“Why does a Sham-wow need a napkin dispenser?”
**Curlcoat **would probably say it should have been aborted; for once, I think we’d agree with her.
Your world is so flat that people can only be one thing?
Flat as a napkin sandwich. That’s what my grandmother always used to say.
She would know. She’s the organizer of Napkin Conference 2010
I apologize for quoting a post from page 2, but I hadn’t really read this thread before now except a bit that I caught from page 9 or so when I replied once before (I tend to avoid the health care debate threads)
This isn’t necessarily true, it largely depends on the insurance company. For example, the policies I sell to businesses on a daily basis has no pre-existing condition clause, except to say that we don’t care about pre-existing conditions. You can be 8 1/2 months pregnant, go into labor the day the policy goes into effect and we pay for it. (I am an insurance agent with 5 years in sales and 15 years in the industry including claims)
Well, if you say that people who have multiple children without planning and end up on welfare are ‘typical’, then I, who has no children, doesn’t even like children, and is not on welfare can’t also be typical.
Do you not understand what ‘typical’ means?
The irony, it burns!
I have never said that people on welfare with multiple children are typical US citizens.
Yes. Do you understand that people can be many different things? Even if it were true that I said that the typical US citizen was on welfare with multiple children, it is still possible that they also have your closed mind and fear of any different ideas. Which appears to be typical of US citizens these days.
Again, I am amazed that someone with your stated education cannot follow something as simple as this. That education also apparently doesn’t provide any maturity.
As opposed to the staggering maturity you have gained over your many years?
Oh, and I can follow your argument, I just think it’s retarded. Capiche?
A guy at racketball returned this week. He had lymphoma and was very sick. He wound up getting stem cell transplants and it seems to have taken. For now he is appearing to be getting better. He had 2 insurances. He worked in a bank’s IT department. If he used his insurance, which would pay 80 percent, he would have lost his home during the 7 months of treatment. He would have gone bankrupt. His wife works for a hospital and her insurance covered better. But there were treatments they refused to pay for and he had to pay for them himself. The bank did not save his job for him. He has to find a job but his health history will be an impediment. He of course can not get insurance now. Yep, we have a great system.
Then he should just buy insurance! DUH!!!
Whiney bastard! :rolleyes:
[curlcoat]He should have planned for every possible contingency and saved a monetary amount of no fewer than six figures![/curlcoat]
Far more than those of you who respond to ideas that conflict with your own by throwing out random insults and making things up.
Hard to believe since you have yet to address any of it.
How much money have you donated to help him out?
Troll.
Napkin sandwich-munching troll.
Ah. When you all tell me I should be responsible for strangers’ health care costs, it is a humanitarian suggestion. When I ask if gonzomax has helped a friend with his health care costs, I’m a troll.
Interesting.
You forgot to twirl your mustache evilly when you said that.
He has more money than I do.
Aweome. We’re back to the spaghetti dinner suggestion. Full circle come, we have.
Spaghetti sauce can be messy though. Better stock up on the napkins.
Don’t you touch those napkins! You want me to starve?!!?
Across the river in Canada, he would not have to worry about such things. In most industrial countries, nobody has to go bankrupt of lose their house when they get sick. You do not know if you or another family member is going to get sick. But the nagging worry is always there. If they do, will I be able to deal with the illness and stand up to the insurance company at the same time. They can just refuse to pay for procedures, or claim there was an omission on the info when you signed up or you had a contributory pre-existing condition that allows them to escape paying. Then, while a family member is ill, you have to spend endless hours arguing and fighting with the insurance company that was taking your premiums for years.
If you have no trouble with this system, good for you. I do.