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Message no. 1
From: Sean Martinez <el_bandit@****.COM>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:11:17 -0400
Gurth wrote:

>As for people not born in a hospital, I'd say there are a lot of them as
>well. Hospitals charge money for their services, so if you don't have
that
>you won't get in.

Well, lets not forget the services that DSS provides, which includes
hospitol care for pregnat women. Such services would be readily available
in poorer communities (ie, they people there would know about it)

Actually, today, a hospitol can not refuse service to help someone
regardless of their financial ability to pay. Though they can bill you
for the rest of your life.

A privately owned practice may be able to, though.

-El Bandit

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:23:12 +0100
Sean Martinez said on 10:11/25 Sep 97...

> Well, lets not forget the services that DSS provides

And DSS is...?

> Actually, today, a hospitol can not refuse service to help someone
> regardless of their financial ability to pay. Though they can bill you
> for the rest of your life.

I see SR hospitals more like the place you get to run in Theme Hospital
(watch the intro to it for some very funny scenes). That is, if you don't
have the money to pay for the service, or don't have what they consider to
be a steady background that'll allow them to bill you, they won't help.

Part of the reason why I play them this way is because it'll lead to the
players scrounging money from everywhere in order to get first aid at a
hospital.

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Message no. 3
From: Ian White <dernhelm@*****.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:44:06 -0400
At 18:27 26/09/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Sean Martinez said on 10:11/25 Sep 97...
>
>> Well, lets not forget the services that DSS provides
>
>And DSS is...?
>
That'll depend on what country your in as to what DSS will mean.
Here in Australia DSS stands for Department of Social Security.
The DSS provides ppl who can't work (eg disabled, ill) or are
unemployed and have no other for of income with financial assisstants.


Dernhelm

Is this reality? If so, then I prefer insantiy
Message no. 4
From: Jaymz <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:37:53 -0500
At 04:44 AM 9/26/97 -0400, Ian White wrote:
# At 18:27 26/09/97 -0500, you wrote:
# >Sean Martinez said on 10:11/25 Sep 97...
# >
# >> Well, lets not forget the services that DSS provides
# >
# >And DSS is...?
# >
# That'll depend on what country your in as to what DSS will mean.
# Here in Australia DSS stands for Department of Social Security.
# The DSS provides ppl who can't work (eg disabled, ill) or are
# unemployed and have no other for of income with financial assisstants.

Hmm, here DSS means Digital Satellite System
;)
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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:34:14 +0100
Ian White said on 4:44/26 Sep 97...

> >And DSS is...?
> >
> That'll depend on what country your in as to what DSS will mean.
> Here in Australia DSS stands for Department of Social Security.
> The DSS provides ppl who can't work (eg disabled, ill) or are
> unemployed and have no other for of income with financial assisstants.

Ah. The (*@^$&#^%&#^(% * bastards...

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Message no. 6
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:13:57 +0100
|Sean Martinez said on 10:11/25 Sep 97...
|
|> Well, lets not forget the services that DSS provides
|
|And DSS is...?

Well, in Britain, it's the Department of Social Services.
(Dealing with pensions, unemployment/income support, care work, paying for
some emergency needs and so on... )

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Message no. 7
From: Ian White <dernhelm@*****.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:20:42 -0400
At 18:37 27/09/97 -0500, Gurth gave us these insightfull words:
>
>Ian White said on 4:44/26 Sep 97...
>
>> >And DSS is...?
>> >
>> That'll depend on what country your in as to what DSS will mean.
>> Here in Australia DSS stands for Department of Social Security.
>> The DSS provides ppl who can't work (eg disabled, ill) or are
>> unemployed and have no other for of income with financial assisstants.
>
>Ah. The (*@^$&#^%&#^(% * bastards...
>
Pardon Gurth? you are trying to say what? ;)

Dernhelm

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Message no. 8
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 1984 & Animal Farm)
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:32:10 +0100
Ian White said on 7:20/29 Sep 97...

> >Ah. The (*@^$&#^%&#^(% * bastards...
> >
> Pardon Gurth? you are trying to say what? ;)

I suppose you know what those characters usually stand for... I'm not
going to elaborate because I doubt anyone's interested in what I don't
like but have to deal with anyway.

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