Given the whole court challenge(s) to the individual mandate, I'm half-hoping it gets overturned and someone says, "Fuck it, then; single-payer it is."
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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.
DebetEsse - Feb 15, 2011 1:38:15 pm PST #23054 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
brenda m - Feb 15, 2011 1:42:56 pm PST #23055 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Seriously.
erin_obscure - Feb 15, 2011 1:49:08 pm PST #23056 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
it needs to happen. my problem with the health care bill is the continued reliance on insurance companies. they are the problem, not the doctors or hospitals. Insurance companies that exist not to help patients but to make a profit for themselves. Those are jobs i would love to see dissapear (or get absorbed into a single not for profit government-overseen system to pay for *everyone* to get the care they need. any time. all the time.)
Aims - Feb 15, 2011 1:52:18 pm PST #23057 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh Suzi. So much ma heading to Denver. So very much ~~~ma.
Kate P. - Feb 15, 2011 1:54:00 pm PST #23058 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, Suzi, sending boatloads and truckloads of ~ma to you. Please keep us posted!
Anne W. - Feb 15, 2011 1:55:29 pm PST #23059 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Much safe~ma to CJ, Suzi, and calm~ma to you.
Gudanov - Feb 15, 2011 1:55:51 pm PST #23060 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Like I want to shop around procedures, but that is crazy, right?
I don't know how practical that would really be. I'd think you'd have to have a consultation before putting down a price on a procedure (save for really simple ones) and consultations aren't exactly cheap.
Gudanov - Feb 15, 2011 1:56:51 pm PST #23061 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Yes, lots of ~ma, Suzi. That's scary.
Amy - Feb 15, 2011 1:57:07 pm PST #23062 of 30001
Because books.
Oh, Suzi, so much ~ma to you. And the hope that CJ is going to stroll in any moment to a serious smackdown.
Steph L. - Feb 15, 2011 1:59:51 pm PST #23063 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Suzi, I'm sending get-home-NOW vibes to CJ!
Insurance companies that exist not to help patients but to make a profit for themselves.
There's some sort of insurance company on my floor at work (or a company that works *with* insurance companies, something like that). I was in a bathroom stall one day when 2 women from that company came in, talking about someone they apparently work with who is at *another* insurance company. (Did you follow that? Women from Insurance Company A talking about Dude from Insurance Company B.)
So one of the women said that Dude told her something about going through every claim by hand (I don't totally remember, to be honest).
And the other woman said, "Oh my god, they don't just reject them automatically? How do they even make a profit?"
I really wanted to commit physical violence at that point.