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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 1, 2013 - 07:53pm PT
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You heard it here first!
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monolith
climber
SF bay area
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Wake up and change the sheets, Russ.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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yep, remember who was the stupid one
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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The republicans will cave first. You heard it here for the 100,000 time or so. LOL
Russ, one of is will be right, you see any kind of a potential bet here?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Correction. It's what the insurance companies don't want you to know. The repubs don't take the time to know anything, they just keep cashin' their distributions.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What none of y'all seem to be aware of is that the US Treasury is still printing money as we
speak so everything will be funded when they catch up.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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^^^^^^
At the rate the TeaBaggin GOPers are firing up the "Torch and Pitchfork" mob we may get to see his complection change from that sick eerie orange to a more appealing burnt ochre.
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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so are the natl parks still closed?
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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What Philo posted...
I can attest that I contributed directly to the health insurance profits. I've been an independent contractor for many parts of my career and had to pay for my family's health care from 2000-2006.
In 2000, I paid about $6000/year for very good coverage.
In 2006, I paid about $16000/year for good coverage.
I am currently paying $1700/month ($20,400/year) for good coverage.
I can't wait to enroll in the health exchanges.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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they dont, and teapublicans know they will lose votes from people with the above scenario... so they shut down the govt like a bunch of babies.
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kc
Trad climber
the cats
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So--Ii just got my 'new' coverage and rates from Blue Shield. My premium is up $200 a month with really just terrible coverage. Much worse than I had before. Nice 'improvement'.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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So I carry coverage for my family and separate coverage for me. I have a " pre existing" condition...injured years ago when buried in a large avalanche. My policy is underwritten by the state so I end up with great coverage for a reasonable rate. My family policy is also reasonable as we are still considered young and healthy.
As of Jan 1 both my policy and my family policy are CANCELED. So much for being able to keep your insurance if you want to. Speaking with brokers has led me to believe that the cost of my coverage will increase dramatically under Obamacare. So much so, it is likely I will not be able to afford coverage. Nice......
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Obama care... In one long sentence how f'ed up our politicians are.
This is funny... and sad.
EDIT: Yo! lib fanatics, ignore the Romney poster. It's a good/funny listen.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Get some goddam insurance, Ron. Stop sucking off the social program teat, and take some personal responsibility.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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All I know is I am F***ed
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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well well
I see Ron is finally coming on over to our side
he is now lamenting that so many Americans do not have health insurance and just go to the
emergency rooms who then bill the government which Ron pays taxes into
I agree Ron, it is now day TWO of the ACA, how come everyone is not signed up yet!
this is an outrage I tell you!
I agree with Ron, this IS about taking personal responsibility instead of sucking off Ron
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apogee
climber
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"I cant sign up even if i wanted and could afford to"
Bullsh#t, Ron. If I can afford it, you can afford it.
If/when you get hurt or ill, you are not going to be able to pay for all of the care that is provided to you. Guess who will get to pay for that? Yep, that would be us.
You know, your argument would hold just a little more credibility if you had personal responsibility to insure yourself, and make sure your problem doesn't become everybody else's problem.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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LOL if Obamacare was so bad the republicans would not be trying to block it.. they would let it go in effect and destroy the democrats. Methinks they doth protest too much
Oh and WTF does all this have to do with funding the government? Is Obama trying to shove tax hikes on the rich by attaching it to a basic budget?
Nope its ONLY the republicans trying to attach unrelated demands.
You cannot tell me the republicans are afraid of something as bad as they claim obamacare is when if it really was that bad it would only stick to Obama... since it's His legislation.
They would let it go through and laugh all the way to the polls.
Repubs are clearly liars or political idiots. I see no other possible analysis of the situation.
The fact is they are trying to kill it before it happens because they are very afraid people will like it once they actually have it. It's hard to tell people how bad a peperoni pizza is once they have eaten one.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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So 16M more insured is bad?
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Obama care=bullshit!
I love the price of the packages they offer.
They must think we have lots of money.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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No Ron the republicans could do an honorable job trying to stop Obamacare.. one could argue they have done so.. up until now when they have decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater.. now they have gone too far even if you agree that Obamacare is bad. They are doing more harm than good.
That's the problem now.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Healthcare is and will continue to be a joke in the U.S. for DECADES to come. Now we will just add bureaucracy to the mix. I typically wake up in the Am and say...man the government runs in a finely tuned and efficient manner. I bet they will do great with health care lol
I see a huge shortage of primary care physicians being an issue. I work with/around many physicians. None of them want their own children to pursue medicine. The other advice I hear is if they do, go into a specialty that has little to do with insurance( cosmetic etc).
