I believe Empty Greene the day she goes on broadcast T.V. and sincerely apologizes to David Hogg.......until then, you're just another grifting bitch ala Miss Lyndsey......grasping onto any perception of which way the wind blows.........finger in the wind........(although I'm pretty sure I don't want to be downwind of Lindsey's.......or hers' either......)
OMG I had the same feeling about Admiral Akbar when I read this post. I do not trust this suddenly caring MTG encouraging kindness. Nick Fuentes is her tell. She just can't really denounce him
The problem has always been the insurance companies. They never want to pay what they said they would pay and charge too much overhead to pay what they do paid. The ACA set standard for what they had to cover and how much overhead they could charge. Without those regulations insurance companies would be ripping us all off.
Without the ACA the insurance companies will go back to not covering pre',existing conditions and not covering preventive care, which, currently, is a boone for consumers!
I've been shopping for a Medicare Supplement plans and I'm shocked. $300 and up a month just to pay the 20% Medicare coinsurance? Holy shit! And that's after paying the monthly Medicare premium. How does anyone afford to pay for all that?
I think the GOP’s current strategy for programs they hate like SNAP and the ACA is to claim “massive fraud” and set up more hoops everyone will have to jump through in order to access them. Doesn’t matter that they have no evidence of fraud. Just declaring that there’s massive fraud is enough justification.
No. No it does not make them an informed consumer. It makes them a consumer (which they are now) in a one-sided negotiation with no bargaining power. Take it or leave it. All with the Big Bad Insurance Companies that are victimizing customers.
OK, let's cut out those greedy health insurance companies and just have the government pay the providers directly. Even Bernie Sanders would agree to that.
Mad Marge is giving Trump serious agita and causing ruptures in MAGAland. We certainly don't have to believe that she's changed, but this is amusing as hell to watch.
It's obvious these fools don't know how the ACA works because they've never used it. Their own insurance has been either corporate, US govt, or self insured by being filthy rich.
They also don't know how high-deductible plans and HSAs work. Nor what the premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pockets cost. Also because they themselves have never had to pay for them, nor figure them out with their tax advisors.
HSA rules are among the most absurdist things I've ever read. Obviously written by people who have never dealt with their own insurance, or taxes. And then left half unwritten, because they're targeted at the middle class and who cares about them.
How is not filing claims considered "fraud"? If the # of people who didn't file claims doubled then that would be less $$ paid out by the insurers? And how do all these people "not know" they're enrolled in plans, and therefore aren't filing claims???? These RWers all want more PREGNANCY, which is one of the most common and most very expensive conditions covered by health insurance, from conception thru age 26 when kids age out of parents' plans. And they even want to cover fertility treatments!! If Medicare covered this condition it would likewise be completely unaffordable. Even if they gave each formerly-insured a $2,000 / year HSA stipend, it would never scratch the surface of coverage needs for either an individual or a household.
I work with Fortune 500 companies you've heard of. They didn't conceive of and accept DEI because they're so altruistic.
They did it because cis/het white males are maybe, what, 30% of the US population?
No mass-market company will get anywhere catering to 30% of the market, employing from 30% of the labor pool.
DEI is just business sense. As one of my large clients, who had championed DEI until being intimidated by Fascists and dumping DEI; is re-learning to their intense discomfort.
It's like how one of the big Reform politicians in the UK complained about how there aren't any white people in their TV ads anymore. Believe me, the ad firms aren't being woke - they're totally data-driven and are just doing what will increase sales for their clients.
I believe Empty Greene the day she goes on broadcast T.V. and sincerely apologizes to David Hogg.......until then, you're just another grifting bitch ala Miss Lyndsey......grasping onto any perception of which way the wind blows.........finger in the wind........(although I'm pretty sure I don't want to be downwind of Lindsey's.......or hers' either......)
OMG I had the same feeling about Admiral Akbar when I read this post. I do not trust this suddenly caring MTG encouraging kindness. Nick Fuentes is her tell. She just can't really denounce him
Ta, MM. Why has no one dropped a house on Oz?
Why has no one on the right called him a piece of shit because he's a Muslim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNeVjVu9O6w&pp=ygUTdGhvbXBzb24gdHdpbnMgbGllcw%3D%3D [Thompson Twins — Lies]
The problem has always been the insurance companies. They never want to pay what they said they would pay and charge too much overhead to pay what they do paid. The ACA set standard for what they had to cover and how much overhead they could charge. Without those regulations insurance companies would be ripping us all off.
