I've had bad health insurance in the past - what I have now is pretty good (although when we first got it, a lot of places wouldn't take it), and I'm just grateful to have it. My mother has really good insurance, which is probably why she's still alive. My sister has crappy insurance - she needs a knee replacement and can't afford it.
Anecdotes I've heard - at one of the health care meetings, a young woman with a disability was trying to talk about how her insurance company refused to pay for some treatments. One of the protesters seemingly screamed that they didn't want to pay for her health care.
And have you heard about the guy who was protesting one of the meetings? It seems he slipped and fell outside ... which is now being portrayed as his being beaten up by union thugs.
Also:
Rahm Emanuel and a baseball bat
erika, Rahm Emanuel doesn't need a baseball bat!
And have you heard about the guy who was protesting one of the meetings? It seems he slipped and fell outside ... which is now being portrayed as his being beaten up by union thugs.
OK, not only that, but he has no insurance. So they're taking up a donation for him.
ah, but I heard that it turned out he had insurance through his wife's employer.
Former White House political adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday.
Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
've had bad health insurance in the past - what I have now is pretty good
Have you suffered a serious illness?
Eunice Shriver has passed away.
She did amazing things. A good life in a lot of ways.
Texting is not for conversations, it's for communicating information.
Totally a personal preference. I have had great conversations via text.
Two issues combine to make me extra rage-y:
A friend of mine was just denied private insurance because of her BMI. WHICH IS A TOTALLY MEANINGLESS "MEASUREMENT"!!!
Have you suffered a serious illness?
Oh, yeah, that's the thing. You never really know how good your insurance is until you have to use it for something expensive.
My health insurance keeps denying claims for things they do cover. My physical therapy got denied, with the statement on the denial that they don't cover congenital conditions. Issue 1: it's genetic, not congenital. Issue 2: nowhere on any of their zillions of pages of documentation do they say anything whatsoever about not covering congenital or genetic conditions. Took several hours on the phone to sort that one out. (My mom does the insurance phone calls. She has more time than me, and she understands insurance lingo much better than me, so she knows when to insist on talking to a supervisor when the person on the phone says that something isn't covered.)
Former White House political adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday.
Yglesias? Funny thing - apparently he's also the attorney Tom Cruise's character was based on in A Few Good Men.
