That was easy.
Because they’re stupid? I mean, I don’t know, but didn’t these really smart guys just lose a megaton of money, a little while back?
Are they viable businesses? When it comes to high finance, maybe you don’t want to consult a hippy, but sometimes we can see some of the more obvious stuff that other people are too smart to see. And I’ve asked this question at least a dozen times, and nobody seems to have a clue, or is too modest to say they do. Modesty. Dopers. Good one.
The measures, though watered down, will prevent the insurance companies from continuing in certain corrupt practices that they ought never to have taken up in the first place. But they did these things for money, we may be sure.
Well, all right then, did they do them for the sake of sheer survival? That if they didn’t do these awful things, they would be crumbling bones in the desert? Or did they do it just because they could get away with it, and wanted a better corner office with a 24K bidet.
If its the latter, then it would be possible for them to continue as business concerns, and be assured of a modest but sustainable profit. Investors used to get all warm and gooey about modest but sure profit. Lately? That stuff is for chumps and victims.
So, do they adjust or perish? I think the Obama admin is definitely concerned about that, or at least concerned that if they drop dead, they aren’t to be blamed. Gave them that nice, fat mandate, didn’t they? And if all the greedy fat cats don’t want to play insurance company any more, well, then, looks like that ol’ public option looks as lot better, don’t it?
Hey luci–what? I’m guessing you just got your medical marijuana prescription filled.
Insurance companies never engaged in corrupt practices. And all they ever made was a modest profit–2.2% of revenues sounds fairly modest to me.
You’re an idiot.
Well, they sure went and spent a buttload of money, didn’t they? That was just pin money, then, lying around? Pocket change, no need to account for it, came out of the couch?
Which is perversely cool, in a way. They take our money in premiums, and spend it to hire people to convince us that they should be allowed to take as much of our money as they want. Government, the American way!
America! Fucked, Yeah!
Son, stoned as I can get I’m smarter than you on your best day.
Luci–what’s your evidence for that proposition?
The “Rand Rover mind trick” has promise, but still needs some work…
You.
Luci, let me share a little secret with you. You need to stick to the triple-entendre double-plus ironic one-liners. Any time you post anything longer, you sound like a complete idiot. You don’t understand the basics of economics or how life works. You are a joke–just recognize that, and you can be pretty funny sometimes.
Well, too bad, that’s the price of living in a functioning society and not a failed state.
Of course not, they never did back before such protections existed. Not that society treats teen pregnancy as something to be celebrated; it just doesn’t treat it as something to be solved with a forced marriage, forced abortion or slavery anymore.
No, because such a society would be one where there is no responsibility at all. A society based of “personal responsibility” is the war of all against all. A society where everyone lies to, manipulates, extorts and exploits everyone else because they feel no responsibility towards anyone else.
The kind of guy who seduces a girl, then leaves her pregnant and unsupported? THAT is personal responsibility in action. What does he care what happens to her? It’s her problem.
As opposed to what? Workhouses like the good old days? Forced abortions? Besides; concern for children is against the principle of personal responsibility; they aren’t you, so you owe them nothing, right?
And by the way; the people opposing birth control ARE the ones who support “personal responsibility”.
We need some kind of system on this board that lets us nominate posts for . . . “awards.”
Does Rand Rover really regard himself as particularly smart?
Awww, that’s kind of cute!
Because those poor people greatly outnumber the rich and should, in a democracy*, have more power than they do in the government. So it’s in their best interest to make them happy.
BTW, I personally benefit from government healthcare, and, while it has problems, none of those have been worrying about preexisting conditions or keeping a job with my condition or whatever. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t support this.
While I’m a Christian, I’m very much on the side of giving to the poor, no matter how it is accomplished. I argue that the law exists to compel people to a certain code of ethics, as, in a society where we can’t count on a certain religion compelling people to be ethical, we have to supply other methods to keep people in line. It’s a result of our secular society that the government has to compel people to give to the poor and sick.
Ultimately, without requiring people to give, less will be given. Seeing as Jesus agreed that taxes are ethical, the method we are using to compel more giving is itself ethical. Even Israel, which was a theocracy, made special provision for the poor. It’s the one part of government that exists on both sides. The only side it doesn’t exist on is the tyranical monarch who wants all the money for himself. And those don’t last.
*It applies to a representative republic, too, just in case you’re one of those.
To be completely fair, I don’t think the **Rovemeister **is dumb; he’s simply determined that a very limited set of experiences and observations are all that is needed to perpetuate the worldview he prefers to live within, and anything more is extraneous background noise at best. When the whole of your existence is passing by on a tiny 6-inch black-and-white screen, why waste time concentrating on the wallpaper around it?
It sounds like it’s you that been getting your marijuana prescriptions filled - and then some.
That may very well be, but then I would question why that isn’t a good indicator of stupidity. I’m not determined to demonstrate that he is biologically or congenitally stupid - although of course I’m not ruling that out either.
Stupid is as stupid does, and spouting off on a topic that you’ve intentionally or otherwise limited your understanding of is pretty stupid in my book.
Hey Curlcoat,
Yeah. You. Sitting there alone in a dark room on the second floor of your McMansion with only the cold hum of the monitor as a reminder that someone, somewhere knows you’re alive.
Guess what?
We won.
That’s right, we won. And you know what that means?
It means I’m now legally able to come into your house, grab all your money, stick it in my ears and go “pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt.”
I can rape your dog and know full well that any diseases I contract are covered under my new health care plan from the money I just stole from you.
I can quit my job, rape your dog, steal your money and take it to go buy jack boots down at the local 5 and 10 with enough time left over to hit the nightly March of the Fascists.
I can steal your dog, rape your money, march with the Fascists, masturbate all over your napkin sandwiches, and cut my own spleen out knowing that the new healthcare of greatest nation on Earth will sustain me. All thanks to you.
Thanks Curlcoat for being so awesome. I love wiping my butt with your hard earned money. I hope I get to steal lots and lots and lots more of it while the Democrats remain in power.
I guess all that marching and dog-raping and money-grabbing will give you something to do when you are out of a job due to a permanently stagnant economy. But hey, apparently that doesn’t matter as long as you have free health care.
Or he could troll message boards pretending to be a lawyer, that kills the hours doesn’t it?