I thought the accepted term for a grouping of sluts was a sorority.
Correct, I didn’t intend for it to come across as a ‘success story’. Sorry to mislead you there Joe. 
As dubious as I am about the possibility of choosing other plans (I’ve worked for some very big companies and none of them offered any choice - take it or leave it) their money is still going out to other people.
You think they’d be annoyed that they can’t vote out the fatties and the sickies.
Maybe that could be a new insurance market. F-U Insurance: Always Cutting The Bottom Ten Percent. If you’re not a loser, you have nothing to fear.
-Joe
In that case, you need better bootstraps. Yours were probably made by some overpaid, overweight, undereducated union worker.
-Joe
People like me?
I pay for my own insurance. It costs me money. You don’t give me shit.
So kindly have a nice hot mug of Shut The Fuck Up.
Then you’re obviously an idiot for not wanting to dangle insulin needles in front of poor diabetics, only to guffaw uproariously when they feebly lunge for it. Or, at least for failing to whine like my daughter when she’s denied a popsicle.
-Joe
It never crossed my mind.
I have failed. Do I have to turn in my supervillain membership card now? 
No. Gelatin deserts are the confections that get left behind at a potluck because no one really likes them.
Actually, I’m pretty sure the collective noun is an imsowasted of sluts.
I’m not sure, but I do think that Ayn Rand will never think fondly of you. It hurts, I know.
-Joe
Pretty sure she hasn’t had much of an opinion of **anyone **since, oh, 1982.
I could use a new pair of boots. But of course, I don’t deserve any.
Pretty sure that in that poster’s case, “Insurance reform” means “removing all regulations and letting The Market sort it all out”.
-Joe
Everyone is entitled to medical care. I’m not sure what you want me to say to this, or what gotcha you think you’re setting me up for with this question. The analogy between medical care and food is not a perfect one, of course. If you’re poor, you’re not “entitled” to caviar, filet mignon, and champagne, but you are entitled to nutritious, filling food. However you want to extrapolate that analogy to health care, go for it. I’m not someone who gets offended or concerned about the term “socialist” that so gives other folks the vapors, so I’m not going to say that poor people deserve shittier doctors, worse hospitals, cheaper meds, less frequent well visits, etc., than rich people because they can’t afford the Cadillac of health insurance plans. I think investing in a healthy work force is vital to a successful capitalist country, but that’s just me.
I like to think that she’s been simmering underground all this time, furious that she has to share soil with the common man.
Well, I was rather trying to point out that bankruptcy due to medical issues is far bigger than the numbers that had been thrown around.
But you’re right. Curlcoat says it would “make more sense to work on insurance reform”. What, pray tell, *are * they working on if they aren’t working on insurance reform?
More recent magazines in the waiting room. Stuff like that, crucial reforms.
That reminds me of a letter to the editor I read in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a while back, where someone said that “good health” (HEALTH, mind you, not medical care!) was a luxury. It’s enough to RUIN one’s health. At least, it made me sick.
It is. In our entitled society where we think that everything is a right we don’t realize that, but historically very few people have had good health for extended stretches of time. Good health IS a luxury, that’s not a statement of ideology, it’s a statemnt of practicality. Hell in order to not wreck my knees due to foot pronation I bought some orthotics. I opted for the cheap ones at 70, more than twice the price of the shoes they are in. I could've gotten the custom ones for like 600. Bottom line is no matter how healthy you are, you can always be healthier, and at a certain point medical care MUST be rationed otherwise everyone will think it’s the state’s obligation to spend billions to keep them alive and feeling spry for 400 years.