I have med-pay on my auto policy and since retirement doesn’t qualify as a “life changing” event I’m paying full price for medical insurance right now, so the bill works out to about 725.00 USD/month (disregarding the regular auto policy coverage) and over the course of a year with copays and such more than 15% of my…

I can’t reiterate enough what you just said. My god the mind-numbing feeling that I get trying to explain this to others. It’s so fucking simple and yet the massive amount of morons here cannot (more like willingly won’t) understand it.  Makes my head spin!

Australian here.

eliminating the middleman is what needs to be done.

Yeah, the issue in the UK is that it is sometimes hard to keep staff.  Doctors are paid well, but not exceptionally well.  The issue in America is getting insurance to pay for the expensive doctors.  

Administrative costs are the real problem in the US. Most cities have the local hospital as the biggest or nearly the biggest employer. Last I checked, my local hospital had 40k employees, only about 2k of which are medical professionals. The rest are administrators, accountants, etc.

Another data point - Wife and I, $400/mo in car insurance (1M/3M + umbrella), about $350/mo in health/vision/etc, about $300/mo in homeowners insurance (plus umbrella). Add in bits and bobs - minimum of 12k+/yr. Just to be safe walking around.

In my case, the health insurance plan I have through my employer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan) covers automotive accidents. Whether or not they do is your employer’s choice (it increases the rates). Your employer will typically tell you and the health insurance issues a letter for the auto insurance, confirming…

Yes, US. My insurance for a family of 4 costs about $7k a year out of my paycheck. My company pays 80% of the cost, so, it’s about $35k a year for the insurance total. It doesn’t pay the first $2500 (or $5k for the family.) It also refuses coverage all the time. I am currently fighting with them about a $15k bill…

British here, likewise. Healthcare in the US is all kinds of fucked up.

Canadian here.

I’m a believing person and try not to swear too much but JESUS H. CHRIST what is wrong with these people? I thought repubs were supposed to be all about less government so what are they doing in my, or anyone else’s lady business?

Complete with color-matched wheels, I see.

We’re going need some clarification here. Grasmere green was a colour option on the OG defenders. is this a new shade of green with the same name or just the first time Grasmere is available for the new defender? 

Just a general point - Grasmere green is only new to this defender. It’s based on the colour of the original Land Rover and was used most recently on the Heritage Defenders (when they did the run out series for the old model). Also with the cool pain matched wheels. Shame the new one above didn’t have the contrast…

I am honestly just so upset about the continued attack on the NHS. I moved here from the US just before getting pregnant, and I could not believe (I mean, I could but...) how easy everything was. Just signed up for a GP and went in for my appointments, and never a single penny to pay or haggling phone call with an…

Thank you! People who probably can’t identify the UK on a map, let alone Nigeria seem to have a lot to say about British imperial geopolitics. 

QEII was not Queen Victoria. She did not preside over the “British Empire” that Anya decries, but rather over the decolonization that followed it’s decline into the modern commonwealth.

Will it grenade on impact? Or do you use it to deliver grenades to your opponents?

Colonialism actually waned under her rule. This article is about the Queen herself, not the entire British Empire. Have some respect for the dead.