20 thoughts on “Your health insurance questions, asked and answered in today’s NYT”
WASHINGTON — House Republicans, responding to criticism that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, said on Thursday that their goal in replacing President Obama’s health law was to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone actually has insurance.
Oh yeah, you'll have access…to something. Maybe one of those nice plans that pays you $100 a day whenever you're in hospital. That should cover everything, right?
Actual insurance will be a bit, uh…costlier.
Goddamnit I hate these people. Economist Robert Frank [says] people will fight harder not to give something up than they will to get it in the first place. I sure hope so.
No, they mean the usual spiel of buying across state lines, so you can be insured by a corporation headquartered in Saipan where the only doctors in the network were educated in Grenada.
"State" as in "throw in the territories too." The Northern Marianas are home to the "Made in the USA by Chinese Sweatshop Workers" label. It's a whole new bottom for the insurance providers to race to!
Dammit. I forgot gold is troy weight, 12 ounces to the pound.
5760 (grains) or fight!
Today's Fun Fact: before 1982, US pennies weighed 2 pennyweights.
I zinc I know why the weight changed. Other fun facts- a nickel has a mass of just about 5 grams, most clean fresh bills come in just below a gram.
Not just "about," the spec for nickels is 5 grams. We were apparently on a metric bender in the 1860's ("before it was cool," etc.).
New pennies are 2.5 g (the 2 dwt of the old pennies comes out to around 3.11 g, an annoying difference). Any combination of dimes, quarters and halves (and old Eisenhower dollars) is $1.25/oz avdp, or $20/lb avdp (their value was originally based on their silver content). Small dollars are 125 grains, giving the weird-ass ratio of $56/lb avdp.
Which reminds me I want to check the balance on my wheels…
I don't hate them, but I strongly disagree with them.
Thom Hartmann this morning likened it to having "access" to a Maserati dealership. Anyone can walk into one, and you might even be able to sit in the car, but you more than likely can't afford to buy one.
Oh yeah, you'll have access…to something. Maybe one of those nice plans that pays you $100 a day whenever you're in hospital. That should cover everything, right?
Actual insurance will be a bit, uh…costlier.
Goddamnit I hate these people. Economist Robert Frank [says] people will fight harder not to give something up than they will to get it in the first place. I sure hope so.
No, they mean the usual spiel of buying across state lines, so you can be insured by a corporation headquartered in Saipan where the only doctors in the network were educated in Grenada.
Oh, so when they say "state" lines they mean nations, not a Mason Dixon line?
"State" as in "throw in the territories too." The Northern Marianas are home to the "Made in the USA by Chinese Sweatshop Workers" label. It's a whole new bottom for the insurance providers to race to!
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Grenada was a tie.
Not by gross weight of medals awarded!
Dammit. I forgot gold is troy weight, 12 ounces to the pound.
5760 (grains) or fight!
Today's Fun Fact: before 1982, US pennies weighed 2 pennyweights.
I zinc I know why the weight changed. Other fun facts- a nickel has a mass of just about 5 grams, most clean fresh bills come in just below a gram.
Not just "about," the spec for nickels is 5 grams. We were apparently on a metric bender in the 1860's ("before it was cool," etc.).
New pennies are 2.5 g (the 2 dwt of the old pennies comes out to around 3.11 g, an annoying difference). Any combination of dimes, quarters and halves (and old Eisenhower dollars) is $1.25/oz avdp, or $20/lb avdp (their value was originally based on their silver content). Small dollars are 125 grains, giving the weird-ass ratio of $56/lb avdp.
Which reminds me I want to check the balance on my wheels…
I don't hate them, but I strongly disagree with them.
Read Dark Money. Your disagreement will become a different sensation. And believe me: they hate you for pursuing alternatives to oil and gas.
Haters gonna hate. If trying to make the world a little cleaner and more equitable bothers them, that's their problem.
I will not have you bring this negativity into the tournament!
Thom Hartmann this morning likened it to having "access" to a Maserati dealership. Anyone can walk into one, and you might even be able to sit in the car, but you more than likely can't afford to buy one.
🎵Life's been good to me so far…🎵
I really hope no one plows into me on the freeway, because I am looking at the loss of my health care coverage. Fuck.
well that sucks.
That's terrible.This is why these people are evil.
Or, barring that, just borrow it from Dad. Simple!
"a small loan"