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Has anbody heard any more about when "The Restaurant" will open, and the old Barn Door or the new women's clothing store? Anyone know who bought the old Barn Door? I heard it will open in the next week or so?

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oc, did you check the doctor's waiting room for a copy of Rolling Stone Magazine?

Poppatuf wrote:
"oc, did you check the doctor's waiting room for a copy of Rolling Stone Magazine?"

There, fellow Forum members. Those are the kind of smarts that New Yorkers who have moved to our area, exhibit!

......and no Poppatuf, I was running late AND it didn't occur to me!
oc

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Congratulations on having the only music store in the world that doesn't sell Rolling Stone ;-)

We actually got un-solicited RS for like 2 years. When they would call as to our outstaning balance or to warn us that our subscription was running out and we should renew, we explained that we've never even considered ordering Rolling Stone, and they wiped the balance. And kept sending us magazines. They probably still are, I don't read mail.

Under ObamaCare, you'd have lots of time to read ALL the publications at a clinic.

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...Oh that's right, she doesn't care about anyone's well-being but hers:

"Flying during the third trimester" -- Down Syndrome is probably defined as a "risk" in this context

When your water breaks, that's where you're having that kid, you should not lie an airline to get your flight, take two flights totaling 3000 and drive home just to give birth where you want to.

Ideally you wouldn't travel 3000 miles from where you want to deliver when you're in month 9 (Conceived in August, birth April 17).

I don't want that person anywhere NEAR my health-care policy.

Sorry, that was too easy, go back to your regularly-scheduled thread.

a woman can have her baby in almost any hospital. Therefore, Canadian health care trumps Wolfeboro Health Care.
oc

Moved...

At tonight's (07/20/09 Wolfeboro Selectman's Meeting, carried without foul-up by Wolfeboro Community Television, David Ford explained to the BOS that 2,500 letters would need to be sent to customers of the town's Water & Sewer Department, because a recent routine bacteria test had shown an excessive level! While no boil water order would result, regulations required that the Department notify the town's water customers of the over limit test results. There goes more of those pricey envelopes!
oc
Scary Marge!

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I'm glad I read the whole thing. Within the first two sentences I was thinking "There goes 2 grand out the door on 80 Cent envelopes!", thanks for beating me to the punch :-)

a woman can have her baby in almost any hospital. Therefore, Canadian health care trumps Wolfeboro Health Care.
oc

In Montreal's English-Language newspaper, the Montreal Gazette, it was announced that a husband delivered his wife's baby by himself IN THE HOSPITAL when no personnel could be found!

A few days later, a different husband delivered his wife's miscarried baby by himself IN THE HOSPITAL when no personnel could be found!

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Peace_through_Weakness

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Those guys should totally ask for a refund of their hospital costs.

Oh well, at least they didn't die while waiting for emergency room treatment like some third world hospital:

Thiswoman waited24 hours before dying in NYC.

That(Two hour wait for a heart attack victim)

The Otherone died after sitting in her wheelchair for 4 hours.

You can't believe that Canada is the only country where service can be slow. Obviously you've never been poor and in pain in the US. Try being poor, in pain, and have your insurance reject your surgery, that's pretty funny.

"...The Otherone died after sitting in her wheelchair for 4 hours..."

At 88 y.o., it's OK for her to sit in a wheelchair for 4 hours.

"...Those guys should totally ask for a refund of their hospital costs..."

They can't...Socialized Medicine is "free" in Montreal.

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You can't believe that Canada is the only country where service can be slow. Obviously you've never been poor and in pain in the US. Try being poor, in pain, and have your insurance reject your surgery, that's pretty funny..."

I've been poor and in pain, but unfortunately, I had a form of Socialized Medicine at the time. I don't know of anyone who has lost their wealth solely due to the costs of sustaining their lives.

"...Oh well, at least they didn't die while waiting for emergency room treatment like some third world hospital:..."

1) This wasn't Florida, New York or Illinois. This is Montreal—one city in a province without any of Socialized Medicine's rationed "benefits", such as Medevac.

2) You can get a private ER ride in a Quebec helicopter, but you will pay dearly. (But most of us would choose to pay it somehow, and not have any of Socialized Medicine's "Czars" rationing the private Medevacs.)

Do Quebec's "Elites" receive private Medevacs?

3) Hospital ERs get closed when swamped with Illegals, yet the taxpayer still gets stuck with a different Hospital's bill today. (A different hospital that gets swamped with Illegals).

Aren't Illegals "in pain, and poor"?

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/whats-in-healthacre-bill.html

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Peace_through_Weakness

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At 88 y.o., it's OK for her to sit in a wheelchair for 4 hours.

Fantastic. Old people aren't entitled to prompt care, I'll keep that in mind.

"...Those guys should totally ask for a refund of their hospital costs..."

They can't...Socialized Medicine is "free" in Montreal.

I see that even getting beaten over the head with a huge brick of sarcasm isn't enough. I was being sarcastic. Facetious. Joking.

I've been poor and in pain, but unfortunately, I had a form of Socialized Medicine at the time. I don't know of anyone who has lost their wealth solely due to the costs of sustaining their lives.

Here are a couple of cases I found in literally 10 seconds of searching:
http://timesnews.net/article.php?id=9015422
http://www.examiner.com/x-215-Douglas-County-Examiner~y2008m4d8-Cost-of-...

1) This wasn't Florida, New York or Illinois. This is Montreal—one city in a province without any of Socialized Medicine's rationed "benefits", such as Medevac.

In the US, "Medevac" is not a government provided item. It's a service provided by private companies. To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing stopping a private company in Canada from providing the same service. I don't get why this is a problem.

If I'm in a car wreck and get taken by helicopter to Mass Gen or SNHMC, my insurance company may pay for it, however if they deem it unnecessary, they may not. If I'm not suitably injured, the insurance company might decide it was an expense they shouldn't have to incur.

What you seem to be arguing is "Canadian health care should pay for Medevac service". Ok, move to Canada, become a politician, and get it pushed through. I don't see what bearing that has on the US system.

As for "Illegals", it's funny, even today they can go to a hospital of last resort and get treatment. Anyone can.

Meredith VSB is having a photo contest. This one might just win! It's great!

PTW - the thing you don't seem to understand about health care is that it's the INSURANCE companies who have f_ _ _ked us over as Americans. They and the drug companies.

Our entire system is out of balance because of these culprits who are more interested in their own houses on the lake then they are about proper health care for US citizens. Don't be so fooled, narrow minded, or blind-sided that you think this is a problem of Congress, the President or the Hospital - it's all about profits for these HUGE corporations.

Obama is pushing health care REFORM and I hope to God he gets it thru so we can save you PTW next time you go to the hospital. Who else would we all pick on?

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