Don't Mess with Texas
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Yeah, easy for you to say, when you have a job and haven't lost it due to the economy. It's not that easy to get a good job with benefits these days, not that you'd have a damn bit of compassion for anyone other than yourself.
Ideals and standards are always important until you personally are affected by something. I didn't think I could get get more negative towards you than I already was, but this thread is taking it to another level.
Fuck everybody else, leave me alone, my ideas are the only one that are right, and I'll be damned if I will think anything or anyone else could ever be more right than me. Pretty fucking convenient way to live, really. Until everything changes for you, out of the blue. Then you might whistle a different tune - a lot like other blowhards that criticize drug users until proven to be one themself, criticize gays and that way of life until their caught fondling someone or tapping their toes in a mens room stall, looking for a good buttbonking, all those things that you and the people you align yourself with seem to believe in, until something changes.
save money, quit bitching about no jobs and go to work, problem solved, work, work,work, get an education, quit asking the government for a hand out, I hate lazy bums that want the government to give them insurance or anything else, save your money and do it yourself
try paying my plan for $1150 a month. or should i go out and work for somebody else to get the benefits? what happens when it's $1600 a month a year down the road? something has to give.
Yep. The new plan is you will now just pay Uncle Sam $1150 per month and Chadman will get his free health insurance. He never has to work and you don't have to worry about it going to $1600 per month. Well, until the Gov't decides they need a little more funding and then earmark the tax increase to a really important patriotic bill.
Just like Eddie Haskell and Spytheweb's dream come true.
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I don't understand why property and casualty insurance is under state oversight and each state regulates the pricing. Why don't they do this with health insurance?
Are you married? does your wife work? Does her employer have insurance coverage? I am sure my employer pays 1150 per month for my whole family, I do not know for sure, I cover myself for 150 per month and my wife covers herself and both kids for about 350 per month out of pocket, she works for the State of Texas.
Our problem is the fact that there is insurance at all. The idea of a middle man making massive profits off of people's health is inherently wrong.
Take insurance out of the equation and we can create a system that works for all. If we don't do that, I don't know what will ever change. They will always rip off the country and try to deny coverage whenever possible.
Take insurance out of the equation and we can create a system that works for all. If we don't do that, I don't know what will ever change. They will always rip off the country and try to deny coverage whenever possible.
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I try to fix things...what is the right answer? have the government control your life and what kind of care you get? I prefer to be in control. Premiums go up as you get older because of risk factors
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Nobody has forced anyone to take out insurance yet--except your boy is trying to now.
Insurance is simply a way to transfer risk we do not want to absorb ourselves--however tough idea to convey to the Bob Dylan--"if you ain't got nothin-you got nothin to lose" segment of population.
good point, then we will have to get rid of lawyers, since doctors pay ridiculous insurance premiums for mal-practice insurance
Smurph, you don't have to have insurance. You can cover yourself, this isn't like auto or home inurance where you have to cover it. If you don't want them making money then don't buy insurance, you take the chance instead of them taking it.
a big FU right back to the likes of you in TX....not all Tx but just the smart guys like you.... this thing is not going to happen... even if it does..Obnma will be president for 4 to 8 yrs... bush couldn't kill us Obama can't either... wipe your nose and have a little faith in the American People.. if this guy fucks it up as much as the last guy... then we have a fighting chance.. then Americans will see the enemy is not on their left or right but everyone inside the beltway...we waste time defending who is right or wrong, when they all are most of the time..this obama/cop/gates thing is the latest example of their snmoke screens... think about the time and resources wasted on this bull shit...
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If Obama was a citizen or if he were white (like Bush) none of this would be happening.
Texas is near the bottom among the 50 states in per-capita spending on health and human services, but it is a leader in outsourcing these functions to private contractors. Since taking office in 2000, Perry has pushed some of the nation?s most ambitious outsourcing endeavors, going well beyond his predecessor, George W. Bush.
?We have a leadership that believes the private sector does things better,? said Celia Hagert, senior policy analyst and privatization expert at the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group in Austin.
?Whether it?s ideology or philosophy ? simply believing that people shouldn?t be on these programs in the first place ? these things have combined to create a very stingy social safety net system in Texas.?
Since 2000, the Texas Department of Insurance has fined UnitedHealth or one of its units seven times totaling more than $10 million for violations involving claims payouts, reporting requirements and other problems.
Texas doctors have long complained about UnitedHealth and its handling of claims under employer-provided insurance plans.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/january/unitedhealths_everc.php
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Then there's Texas, where the insurance crisis has multiple causes:
?Small businesses dominate the economy, but only 31% of those with 50 or fewer employees offer insurance in Texas, compared with 43% nationally. As a result, 48% of Texans are covered by employers, compared with 53% nationally.
?Income limits to qualify for Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled, are among the lowest in the nation here. Texas has set a limit of $4,822 per year for a family of three, compared with nearly $10,000 in Florida, $18,000 in California and $25,000 in New York. Texas has no subsidized health insurance program for childless adults; 19 states and the District of Columbia offer some coverage.
?The state has forfeited more than $900 million in federal money under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) during the past six years because it wouldn't put up 28 cents for each 72 cents in federal aid. Restrictions put in place in 2003 cut about 200,000 children from the program in a state with the highest percentage of uninsured children, nearly twice the national average. "It's a horrible scandal," says Jeffrey Starke, chief of pediatrics at Ben Taub.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-18-texas-health-care_N.htm
Sheez Spy
--sure not an advantageous state for Da Base.
Maybe that why they have budget surplus when most are begging for bailouts.
I think I remember someone saying something about living with the consequences of ones convictions.
on the Schip--we have federal plan called medicade that pays for insurance for people (children) at poverty level. Now under Schip families earning over $80,000 a year are eligible in some states.
The more I read about texas--the more I like.
--and they're running surplus with no state income tax--thats got to be a liberals nightmare
--sure not an advantageous state for Da Base.
Maybe that why they have budget surplus when most are begging for bailouts.
I think I remember someone saying something about living with the consequences of ones convictions.
on the Schip--we have federal plan called medicade that pays for insurance for people (children) at poverty level. Now under Schip families earning over $80,000 a year are eligible in some states.
The more I read about texas--the more I like.
--and they're running surplus with no state income tax--thats got to be a liberals nightmare
Wilson, I don't care about getting free health insurance. I will be just fine, or as fine as most people, whether anything changes or not. I will have to make choices, just like anyone else. My point is, I think we have to reform the way things are being done now, to try to help control health care costs for everyone. How to do it, I'm not sure. But I am sure that if we don't try to reign in the people who are sticking it to us and making billions of dollars in the process, and raising our costs every day, then eventually nobody WILL be able to afford it, or at least not the average, or even above average income earner.
I'm not asking for a handout, for myself or anyone. I'm asking for people to talk about this, and try to come up with some sensible answers. Doing nothing is not a sensible answer, I don't think. It's certainly EASIER, but not sensible.
