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WTF? My wife was telling me earlier that her wheelchair costs $100,000, and I was in disbelief. She said she thought her father was wrong until she saw the invoice. How the frick are we paying $100k for a fricking electric wheelchair? This is outrageous. I’ll see if I can verify it further and get more details like the brand and manufacturer.

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The bill might say 100K, but Medicare did not pay $100K for a wheelchair. I guarantee that.

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Google is your friend.

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Why do you assume that volume of officers is the only, or even the most important variable, with regards to call time response?

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Cutting spending is one thing. But cutting not only current essential services and cancelling new hires to replace retiring or other vacancies while not touching illegal alien freebies, that would effectively balance the budget by its own self, is asinine.

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Your creating a connection between two separate issues. What evidence do you have that the essential service of the police force will not be able to be adequately performed with this 5K cancellation? Again, if we start from the absolute correct premise that govt at its core, especially one as big and bloated as NYC, is wasteful...then why is cutting employees not a good thing?

None of this has anything to do with illegal aliens.

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Good question when they are doling out billions on illegal alien freebies, legal services, housing, as well as "rent assistance", etc.

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This is also wasteful, and they shouldn't be. Because they didn't attack the waste you think should be higher prioritized doesn't mean what he did isn't a net positive if it combats any waste at all.

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I don't know anyone who assumes that. It's a strawman

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Ok, well then why does almost everyone who has posted a response in this thread think this is a bad idea? If you replaced "NYPD officers" with "govt employees," you think this thread would be going the same way?

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It depends on what you mean by a superbug - presumably has resistance to all known antibiotics. Thankfully we don't have those, but we have plenty with multi-drug antibiotic resistance. They mean harder to treat infections, longer to get better, more expensive, often only available by IV (so you have to be in hospital where you're at risk of nosocomial infections), more side effects of the big gun antibiotics. We'd be speeding up the clock on antibiotic resistance and it's under-invested in because these meds aren't big money-makers, but that would probably change in a world of OTC antibiotics.

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My error is thinking people would understand super bugs doesn’t mean your face melts when infected and you die the next day. On this board, I should have known better.

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Responding to your false claim of a superbug in a weeks time if antibiotics were sold over the counter… that’s obvious bullshite

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Okay, I’m assuming you disagree with “weeks.” How long do you think it will take? Bc it will happen eventually if anyone can just buy their own abx for a run of the mill viral URI.

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Your assumption would be a mistake. The AMA rarely represents medical interests over the governments interests. It hasn't really represented medical interests for the better part of 3 decades or more.

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My wife still gets AMA letters in the mail asking for donations. When I see those in the mail box, I throw them away before they can even make it in the house.

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No… you can buy them over the counter now(I won’t say where because you obviously don’t know)

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I didn’t think I needed to specify legally. I’m sure you can by meth over some counters as well.

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but everywhere else on Earth sell antibiotics over the counter

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You are not very bright.

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I hope they consider antibiotics a class of drugs that needs monitoring.

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Antibiotics will never, and should never, be over the counter. There will be superbugs in like a week.

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Muslims

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85% Indian

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:lol:

Another Karla thread fail :lol: