Tell her, Canada.
HAH. Word. Although to be fair, the new Act does require insurers to take on people with pre-existing conditions. Assuming the Act survives the myriad legal challenges against it.
I have become a lump.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Jan 29, 2011 3:57:05 pm PST #19962 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Cass - Jan 29, 2011 4:00:39 pm PST #19963 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
He dressed a little nicer than usual and he smelled good. Acccckkkkkk.
Ack!!!!!
"Can you please help me figure out which US state has the best medical care for uninsured people with a pre-existing condition?"
Guessing, I'd say Mass.
I cannot breathe. I am either sick or just getting slammed by allergies. Trepanning sounds like an awesome thing right now. Snot, sneezing and another brutal headache. I need to get back on my script allergy meds. I feel like ass.
Jesse - Jan 29, 2011 4:05:45 pm PST #19964 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Insurance is required in MA, is the deal here. So I don't know what happens if you're uninsured.
askye - Jan 29, 2011 4:06:36 pm PST #19965 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Vermont might. I know they have laws prohibiting insurance companies from denying for pre existign conditions. They also have state run insurance for those who don't have any or can't get it through their job, based on certain parameters. And on a sliding fee scale based on income.
Jesse - Jan 29, 2011 4:08:35 pm PST #19966 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think it would be whatever state has the best public hospitals, no? Those are the ones that have to serve the uninsured. I don't think pre-existing conditions come into it.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2011 4:56:16 pm PST #19967 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Another favorite quote: "They have wives and kids and mortgages, and what am I gonna say? I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork."
Strix - Jan 29, 2011 4:59:23 pm PST #19968 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Just in time for the next snow.
Yeah, that's what I'm hearing. I...kinda don't want any more snow days. We are gonna be in school till July at this rate, and I feel like I've been teaching the books I've been teaching for about 2 years. Ugh.
and the snow is almost melted off my driveway, and I don't want to shovel another 8 feet.
sarameg - Jan 29, 2011 5:14:24 pm PST #19969 of 30001
I'm trying not to think about the midweek storm. I KNOW it isn't as bad as last year, but really. That was enough. It broke me a bit.
And I'm just tired of shoveling every few days.
Amy - Jan 29, 2011 5:19:54 pm PST #19970 of 30001
Because books.
I'm trying not to think about the midweek storm.
S. jut mentioned it and I growled at him. I HAVE to get out of this house this week or I'm going to lose it. Even the kids are tired of the snow.
sarameg - Jan 29, 2011 5:28:10 pm PST #19971 of 30001
OMG. So I went to the market this am, and there was no spinach. So I consoled myself with a loaf of chile cheese bread from Atwater's. Which has always been good, but was a red chile powder based and slightly sweet. But they changed it, it is now green and savory, like my one true chile cheese bread!