I also see 2 classes of care in the future. The wealthy will get access to the best doctors and the rest of us will be left with long waits and possibly not the best care. Actually, it is already happening with many primarys offering their "concierge service". My primary kicked me to the curb because I will not pay him an $1800 per year fee just to be able to be one of his patients.
Good times!
Now I am off to apply at Costco or some other retailer where I can receive medical benefits. Honestly thinking it is time to close up my fairly successful small business and work for the MAN.( ie health benefits)
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apogee
climber
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Ya know, Ron, when I first got into my line of work, I couldn't afford a lot of stuff, including medical insurance. A few, well-intentioned 'tough love' friends of mine told me that if my line of work doesn't allow me to cover basic personal responsibilities (like insurance), perhaps I need to find a different line of work, or figure out a way to take responsibility for myself.
Capiche?
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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The crazy thing is that I could afford it when purchased on the open market. If what I am seeing/being told is true, my cost to insure my family will at least....double.
Recently, I was doing contract work for a Fortune 500 company. Their yet to be announced plan is to transition from 80% ft employees to 50%. So thousands will be getting their hours cut and will lose corporate health benefits. Sucks to be them!
EDIT: Sucks to be me too. I supported it initially. As Obama said...If you like your health insurance, you can keep it. Nope, it goes Bye Bye on Jan 1 and I pay wayyy more.
Typical politician BS. Tell the people what they want to hear and then change it later.
Not much trust of the government in our household these days!
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Just don't sign up and take the fine at the end of the year...
Case closed!!!...
Thinking about it. Having a couple sub 18 year old kids make it difficult. More likely will need to take a shi**y job with bene's in addition to my FT job.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"You also talk like im on some social program tit too."
Good on ya for 'paying as you go', thusfar, Ron.
Problem is, even if you never have a serious accident, you will very likely require significant medical care in the later years of your life. Even if you turn down the majority of the options, you are going to need care you won't be able to pay for.
Unless you've got a nice little nest egg for just such an occasion, you need to take some personal responsibility (like most of us) and get yourself insured.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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The death panel will take care of locker when he gets the blue butt plug stuck and seeks medical care
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Problem is, even if you never have a serious accident, you will very likely require significant medical care in the later years of your life. Even if you turn down the majority of the options, you are going to need care you won't be able to pay for.
Unless you've got a nice little nest egg for just such an occasion, you need to take some personal responsibility (like most of us) and get yourself insured.
He gets Medicare when he's 65--assuming he's a citizen :)
We call that "insurance," although taxpayer funded health care would be a better way to describe it, same thing that, in a way, most Americans with "insurance" get.
I put "insurance" in quotes because what is called "insurance" now, and even more so under Obama-care, isn't really what the word "insurance" means, although there's an element of that.
Anyway, you can't really blame anyone for failing to pay free market rates for something where the government has prevented a free market from functioning.
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jstan
climber
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIJfDn60FpA
This amazingly informative account of contributions to western culture coming from the Arab
world during Sumerian and Babylonian times poses us an urgent and very timely question.
How is it such a rich and creative culture has sunk to that which we see today in that part of the
world? In just 7000 years you are very unlikely to see genetic drift adequate to explain.
A hypothesis. The Muslim world places huge value on conformity; so much so as to suggest death
to all those not conforming. Just as Rush Limbaugh believes conformity confers strength for the
next election, perhaps Mohammed was a vehicle for achieving short term strength in the face of
renaissance Europe. Presently that conformity has however caused shutdown of the US
government at no real benefit to anyone (least of all to its authors) and unchecked religious
warfare throughout the Arab world.
While conformity may provide short term strength, I wonder if conformity is not a disaster long
term.
If this is so, the chaos we see here on ST may actually be a good thing - long term.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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From the RFQ
The NARCO - Fort Belvoir requires the following items, Brand Name or Equal, to the following:
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Solicitation and Buy Attachments
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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I can buy me one of those chairs with the 1-2 payments I am not going to make to Obamacare. Remember, it takes us young healthy people to buy into the system to pay for the old broken down Locker types hehehe
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Hey, TGT...do you have medical insurance?
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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irony: climbers that don't want single-payer health care.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.
