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Herman Throwaway said:
If the UCP changes leaders, you'll see things shift more in their favour. Smith pissed off a lot of people when she merged the Wild Rose party with the Conservative party, and many people refuse to support her for it, as she was the single most responsible person for the NDP winning in 2015 here.
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Smith didn't merge the Wildrose and the PCs. She crossed the floor but they remained seperate parties, which was the single biggest reason the NDP won.
In any case, a city with every other building having a fag flag on it being deemed 'hardcore conservative' is part and parcel of why we deserve to be invaded. They're outright trying to phase out 'Calgary' as a place name, you need to start looking around you.
 
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Jace on ice said:
The United States literally produces nothing we have zero manufacturing. Two thirds of our economy is selling Metadata to advertisers and marketing debt to consumers.

That fact that we have a stock market in the red at all is nothing short of a miracle.
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I literally have brain cancer from living next to petroleum and cement factories for my entire life but whatever.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Being very blunt, people are too scared to negotiate with hospitals to lower their bills or set up payment plans. I know someone who was charged 10k by a hospital after insurance covered everything else and he just took it instead of negotiating like I urged him to. I did a lot of research and it turns out that if a hospital is non profit, they have to forgive some patient debt to maintain that status. Quick grok overview states:



Always negotiate.
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Correct. Best advice I can give is call the hospital and negotiate. The person on the phone can re-code shit to make a $6,000 bill into $4,000 or lower it even more. They would rather get less than litigate it for months, which ends up costing more. Also, most hospitals don't want to bankrupt people. It's the labs, specialists, and insurance companies that are really nasty.
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Unfortunately (at least around here) Life Flight is a privately operated company and not covered under insurance. It's kind of a scam, had a coworker tell me about the way it worked for his dad after a bad car accident. You come into the hospital in critical condition and unable to consent to anything, and the hospital makes the decision to call Life Flight to get you to a better equipped hospital as quickly as possible. They dispatch a helicopter and whether they end up taking you or not, you get billed for the dispatch. If they do take you, it's an even larger bill (coworker claims it was $600k+). Insurance does not cover any of it.

If it comes down to me dying or me getting life flighted, well, I have Life Insurance to leave my family and I'd rather do that than saddle them with a half a million dollar bill for a helicopter ride I didn't ask for.

Edit: I guess there are multiple Life Flight companies. Here's another https://lifeflighteagle.org/
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Do you have any idea how or if Life Flight negotiates charges? I'm just curious.
 
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Hokuriku said:
Smith didn't merge the Wildrose and the PCs. She crossed the floor but they remained seperate parties, which was the single biggest reason the NDP won.
In any case, a city with every other building having a fag flag on it being deemed 'hardcore conservative' is part and parcel of why we deserve to be invaded. They're outright trying to phase out 'Calgary' as a place name, you need to start looking around you.
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White flight is a big thing in Calgary. Most people are leaving for Strathmore, Okotoks, High River, Cochrane and Airdrie, but that doesn't take them out of provinical and federal voter rolls.

And Smith crossing the floor basically ended the Wild Rose, as over half the caucus went along. What was left of the Wild Rose going into the 2015 election was barely anything.
 
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