that photo says it all... babies and puppies know intuitively what kind of person is holding them.gotta love how that one is reaching out … like, 'mom, save meeeeee!'
It's kinda funny that you say that, because I had the same thought, and a couple of weeks ago, I had a contractor come in and he was afraid of my dogs because, he said, he "always" gets bitten by people's dogs. Right away I thought, hmmm, I probably don't want to work with you, then, and when he sent his ridiculously sky-high estimate, I was glad to have an easy way out of doing so.
Srsly. I've gotten into state government, which means I'm both underpaid AND underworked, but I can't ever leave because the benefits are unbeatable. Family health insurance (including dental and vision) for under $400 pretax per month? Yes, please!
I am on immune therapy and have to take a number of high co-pay specialty drugs to, you know, stay alive. The first couple of years I almost gave up, it was far too expensive, I was having to "borrow" money from family and such to get my meds, it was a nightmare. When the ACA kicked in, the "donut hole" started to close, co-pays started to come down, and it is at a fairly managable level at the present.
Yep. Much as the ACA has been good for me, I readily admit that it is basically a set of brand new tires on a 30 year old gas guzzler that hasn't had a front end alignment in 20 years.
I will now use my psychic powers to predict what the Wonderful HealthCare Package™ will consist of:
--"Competition across state lines" (translation: letting the shittiest state with the most bribeable politicians set standards for the whole country)--"Local control" (translation: vouchers funded by inadequate block grants)--"High-risk pools" (that will go bust in about five minutes)--"Gender equity" (translation: making women pay more)
The hell of it is, the old farts who watch Fox News will believe that all this crap is better than the "disaster" of Obamacare after they're told so about 1,000 times.
I was out of work for more than a year and a half. If not for the ACA subsidy, I would have had to pay about $1,000 a month for health insurance instead of the $50 or so I ended up paying.
I had to pay back about $1,500 because I got a job in September that pushed my income up. But that was almost trivial.
It's the subsidy that really makes them hate Obamacare. Well, that plus the fact that Obama crafted it.
I'm sure Trump's cabinet is going to get to work on the complex and baffling problem of health care. Just what would a health care plan designed by such luminaries as Mike Pence, Alex Acosta, Wilbur Ross, Rick Perry, Steve Mnuchin, Betsy DeVoss, and Ben Carson look like? (I actually shuddered a little bit typing that.)
They support the existence of pre-existing condition. Just not doing anything about them. They've been saying they want to Protect pre-existing conditions all along.
That's the GOP wish list. Also, FSAs, and HSAs and other banking friendly schemes. Unfortunately the old farts who watch Fox are all on Medicare, or Medicare and Medicaid. For the rest of the country we might want to point out that just about everybody over the age of about 40 has a "pre existing condition" that will tip them into a high risk pool where they will get minimum coverage for huge bucks.
Yeah. They don't want to have to deal with lady parts. It makes them nervous.
that photo says it all... babies and puppies know intuitively what kind of person is holding them.gotta love how that one is reaching out … like, 'mom, save meeeeee!'
"But who's working on it?""Top. Men."
It's kinda funny that you say that, because I had the same thought, and a couple of weeks ago, I had a contractor come in and he was afraid of my dogs because, he said, he "always" gets bitten by people's dogs. Right away I thought, hmmm, I probably don't want to work with you, then, and when he sent his ridiculously sky-high estimate, I was glad to have an easy way out of doing so.
Srsly. I've gotten into state government, which means I'm both underpaid AND underworked, but I can't ever leave because the benefits are unbeatable. Family health insurance (including dental and vision) for under $400 pretax per month? Yes, please!
Especially since the gang who can't shoot straight has done everything they can think of to undermine it for the last two years.
I am on immune therapy and have to take a number of high co-pay specialty drugs to, you know, stay alive. The first couple of years I almost gave up, it was far too expensive, I was having to "borrow" money from family and such to get my meds, it was a nightmare. When the ACA kicked in, the "donut hole" started to close, co-pays started to come down, and it is at a fairly managable level at the present.
Yep. Much as the ACA has been good for me, I readily admit that it is basically a set of brand new tires on a 30 year old gas guzzler that hasn't had a front end alignment in 20 years.
I will now use my psychic powers to predict what the Wonderful HealthCare Package™ will consist of:
--"Competition across state lines" (translation: letting the shittiest state with the most bribeable politicians set standards for the whole country)--"Local control" (translation: vouchers funded by inadequate block grants)--"High-risk pools" (that will go bust in about five minutes)--"Gender equity" (translation: making women pay more)
The hell of it is, the old farts who watch Fox News will believe that all this crap is better than the "disaster" of Obamacare after they're told so about 1,000 times.
I was out of work for more than a year and a half. If not for the ACA subsidy, I would have had to pay about $1,000 a month for health insurance instead of the $50 or so I ended up paying.
I had to pay back about $1,500 because I got a job in September that pushed my income up. But that was almost trivial.
It's the subsidy that really makes them hate Obamacare. Well, that plus the fact that Obama crafted it.
Yes we know Republicans support pre existing conditions. That’s why they lost the house.
I'm sure Trump's cabinet is going to get to work on the complex and baffling problem of health care. Just what would a health care plan designed by such luminaries as Mike Pence, Alex Acosta, Wilbur Ross, Rick Perry, Steve Mnuchin, Betsy DeVoss, and Ben Carson look like? (I actually shuddered a little bit typing that.)
They support the existence of pre-existing condition. Just not doing anything about them. They've been saying they want to Protect pre-existing conditions all along.
with votes
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That's the GOP wish list. Also, FSAs, and HSAs and other banking friendly schemes. Unfortunately the old farts who watch Fox are all on Medicare, or Medicare and Medicaid. For the rest of the country we might want to point out that just about everybody over the age of about 40 has a "pre existing condition" that will tip them into a high risk pool where they will get minimum coverage for huge bucks.