The Claude Moore Colonial Farm announced on Wednesday that NPS has ordered it to suspend operations until Congress agrees to a deal to fund the federal government.
According to Anna Eberly, managing director of the farm, NPS sent law enforcement agents to the park on Tuesday evening to remove staff and volunteers from the property.
“You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don’t have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money,” she said.
The park withstood prior government shutdowns, noting in a news release that the farm will be closed to the public for the first time in 40 years.
“In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm,” Eberly explained in an emailed statement.
“In all the years I have worked with the National Park Service … I have never worked with a more arrogant, arbitrary and vindictive group representing the NPS,” Eberly said.
The farm is an historical reenactment site, which “authentically portrays the life of an 18th Century American family building a life on the nearer edges of civilized society,” according to its website.
Farm staff repeatedly asked the NPS to allow the farm to remain open. “Every appeal our Board of Directors made to the NPS administration was denied,” Eberly said.
She called the decision “utter crap.”
“We have operated the Farm successfully for 32 years after the NPS cut the Farm from its budget in 1980 and are fully staffed and prepared to open today. But there are barricades at the Pavilions and entrance to the Farm,” Eberly explained.
Previous federal funding battles have threatened the farm’s operations. A group of citizens in 1980 formed the Friends of Turkey Run Farm, established a $500,000 endowment for the farm, and negotiated a 30-year no-fee lease.
According to Eberly’s statement, farm staff have been in contact with Reps. Frank Wolf (R., Va.) and Jim Moran (D., Va.) in an attempt to reverse NPS’ decision. Neither congressman returned a request for comment.
News of the farm closure comes as controversy rages over the closure of the World War II memorial on the National Mall.
WWII veterans in Washington as part of the Honor Flight Network stormed the memorial on Tuesday, defying NPS, which insisted that the memorial was legally closed.
More Honor Flight veterans showed up on Wendesday, flanked by members of Congress from both parties. Republican members blamed Democrats for the memorial’s closure, and vice versa.
Some speculated that the decision to close the memorial was part of a concerted effort by the administration to play up the consequences of the shutdown in an effort to convince congressional Republicans to agree to a funding bill without preconditions.
That tactic is known as the Washington Monument Strategy, in reference to efforts by Nixon administration officials to inflate the consequences of budget cuts at the time
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Why...because they can. Stupid American government. Let's make it hurt....pinkie to mouth Dr Evil style
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Just don't sign up and take the fine at the end of the year...
yes, that will "work"
the first year the fine is only some $95 so yeah don't get health insurance and take the gamble
the second year it goes up to like 300 and another hike the next year
the goal is not have freeloaders who mooch off the rest of us who pay in
drive a car without insurance, sure go ahead as the ticket and court appearance are not painful
....until you are the non insured driver in an accident
then watch everything you have in life being taken away by the lawsuit
....we are all this together, and we ought to act like we know that
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Why are we in it together? Because the government tells us so? Of course, politicians know best.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Obamacare will go bust and require a MASSIVE tax hike 5-10years down the road because 20 somethings in good health will likely not buy into the plan to finance the aging boomers.
Prepare to PAY. At risk of plagiarism...stupid sheep.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Hey, TGT...has this shutdown affected your company's business yet?
In one day, the impacts hit my business directly: loss of access to a primary site of operation, and the loss of business from a gov't agency who regularly works with my company.
How about you?
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Right now, Ron, I'm way more concerned about the fact that the House Republican gov't hostage tactics have cut deeply into my already modest income. F*#k those guys!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Rampant fraud on a New York City contract last year didn’t stop a major nonprofit from landing a slew of federal contracts to sign people up for ObamaCare.
Seedco, a New York-based community-development organization, was sued by the federal government for faking at least 1,400 of 6,500 job placements under a $22.2 million federally funded contract with the city.
Eighteen months later, the feds and Seedco are teaming up again, this time to help medical-insurance seekers maneuver through the maze that is the Affordable Health Care Act.
http://nypost.com/2013/10/01/fraud-firm-gets-ok-to-sign-people-up-for-obamacare/
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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TFG was not aware of that
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Hey, TGT...how's the closure affecting your company?
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"i feel your pain"
No, you don't, Ron.
I appreciate your attempt for empathy, but the county where I live is in the country's top 2 worst hits for foreclosures...while our living areas might have similar economic impacts, you're ability to continue conducting your business hasn't been dramatically reduced in the matter of 24 hours. It's not the same, Ron.
And even with these impacts, I plan on paying my medical insurance this month. You know...being personally responsible & all that.
