r/interestingasfuck • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 1d ago

Utah police dog survives injury after leaping from overpass

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u/MuchWow81 1d ago

American people can't get basic healthcare but an american police dog can get a medical evac by chopper. Fantastic.

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u/MuffledShuffle 1d ago

Anyone can get medical evac by chopper. Especially if you go hiking and get injured in the woods or on a mountain. It's definitely going to be expensive as shit though.

As for the dog, taxes will probably pay for it's medical expenses.

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u/RedTurtle78 1d ago

Yeah the point is that taxes should pay for our medical expenses.

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u/whytakemyusername 1d ago

The worst part is that Israel could have it's missiles and people could still have healthcare. But then the lobbying health insurance companies would be too upset.

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u/denom_chicken 1d ago

What about their jobs?! They ask as AI companies talk about replacing every job with robots.

Love it here

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u/Peanut_007 1d ago

The health insurance industry is one of the most exposed to AI driven job losses because none of what it does is actually based on rational decision making. It's all just making more paperwork and AI is great at that.

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u/Ok_Chicken1370 1d ago

Leftists avoiding being antisemitic

Challenge: Impossible

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u/zee427 23h ago

Hey friend,

It's not antisemitic to criticize israel for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Hope that clears things up!

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u/Ok_Chicken1370 23h ago

Hey, Friend.

I know literacy probably isn't your strong suit, but that's not what they said. I'd suggest you give it a second pass.

Hope that clears things up.

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u/MizStazya 23h ago

Are they using the missiles to kill Palestinian civilians?

There, I made the tiny step of logic for you!

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u/Ok_Chicken1370 23h ago

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

You're beneath a post about a dog accidentally jumping off a bridge.

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u/zee427 22h ago

My friend!! 

You're being awfully hostile over my simple attempt to spread awareness. Please don't do that, its probably bad for your heart long term.

Much love 

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u/Redux01 1d ago

Israel isn't why you don't have it. He'll, higher tax dollars per capita go to healthcare in the US than in countries with universal yet you still don't have anything close to universal. You could, but you have to take it up with the medical and insurance industries. Israel had nothing to do with it and is just a distraction from the real issue to even mention.

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u/MuffledShuffle 1d ago

I mean, agreed

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 16h ago

If you ever wonder why it seems like the only people who want to move to the USA are folks who are desperate, and you rarely get folks from other "rich" nations moving to the USA, the f'd up healtchare system in the USA is high up there in the reasons why. Throw in guns, next to no vacation/sick days/parental leave, politics, etc., and most folks with options will hesitate.

Other countries tend to have have a much stronger social safety net and solid workplace protections and benefits. The USA is borderline (if not outright) dystopian by comparison.

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u/LateConsideration903 12h ago

To be honest, guns and weather that doesnt include 6 months of suffering in negative temperatures are the only two factors that makes me think about moving to the US . But these 2 points pale in comparison to what i'd lose if i left

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 1d ago

I was just researching 2027 plans today, which are already bankrupting my small business. My daughter and I are medically needy, though, and it's covering my antidepressants from this career I hate, so there's that.

I'm glad the dog is okay, though. I generally like dogs more than cops any day of the week, so there's that ray of bullshit sunshine.

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u/MuchWow81 9h ago

Im in the same boat. Ill be paying over $30k next year in premiums for a high deductible plan. Wooo

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u/raptor5466 5h ago

Police dogs have better healthcare than me. Yeah that makes sense.

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u/WhiskyDelta14 18h ago

COMMUNIST!!!

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u/cannuckwoodchuck13 1d ago

Instead its going to Russia to buy diesel, who gets it from Iran, where they are also spending your tax dollars on bombing schools.

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u/RedTurtle78 1d ago

The replying comment was being needlessly pedantic when the original comment was clearly implying that we shouldn't have to pay just like the police dog doesn't.

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u/Preeng 1d ago

The point is we want everybody to have health care and to have our taxes be what pays for it.

