As I understand it, under Pennsylvania law (or is it Federal regulation), an emergency Medicaid benefit may be extended in emergency situations, the emergency recipient being financially eligible, without “being on Medicaid” before or after in the normal sense of having an open Medicaid account providing healthcare coverage on an ongoing basis.
As for the other, it’s been an act? 
Oh shit, I remember that thread! I read the first ten pages or so as they happened, then I got bored and stopped. A few days or so later I hovered my cursor over “last page” and literally went :eek:.
So I had to do some catching up but quickly grew tired of it all. I had forgotten curlcoat was behind that stupid thread and I now completely see where the explosion of posts in this thread came from.
And since none of that has anything to do with me, I obviously don’t fit in your little box. Particularly since we are not wealthy enough to live in any of those places listed above.
Sounds like your job put you in touch with a very small group of people, who all happened to be of the same type. Which of course is a very different thing than living down here for 16 years as I have.
As for the rest of your post, I’m not rising to that bait again.
As you see, even though she just recently replied to this thread (twice)(in the last fifteen minutes), she still is replying to posts made LAST NIGHT that were in reply to her. She’ll continue replying to all the posts made since, to her, until she catches up. So, I figure that’ll probably be another 10 or 15 posts from her soon. Quite possibly all in a row if nobody combobreaks her.
Keeping this pattern up, she’ll get around to replying posts made just now…ohh…well…SOMETIME before Christmas anyway.
The current plan is just that - the current plan. Noone has any real idea if it will actually happen, nor if it will be all that is done.
It also isn’t what many of the folks on this board would like to see implimented.
I hope you look good, because you’re the possessor of a powerful stupid.
I wanna see when she gets to the part where she explains how of course she has half a million dollars socked away in case of an emergency bowel infection, doesn’t everybody 'cause you’d be irresponsible not to.
Nope. I’m either loved and adored or on an awful lot of ignore lists.
You should quit trying to make yourself look good in this way, it simply isn’t working. Yes, access to free abortions would be a grand thing, but since far too many women actually wanted the baby they brought into poverty, abuse and drug addiction, that won’t help much will it? Not to mention those women who won’t get abortions because they don’t believe in them, or the women who can’t get them because the baby daddy won’t let her..
Other than that, you got nothing. All you are doing is picking random pieces of my posts and lobbing insults that don’t even have anything to do with what I’ve said. Grow up and try doing your own thinking for a change.
I’d like her to imagine a scenario wherein her husband were to get a lingering and protracted form of cancer whose best treatment was not covered by her insurance, and cost $10,000 per month. Add to this whatever incidental expenses arise due to the illness, including possible hospitalizations and surgeries, which might be covered or might not be, or there might be copays, deductibles, etc. Add to this that he is the sole breadwinner and cannot work due to this illness. What then? Even if you have a couple hundred thousand socked away, can you maintain that if no one in your family is working? You could mortgage your house and run up your credit cards, but then, what if he dies? She can’t work. She’s be, in all likelihood, utterly fucked and would have to rely on the kindness of strangers. Anyone would in that situation.
I don’t wish that on anyone, but it could happen to anyone.
I tried to think about doing just that, but I became concerned that thinking may cause a brain attack and as I do not have insurance I’d merely become a parasite on the ass of better society which lawd help me I do not want to do.
I also wanted to punctuate that sentence properly. Again, scared of brain attack. Best to leave well enough alone.
I knew there was a reason I hadn’t checked this thread for days. It was because I knew that you would have nothing even remotely intelligent or interesting to say. Amazing that you’ve even fallen below thos standards.
Which has what to do with Fear Itself saying that his/her taxes aren’t going up?
Maybe he or she makes less than 300k? Are you okay? You actually aren’t able to follow simple sentences. Huh.
It is neither your responsibility nor your right to take care of me or anyone else who has not abdicated self responsibility. We live in a free country, which means I have the right to live my life as I see fit, as long as it doesn’t interfere with anyone else’s life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. Therefore, I am very much not interested in having you decide how I need to be “cared for”.
The “point” of a social structure is whatever those that are in it choose to have. There have been and still are social structures that devalued certain humans, such as the elderly, slaves, female babies, etc.
In the US we started out with “all men created equal”, which has evolved into “everyone should live equal lives”. I keep hoping that a majority don’t think that way, but any time I visit this board, it appears they do.
Yeah? I thought the slaves had been freed…
Oh fercrissakes, do you really believe that is how all “rich” people get their money??
You have given me nothing. I have earned every little bit that I have, you have never worked for me nor have we ever had any sort of promise. You appear to think that I am one of these rich people you are going on about, but the reality is that I am one of that vanishing middle class. Which is why I worry about taxes going up, whether or not we have enough to support us when my husband retires, why we have a monthly budget, etc. Just because I am careful with our money and we are not in debt like most folks does not in any way mean we are “rich”. How you got that idea is beyond me.
I don’t play golf, if for no other reason than it’s rather expensive. And I exist because I worked for it. I started out well below the poverty line and am not interested in being taxed down there again.
As I said, that $10,000 didn’t bring in the Amex (which has no limit) nor our savings. Plus, I highly doubt that everyone involved with your appendectomy would have insisted you pay it all right away. I had a MRI done a few months ago and didn’t realize that my insurance company didn’t consider it to be the same as xrays and ultrasounds, so they paid much less than I thought they would. When I called the MRI billing dept they had no problem taking monthly payments.
$26,000 would not come close to breaking us. If that is all it takes to push the average person in the US into bankruptcy, then they are doing something wrong.
That’s for an appendectomy. Just an appendectomy, a routine procedure. Imagine if you will the costs to recover from a horrific car accident, or cancer (see above posted scenario), or a stroke. Any of these would also prevent you from working altogether for either an ample period of time, or permanently. Then tell me smugly that it wouldn’t break you. If I believed in such things, I would think that such arrogant comments were tempting fate.
I didn’t ask you to. I said I am getting very tired of supporting every person that demands that I do so. You said Why is that my problem? I said it is only your problem if you demand that I pay more taxes to support your lifestyle choices. Which has nothing to do with whether or not you care if my taxes go up, or who cares about whose priorities.
Try to keep up.
Ooh, $26,000 now! My goodness! Look at the big bank on curlcoat!
When my son was hospitalized in 2002, the total hospital bill came to around $120,000, and that does not include medications and follow-up visits after the 3-week hospital stay.
Let me guess… curlcoat has OTHER bank accounts and OTHER credit cards that she forgot to mention before, that would allow her to easily cover $120,000 as well. Or, um, she’s just so awesome or something, that she would just not get that sick in the first place. Other people who get that sick have less innate awesomeness. So basically it’s their fault. And anyway, she has like ten more credit cards that she didn’t mention earlier, so, she’s cool for it even if her innate awesomeness falls down on the job.
Crap, where’s that tissue? I’m uncontrollably giggling again. curlcoat, you nut.
Maybe curlcoat and the people arguing with her will make THIS the new record for most replies to a pit thread next!
You know it would hurt badly me if somehow Obama’s vision were to include middle-class earners in his ruinous soak-the-rich program, but now I’m starting to think I’d get my money’s worth from watching **Curlcoat **and **Crafter ****Man **and **Rand Rover **and all these vicious, terminally selfish nutballs go up in a puff of apocalyptic smoke. I’d certainly and gladly vote for any program that caused my taxes to go up by $1000 or so because I’d easily get that much pleasure from knowing now so certainly what it does to them. Heads spinning, exploding, eyes bugging out, tongues afire…That’s Entertainment, Part III…