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To be fair, I only knew to respond (which started this hilarious side-track) because I am officially registered with the VA system and once had a VA assigned doctor I would see. The VA hit me over the head with the "We Can Give You A Free Ride Anywhere!" stuff for years, and so when I did an 8...

The Fantastic Four opened in all countries around the world on the same weekend, so there'll be no waiting for Japan or China or even Portugal for the final box office tally on this one. And it underperformed overseas compared to the USA. Can a $217-ish Million opening weekend globally get it...

Here's what I think we've all learned (heck, even @lazyboy97o learned something) in this thread in the past 36 hours; If you are poor and sick and carless in the UK, Canada, Australia and most other Western countries, you have to pay for your own damn Uber to get to the free doctor's office or...

Wow! That's a huge earthquake. Tsunami Warning issued for Hawaii and Alaska, and a Tsunami Alert issued for SoCal beaches. The waves, if they arrive, are scheduled for about 1:00am Pacific time, or about 6 hours from now. The kids are probably sandbagging the Marine Room, but Disneyland is safe...

I picked Burnaby randomly on the map because I once knew someone who lived there and its close to the biggest hospital in town. I Googled; the Vancouver BC metro area has a population of right around 3 Million, and the inner suburb of Burnaby which is located 5 miles as the crow flies east from...

You can drive 25 minutes on surface streets the 6 miles to Vancouver General Hospital, or you can take over an hour and walk a mile and then do two bus transfers and a train ride to get there. I know which one I'd choose. I picked Burnaby out of a hat because I know its an inner suburb and...

This topic is making me miss our old friend @CuriousConstance. There was a whole thread where she was nervous about how to tip her town car driver from John Wayne to the Disneyland Hotel. Tipping can be scary for some folks, although once you know the basics it can be a fun and rewarding way to...

I've travelled quite a lot in many countries in the past 50 years. Contrary to popular opinion, there is not a magic carpet of instant air trains waiting to take you from your front porch to your doctor's office, or anywhere really. You have to walk, you have to transfer trains, you have to...

Is there a country out there that has socialized healthcare that covers transportation to routine medical appointments and/or emergency transportation to the hospital? That transportation to both routine appointments and in emergencies being taken to a hospital is in fact covered by the US...

You don't go to a bar on a Tuesday afternoon across the street for a hospital while your friend is having surgery! Who would do that?!? :eek: You go out on Thursday evenings (with friends), on Friday nights (with your date) and Saturday night (to tell your friends about your last date). How do...

Continuing a Box Office Magic trend from last week, it's slightly weakened numbers probably had to do with the fact that the entire Western third of the country continued to be 4 to 7 degrees below normal through this weekend. In San Diego this past Saturday, it was downright chilly by the time...

This is why it's important to pick up a bar tab every once in awhile. You'll never know when you need a favor. ;)

Okay, so in this scenario, we have a middle-class person who had to have out-patient surgery. But they have no family in town, no neighbors they chat with occasionally, no friends in town, and they don't even know a co-worker they've been cordial with at the Xerox machine, and their doctor...

It's sweet you all waited and let me do this for the big debut of The Fantastic Four. Sorry I'm late, I was being sociable... https://thenumbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart

Most middle-class plans you get through an employer don't proactively cover free taxis to doctor's appointments, because they figure you have at least a 15 year old Honda Civic to drive yourself to your annual checkup. If you were physically unable to drive because of your sudden illness, you...

Getting that far to/from a cancer center would be difficult for anyone not within the immediate Duarte area. But at least you had the City of Hope available to you as a local resource! It's one of the absolute best cancer centers in the entire world, and is unmatched in many so-called "Western"...

Exactly. Private health insurance covers transportation to/from routine doctor's appointments or health check-ups for those who have no car or have no driver's license. Even Medicaid, the lowest common denominator of health insurance available to poor Americans, offers free transportation via...

Those inside the US (AKA "Americans") have an even better chance of having access to medical transportation as a free service. In fact, the poorest Americans who are on Medicaid (Or Medi-Cal, as it's called for some Disneyland AP'ers) automatically get free transportation to all doctor's...

I just checked, and the relatively new Viewliner cars that Amtrak uses back East are designed for passenger use up to 125mph. They are routinely doing 110mph on many Midwest and East Coast lines and train services. The current maximum speed for the Surfliner is mostly 79mph, and that's...

I think this little robot guy is terribly clever and cute. This is exactly the type of park cross-promotion they should be doing with all of their mega-budget movies!