LadySkinsFan

It's ****ing insurance, people, of course the rates are going to go up, just like they always have.

Really, the socks are the same design except for the burgundy and green stripes.

Gee, the "gold" on the Redskins' helmet looks just like the "yellow" on the Packers' helmet.

I had the same problem on my 97 Olds Bravada. My mechanic checked the gas cap. Sure enough, there were cracks in the O ring. Bought a new gas cap, fixed problem!

Uniforms should be burgundy jersey and gold pants and gold jersey and burgundy pants. Single stripe down the pant leg of the opposite color, same helmet, socks match the jersey color for that game single stripe around the top of the sock that matches the pant color, and single stripe of color on jersey sleeves of opposite color. No white, no black, purely burgundy and gold.

The profit part? Excessive profit? Cutting waste, fraud and abuse?

As long as the healthcare system is for profit, rates and costs will continue to increase as the corporations involved want more and more profit.

I have observed that whenever corporations make less in profit, their immediate solution is to fire people. People cost profits, whether they work for the providers or for the insurance companies. I'll posit that the reason we don't have public option is because the people employed by care providers will fire all the people they employ to file all those claims, most of the time several times over, because the insurance companies' profit comes from delaying claims payment or denying payment at all. That would have been a huge hit on unemployment of people and increased unemployment insurance claims. That would have a huge impact on our economy, probably bigger than the recent economic problems, by throwing millions of people out of jobs. That said, I will not be buying health insurance. I'm 62 this year, the "tax" for not buying insurance is relatively small for me this year, next year and the year after that. Then I'll be 65 and eligible for Medicare.

chipwich, if we remove businesses from having to provide health insurance benefits to their employees, and the employees are free to buy their own insurance using a non-profit public option among their choices, doesn't that benefit the businesses overall? They would have to provide the former funds to pay for health insurance benefits to their employees so they can buy their health insurance. The public option could have a list of choices of coverages: maternity care, birth control, prescription coverages, elder care services and so on. Each person/family can choose what works for them. Then we wouldn't have lawsuits from employers who don't want to pay for abortion or birth control coverage. It would truly mean that human beings were in control of their healthcare, and not government or business.

Anyone tried Sea Dog Wild Blueberry Wheat beer? It sounds good (love of blueberries). Right now, I'm having an Angry Orchard Crisp Apple hard cider to go along with my cut up Gala apple. (cut up because Dancer loves apples too, but without the peel)

It's called true compassion, not that "compassionate conservatism" trumped up by Bush/Rove. And the Tea Party Republicans are even worse, they don't care for human beings, just themselves.

Another reason to get employers out of the health insurance business for their employees. Let's have single payer, non-profit, sliding scale premiums, regardless of employer, and it wouldn't be dependent upon employers choosing policies for their employees.

Yes this, and our away uniform should be reversed: gold jerseys and burgundy pants.

And he's a pedophile too! That poor animal needs a really nice home where it won't get poked.

"Wright said prosecutors had issues related to the victim in the case. She said the woman had a drug problem, a warrant for her arrest and recently had eluded police. Prosecuting the rape under those circumstances would have been difficult, she said." So what? Just because this woman had various issues of her own doesn't mean that her rape shouldn't be treated any less seriously. And why isn't his parole term for the remainder of the 15 year sentence instead of just 5 years? I guess the 3 years was for the beastiality with the horse. Sheesh!

I recently tried some hard ciders, Strongbow from the UK and Angry Orchard. I like the Angry Orchard for drinking and I'll save the rest of the Strongbow to put into my pork and sauerkraut 1 pot meal instead of beer. I think it will be just the thing to liven up that dish.

Because even though pre-existing conditions are now covered, the premiums are sky high. No thanks.

