Lewis Buchanan finished 12th in Red Bull Hardline with a time of 2:45.816, but he's now announced that the crash he suffered in practice left him with a small sacral fracture & a coccyx fracture.
| This news is honestly not a surprise to me after how hard I hit the ground last week & how tough it was for me to put together a run at Red Bull Hardline. The aching has not really eased off since (I was hoping it would so I gave it a chance) so I went and got checked out. I had an X-ray and CT scan and they have said I do have a small sacral fracture & a coccyx fracture. It’s nothing crazy bad though as I could have come away a lot worse, this is just a little bump in road. Luckily the process involves nothing other than to rest up, go through some therapy if I feel I need it & they had no doubt I’ll be back fast! It’s all pain management and it’s my body and only I know how it feels really so once the aching is going away then I’ll get back to shredding hard.—Lewis Buchanan |
We wish Buchanan the best of luck with his recovery.
If you really want our government to run our Healthcare system, you are on crack!!!! Our GOVT couldn't run a McDonalds..... The VA is Govt run healthcare.. Go ask a veteran how that's going for them....
No one should be entitled to anything that costs anyone else money.
The govt provides protection and an equal opportunity to provide for oneself ... nothing else.
Out of curiosity, what was your job in the military and how long were you in?
And in a more broad sense, so you like roads? Because these are mostly paid for by others, and you're entitled to use them anyway.
One could argue that the military should be privatized, to only serve and protect those who pay them. Same goes for fire fighters. Trapped in a car after an accident? Please sign this contract before they cut you out. Oh, and the police would like a cheque before they stop traffic in front of your wreck.
You didn't actually do any calculations and are just talking out your bumhole, aren't you
UK residents pay less for healthcare than you while receiving a better, more comprehensive service. It's a simple fact. Just like the fact you are confusing taxes with National Health Insurance. And the fact you think taxes in the UK are particularly high, which is not true at all:
United Kingdom
Gross salary £25,000
After tax £20,279
Tax rate 18.9%
Gross salary £40,000
After tax £30,480
Tax rate 24.8%
Gross salary £100,000
After tax £65,780
Tax rate 34.3%
United States
Gross salary £25,000
After tax £19,925
Tax rate 20.3%
Gross salary £40,000
After tax £30,280
Tax rate 24.3%
Gross salary £100,000
After tax £65,800
Tax rate 34.2%
Tax are beside the point of course, as we both pay health insurance on top. It's just that mine is cheaper and unlike yours, will actually cover treatment.
And let's not even get into serious long term treatment where a large portion of Americans will have to use all their savings and/or re-mortgage their homes to pay, even though they have been paying more than Brits for health insurance every year of their working lives.
That first figure £25000 @ 20.3% is way off of are tax bracket. When converting that to dollars would make it $34,936 @ 12% tax = $4192. That's damn near half what you pay in the UK for that income level. The only figure you got kinda right is the 24.3% bracket. The £100,000 tax bracket over here is only 24%.
If you're going to talk shit and post numbers then make sure your doing the right calculations.
These salaries and tax rates examples are incorrect.
FAIL!!!!!!
@jaame Call it what you want, names don't matter. You still pay less for health insurance than your American counterpart and get more in return. It's a win for your wallet AND your access to quality healthcare.
Do you know the number of available private health insurance policies anywhere in the world that provide the same coverage for the same variety of treatments with no out of pocket excess as the NHS? You have one guess.
Do your maths again and show the working out. Especially the bit about brackets. Also Americans don’t earn £ they get $, so what exchange rate are you using?
Muppet
Lol, the woke mob is strong on this forum. Everything is rainbows and butterflies for them, but they've never actually dealt with government run health care. You hit the nail on the head, so they just vote your comment out of existence.
They do generally secure insurance on the open market. VA is specifically for service connected disabilities. Otherwise, we use our own insurance.
You're mixing apples and oranges. No one with a £25,000 (equivalent) income is paying over 20% federal income tax. In fact, they are generally receiving subsidies. You can't possibly reach that level of taxation unless you include social security, state taxes (which wouldn't pay for medical care), sales tax, and potentially some other deductions. Whoever worked your numbers is pedaling misinformation.
The people who use the NHS the most should be paying the most. His risk lifestyles, smoking, being obese, being promiscuous, lazy, a heavy drinker.
The Taiwanese system is better than the UK system and it is also much cheaper. They do not use the GP system (where you chances of seeing a doctor who specialises in your issue in the first instance is tiny), rather you go straight to a small specialist clinic according to your ailment. There is a small upfront cost, which I think is well worth paying and would also dissuade people from visiting the doctor every couple of weeks for something to do like my gran used to do.
Also I was out walking with my father this afternoon and we observed that most people are overweight in the UK. There are literally fat people everywhere. It’s only the kids and about 20% of adults who are not fat. The government should do something about that. That would surely take a huge burden off the NHS and cut costs massively.
