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OC375

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1. What Comes Around...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:39 PM

Jan 5

This is how I remember it working when I was a kid. See the doctor, pay the doctor, done. Unless you were dealing with more than a broken arm that was it. Now it's all minute clinics and copays and endless tests and follow ups and disclosures and health histories, just to get simple healthcare. An exodus is a good thing!

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