yeah, I don't really approve of old men getting insurance to cover viagra. where are the people protesting that?

We need a Hot Panel.

yeah, I don't really approve of old men getting insurance to cover viagra. where are the people protesting that?

We need a Hot Panel.

Pretty sure I knew someone who put off getting something checked out for lack of insurance. She's dead now.

I don't carry my cell phone. It pretty much lives on a shelf in the front room. I did carry it on the trip, where it wouldn't work, but that's just because I forgot to leave it in the car. It was rather funny. I've gone into work on a weekend to take care of something I saw checking my work email, but mostly I don't check it from home. I've never gotten a work call at home. But my job is like that. There's very little that can't wait until morning. It's not rocket science...oh. Well, mostly not.

And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be dead in Canada, England & France.

Tell it to Stephen Hawking.

Which, hey, you could do. Because he's also not dead.

I think an important point is being missed. If someone dies with private or no insurance, then they just die. If they die with socialized health care, then they become the undead and prey upon the living. This is why all vampires originate from Europe. Think about it.

Edited to make FCC acceptable.

I've gotten so spoiled by texting. My cousin was here for the weekend, from Toronto, and has no texting plan. And we were constantly having to do BART pick-ups, etc, which required calling for any updates/changes that could have been handled with one word via text. I can't believe how quickly I've gotten used to texting and how much more I loathe making calls.

Huh. It makes me crazy to exchange 6 texts (while being charged for each one) when a 30 second phone call would do.

Think about tit.

Heh heh heh....

Huh. It makes me crazy to exchange 6 texts (while being charged for each one) when a 30 second phone call would do.

This.

2) a lot of the things they think are frivolous expenses are not.

I have heard a number of right-wing rants against cell phones in the hands of people they perceive as wastrels. It doesn't seem to occur to them that cell phones can be pay as you go, and therefore they're the only phone they can afford. Also, not having a phone compounds the job search a thousandfold.

There may be young, single people out there who are spending their money frivolously rather than pay for health insurance. They will also be extremely cheap to insure and their being insured will cut the costs of running emergency rooms and funding treatment conditions that cost a lot more because they didn't get earlier treatment.

My plan with Kaiser was $550 a month, but that plan went up to $800 my last birthday, so I had to go to a plan with a high deductible. It's not pretty. There are almost no meaningful dental plans available to freelancers.

Huh. It makes me crazy to exchange 6 texts (while being charged for each one) when a 30 second phone call would do.

But it wasn't something that would have taken 6 texts. The text would have said "the restaurant is Ponzu, corner of O'Farrel and Taylor" and it could have been sent at any time during the day, while she was in meetings which couldn't be interrupted. Instead I had to leave a voicemail (long distance for me-since her cell# is Canadian), which she had to call in and check (another charge--including roaming for her) and then call me again once she was out of her meeting and knew what time she could meet me (another voice mail, a charge for her...) and asked me to call her back again to confirm the time! Arrrgggh. Too many calls.

(I admit to having an aversion to the phone used like this. I used to have a boyfriend who lived in LA and would come up to SF for visits. From the moment he landed, he'd be calling me EVERY 3 minutes asking me where I was, telling me he was, etc. He refused to 1) stop calling and 2) stay in one damned place so that I could find him.)