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Gimp
Trad climber
Grand Junction
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In regards to Gunkie's and Philo's earlier posts.
The two absolutes are:
1. Insurance company profits will continue to rise.
2. Health insurance premiums will continue to rise.
In addition as I understand it you will now pay a 2.3% sales tax on your premium and in Gunkie's instance he will pay a "fine/tax" for having a good policy i.e. over a $10,000 dollar premium (reference data from the WSJ).
Another question is who will not demand supplementation such that they have the platinum plan versus the bronze plan that only covers 40% of your health care costs? This seems like a very complex issue in itself since those in need of the platinum that are currently uninsured certainly will not have the resources to pay their portion of this plan.
On a more personal, note my 85 year old mother (a fervent Obama supportor) has now been bumped by IBM to the exchanges for her medicare supplemental. Not something she planned on trying to negotiate via computer at this point in her life. Her physicians office has already notified her of the need to get this clarified pronto!!
Steve
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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We are all Fu***'d.
I am going to drop out and go on the dole ( while climbing daily).
Government, please take care of me.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Yes that's why they all voted for it hahahaha
Twentysomethings didn't know what they were voting for. Most of them were too stupid, and don't know anything about the adult world. With Obama they thought they were getting The Lord of social media. This is what the media was telling them.
Wait until they find out otherwise--some of them already are.
In fact over the next year ordinary people are going to discover what Obamacare is really all about.
Up until now only a few wonks have been able to unravel this turkey.
Wait until ordinary Americans find out.
Next step is gov't cost controls on medical goods and services, then single payer
If this is true then this comment is a way of saying that Obama , who assured everyone that single payer was not the goal, is a bald-faced manipulative liar, who purposely misrepresented this looming train wreck.
And pretty soon now, there won't be any kind of repub obstructionism to deal with - the tea party will see to that.
This is the current bandwagon blog line that is a rather transparent attempt to marginalize growing numbers of ordinary Americans who are , and have always been , opposed to Obamacare and what it means for this nation and for themselves as individuals.
These Americans are letting their representatives know exactly what they think and feel.
The "tea party" is not a substantial player in this ---except as a straw boogeyman designed to fool people into thinking the opposition to Obamacare is extreme and fanatical and therefore not authentic.
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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I want a chance to survive in my business and buy my own damm coverage. Or be able to pay it off directly. Wouldnt that be nice?
But I thought you already figured that out in the other thread ?
John Q public doesnt know i won in birds at a WORLD Competition nor do they know what that takes. What they ask is PRICE. And couldnt tell the diff between someone with 40 yrs and someone with 40 hours of "talent"..
If your product is no different than what I can get cheaper then you lose, thats pretty much the deal with any business...its not personal, everyone looks for the best product at the cheapest price.
Which is really why universal health care is the best.
I go to the doctors and he fixes me up just as good as the millionaire next to me.
I LOVE IT
Good Luck
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Unfortunately, the millionaire will get top notch, timely medical care while the masses will wait their turn for mediocre care at best.
We will see 2 classes of health care. Haves and have nots. Need an MRI sir...our next available appointment is 4 months from now.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I am going to drop out and go on the dole ( while climbing daily).
Government, please take care of me.
Let us know how that works out for you.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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G-damm climbers are the most spoiled self centered of all. Get on that would ya
lol!
soo true!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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this guy shut the govt down seven times in eight years.
Dems weren't complaining then.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
What right does the House have to do it?
They have more than a right, they have a duty that they were elected to perform!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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by that logic, TGT
SO DOES THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT
duh
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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To the extent that the entire right-wing anti-government philosophy is built around straw boogeyman issues, you're correct.
It's pretty obvious that a substantial % of wingnuts would vote for a 3rd-party,Tea Party candidate - that's why congressional repubs dare not cross them.
The is an example of the extremist tin foil hat stuff ratcheted up all over the political blogs and even the mainstream media right now.
The aim here is to get ordinary people to think that there is no credible , broad-based, grassroots opposition to Obamacare.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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"In 2000, I paid about $6000/year for very good coverage.
In 2006, I paid about $16000/year for good coverage.
I am currently paying $1700/month ($20,400/year) for good coverage.."...
^^^
And people want THAT to continue???...
Why???...
Because, dumbass, it's not about you. It's about corporate profits. The sooner you learn to sacrifice yourself for corporate America, the richer the sharholders will be. Don't you get it? You need to become a team player with corporate America, or go live in Iran.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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You really don't believe there will ever be Tea Party candidates?
