Perlhammer

We used to be a country

Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.

Throw in ICE stalking ERs and undocumented folks ARE effectively unable to receive medical help in the US. Why do you should anyone be required to pay out of pocket for healthcare AT ALL, when the the worlds advanced countries don’t have that requirement, spend less, and have better outcomes?

“Emergency services” as required by EMTALA are pretty narrowly defined. Regardless, most people don’t even know if it’s existence and the fact that one can still expect a bill for those services is enough to put people off from visiting a hospital.

That’s plainly not true. Emergency services are not allowed to be denied due to an inability to pay. Those people still receive a bill for services rendered and are expected to pay for them.

The existence of Texas Pete confirms this theory

Those are all good, actually

Colorado prosecutors say no one will be charged in hit-and-run despite finding car Greg Johnson walks with a limp three years after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle in Golden. Now no one will be held responsible.

"The story that was relayed to me was that the three people who were in the vehicle, all three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving."

The 3-year statute of limitations on this case just expired.

That year and those sets were so fucken good

What’s the correct viewing order?

The average American has three friends

Putt Putt goes to War

“All of you fired officer workers can just go stand on line at the factory!” is just as insulting to blue-collar workers as it is the people who have had their lives ripped out from under them. It reinforces the idea of “unskilled labor” that anyone can just come to a factory and be fit for a task.

They weren’t ‘unable’ to find any Palestinian or trans speakers, they were (clearly) deliberately not given a platform on which to speak.