I don't have insurance and I use urgent care centers when necessary, about once every 2 or 3 or more years. I used the ER when I had appendicitis. Bill was about $15K for hospital, doc, and other sundries. I paid it off over a year's time on a payment plan that didn't have interest attached. I haven't had insurance for more than 10 years. I have pre-existing conditions, so my premiums would have been about $400 a month or more. So, $4,800 per year for 10 years is $48K, and I have used only at most $17K in services. Big savings for me. I'll pay the "tax" and not buy any insurance and I have 4 years to Medicare. And I'll continue to pay for my healthcare when I receive services, just like the old days before the Great Health Insurance Industry Scam started when Nixon signed the HMO law that opened up the for profit insurance industry. I'm old enough to remember when health insurance was not part of an employee's compensation and people paid as they received service. Introducing that profit generating third party has been the biggest reason why US healthcare costs have soared over the past 4 decades.

It's not a free market if there is no real choice except between various for profit health insurance companies. Now, if there was a not for profit public option, that is not tied to employment with sliding scale premiums, no high rates for pre-existing conditions, no jumping through hoops for coverage, high ceiling and mandated percentage to admin, that would provide real competition to regulate prices. I'll bet large numbers of people would opt out of their employer-offered policies and sign up for the public option. It would be a better value that the for profit companies can offer, because in the end, the bottom line (profit) is what drives their policies. My friend recently had over $800 of medical bills and her employer-offered insurance will cover only $100. What is the sense of paying all that money in premiums if the insurance companies never payout even what they take in from you? Reality: We are all going to get sick and die of SOMETHING. Paying thousands of dollars in premiums that you may never have access to when you most need it, have to deal with people who aren't doctors telling you what you need or what they will cover, it's a joke. The health insurance industry is the biggest scam in the United States.

Not only how a bill becomes law, but the Executive Branch gets to write the implementing and ongoing regulations, which can change the intent of a law. I saw this happen when I worked as a legislative aide. And I grew up around here and that really opened my eyes.

I don't trust the GOP to do anything of value for actual human beings unless they are 1%ers. Oh, and the corporations that are people too of course.

The one huge problem with the pre-existing conditions clauses is that there is no restriction on the premiums, so insurance companies are free to name all sorts of things pre-existing condition and charge outrageous premiums. For example, I have had a C-section, tubal ligation and an appendectomy, all considered pre-existing conditions, even though all procedures were uneventful and I suffered no ill effects from them. But I have been told by friends in the insurance business that if I were to apply, my pre-existing conditions would kick in and I'd pay higher premiums. I don't have high blood pressure, diabetes and I don't take any prescription drugs on a regular basis, but I'd still pay higher premiums. So I'm not going to buy health insurance and will wait for Medicare to kick in, lucky for me in 4 years.

If there was a "Like" button, I'd click on it. I don't have health insurance, but I pay for my health care. At 60 with pre-existing conditons (which the ins. companies can no longer use as an excuse to deny but they can skyrocket rates), I can't afford a policy, but I can save the same amount of money I'd be paying or else get on a payment plan like I did when I had my appendectomy. No one paid for it but me, and I paid every penny. It took me a year, but I did it. I'll pay the penalty, no problem for me, because I will not be forced to buy something I don't want. The mandate was bad when the Republicans thought of it and it's bad now. I would get on board with paying into a public option, non-profit, sliding scale and not dependent upon employers. And to the person who replied to my post about "quantity" what do you think group plans are about anyway, but lumping people into a group for a "discount"? Think of the public option as a big old group with millions in it.

Think of the volume discount if millions were in the public option!

Frankly it sickens me to hear various Republicans drone on and on about how this law will come between patients and their doctors and they have no compunction whatsoever to have politicians and their laws come between women and their doctors. That's just hypocritical. ---------- Post added June-28th-2012 at 05:03 PM ---------- Single payer, public option. It gets businesses, especially small businesses out of the healthcare insurance business. And aren't the Republicans all about "helping" small businesses? People could just get the company's contribution to the healthcare benefits as part of their salary, more taxes (higher adjusted gross incomes), and people could just buy the public option.