karl taro greenfeld

TV: Tokyo Vice, Ray Donovan, Accused, SEE, Monarch BOOkS: Speed Tribes, China Syndrome, Boy Alone, Triburbia PRIZES: Pushcart, Best Am Short Stories, O Henry

[karl taro greenfeld @karltaro]

I'm heading over to Blue Sky, findable as Karl Taro Greenfeld

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@omgsidewalks Monaco

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@LinkofSunshine Where can I take out this loan? Can you send the paperwork through?

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@fatnutritionist What do you do when you need new wiper blades?

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@tonyannett Huge difference in Spain, where when you purchase your property you are assessed an 8 to 13% VAT, but after that annual taxes are based on a notional catastral value that is from decades ago and usually less than 1%. Basically, you are hit hard up front and then free balling

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r Ok, so now you're saying the European system is letting patients die and Canada is actually killing them. You know these things aren't true. Try to have an open mind about health care. Travel and talk to people around the world. The US really deserves better.

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r I never said that. Look at my comment you reponded to. I said you will not die in both systems. But one bankrupts its citizens & the other does not.

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@strat0manc3r @BowTiedOdin Right, so when you need healthcare, say, a very expensive cancer treatment & you are denied by your insurance company, what you should do is sue your health insurance company? That's a working health care system?

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r I know you won't read this & don't believe the NY Times, but these type of stories show up not just in the media but all over Reddit, 4Chan — in fact, next time you see your Doctor, ask him if he's frustrated w/ the prior approval system in US health care. https://t.co/Y31XUsY9xp

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@strat0manc3r @BowTiedOdin I've lived all over the world & travel back and forth to the US. My US insurance is through my union & is considered a very good policy. My Spanish insurance is through DKV. Every medication, doctors visit & my one emergency room visit in Spain cost 10-20% vs US costs

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r Docs & hospitals will absolutely perform life saving interventions. After the patient is stabilized the ins. company can deny meds, further treatments, etc. This happens frequently. You are at the mercy of your insurance company & their fiduciary responsiblity is to shareholders

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@strat0manc3r @BowTiedOdin Your anecdotal experience means the entire system works? Look at my original comment: for the uninsured the US sytem is bankrupting. And for those who are insured, many struggle because of prior authorizations denying treatments & medications. Why simp for this sytem?

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r Lived in Japan, Hong Kong, France, Spain and the US. Health care in the US is obscenely expensive but very good if you can pay. Hong Kong same. Japan, France & Spain have universal health care that is 97% as good as the US while never bankrupting the sick. US system is failing

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@strat0manc3r @BowTiedOdin The Preapproval process is famously a nightmare. https://t.co/dQ09kTSRil. You will be treated. But you may not get best practices because your insurance company — or medicare — doesn't want to pay. Look, a health care system that bankrupts 550k Americans per year is broken.

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@BowTiedOdin @strat0manc3r U won't be left to die in either. In the US your finances are wrecked if u are uninsured, and possibly if u are. U will fight w/ your insurance for even basic post op care. First, best practices will be denied. While every Western Euro is covered. Why simp for a failed system?

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@FreedomFactor76 Americans desperately trying to justify a failing society — health care system ruining lives, wealth inequality fracturing the commonweal, a toxic food supply, forever wars — by pointing to air conditioning. (As I type this I'm sitting in my air conditioned house in Spain.)

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@mikesulsenti When you actually travel the world, you run into far more Europeans, Canadians and Australians in far flung places. Bali. Koh Phangang. Sri Lanka. Goa. Rajasthan. Kathmandu. Ibiza. Mykonos. Marakesh. Zanzibar. Americans are always underrepresented.

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@Bad_DavidG @ElkeAnna_ @MichaelAArouet Maximum annual Social Security benefit is $62K per year. This chart is total bullshit

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@MichaelAArouet "Maximum public pension"? What the fuck are you talking about? Only 18% of US workers have access to defined benefit pension programs. I know MAGAbots just regurgitate Kremlin talking points, but this is embarrassing. And boring.

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@typesfaster You're boring. Why are all the MAGAbots on this Europe doesn't have AC kick? Is life in the US so shitty they have to find these BS reasons the US is superior? And I walk around in London wearing a nice watch all the time.