Why is everyone so fat?
40k GBP is currently $55,640. Assuming filing as single and standard deduction(which will give the highest effective tax rate), no other reductions like pre-tax retirement account contributions, your taxable income is $43,240, your total tax liability is $5302.58, for an effective tax rate of 9.5%. Even accounting for FICA/FUTA taxes of 6.2% for anyone who works for someone else, you're still so wrong.
55640-12400=43240. up to 9875 is 10%, 9876 to 40125 is 12%, 40126 to 85525 is 22%.
In the UK you can buy a 5g tube of Zovirax cold sore cream for under £5 (or $7 for those who don't understand different currencies), generic creams are even cheaper. When my brother lived in the States he attempted to purchase a 5g tube of Zovirax at a cost of $180. He was informed he needed a physician's note which wasn't covered by his insurance. Another $100. In an attempt to corroborate this anecdote I came across this story.
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150306-column.html
Yep. $2500 for something that costs under £5 here.
You can keep your health system in the US, I'll happily continue to take my chances with the NHS.
saying that i have now got covid and a chest infection, and yes i was double vaccinated, oh well, keep smiling eh
Having lived in the US for five years, I have suffered only one injury - a bloody lip caused by my teeth when I hit a rock at the side of the trail and my full face helmet saved my beautiful good looks. This cost me $2k to get fixed, plus three days off work, unpaid, due to there being no law on employers providing sick pay.
It is an unarguable fact that I now avoid jumps and drops in the trail because my mind instantly thinks "I literally cannot afford to get this wrong". I enjoy riding my bike less here because the social safety nets that are in place in EVERY OTHER SINGLE COUNTRY in the developed world are not present in the US.
I love living here, I really do, but the healthcare system is broken, and the folks who broke it have managed to convince those who suffer as a result that there is no other option, when the reality is completely the opposite.
There should be literal riots in the streets about this.
And the party of "small business" and "picking yourself up by your bootstraps" continues to support a healthcare system that demands one member of every family be tied to a corporate job with benefits (Ok small exaggeration. A small one), so the family can have health care. Want to start a new business? Too bad. Gotta have that healthcare.
Want treatment? Sorry, gotta check with the insurance company, which has the power to override your doctor's decisions.
Stupid.
Another way to look at it is if you never take sick days like me, because of how I was brought up and some feeling of honour or something, you are literally giving your money away. Those sick days I have paid for and I never use... unlike Taiwan which is a no work/no pay setup... where income tax is 4%
it used to not be that like. the obama admin really hurt small businesses
I think you must have them confused with hedge fund managers.
Based on that statement I can only assume you do not own a small business.
A lot of people that I know that own small businesses have a hard time paying for healthcare etc. those people are the owner/operators and don’t have employees - just themselves.
I work for a medium sized contractor. Our insurance is the second highest cost of anything in our company - tools, equipment, trucks, etc ... insurance is the highest second only to payroll. Like 8 figures.
I agree 100% that medium/large companies should offer insurance but owner operators shouldn’t.
There is also a decent amount of people that do not use modern medicine due to religious beliefs. Under the Obama admin regulations we still have to pay insurance for them that they will literally never use. I’m sure they would rather have the 19k per year we pay out to raise their families than it disappear into the machine.
I disagree with you about being fat and being unhealthy. There may be exceptions but the two go hand in hand.
You can disagree about being fat and unhealthy but every fatty/chubby I know that regularly work out are as healthy as can be, surely they don't hit records in any sport but vitals and blood tests show otherwise.
It is also possible to be too thin, true. Too thin is the exception at the current time though. Too fat is the norm according to my eyes. Sedentary lifestyles, driving everywhere, too much processed shitty quality food, too much beer and wine. It's not good!
Just because you do a job that helps people doesn't mean that you shouldn't be paid well for it. God forbid that people who are valued in our society also be well renumerated for it!
THIS
The propaganda, and the willingness of so many people on the right to have propaganda playing on the TV as background noise, all freaking day, really scares me. How do you battle something like that?
There is already a significant shortage of healthcare workers , and it will only get worse... If you think wait times are bad now, it will only get worse.
Also you mention burn out. No doubt.... This will not get better with paying people less, because the worker shortage will have more turnover, less qualified workers and the ones that do stick around will only work longer hours and get even more burned out.
But really, Americans are so unhealthy, and so much of the expenses are going towards keeping chronically ill people alive almost indefinitely. I think a socialized system would collapse unless we as a culture start taking individual responsibility for our mental and physical health... which is why I ride the f$^king sh@! out of my MTB every chance I get!
The last thing I trust our government to do is organize, implement and run a nationwide healthcare system.
Agreed on the MTB as well. Get out and ride!!!!!! Have a great weekend.
Sorry about the injury.
Go see a pelvic floor PT as soon s the bone heals!
wont be using that one any longer
Heal up Sir
Stay loose
Let’s be real, you probably barely ride at all lol