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You mean that same federal government that has DEATH PANELS?
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I am currently fortunate enough that the health insurance offered to me by my employer is excellent. When I was first hired, there was NO WAY I could afford a plan on my own. My mother on the other hand has NO choice in her health care, as 40+ year smoker, there is NO way she could get coverage privately and is forced to take her employer's (family owned farm) coverage. I believe she would be better served by the Insurance Exchange where there would be many options to choose from. Quote:
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The point is that small businesses, this shouldn't effect large employers, will now have a choice as well and that will make for happy employees. |
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After all, we wouldn't want a "death panel" to decide which members of Congress live or die. |
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Not to mention I work in a business where insurance companies regularly deny to fit people with prosthetics that they need in order to function like normal human beings. ![]() Fantastic. What's that line again? ...same as it ever was |
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typical. democrats are worthless.
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the fact that this plan will be dropped, something that is absolutely necessary to have, is appalling. i really try to always keep open-minded about things and realize not everyone has the same opinions and such but with this it's hard. i view healthcare as a right, not a privilege. it should be a basic human right, not something only for the wealthy and employed. i just don't understand how anyone can think there are people in this country who don't deserve healthcare. anyone who is against having the choice (because that's all this is about, providing ALL americans another choice for insurance) of government-provided insurance, i'd love to know what they would do if their child or spouse or anyone they care about needed a surgical procedure and were told insurance would not cover it because it was too risky or denied for some other b.s. reason. we're not talking about someone wanting bigger breasts, but, to use tiger edge's example, people who have lost limbs and being told they cannot have a prosthetic one - unless they want to pay 100% out of pocket for the limb itself and any associated costs.
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Here's a sad example to get you all started!
![]() Recent college graduate (he's going to be a lawyer) goes jet skiing a few days after graduation as a "celebration." His arm was strangled in what was described as a "freak accident" with a rope or something. He lost his arm about halfway between the elbow and the shoulder. Prosthetic cost? $90,000 Insurance? None. He is too old to be insured under his parents and wasn't working at the time, I guess. Solution? Parents maxed out all credit cards just to pay for half of that. I don't even want to know what they did to their mortgage to pay for it. We secretly want him to become a lawyer and an advocate for amputees. ![]() |
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Sad story to be sure, but what if a high-deductible catastrophic health insurance plan had been available to him? You pay out-of-pocket for routine trips to the doctor and someone that young would have very low monthly premiums. Insurance only kicks in for long hospital stays, major surgeries or "freak accidents."
I'm telling you, if I was just outta college I'd be all over that type of insurance, not some government run plan laden down with all kinds of mandated coverage I most likely will never need. |
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Never in 100 years would I think I'd find an ally at Whole Foods. Wouldn't be caught dead in one, until now.
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the pesticides and growth hormones in non-organic food makes them taste better
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It's not where REAL Americans shop. Only Liberal elite pansies in Manhattan and San Fran....
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