And you thought Medicare was bad...

I wonder what it means when he gives someone really pale skin.

Reisen looks really washed out.

Blossop said:
I wonder what it means when he gives someone really pale skin.

Night workers.

JakeBob said:
Night workers.

Make sense actually, she did came from the moon.

_cf said:
And you thought Medicare was bad...

I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

Eientei could make nice tax collectors.

I like being an eurofag.

Arael said:
I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

I'm with you on that one.

Arael said:
I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

I would too but the doctor says killing is bad for my blood pressure.

Tewi always seems to be involved with sudden money issues in this comic...

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Arael said:
I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

Here in the US, hospital bills would cost $6700 for that, instead of 6700 yen.

AMERICA: FUCK YEAH :<

I had two fillings put in at my dentist and it only cost $20 out of wallet. I have a kickass dental plan but the premiums are a bitch.

Should this be qualified for goddamit tewi?

Lumine1412 said:
Should this be qualified for goddamit tewi?

Nope. She's working there.

I wonder what's the meaning of "free bamboo forest tour for those who clear with lives remaining"?

Namusan said:
I like being an eurofag.

Keep in mind, the cost is still there through taxes and other things.

Arael said:
I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

I wish it cost that much when I broke my arm.

cybeast said:
I wonder what's the meaning of "free bamboo forest tour for those who clear with lives remaining"?

Probably a joke. "If you clear the stage (as in the game/hospital) with extra lives remaining (or if its the hospital if you're still alive), you get a free tour of the Bamboo Forest"

That's what... ~67-75 bucks, USD? Dood, that's not that bad. We have so many regulations and red tape here that we'd have to pay at least twice that just so doctors can make a living.

My monthly health insurance bill is around 25000 yen. But I pay almost nothing when I go to the doctor. When I cracked my molar playing soccer, I got one of those new seamless ceramic crowns (Dental is part of medical here). Cost me 5000 yen total for all my visits. When one of my friends had something similar done in NYC last year, it cost him $2000 WITH basic insurance.

Just how many snacks does Kogasa eat?

Blossop said:
I wonder what it means when he gives someone really pale skin.

Maybe he/she's caucasian IRL?

Type-kun said:
Maybe he/she's caucasian IRL?

Caucasians don't really have lighter skin tone than japanese people. The former are just more pinkish, whereas the latter are more of a beige.

Lol, downvoted in an instant :3
Well, they're already pink-ish in this comic, and I'm just assuming. Mizuki-san already did that at least once, in american arc (post #828384). The best way is probably to ask him directly, he answers on twitter AFAIK.

"Antipyretic" Wow. Medical terminology must suck to translate.

YuriTenshi said:
...doctors can make a living.

If a person really wants to make serious amounts of money they should become anesthesiologists.

I'm not used to medicine and things like it costing money and I'm quite happy about it. I hear costs in america are very high. I'm guessing that it's common for it to be expensive.

aListers said:
I'm not used to medicine and things like it costing money and I'm quite happy about it. I hear costs in america are very high. I'm guessing that it's common for it to be expensive.

To put it in perspective, I had a medical check up, they took my blood pressure, made me turn my head and cough, and checked simple things.

130$.

A few X-rays easily break into $200-$300 range by themselves.

Thank God that in Germany I have to pay nothing for the most time...

Bananacat said:
Thank God that in Germany I have to pay nothing for the most time...

Yes, but when you do need to pay something for treatment, it's the price of a kidney in the black market... And that's probably the main reason why people flee to Poland to have longer treatments.

A German clinic wanted to charge me 130€ for cavity treatment and filling, when my old doc in my home country does it for about 20€.

I admit I havent been in many hospitals, but do they upfront announce prices like that?

Anelaid said:
Keep in mind, the cost is still there through taxes and other things.

Except you wouldn't pay the overwhelming majority of the amount you would have paid in the US at all.

American healthcare costs are at least 10 times as much as they should be simply because the Big Pharma lobbies have let most major medical providers charge whatever they want, while all the rest of the world actually manage to have some form of price controls that actually make their medical systems work. This country accounts for a wildly disproportionate amount of the actual corporate drug firm profits compared to the rest of the world, where the profit margins are kept down to the same general levels as food and the like.

Consider that when patents expire in our country, a medicine will drop in price from $500 to $5 practically the instant that a generic drug equivalent shows up. That $495 difference is pretty much pure profit. Now consider that US law has been rigged so that drug companies can basically extend their patents forever by simply mixing their drugs slightly with some of their other drugs (think Lipitor) and hence preventing the price of drugs from ever going down.

Make fun or cry "socialism" about other systems all you like, but our country is just being run by the lobbyists, for the lobbies, when it comes to healthcare, and it's a giant tumorous parasite on the country's economy.

I'm not against socialism by any means, nor am I saying the current American system is flawless by any measure, its just that I wanted to clarify a minor point.

NWSiaCB said:
Except you wouldn't pay the overwhelming majority of the amount you would have paid in the US at all.

American healthcare costs are at least 10 times as much as they should be simply because the Big Pharma

...

Make fun or cry "socialism" about other systems all you like, but our country is just being run by the lobbyists, for the lobbies, when it comes to healthcare, and it's a giant tumorous parasite on the country's economy.

Frankly, I think you're incorrect. It's not Big Pharma, it's Big Insurance. Who do you think is shelling out billions of dollars to Big Pharma?

Whenever insurance corporations stop paying so much money for a drug, the drug goes off the market, even if the patent hasn't expired on it. Big Pharma's making billions of dollars mainly due to the fact that it's one of the few major industries that actually produces a product that's useful to society. Out of all the mega-industries, Pharma's definitely not the worst of them.

Big Retail is looking more and more like a brick and mortar showroom for online products, Big Banking isn't loaning out money, and making Japan's current recession fall into a depression, Big Entertainment has gone into an all-out war against the consumer, and Big Insurance has in recent decades tried to find every way possible to break contracts with premium-payers.

I'm not saying that Big Pharma companies like Merck and Pfizer deserve all of the billions they rake in, but they aren't the only player in this mess, and they definitely aren't the biggest, either.

Arael said:
I'd kill for my hospital visits to only total 70 dollars.

Me too me too

There is no other option. Send in the Udongein!

"Free Bamboo Forest Tour"
sweet, right when I'm trying to clear IN