Without the ACA the insurance companies will go back to not covering pre',existing conditions and not covering preventive care, which, currently, is a boone for consumers!
I've been shopping for a Medicare Supplement plans and I'm shocked. $300 and up a month just to pay the 20% Medicare coinsurance? Holy shit! And that's after paying the monthly Medicare premium. How does anyone afford to pay for all that?
Check into medi-gap, I think you will find the cost smaller and coverage much better.
I think the GOP’s current strategy for programs they hate like SNAP and the ACA is to claim “massive fraud” and set up more hoops everyone will have to jump through in order to access them. Doesn’t matter that they have no evidence of fraud. Just declaring that there’s massive fraud is enough justification.
No. No it does not make them an informed consumer. It makes them a consumer (which they are now) in a one-sided negotiation with no bargaining power. Take it or leave it. All with the Big Bad Insurance Companies that are victimizing customers.
Yes it’s a trap
OK, let's cut out those greedy health insurance companies and just have the government pay the providers directly. Even Bernie Sanders would agree to that.
I wonder what we would call something like that.. 🤔
"Miles fucking better than what we have now"?
Name is too long and awkward. Rebrand it to something like "Universal Health Care . Much better title.
Has a country ever died from embarrassment?
We sure as hell are trying
Mad Marge is giving Trump serious agita and causing ruptures in MAGAland. We certainly don't have to believe that she's changed, but this is amusing as hell to watch.
It is so sad when the children fight.
Like an orc going crazy in Mordor against the other orcs.
This is a good illustration of why I have cats as pets free-rangin' in my home; and not venomous reptiles.
The snake handlers seem to have lost their grip.
It's obvious these fools don't know how the ACA works because they've never used it. Their own insurance has been either corporate, US govt, or self insured by being filthy rich.
They also don't know how high-deductible plans and HSAs work. Nor what the premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pockets cost. Also because they themselves have never had to pay for them, nor figure them out with their tax advisors.
HSA rules are among the most absurdist things I've ever read. Obviously written by people who have never dealt with their own insurance, or taxes. And then left half unwritten, because they're targeted at the middle class and who cares about them.
How is not filing claims considered "fraud"? If the # of people who didn't file claims doubled then that would be less $$ paid out by the insurers? And how do all these people "not know" they're enrolled in plans, and therefore aren't filing claims???? These RWers all want more PREGNANCY, which is one of the most common and most very expensive conditions covered by health insurance, from conception thru age 26 when kids age out of parents' plans. And they even want to cover fertility treatments!! If Medicare covered this condition it would likewise be completely unaffordable. Even if they gave each formerly-insured a $2,000 / year HSA stipend, it would never scratch the surface of coverage needs for either an individual or a household.
OH NO!
Trump may not be issuing a pardon for this year's White House Turkey because the bird can't raise the necessary $2 million to bribe him!
https://bsky.app/profile/maryh58.bsky.social/post/3m5rqg33atc2h
Checking out a brand new lens. Have a Simba pic.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8r-W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Fb2f7e1fc-693d-4d8e-9330-05af6ffd9885%2F9fc9292c-1901-42e1-96e7-6685430aaa30.jpeg
VERY nice.
That looks great, Hammy.
The shallow depth of field is so wonderful
Which lens?
Viltrox AF 85mm/F2.0 Z EVO.
85mm is the purrfect focal length for portraits. I love mine.
edit: mine is an 85/1.8 Auto-Takumar Asahi for my Pentax K5 rig. Delicious glass. Great pic of Simba.
Can we all agree that DEI was conceived of and accepted for a reason? I am embarrassed to be a white man.
I work with Fortune 500 companies you've heard of. They didn't conceive of and accept DEI because they're so altruistic.
They did it because cis/het white males are maybe, what, 30% of the US population?
No mass-market company will get anywhere catering to 30% of the market, employing from 30% of the labor pool.
DEI is just business sense. As one of my large clients, who had championed DEI until being intimidated by Fascists and dumping DEI; is re-learning to their intense discomfort.
It's like how one of the big Reform politicians in the UK complained about how there aren't any white people in their TV ads anymore. Believe me, the ad firms aren't being woke - they're totally data-driven and are just doing what will increase sales for their clients.