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u/giantpandamonium 1d ago

In many cases it does

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 1d ago

Not always. Colorado doesn't charge for search & rescue (or evacuation) by helicopter.

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u/draft_animal 23h ago

I work outdoors in remote areas, my boss unknowingly ingested an edible (he thought it was candy) and the team he was working with thought he was having a stroke so he get helicoptered out. The bill was $35,000 for the flight, which is both a lot of money but also less than I expected given how expensive medical stuff is here.

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u/Additional_Delay_793 1d ago

This was not the woods or on a mountain it's an expressway. A police car would have worked just fine. It's a dog!

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u/RelevantIAm 1d ago

Wish people like you had a sign over their head so i could immediately know who is a cunt when passing by

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u/_reverse 7h ago

Actually in a lot of counties the search and rescue team expenses are paid for via taxes to the HC ride is free. But you pay for the ambulance from the helipad to the hospital :(

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u/NoAdvertising2 1d ago

If that person has insurance thru thier company no it wouldnt be expensive my brother had to be life flighted to a hospital due to a brain injury and almost died and he had insurance so it was covered i think he owned a small amount but not a life changing amout

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u/RPM314 1d ago

Stop changing the subject. Previous talked about BASIC healthcare and I have to read your nonsense while my friend in the next room over can't see a dentist about a tooth infection because Medicaid won't allow it.

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u/copperwatt 1d ago

But... basic health care was also a subject change?

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u/Striking-Working610 1d ago

Please don't post nonsense while their roommate is in the next room. Thanks.

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u/copperwatt 1d ago

Ok, let's wait until the roommate is two rooms away.

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u/RippinFissure 1d ago

Its a 3 room minimum for nonsense, sorry. 

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u/Notactualyadick 1d ago

Oh my god, what has this world come to. It's at least a 4 room minimum to be basic decency.

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u/uberduck999 1d ago

In my country, it is considered rude to perform nonsense of any kind when a roommate is home at all. You are expected to wait until they leave the house to begin doing nonsense

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u/time_travel_rabbit 1d ago

Then stop reading a public forum. You are not in charge of who post and what they post.

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u/johnny-Low-Five 1d ago

USA medicaid? 100% covers an infected tooth, it's actually considered the dental equivalent of an emergency and other than finding a dentist that has an opening, your roommate just needs to show up. An untreated infection can be lethal, medicaid won't cover a root canal but getting antibiotics, and depending on the situation, having the tooth pulled asap are covered. Sometimes the dentist will want the antibiotics to start working first but if it's that bad they'll pull the tooth and start a course of antibiotics.

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u/incapablepotato 1d ago

Hey friendly tip. If it’s an actual infection and his mouth is swollen. Go to the ER it will be considered an emergency and they will write it as such. You’ll get antibiotics. Then they will give you a referral for the dentist to pull it.

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u/niehAuS_324B21 1d ago

“Grrr how dare you have conversations that don’t involve me and my friend who is definitely real 🤬”

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u/Icy_Judge8250 1d ago

Ah even I was able to get basic dental to get seen a week before going, it did not cover the removal of the tooth i paid out of pocket but it covered the cleaning and x rays to see what was going on and I struggled a bit to recover from that but could do it and no i am not made of money.

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u/Axthen 22h ago

The really funny part.

If you look at the dogs med bills, they'll probably be real cost.

So probably 1k for everything said and done.

I had a school trip for Biology research in Cuba. One of the students got bit by an extremely venomous snake.

60 mile ambulance ride.

120 mile helicopter flight to the closest hospital with antivemon.

And the antivenom + 2 days in ER.

Total Cost for the student about $450 out of pocket.

Had a similar situation for my dad. 50 mile ambulance, 80 mile helicopter.

$45,000.

Our healthcare is a racket. It's good business to tell people you're not fixing their knees unless they pay rather than breaking their knees when they don't.

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u/rachel_berry 15h ago

down voted, but lets test it. Don't leave the US