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11. Nobody with kids want their kids to do drugs...
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 07:05 AM
Nov 2012

... so #2 just ain't going to happen.
(sorry, I can't find a soften the blow smily...

But if you get #5, I can tell you from my experience with National Heal Insurance over here in Japan (yeah... it's totally the best kept secret): no matter what ails you (and I mean anything) you can get a prescription AND the doctor to go with it:

(1) There is a doctor to go to (any one you choose) and the visits are mad cheap... like McD's Big Mac Super Size, Fries and Coke cheap. We're talking 1-3 Happy Meals cheap!!! I totally freaked out when I first got here and paid like $15 for a doctors visit after an accident (really bad) with X-rays. They didn't even bother to call some kind of insurance company... or even the National office... they just sent me into their own X-ray room and took all the pictures they needs. After that, daily rehabilitation visits cost only 1 Happy Meal -- yes, you did not imaging that.
(2) I have bad asthma and other breathing issues... all of my meds are like 3 Happy Meals cheap per month.
(3) A friend of mine (you'll see him described below) sadly suffers from depression and insomnia. His meds in the US would go for $600/month. Here: $50.
(4) I had to go to the hospital... my asthma in combination with catching something horrible had me near going into pnemonia: hospital out-patient visits with the full meds and hours of IVs: $75.
(5) Anxiety: I don't know the price, but it has to be about 4 Happy Meals here.
(6) Problems with eating? You don't need weed to get the munchies. They have meds of various kinds to encourage a person to eat based on what the root cause is. And they are mad cheap. (As fat as I am, I was loosing weight due to getting sick... I literally just couldn't bring myself to eat... I was loosing weight at an unhealthy rate and was getting sicker due to lack of proper nutrition getting in... I literally could only stand water at the time. So, the doctor prescribed something that only cost like $20.).
(7) Pains: painkillers cost as much as 2 Happy Meals.

Damn... you know, I can measure things in Happy Meals because after I got better from that #6, I was on a total food rampage. I'm totally fat again.

Anyway, the list goes on and on.

So, for everything outside of getting high, your covered.

Heck, if you pay for extra insurance coverage, really tough things like cancer and heart attacks can get special attention. (Even that insurance is cheaper over here...)

So, sorry... #2 Legalizing weed... not happening.
But #5, that is a winner that gets you everything else you need.

And as much as I'd like to collect on #10...
... for entirely different reasons, I am confident that no one would support #10 either.

Funny, I was explaining to a friend over here in Japan what the phrase "40 acres and a mule" means just a couple of days ago. He found how that story ends so sad.


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