Random Thought of the Day

Quote: Evenbob

So when they tell you to go
F yourself, she knows what
that really means? I have to call
my health insurance people
3 times to get a person who
knows what they're doing.

Insurance is a racket.

Quote: petroglyph

Insurance is a racket.

My wife's company pays for all
our insurance and Medicare.
The payments are managed by
a middleman company that
employs hundreds of people.
The tendrils of the insurance
biz are everywhere.

Quote: petroglyph

Insurance is a racket.

If it was up to me, I'd find a way to compensate people who stay healthy longer even though I believe the best insurance is the kind where everyone pays the same and can't refuse to carry health insurance. (well if they have a salary )

Non monetary compensation -- like priority services, parking, lines, anything like that. DMV priority.

Quote: rxwine

If it was up to me, I'd find a way to compensate people who stay healthy longer even though I believe the best insurance is the kind where everyone pays the same and can't refuse to carry health insurance.

Non monetary compensation -- like priority services, parking, lines, anything like that. DMV priority.

That was essentially Obama Care (ACA), requiring everyone to buy insurance with the hypothesis being that it would lower rates if many young healthy people bought more policies.



Of course not the special perk part.... That will never happen, not even with Single Payer, it could easily be considered discrimination for disabilities and genetics.....

Quote: rxwine

Non monetary compensation -- like priority services, parking, lines, anything like that. DMV priority.

Hey, if it's the DMV, how come we can't have a drive up window?

Cuz two weeks later the entrance would be a trooper check point lol

Quote: Gandler

That was essentially Obama Care (ACA), requiring everyone to buy insurance with the hypothesis being that it would lower rates if many young healthy people bought more policies.

Health insurance, communes, cults, religious orders, churches. All feed on new members paying for the expenses of the old ones.

Winston Churchill had the right idea at Dunkirk: We need healthy soldiers, leave the wounded behind.

Quote: Fleastiff

Health insurance, communes, cults, religious orders, churches. All feed on new members paying for the expenses of the old ones.

Winston Churchill had the right idea at Dunkirk: We need healthy soldiers, leave the wounded behind.

Just like wolves following the caribou.

It's what keeps the herd strong, the weak perish.

But apparently the plan is to destroy that natural order and keep everything alive well past it's use by date.

I can see why some millennials want to take umbrage with boomers.

Quote: petroglyph

But apparently the plan is to destroy that natural order and keep everything alive well past it's use by date.
I can see why some millennials want to take umbrage with boomers.

I have no idea about the various generational labels.
As far as health expenses go, its a matter of genetics and lifestyle choices. It is not just age, but exercise, nutrition, sheer luck. Excluding people from general health coverage and forcing them into high premium categories is simply profitable. Being temporarily unable to keep up with the herd is just as fatal as a more severe and permanent disability.

It has been one week since my surgery last Wednesday. Amazingly I still have all 30 Hydrocodone pills and all 30 Tylenol with Codene pills prescribed to me. I am shocked this surgery resulted in zero pain.

My understanding is that I could get a couple hundred dollars selling those pills on the street.