the American Prospect we published an interesting piece by Eamonn Fingleton arguing that the idea of Japan being stuck in a lost decade was a total myth. I thought it was an intriguing argument that blended two good points with a bad one, and I don't think that's changed between 2005 and when he made it on the New York Time op-ed page over the weekend...
IparryU wrote:When i took my son he needed an X-Ray... it was 11AM and no Dr. cause it was a Saturday... the hospital looked like a scene from Silent Hill... (i think this was said and done in another thread...) also went to the ER on another Saturday... no fuckin Dr.... only college trainees.
another time my son needed a blood test, they took the blood, but the Dr. was gone so they couldn't test it. they had to take another fresh sample when he got back, ended up he had a blood infection of 17%... anything after 10% is lethal by the minute.
Wify almost went into labor 2 months early, was on an IV for 2 months, but moved her to the old people's unit cause another girl needed a room. she ended up getting a private room cause she was a fucking psycho. my wife asked when she could move back, they said when a be opened up. they didn't know that the crazy chick moved cause her name was still on the common room door, so they apologized and moved my wife to the pediatric section whilst they prepared for her to go back to her old bed. then one mom got sick, moved the remaining 4 mothers to the pediatric and old people unit, and kept the sic mom in there with 5 empty beds... I asked the nurse why and she said that the sick mom was very rude and didn't want to move... i shook my head at the nurse and walked off.
Hospital hours are shorter than banking hours for some reason...
I went to a Health Care seminar and some Indian guy with a PhD said that there was no way that an American hospital is better than a Japanese hospital... the room sounded off with stories, etc. and the speaker mentioned that all the medical technology (machines, etc.) that Japanese manufacture, they cannot use it as the medicine required for rehab is not in Japan and all the doctors that can use it (who are Japanese) refuse to go back to Japan cause it is like downgrading. Sorta like being a chef at a 5 star hotel restaurant, then going to another restaurant to start cooking brunch... soul crushing...
end of my bitching... need a smoke.
Coligny wrote:Don't forget they are lying piece of shit...
noon: everything fine ?
> yes
evening meeting:
> aboot what we said at noon, we might not have exactly summed up properly the situation...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Do you have any idea what medical insurance costs in the US if you just join a plan as an individual?
Taro Toporific wrote:Because I am 1-kyu (profoundly) handicapped
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