According to hospital officials, its to compensate for deadbeats on Medicare/Medicaid.
Sadly, it doesn't seem unrealistic that they would put it exactly that way.
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Feb 15, 2012 5:48:00 pm PST #22202 of 30001
Because books.
sumi - Feb 15, 2012 6:07:39 pm PST #22203 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Zorro the kitty doesn't at all resemble a fox - but he is very cute.
My town: I can walk to the library, restaurants, some shops (including the local art shop) and the post office. Sadly, all the actual grocery stores are all on the outskirts of town - and not walkable. I used to walk to work. . .but haven't done that in a while.
I do have a Walgreen's with a smallish grocery section that is totally walking distance.
Lee - Feb 15, 2012 6:14:27 pm PST #22204 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, how does your mother get the science so wrong?
You've seen what she does with genetics, right?
I didn't, in the end, tell her to STFU, but I did ask her if she realized it sounded like she was blaming me for the cancer, and I haven't heard anything from her since, so I guess it had the same effect.
Lee - Feb 15, 2012 6:18:41 pm PST #22205 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh, and it looks like Zorro is coming to live with us on Saturday. [link]
sumi - Feb 15, 2012 6:19:40 pm PST #22206 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Congratulations! He is adorable.
Consuela - Feb 15, 2012 6:25:31 pm PST #22207 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Good god, y'all, we SO need universal health care.
Has anyone done the study on the millions of dollars of lost US productivity from wrestling with insurers? I bet someone has.
Consuela - Feb 15, 2012 6:26:10 pm PST #22208 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Zorro is very cute, Lee!
Amy - Feb 15, 2012 6:27:09 pm PST #22209 of 30001
Because books.
Zorro! You should totally get him a cape.
Lee - Feb 15, 2012 6:28:30 pm PST #22210 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think I will be getting him a new name first.
Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2012 6:42:11 pm PST #22211 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
>The classic American small town with a main street filled with houses within walking or biking distance of stores is also outlawed.
What do you mean, outlawed? There are a million small towns like this on the East Coast, at least up here in the Northeast.
I should have said outlawed building new ones. If they already exist, they are allowed to stay, but it is quite literally illegal in most areas to build new neighborhoods like the ones in those - usually even in those towns. That is take one of those million small towns. if a developer wants to build a new tract, the developer can't build it on the same pattern as the existing town. If it is residential it probably, under local law, has to have more parking than existing parts of town, has to place the new house further back from the sidewalk than in existing neighborhoods, probably can't mix residential and shopping the way they are in existing neighborhoods, in most cases has to be much lower density than existing neighborhoods. Existing towns like that were not outlawed, but building new ones, or new neighborhoods like the existing neigborhoods - in most suburbs and small towns that is quite literally illegal. If a developer wanted to be responsible and build a development that is liveable in the same way existing neighborhoods are, that developer is not allowed.