https://youtu.be/eXO_ApjKPaI

I'm glad he's not hurt from the accident, but I still don't like him at all as a person for what he did to Conan. He's never apologized for that, but instead has just doubled down and said he didn't try to do anything wrong.

Didn't expect the handle "BoneJack" to make a serious post on what a "skin gun" does.

Sorry, your healthcare comparatively sucks. Find one of the many articles titled something like "US Health System Ranks Last Among High-Income Countries" to learn more.

It might be working for YOU, and it might not be working for 1 guy in England (who knows his circumstance), but that doesn't mean much to me.

> The remaining 9% need options too, but ripping out something that works pretty well for 91% to accommodate the 9% is not a good strategy.

My point is it's not working for MANY of the 91% and 9% uninsured is a failure anyway... That's 30 million people. I think it's better to put it that way because it doesn't dehumanize them behind a small percent number.

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Keep your chin up, buddy.

This plus he’s 72, still seems pretty sharp but stuff happens

And, let’s keep going here, do you think those are the only costs involved in entirely replacing a human’s face? Equipment. Supplies. Finite materials. A place to do it that someone had to spend several hundred million dollars to build. The diagnostic work and preparation beforehand, as the surgeons planned what to do and the teams got things ready. His recovery.

Until we get matter replicators, I’m sorry, but some things are going to be inherently resource heavy to do regardless of whether we choose to assign a currency value to it or not.

it doesnt work like that tho

why?

What i meant was he doesnt get drawn into celebrity squabbles, and has a focus that he enjoys. He isnt doing peyltty crap in the media just for the sake of attention.

at 10.000$ per hour, they would have 100 hours to do the surgery to hit 1 million. I very much doubt it would take them 100 hours and i very much doubt their hourly wage, even at that super high level you are talking about, is 10.000$/hour

That's completely unrealistic.

In a private only model sure, it sucks.

but everywhere with public and private that is literally how it works.

Don't "sweet child" me when you clearly have no idea how the system works.

Criticizing the socialist alternatives is fair game IMO, and I was thinking moreso of Canada and England's systems. The detoxes and rehabs I brought up because those can literally be life changing and the lack of quick access to them can be a life or death thing. It's an area where I have a lot of personal experience. I once talked to someone in England who was an alcoholic who decided they needed help. They said they were approved for rehab but they'd have a bed in 8 months. Compared to next day or next week for private insurance, I think it's fair to call out the differences. There's obviously a lot of other differences too. Criticizing a system isn't a black or white thing, where doing so means you want it entirely annihilated and disavowed.

30 million is a lot. In a country of roughly 330m people that accounts for about 9%. That's pretty good in that it indicates that 91% do have insurance. The remaining 9% need options too, but ripping out something that works pretty well for 91% to accommodate the 9% is not a good strategy. Better to consider how to approach that small percentage instead while working in the existing structure, which is certainly doable. The problem is, people don't get elected for good, simple, boring solutions, they get elected for declaring they're going to rip everything out and bring utopia for us all.

For one thing, when I was in rehabs there were some people there who were under "scholarships" as the administration put it. They had no insurance and were there for free. It was because someone who cared for them reached out and described the situation to the facility, kindly asked if there was anything they could do, and they opted to take them in at no cost out of compassion. That only works though when it's a small percentage, they need to sustain the system with the majority of people who have insurance paying their way.

Exactly how much do you think the time of a team of world class specialist surgeons and everyone assisting them is worth? Nothing?

You deserve what Leno gets buddy. If he gets plastic surgery, then you should too. And his rich ass should pay for it

That’s crazy. I once did something incredibly stupid and wound up with second degree burns on my thumb and that shit took forever to heal and still looks a little funny ten years later. Stem cells are the shit.

After having his entire face and ear burnt off? Yeah bud, that happens a lot, it’s called PTSD.

> Try getting that QOS in a socialist system.

I mainly mean this line. You got your good(?) insurance, forget the social safety net!

I just did a quick check "Roughly 30 million Americans of all ages had no health insurance in 2021"... that's a lot. Not to mention the people who have crappy insurance that isn't nearly as good as the free options in other countries.

The US healthcare system suck for everyone except the well-off, which is a seemingly ever-shrinking amount of people.

??????

drink some water and lay down for a bit

They laughed at the chin until the chin expanded his face to make reconstructive plastic surgery easier than most normal chinned humans.

My brother’s Bio-dad was at a natural gas plant when it exploded. Threw him like 50 feet, and he had 3rd degree burns on his arms where his sleeves (rolled up at the time) wedding ring, and watch…and in his face where is eyeglasses weren’t covered. He’s has numerous surgeries to remove scar tissues from his hands, and can’t really go out in the sun uncovered. This was 10 years ago…and he still look 15-20 years younger than his actual age because, as we joke now, he got a “very aggressive chemical peel”. You’d be surprised what you can live through…and modern medicine can do quite a bit to help you recover if you are in the right area of the world.

he has the BEST auto museum because he keeps all his stuff in operable condition and drives ALL of it.

“We’re sorry but that’s not covered by your policy, instead we can offer to spit on it and a high five”