Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: "I knew Obamacare would be bad..."

"...but I seriously had no idea it would be this bad."

How would you design a Healthcare Extortion Racket?

"New York State's healthcare plans range from Fidelis Care's 'Bronze' plan at $810.84 per month to $2554.71 per month for something I didn't bother to look up because if I had $2500+ a month to spend on doctors, I'd buy a doctor and have him/her live with me and dole out pills like I was Michael Jackson. The deductibles - the amount you pay out of pocket every year before you the insurer has to give you anything at all - are outrageously high. Fidelis Care Bronze has a $3000/year deductible per person. I'm in pretty good health; it's a rare year I spend that much on doctors. After the $3000/year deductible, they pay 50% of your bills. So if you rack up $5000/year in medical bills, you pay $4000 and they pay $1000. Pretty damned crappy."

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[smittyoneeach]

Single Prayer

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Backfired in my case. I've long been an advocate of Single Payer, this mess has convinced me the libertarians were right. I now prefer the distributist version- county co-owned subscription medical services. Or in some urban areas, city-owned subscription medical services. With a not-for-profit charter.

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[smittyoneeach]

Ultimately, people don't scale. While there is plenty of room to talk about federal oversite, the lower in the food chain the power, the better.

Does that get you the discounted rate though?

[damn_registrars]

Granted, I rather doubt that the plan would even be worth it if it did, but anyone who has ever visited a doctor in this country knows that the insurance companies always demand a discounted rate for services; generally 50-80% off what the same office would charge to Joe Six Pack with no insurance. That said, as I have been saying for years now the Health Insurance Company Bailout Act of 2010 was nothing but a massive handout to the insurance industry. Naturally they will exploit the shit out of it. Afte

the affordable care act

[kesuki]

has been undermined by republicans and healthcare insurance giants... also ACA gives substantial tax writeoffs for every penny they spend on ACA insurance, at least for corporations they do. so what does this mean? masses of formerly insured will hit the soft spot where insuring their workers consumes their profits, so they refuse to offer plans to workers forcing workers to take tax penalties for going uninsured. it is not pretty but the republicans voted for this law too, they must be laughing at the ridi

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[fustakrakich]

They didn't have to. They knew it would pass without their 'help'. Nicely played, I say. They still collect a nice windfall from their buddies in the industry. So they can act like they're against it, while in reality, they see big bucks rolling in. Plus it provides a great distraction for TeeVee 'news' to avoid having people talking about their pensions being emptied into high risk hedge funds, and blame us for wanting to collect what we paid for over the last fifty years.

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[fustakrakich]

So what? The naivete is on your part. Look up how the 'rotating villain' routine works. Republican and democrats are a team. The bickering is an act, a daily soap opera, one that apparently works very well on you and 98% of the voters at large, dumb enough to vote for republican or democrat.. If you want to believe what your TV tells you, go for it, but all your complaints are just silly repetitive, tiresome bullshit.

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[smittyoneeach]

Why are you blowing the lid off of he Ruling Class racket?

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[kesuki]

"You and kesuki really need to hook up. Your ability to deny reality because it feels good, and just go about blaming republicans for this clusterfuck is a sight to behold."
it is the republicans fault, the democrats too, i just assumed some republicans voted for it as i was too lazy to fact check this is slashdot afterall fact checking isn't mandated. you realize how many minutes it would take to fact check.
anyways i know a lot of people who would have lost pensions around when obamacare was passed from the

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[smittyoneeach]

It is a good point, underscored by the likes of Paul Ryan talking about "entitlement reform" when the correct answer would be to return social safety net functions to states, where they could actually be funded by real budgets, and not the economic abuse of unborn generations through borrowing.

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[fustakrakich]

I think we've all seen just how badly states can run a circus [politic365.com], and why sometimes it's necessary to call in the cavalry to insure that everybody can enjoy the same privileges. I have no interest in returning to the pre-civil war era and other 19th Century attitudes.

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[smittyoneeach]

"insure that everybody can enjoy the same privileges"
I'll just gently let you retract that, in the light of a neo-aristocracy that can dish out an Affordable Care Act, but actually woke from its torpor long enough to fight actually signing up for it.

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[fustakrakich]

Hey, kill the bill, I say, though there are better ways to do it without the theatrics to distract us from the pension heists. It only exists for the benefit of the insurance industry. Replace it with medicare for all, and cut back on the attempted world domination. Problem solved for the rest of us. It will be cheaper for me just to pay the fine for not carrying at this point.

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[smittyoneeach]

Replace it with medicare for all

Wait. The government just launched this expensive cock-up called Healthcare.gov.
Can we, you know, *learn* from that?

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[fustakrakich]

Can we, you know, *learn* from that?

Yes, that's why we have to demand Medicare for all, unconditionally. Flash a card, get fixed, less paperwork, boom, done. It can be very simple and much better for everybody... except the Wall Street crowd and the government bureaucrats who make rules to justify their existence. People can still buy their own insurance if they want more channels on the cable TV in their rooms. We will all be much prosperous for it.

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[smittyoneeach]

Like the gift of vigor brought by the British NHS?
I just don't believe you, though I'd be happy to let all of you who share that belief system have your way with each other.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Nicely done, but why is a sign from 1931 using a sans-serif font?

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[fustakrakich]

I don't know. Maybe Times Roman wasn't invented before the sign was printed, though it did come out in the same year.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Common use of Sans-Serif styles for general signage and printing is introduced in the early 19th century.

In late 18th century, Neoclassicism led to architects to increasingly incorporating ancient Greek and Roman designs in contemporary structures. Among the architects, John Soane was noted for using sans serif letters on his drawings and architectural designs, which were eventually adopted by other designers, such as Thomas Banks, John Flaxman.

Sans-serif letters began to appear in printed media as early as 1805, in European Magazine. However, early-19th-century commercial sign writers and engravers had modified the sans-serif styles of neoclassical designers to include uneven stroke weights found in serif Roman fonts, producing sans-serif letters.

In 1816, the Ordnance Survey began to use 'Egyptian' type, which was printed using copper plate engraving of monoline sans-serif capital letters, to name ancient Roman sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif [wikipedia.org]

Innovation of these typefaces seems to occur in the period between 1815 and 1870.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

1920's [vintageadbrowser.com]
Commonplace [ddmcdn.com]

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[smittyoneeach]

When was ObamaCare not a fool's errand?
It has been a river of lies since conceived, and I hope it dies soon, minimizing further damage.