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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I must to bed. 4.30am here. Happy to continue this discussion after sleep

Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The insurance cos make their money statistically. But due to the strict regulations around medical care, it's expressed in making billing as transparent and incremental as possible. They have to pay for treatment, so they ensure the treatment is clearly documented and not puffed.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Excellent and comprehensive. Maybe you share a room, but the care is fast and good. The insurance cos compete on add-ons and extras, because core medical care is price locked.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Its a governmentally mandated universal health system. The prices are fixed, and the insurance companies must offer the minimum standard care. Which is quite solid. There is a private hospital layer above it, where costs arent mandated and people pay for private insurance The normal ppl level is

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Paid fully by insurance. Now if I was in Canada, same salary, I'd get Medicare. Long waits on many things due to lack of equipped centers. I'd also be paying 50% tax as opposed to about 26% here, and the delta would be around 50k I'll take 4k/yr with 3.5k deductible over 50k and poor service

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meaning max annual cost not including meds copay would be about 7.5kchf. After that point, all free. To compare my insurance panel (max franchise, supplemental for eyes and semi-private rooms. Call it about 9kchf/pa. Paid cost and franchise. Once that 3.5k franchise is covered, everything else ...

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here the big hospitals are usually based around a uni. They're all privately owned (tho some are foundations):but with all aspects governmentally mandated. Basic care is comprehensive, with a capped, variable copay depending on the program. IIRC annual at max copay is about 4ķ/yr with 3500 franchise

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Changing the way the single payer is implemented profoundly. One poor bugger in my father's radiation cadre had to drive from Yarmouth to Halifax to get his balls nuked. 400km. Because only Halifax has radiotherapy equipment

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It works because its a small country with lots of solid medical centers. Canada, on the other hand has lots of geography and few comprehensive care centers. Nothing can really fix that and tho the gov tries it still bottlenecks and hurts rural communities. But its as good as it can be without...

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Insurance here covers international- except the US, for obvious reasons. I'm not a yank nor defending the yank system. I grew up with single payer and have seen the ups and downs of it. Insurance in Switzerland is mandatory and price controlled. Everyone is covered.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sorry, wrong use of %. Pay 60% less tax. Insurance minimum about 4k, governmentally capped and costs regulated. It works. Here. Not sure it'd work in a bigger country.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You need to escape. Banjos are the gateway to overalls and inbreeding.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well, as a Canadian I like the Swiss system due to 30% less tax, and better coverage all around. But as I said, small country. I look at the mandatory private as a different form of taxation. Just much less than what I'd pay in Canada.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of mine loves taking her poos while looking at, but not actually stepping into the litter box. Also, shower poos! But she's a shelter rescue and never learned to cat properly, so we love her anyway. Rare box pic attached. She only got in to annoy Kitten (the box queen)

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please tell me you don't play the banjo.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can't be gamed like that here. Doc only can bill for face time. Or email time... I've had a few aggregate bills for email scrip renewals. They wait until the billing # is worth billing for. A 3chf bill would just piss everyone off.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With (in one clinic I used near a uni) having 7 rooms, 1 doc, and a bunch of techs because nurses were unionized and expensive. Techs would do all the work except diagnosis, prescriptions, and (most importantly for the location) signing doctors notes. Dude was shuttling back and forth making bank

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Biggest difference I noticed from Canadian model single payer is that they bill by the service (like blood draws) or the minute (consultations) here. Last I was living in Canada (25yrs or so ago) docs got paid fixed fee per consultation for clinic visits. This led to horrible visit farming...

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let them go full American. It works here, but admittedly its a small country with easy access to many hospitals. Bigger countries (like Canada or Australia) have geographic scale to deal with.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here in Switzerland it's mandated private- but prices are set (unless you go private) and billing is transparent. It works pretty well, and with set prices the insurance cos keep costs down because they can't legally screw you. Well, no more than usual for insurance. Key point, government doesn't...

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mine was closer to 45 min. Worst bit about the procedure was boredom... tho the right side bled and left me with a truly impressive hematoma! Many days with a bag of frozen peas down my undies ensued. 15 min? I'm jealous.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a certain amount of... rummaging around involved.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know, but having gone through it myself... eyurgh.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ahhh. The whole "electrical cords are tasty" issue. My sis has the same issue with her bunnies. So she gave them the whole basement (!!)

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Morning Rob. I have so many questions, but I am scared of what the answers might be.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Do they free-roam? I've no idea about chinchilla care other than that they need dust baths.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A good tidy and organize does wonders. I just rediscovered the dining table! Amazing what boxes can achieve. The cats didn't approve tho. Less human stuff to sit on and add necessary cat hair to.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not sure if they're super visible- old scars and flat. Bear in mind, he bit from the other side (I circled them)

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pudgy little belly, no problems at all. He'd spread his legs out and it was like he was pretending to fly. Or speed evolve into a bird.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did I share the bite scars? They have very sharp teeth. Pookie only bit me once, establishing boundaries. Once was enough. He bit across my wrist and opened a vein on the other side. I'd tried to grab him the way I'd grab an iggy. He'd have none of that. But if I picked him up gently around his...

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Midnight Olive Oil

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That's absolutely brutal. Love it.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The kids on the bus thing only resolved when I hit my growth spurt and went from 5'7 to 6' over a summer. Which was also when I finally grew into my feet. 5'7 with size 12 wides is... very hobbitish.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm with you on nuclear annihilation and the big kids on the bus. Apparently I was so distressed (at about 8, so 84-5?) by the news my folks had to stop keeping CBC radio on when I was around.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hells bells. Not even a decade ago I had to do my MBA module finals by hand, proctored and timed. It sucked, after 20ish years only typing. (Thankfully covid times let me do the last 3 online. I think accounting would have broken me otherwise)

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heh. I get it. If I ever find myself in getting a dog territory (Swiss apartment life isn't what I'd want for a dog), it'll likely be a wirehaired dachshund- so I can call it Wing Commander Evelyn Chomondely-Smythe, as their moustaches and eyebrows demand!

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unconscionable! Kitties must be petted!

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ok the three white guys walking out onto the soccer pitch alone is extremely funny

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And a whippet. My yorkshireman father insists the two are a matched set.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We need a Stray 2, with customizable kitties!

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And yes, I know Confucianism and Taoism are homegrown. But still layers floating on the old ancestral cosmology

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

All those imported beliefs of philosophies (pick your poison for terms) layered across the folk religion, mixed and blended into something amazing. As a friend in Harbin said about burning hell money "Its bad enough being dead. Who wants to be dead AND poor?"

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I miss the wonderful diversity of Chinese religious practices. From the paper funerary condos and forex hell money to the head-trip which is the surfing Buddhas... don't miss the fire alarm from when an elderly neighbor decided to burn her offerings in the stairway for convenience tho.

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Possibly Henery Crun @crun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And monkeys make everything better! (Well no not really, considering the amount of theiving monkey stories around, but monkeys are still cool)

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