Deja Q
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:20 PM
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Poll question: So how much are your health premium going up this year? |
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Mine is going up 16%.
How can Americans continue taking these hits? Especially when, at the same time, the media points out what the execs do with all this money they get. (though it's been a couple years since I'd watched mainstream tv myself...)
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:24 PM
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1. My business health plan |
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only covers myself and my husband - very small business. It is over 1100.00 each month now after going up $210.00 per month. Sadly, I was happy it was not more. sigh.
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Deja Q
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:29 PM
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3. I hope more bushbots go bankrupt first. |
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They voted for the creep, who in return doesn't give a damn about them.
I even recall an article a DUer put up about a senior citizen couple who wrote to * last year. I think I felt some pity for them back then. Do I now? Nope. The "restructuring" of our society ("devolution" is a more apropos term) puts us all on the burner and expects us to fry.
I understand my fate. But too many average Americans wouldn't understand how to tie their own shoelaces without being told how to do it 50 times. "Sheeple" is a deserved epithet.
And in the 1930s, the population was nowhere near as big or diverse (in mindset). But that's why we have the patriot act and the "patriot day" holiday...
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:26 PM
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2. Why are Dem politicians so afraid of a National Single Payer System? |
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Are they worried they'll lose the votes of the remaining 10 right wingnuts who believe the poor don't "deserve" to live?
I don't get why this isn't a front/center position for Dems.
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Deja Q
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:29 PM
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4. They are cowards who have to re-earn my vote. |
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Edited on Mon Oct-24-05 01:31 PM by HypnoToad
Oh, I also know a few repubs who aren't voting anymore either. I wonder how election 2006 will truly turn out... (so nobody should get hyped about a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig 2006 (or 2008) victory. We hyped up about winnin' big in 2000 and lost - big. We hyped up in 2004 and lost - big. It'd be worse than silly to do so again.)
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:34 PM
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5. My mortgage is $1300 a month. You would think folks would figure |
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things are wrong when health insurance is the same as mortgage payments. As for my heath insurance - had to cancel it 2 years ago when it equaled my car payments after I got laid off.
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:35 PM
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6. I hope they go up 30% or more |
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Already take $620 TWICE A MONTH out of hubby's check. I hope they go up enough that he will finally say enough, and dump their asses.
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:42 PM
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on the other hand, my salary isn't where it should be. Call it a compromise.
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Mon Oct-24-05 01:59 PM
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8. no job, no insurance? no worries |
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I've managed 52 years, barring physical injury, without the healthcare industry. I just hope my luck holds out till my prents are gone.
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Mon Oct-24-05 02:21 PM
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9. 18% - I can't understand it either |
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I about flipped when I saw it this year.
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Mon Oct-24-05 03:59 PM
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10. Well, mine went down... |
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because I couldn't afford the increase, so I changed to a crappier plan with far less coverage. It's cheaper, though!
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Mon Oct-24-05 04:05 PM
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11. have none. 2 years now. |
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husband works for medical relief agency too. he is covered. not me. not kids. they are on blue chip.
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Mon Oct-24-05 04:07 PM
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12. The second, but unasked question is: |
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Has your plan made changes to shift more costs to you, e.g. larger deductibles, large copays, elimination of benefits or coverages, paring down the list of 'approved' medications.
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Deja Q
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Mon Oct-24-05 05:35 PM
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Eliminate and cut away at bennies that used to exist under the same plan (or all of them).
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