Comments on: Waterloo http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/ A heady and eclectic mix of of the mundane, golf, religion, and politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:31:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jana http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-829626 Jana Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:04:50 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-829626 I pay a bloody fortune for really shitty coverage...in KY I can only choose from either Anthem or Humana to be self insured...my deductible is so high that I cannot afford diagnostic/preventative tests. My best friend's Cobra has run out and she cannot get insurance due to several pre-existing conditions. Her portion of her last surgery is 13G which she still owes. It is the people with exceptional situations that get screwed on having coverage and that isn't right. I pay a bloody fortune for really shitty coverage…in KY I can only choose from either Anthem or Humana to be self insured…my deductible is so high that I cannot afford diagnostic/preventative tests. My best friend’s Cobra has run out and she cannot get insurance due to several pre-existing conditions. Her portion of her last surgery is 13G which she still owes. It is the people with exceptional situations that get screwed on having coverage and that isn’t right.

]]> By: The Great White Shank http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-828743 The Great White Shank Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:46:47 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-828743 You're absolutely correct, Jana, but having been in this position (again) with my sister-in-law, you can get hospitals to work with you on outstanding balances for treatment. And there are also elderly advocacy groups that can provide good counsel (but you probably know about that already). In the end, people have a right to choose, or not to choose, having health insurance. Me, I'd always counsel it is far better to be safe than sorry, and penny wise rather than pound foolish, but the choice of whether or not to have health insurance should be left with the individual. You’re absolutely correct, Jana, but having been in this position (again) with my sister-in-law, you can get hospitals to work with you on outstanding balances for treatment. And there are also elderly advocacy groups that can provide good counsel (but you probably know about that already). In the end, people have a right to choose, or not to choose, having health insurance. Me, I’d always counsel it is far better to be safe than sorry, and penny wise rather than pound foolish, but the choice of whether or not to have health insurance should be left with the individual.

]]> By: Jana http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-828596 Jana Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:01:26 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-828596 Just got the first bill from the hospital for the 10 days that my father was there...52,000.00 This does not include all the doctors consultation, radiation treatments, tests, etc. Each 15 minute consult was over 300.00 per physician. My dad had "KY Medicare" and paid nearly 300.00 additionally for his secondary and paid additionally for medication coverage. Sure anyone can go the ER but God help you if have to be admitted and stay at a cost of over 5000.00 a day. That is enough to bankrupt most middle income families. Just got the first bill from the hospital for the 10 days that my father was there…52,000.00 This does not include all the doctors consultation, radiation treatments, tests, etc. Each 15 minute consult was over 300.00 per physician. My dad had “KY Medicare” and paid nearly 300.00 additionally for his secondary and paid additionally for medication coverage. Sure anyone can go the ER but God help you if have to be admitted and stay at a cost of over 5000.00 a day. That is enough to bankrupt most middle income families.

]]> By: The Great White Shank http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-828514 The Great White Shank Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:08:40 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-828514 E-mail that came to me from a reader who wishes his (her?) comment not be posted: "Only a right-wing idiot like The Great White Shank could think of using a stupid ABBA video to provide his pathetic version of 'commentary' on such an awful and disgusting turn of events for this country. The 70s were thirty years ago, get over it. Got Healthcare? Millions don't and now won't." First let me say this about that: 1. Anyone in the US (legal and otherwise) do have access to heath care, it's called the ER. I know that for a fact; my sister-in-law and her family haven't worked or had health insurance for more than two decades, and they've never been turned away, courtesy of Joe and Jane Taxpayer. Does the present system need tweaking and enhancing? Of course, no one's arguing that, but to say people don't have health care is simply wrong. 2. About the snarky comment about my ABBA reference. Actually, I wasn't alone in making the "Waterloo" connection to ABBA check out what Hot Air's AllahPundit posted last night: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/19/politico-house-dems-already-starting-to-run-from-obamacare/ Heh. AP even used the same video I did - I think those short skirts and high boots must have played a role. :-) No offense, AP, but I got there first, as I didn't see your post until this morning. I advance-posted mine before bed last night and HA's website was hit with so much traffic they were down most of election night. So, to Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous, I can only say that I guess great minds think alike... E-mail that came to me from a reader who wishes his (her?) comment not be posted:

“Only a right-wing idiot like The Great White Shank could think of using a stupid ABBA video to provide his pathetic version of ‘commentary’ on such an awful and disgusting turn of events for this country. The 70s were thirty years ago, get over it. Got Healthcare? Millions don’t and now won’t.”

First let me say this about that:

1. Anyone in the US (legal and otherwise) do have access to heath care, it’s called the ER. I know that for a fact; my sister-in-law and her family haven’t worked or had health insurance for more than two decades, and they’ve never been turned away, courtesy of Joe and Jane Taxpayer. Does the present system need tweaking and enhancing? Of course, no one’s arguing that, but to say people don’t have health care is simply wrong.

2. About the snarky comment about my ABBA reference. Actually, I wasn’t alone in making the “Waterloo” connection to ABBA check out what Hot Air’s AllahPundit posted last night:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/19/politico-house-dems-already-starting-to-run-from-obamacare/

Heh. AP even used the same video I did - I think those short skirts and high boots must have played a role. :-) No offense, AP, but I got there first, as I didn’t see your post until this morning. I advance-posted mine before bed last night and HA’s website was hit with so much traffic they were down most of election night.

So, to Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous, I can only say that I guess great minds think alike…

]]> By: Goose http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-828468 Goose Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:30:51 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-828468 Basically by being a Mass Dem, "Marsha" already had 40% of the vote. All she had to do was pull in the other 10%. Brown started with a GOP base of about 10-15%. That means that about 80% of people in the middle went for Brown! People want to be represented and they want a voice in DC. As for Obama, he had a chance to do something special in DC. He could have been a unifying leader. But he got seduced (willingly) by the power and ambition of his position and the allure of a rubber stamp Congress. He sold his soul and THAT is "transparent". It is indeeed his Waterloo. Basically by being a Mass Dem, “Marsha” already had 40% of the vote. All she had to do was pull in the other 10%. Brown started with a GOP base of about 10-15%. That means that about 80% of people in the middle went for Brown! People want to be represented and they want a voice in DC.

As for Obama, he had a chance to do something special in DC. He could have been a unifying leader. But he got seduced (willingly) by the power and ambition of his position and the allure of a rubber stamp Congress. He sold his soul and THAT is “transparent”. It is indeeed his Waterloo.

]]> By: Jana http://goodboysnation.com/2010/01/20/waterloo/comment-page-1/#comment-828446 Jana Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:01:02 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=3129#comment-828446 Oh, stop doing the Happy Dance...you will spill your wine. Oh, stop doing the Happy Dance…you will spill your wine.

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