tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post6469301284733120201..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91303571574326568882013-11-13T19:59:22.829-05:002013-11-13T19:59:22.829-05:00Steve.
I'm confused!
Grandfathering simply mea...<br />Steve.<br />I'm confused!<br />Grandfathering simply means allowing those who have existing plans can be maintained.<br /> It doesn't allow for other rich to swap or new members.<br /><br />In essence the numbers for these "existing" plans would drop below critical mass and economic cross subsidising...(see opportunity costs) and eventually the Insurance companies would kill them off.<br />Short answer the pool of rich "existing plan holders would find them selves in a dead end plan"<br />As technology expands , new procedures etc they would be excluded from the existing plans"... in effect...planned obsolescence. <br />I understood that was the point of the next post. <br /><br />In Aus they use that same reasoning from discouraging plan hopping by including the exclusion clause "previously existing ailments" on new members. <br />E.g. If I were to change insurance companies my existing issues would be excluded or there would be an extensive 'no claim period' i.e. (confinement.. birth) are excluded for 12 months. Not that it's possible for me or my wife.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Examinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08990595916031900662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75912468687039157872013-11-13T11:30:09.417-05:002013-11-13T11:30:09.417-05:00Exactly right.Exactly right.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76348001312004395842013-11-13T11:19:42.525-05:002013-11-13T11:19:42.525-05:00First off, many of the people bitching about their...<br />First off, many of the people bitching about their issues with PPACA are like that Ms. Gottlieb, who wrote that NY Times Op-ed. <br /><br />They had really sh*tty high-minimum/low-cost plans, because they ARE AFFLUENT, and could subsidize the minimum, and any additional costs, out of their savings - or, by cashing in some investments.<br /><br />There are genuinely poor people who also had really sh*tty high-minimum/low-cost plans who AREN'T AFFLUENT - they could afford the low-monthly bill, but who couldn't afford to pay the high-minimum, let alone any additional costs. <br /><br />If something serious happened, they were seriously f*cked!!! Like 'sell your house, be homeless, and live in your car - if you've still got one,' F*CKED!!!<br /><br />THOSE are the people we should be worried about - not the people frequently written about in the NY TImes "Styles" section. You know the articles - about how tough it is for a couple who "only" makes $600,000 a year, to live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, and still keep up their lifestyle.<br /><br />Second, and finally, when Bush's Plan D fustercluck rolled out, I was living in NC, and it took me over two weeks, and pretty much every waking moment I had from my job, for me to figure out which plans my parents, who lived in NY, should take.<br /><br />Did the Democrats try to endlessly repeal it, did they grandstand over the problems, did they try to roll the plan back, did they come up with some bullsh*t like this 'Keep Your (Sh*tty) Health Care Act?"<br /><br />HELL NO!<br /><br />They worked with the Republicans to help fix it!!!<br />It took a long time - but eventually, Part D was fixed!<br /><br />Don't look for the same courtesy in return.<br />NEVER look for courtesy from Conservatives. <br />They are ruthless motherfuckers!<br /><br />And certainly, no courtesy has been, and won't be, extended in this case.<br />The Republicans HATE that Kenyan SocialiFasciCommiMusliHeathen N-word Usurper WITH THE HEAT OF A TRILLION SUNS!!! <br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-44185889028419766662013-11-13T11:08:10.112-05:002013-11-13T11:08:10.112-05:00Kos has been on Twitter this morning insisting tha...Kos has been on Twitter this morning insisting that there's no Democratic split, because the White House is promising a fix. I hope he's right. Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14206467663417788542013-11-13T10:52:59.252-05:002013-11-13T10:52:59.252-05:00Don't these gutless Democratic weasels realize...Don't these gutless Democratic weasels realize that if they go through with this, they will all 'hang separately?"<br /><br />And that the only hope that they have NOT to hang separately, is to STICK TOGETHER?!?!?!<br /><br />No, of course not.<br />We're talking about gutless Democrats.<br /><br />Thanks, Bill Clinton - you triangulating motherfucker!<br /><br />Make that "Intern-fucker!"<br /> <br />If you stuck to fucking Chelsea's mother, this country wouldn't be anywhere near the mess we're in!!!<br /><br />ASSHOLE!!!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com