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Jonny On Maui's avatar

Wow Chris you made this account just to comment here? Who were you the last time you got banhammered?

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Akat's avatar

That worked really well for my cable bill. My Fios plan only has some fewer channels that I miss (Bye bye Destination America, BBC America...), while giving me way more channels that I'll never watch, while taking away my multi room DVR, for only $50 more a month than I was paying Comcast for all that stuff I actually used.

What I'm trying to say is I miss Comcast like ACA.

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Latverian Diplomat's avatar

I applaud your can-do perspective. :-)

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SayItWithOtters's avatar

Once the individual mandate is gone, who's even buying the policies that cover nothing? These people are convinced their True Americanness provides permanent plot armor from anything bad ever happening to them.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

I believe that would be "MacDUFFED," wouldn't it? *pushes glasses up nose and squints

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Queen Méabh's avatar

No, but I could buy some. It's cheap. Very good idea, thanks.

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Armadillo's avatar

Disingenuous. What about all the items on the list not included in ACA policies, like 4, 18 and 24? And the ones that the care you're better off not having (from personal experience ) because it's impossible to get authorized or the care they offer is crap? Half the ACA's promises sound good on paper, not in actual care

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Unregistered Hijabi Rockstar's avatar

You wrap the wound in lefse and apologize for causing trouble.

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Jenibrio Jenificus's avatar

Yeah methinks you are full of crap.Telling an insurance company that they have to cover something since people are paying them money to cover things, is in no way shape or form even remotely related with your personal problem with finding good care in any given category.You want junk insurance that covers bupkiss? Fine! Most sane people don't.

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Jenibrio Jenificus's avatar

You do know that coverage on things you don't need isn't really in your coverage, right? Like as in, insurance companies don't charge men more just in case they get preggers, right? As in they don't really bill us that way for coverage...right?Huh. Guess not. You know what is dishonest? Begins with C and ends with you.

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Ducksworthy's avatar

I was all set to sell him insurance against Leprosy (which is actually problem for actual armadillos.)

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Ducksworthy's avatar

You have never met an insurance salesman have you? There once were, and will be again, thousands of people gainfully employed selling "health insurance" that could not, ever, by definition, every pay a benefit.

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Ducksworthy's avatar

First, Republicans make sure there is no national regulation of insurance. This is a sacred principle. So all insurance regulation is always at the state level, mostly by elected Insurance Commissioners. So now its a sacred principle that our beloved insurance companies be allowed to sell insurance across state lines. Presto, there is no regulation.

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Armadillo's avatar

Why are you ignoring my stronger point, that there are a significant number of items on the list that aren't covered under ACA either!?

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xy's avatar

i'm going to start making people alternatively alive if this shit keeps up.

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Mike Rhodes's avatar

As George Carlin used to say, "If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're pre-school, you're fucked."

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