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    Not gonna lie, I thought this was gonna be a Saddam Hussein or Loss meme.

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    Lack of coverage?

    You can have insurance and still die.

    How many deaths were for covered people who couldn’t:

    Afford to seek care and delayed checking symptoms until it was too late.

    Couldn’t afford the treatment due to poor coverage or high copay.

    Get their treatment approved.

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      I would argue that the insurance you have not covering what you need by definition counts as lack of coverage.

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    Lefty: picks up right handed scissors. SNIP.
    Lefty: well there goes my femoral artery, I guess I’ll just bleed out then.

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      Saw a guy bring his southpaw friend who had never shot a gun before to the range. He handed him a pistol lacking ambidextrous controls, gave him minimal instruction, dead.

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      Yeah, am left hand dominant and I really hate when that happens.

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    What’s wrong with this comparison is that most people don’t go where sharks are, while most people interact on a daily basis with stairs and beds. To compare apples with apples, we need a statistic of shark deaths in people that go swimming in the ocean.

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    The shark thing always bothers me. Like of course it’s rare to be killed by a shark since most people don’t swim in the ocean.

    How likely are you to be killed by a shark if you’re swimming right beside one?

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        I mean of course a full size great white, bull shark, or tiger shark. I’m aware that most species of sharks are much smaller and pretty harmless to humans.

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          Even then… Sharks don’t like the taste of humans. They only attack when they think you look like a seal and then immediately spit you out because eww humans taste gross.

          They are simply chilling and you’re in their space and they did a little oopsy. It’s not their fault.

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    I know the focus here is healthcare. But as an Australian, this is how I feel every time some fuckwit politician orders a shark cull: you farkin’ wanker…

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    US politicians: … We need to introduce more regulations for the use of right handed equipment to reduce deaths in the country.

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      Dead in committee over an unresolved conflict on the definition of ‘left handed’

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    Waiting for the Discovery Channel to make May “American healthcare month” packed with documentaries about how shitty health insurance companies are.