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quakerboy

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23. Also

Reply to Drahthaardogs (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:35 PM

Apr 2016

They would take your liver transplant and drop it off at the local minimart if you werent home that day. Then they would claim it never arrived, and then two weeks later, if you were "lucky", they might find and offer to let you come pick up the decayed organ.

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Mr. Stossel, if hospitals were like Fed Ex instead of USPS.... [View all] Drahthaardogs Apr 2016 OP

Yep! ^ world wide wally Apr 2016 #1

This is basically happening already, almost! Baobab Apr 2016 #40

Well stated! MerryBlooms Apr 2016 #2

+1 narnian60 Apr 2016 #19

4. They would hire nurses and assistants off the street during busy times n2doc Apr 2016 #3

During natural disaster HubertHeaver Apr 2016 #8

+1! Enthusiast Apr 2016 #26

good post! n/t KT2000 Apr 2016 #4

D'oh awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #5

I think that beat down by the wrestler rpannier Apr 2016 #6

It taught him "I'm not getting paid enough for this shit"... JHB Apr 2016 #10

Just a minor quibble (I agree with the thrust of the OP) Stonepounder Apr 2016 #7

Yup, my aunt started as a temp during the holidays TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #35

I hate that snake Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2016 #9

I don't know what happened to him TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #36

I hate what they have done to the post office. tecelote Apr 2016 #11

Many dist centers closed to increase delivery time, then use USPS to perform final segment delivery. TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #17

Isn't Stossel a kind of fungal disease Thespian2 Apr 2016 #12

I heard things. pdom694 Apr 2016 #24

Excellent! Thespian2 Apr 2016 #30

They'd buy off Congress, make competition prefund retirement, then have a PE firm loot it. TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #13

I agree with everything you said, except ... aggiesal Apr 2016 #14

here here trc Apr 2016 #22

am i awful to say i hope his prognosis is very over optimistic? dembotoz Apr 2016 #15

All I can say is SCantiGOP Apr 2016 #16

K&R. Well said. Overseas Apr 2016 #18

If my experience with UPS and Fed Ex are anything to go by JoeyT Apr 2016 #20

When I hear the name FedEx, I think fast and expensive. Not two words I want to hear re: healthcare! reformist2 Apr 2016 #21

Also quakerboy Apr 2016 #23

K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations. Enthusiast Apr 2016 #25

Both UPS and FedEx failed to deliver parcels too me recently Canada Post ten flawless deliveries in Monk06 Apr 2016 #27

Perhaps we could have "charter" hospitals, staffed not with real doctors and nurses, but ... Scuba Apr 2016 #28

Well, hey, we can do that with teachers now in Wisconsin. AllyCat Apr 2016 #31

Everyone has been a student, so they all think they can be teachers. hunter Apr 2016 #32

great post - bookmarking for use against freemarket true believers - n/t Locrian Apr 2016 #29

I wish I could rec this more than once eom wryter2000 Apr 2016 #33

Stossel AND George Will are oxygen theives. rickford66 Apr 2016 #34

USPS is able to do all of these things....at a loss of billions per year. MadDAsHell Apr 2016 #37

They operate at a profit but lose money becausw Drahthaardogs Apr 2016 #41

As they should. Since when is it a Democratic ideal to let employers off the pension hook? MadDAsHell Apr 2016 #43

I agree. Drahthaardogs Apr 2016 #44

Nicely done! Stossel needs to see this. 11 Bravo Apr 2016 #38

Tell it! GrapesOfWrath Apr 2016 #39

The middle and lower classes can never suffer enough for the likes of that asshole! wolfie001 Apr 2016 #42