Originally posted by gaweidert I do pay $135 a month for medicare plus more money for a supplemental plan. I see a doctor, on average, less than once a year, and I am not on any prescription drugs. They actually make money on me!
I pay ~160 €/month specifically for "normal" healthcare (there's also the tax for long-term care, which is about ~50), and in the last year and a half I used it in total for one dermatologist check-up (which would have been 35€) and shaving off ~300€ out of the 350€ I paid for the bundle of vaccines I was stabbed with before flying to India
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Originally posted by gaweidert Sorry, senior moment there for me. I was astounded to read somewhere once how much water is lost to evaporation along the way. Where I live a dry day has an RH of about 30 - 40% in the summer. People from the southwest that visit here complain about the humidity at that level. The first time I went to Las Vegas to visit my son and his family it was amazing to see how fast water evaporates out there and how much water I needed to drink to stay hydrated. I was pretty much thirsty the whole time.
I got out the car in Phoenix two years ago at ~40ºC (I think the car said 104ºF, not sure exactly how much but it was certainly over 100) and I swear I could feel my skin shriveling into a raisin
. It was like stepping into an oven, I chugged two or three liters of water in the three hours I was there.