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Comment Re: So Luigi was right? (Score 1) 221

Easy, there are doctors who will perform their services for a lot less than the health conglomerates charge.

My local heal conglomerate hospital chain charges $250.00 for basic blood panels. I go to a local gal who does the draws, sends them to a national lab and I get my results back for only $40! There is a local doctors office who charges $1,200/year (for both me and my wife) and that includes all his services and you can see him as many times as you need in a year. That includes the yearly checkups, mammograms, pap smears, prostate cancer checks, ask whatever questions you want and whatever is needed all included in the price. Local heal conglomerate hospital chain - they charge you for EVERYTHING. You ask a question during your normal yearly exam that's an extra charge. And when your on an HDHP like pretty much the whole country - your paying for it all until you hit your eleventy jillion $ deductible - which most never hit.If you have health insurance you can submit a claim for these services, and get credit for it and not pay through the NOSE for health care. You just have to know how to "play the system" against itself. Most don't bother, they would rather someone else do the work for them or pay for them because they are too LAZY! You don't need the ACA to do it.

Comment Re:So Luigi was right? (Score 1) 221

Your smoking crack! No one should vote for Democrats OR Republicans. They are both two heads of the same corrupt party.

The ACA was a FUCKING abomination - it was written ENTIRELY by the health care companies! They ONLY good thin in it is mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions. That is the only thing that should be kept and the rest totally re-written.

Health care costs and insurance cost went up after the ACA went into law - sorry but it's fact. I worked for one of the big insurers that helped WRITE the law at the time. Their intranet posted everything they were putting into the ACA, including updates to other stuff written by other insurance companies. I read the ACA cover to cover multiple times during it's writing and rewriting. I knew it was a giant steaming pile of shit then.

The reason the health insurance companies were all over the ACA was because they figured they would get a hell of a lot more "insureds" out of it. How you might ask? Easy, with the IRS penalty for NOT having coverage they figured people would sign up in droves for their insurance to make sure they didn't get fined. But what the insurance companies didn't see was that the younger folks who were healthy figured out it was cheaper to pay the IRS fine than to get health insurance coverage - even on the market place. Sorry but again this is fact.

Comment Re:As long as you are not the last one out... (Score 1) 221

Yes Social Security IS a ponzi/pyramid scheme. People that don't see that don't know what those are.

When it takes those down "below" paying into something for those "up top" to get anything - it's a ponzi/pyramid scheme.

However, and in life there is always a however... At this point social security is pretty much a necessary evil. Without it to many in the older generations would collapse into homelessness and hunger. Why? Because the younger generations will not take in and help their parents. They would rather move in with their parents and MOOCH off of them until they die so they can get their house. Or they don't want to work and live off taxpayer funded programs. Sorry but this is the true sad state of affairs in this country. I see it ALL too often, it's disgusting! I know BOTH my siblings are like this. Me and my wife take care of my parents because my siblings don't want to, much less help out. It's "too much" for them. I tell parents of those kinds of kids, don't leave them ANYTHING, let them figure it out on their own when you die.

Comment Somehow I think not (Score 1) 70

"enjoy more flexibility in terms for entry frequency and duration of stay. " If they try to leave before China wants them to leave, I'm sure China will say these people are spies and not allow them to leave the country like they have done with other foreigners. They will be permanent slave labor. Look at history folks....

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