Who do you think swept the House and numerous state legislatures in 2010?
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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You really don't believe there will ever be Tea Party candidates?
Yeah there are all sorts out there beating the bushes. You happen to be one on the opposite side of tea party bogeymen.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Is that a yes or a no, Ward?
Neither... It's a "yeah"
Read my posts carefully to save us both time.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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if you want to look at harry reid-tards accomplishment level,, he has rode Nevada into the worst state in the union. nuff said.
He rode Nevada into Utah?..Huh.
I thought Texas was the worst state in the Union
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I miss the days when Nevada was the best state in the union.
I miss the days when California was the best state in the union.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Would you ever vote for one? A legit 3rd party Tea Party candidate?
Probably not . But you never know.
I would vote for him if you personally were the alternative.
Then again, Halloween is approaching.
What kind of bogeyman will you masquerade as?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Who do you think swept the House and numerous state legislatures in 2010?
sure, the republicans win when there is very low turnout, like in 2010 when less than 10% voted
but then along came the big one, when everyone turns out to vote....last November
and then over 5 million people voted for the President over Romney
and over 1 million people voted for Democrats than Repubs in the House races
try again, ya still got nothing
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Harry said: "I miss the days when California was the best state in the union."
But things were different then.
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Snowmassguy
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Calirado
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I would vote for him if you personally were the alternative.
hahahahahahahhahah
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TGT
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So Cal
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100 unintended consequences of Obamacare!
The category most effected? Education!
Categories in bold.
Tell me again how this is a good idea?
Corporations
1. IBM
Earlier this month, the computer giant, once famed for its paternalism, announced it would remove 110,000 of its Medicare-eligible retirees from the company’s health insurance and give them subsidies to purchase coverage through the Obamacare exchanges. Retirees fear that they will not get the level of coverage they are used to, and that the options will be bewildering.
2. Delta Air Lines
In a letter to employees, Delta Air Lines revealed that the company’s health-care costs will rise about $100 million next year alone, in large part because of Obamacare. The airline said that in addition to several other changes, it would have to drop its specially crafted insurance plans for pilots because the “Cadillac tax” on luxurious health plans has made them too expensive.
3. UPS
Fifteen thousand employees’ spouses will no longer be able to use UPS’s health-care plan because they have access to coverage elsewhere. The “costs associated with the Affordable Care Act have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost,” the delivery giant said in a company memo. The move is expected to save the company $60 million next year.
4. Caterpillar Inc.
In the law’s first year, the machinery manufacturer estimated before its passage, Obamacare would add more than $100 million in health-care costs. “We can ill afford cost increases that place us at a disadvantage versus our global competitors,” a Caterpillar executive wrote lawmakers, saying that the law would not meet the goal of providing good, inexpensive health care for all Americans.
5. SeaWorld
SeaWorld used to let part-time employees work up to 32 hours per week, but the company is dropping the limit to 28 hours to keep them under the 30-hour threshold at which it would be required to provide health insurance under Obamacare. More than 80 percent of the company’s thousands of employees are part-time and/or seasonal.
Medical-Device Tax
6. Stryker Corp.
Stryker Corp., a Michigan medical-device manufacturer, laid off about 1,000 employees earlier this year due to the Affordable Care Act’s 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices. The company estimated that the tax would cost it approximately $100 million next year. “Stryker remains significantly concerned with the upcoming medical device excise tax and its negative impact on jobs and innovation and will continue to work with Congress to try to repeal the tax,” said the company’s CEO.
7. Welch Allyn
The manufacturer announced that it will have to cut approximately 10 percent of its 2,750 employees, 275 in all, because of the medical-device tax. The company also plans to consolidate manufacturing centers, moving some operations from Beaverton, Ore., to its facility in Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.
8. Smith & Nephew
The British company informed nearly 100 employees at its Massachusetts and Tennessee facilities that they would be laid off “in order to absorb [the] cost burden” of the tax on medical devices.
Hospitals, Nonprofits
9. Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
One of the world’s best-known hospitals announced in September that it would slash jobs and up to 6 percent of its annual $6 billion budget in anticipation of costs associated with Obamacare’s implementation. A spokeswoman for the clinic announced that approximately $330 million would be cut, but she did not say how many of the 44,000 employees the clinic would let go. The Cleveland Clinic is Cleveland’s largest employer and the second-largest employer in Ohio.
10. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina
Last November, the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, announced that 950 full-time-equivalent positions would have to be eliminated in order to make up costs from the health-care law.
11. Orlando Health, Florida
In that same month, the Orlando Health hospital system announced the biggest staff reduction in its almost century-long history, as part of a “broader effort” to manage the effects of Obamacare, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando Health will cut as many as 400 jobs across the system, in areas ranging from administrative departments to children’s hospitals.
12. Louisiana State University Hospitals
In the same article, the Sentinel noted that LSU hospitals would cut nearly 1,495 positions in order to save $150 million, apparently because of expected reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments.
13. Delaware Hospice
Due to new interpretations of the rules for reimbursing for hospice services, Delaware Hospice, the Ocean State’s only not-for-profit hospice provider, had to let 52 employees go earlier this year. “It’s really health-care reform in action,” a spokeswoman said. “This is affecting hospices across the country. We’re working through dramatic changes in terms of the hospice-care benefits.”
14. Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Connecticut
The New London hospital announced earlier this month that Medicare cuts programmed into Obamacare had led to the firing of 33 employees. “L+M and other hospitals are contending with massive structural changes that are happening very rapidly,” the hospital’s president and CEO said.
15. Clifton Springs Hospital, New York
Fifty-eight non-clinical employees were let go from Clifton Springs Hospital in Rochester as the hospital prepared for the changes spurred by the Affordable Care Act. “No one really knows what the impact will be because it really is a very new way for reimbursing for health care,” the hospital’s CEO told a local news station. “So I think everyone is trying to prepare for a change, and a change with less revenue.”
16. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, New Hampshire
The state’s only insurer approved to offer plans on the health-insurance exchanges in New Hampshire has cut the number of hospitals that will participate in the plan from 26 to 14 in order to reach “affordable premium levels,” according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
17. Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, California
The nonprofit, which looks after 1,100 pre-K children at its eight Southern California child-care centers, has had to reduce the hours of dozens of employees who used to work 30 to 40 hours per week. “We’re fearful it’s going to be hard to negotiate health care in any contract,” one local labor leader said. “Overall [Obamacare] is a positive step, but on a micro level it’s not all roses.”
18. Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania
A Pittsburgh news station reports that the Carnegie Museum “reluctantly” scaled back the hours of 48 of its 600 part-time employees to less than 30 hours a week to sidestep the mandate to provide health-care coverage.
19. Fort Smith Area Agency on Aging, Arkansas
The nonprofit revealed that all of its health aides and drivers will work a maximum of 28 hours a week, and that the plan it would offer to its remaining full-time employees would be “bare bones.” To make up for additional Obamacare costs, the organization is asking employees to take steps to save money, such as changing vehicle oil after 5,000 miles rather than 3,000.
20. Emory Healthcare, Georgia
A news station in Atlanta reports that Emory Healthcare, the state’s largest health-care system, will lay off more than 100 employees, in part because of Obamacare.
21. CoverTN, Tennessee
Thousands of Tennesseans will lose their coverage under the state’s health-insurance program because it does not meet Affordable Care Act standards for yearly expenditure caps. CoverTN, which was used mainly by small businesses, had a $25,000 yearly benefits limit. “It was all I had,” one Nashville small-business owner said.
State and Local Governments
22. State of Virginia
In February the General Assembly affirmed Governor Bob McDonnell’s decision to limit the state’s part-time employees to 29 hours per week.
23. Township of Middletown, New Jersey
Middletown has also cut the hours of 25 part-time public employees. “Any of those expenses [for insurance] are going to be passed along to the taxpayers, and so in order to avoid having to do that, we chose to modify the work hours,” said the township’s administrator.
24. Brevard County, Florida
Brevard County’s insurance director told a local television station that the county’s 300-plus part-time employees will be “capped at something less than 30” hours to save the county about $10,000 per employee in health insurance.
25. Township of Berkeley, New Jersey
The Sandy-hit Jersey Shore town said it will “take a hard line” in union negotiations in limiting part-time employees’ hours, because additional health-care costs “are out of the question.” “If it came down to shaving hours to save substantial dollars, that’s something that would have to be considered,” the township administrator said.
6. Chesterfield County, Virginia
An administrator with this southern Virginia county told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that “several hundred” part-time employees could have their hours cut back to 28. Most of the employees affected would be from the Department of Mental Health Support Services.
27. City of Lynchburg, Virginia
About 40 percent of the city’s part-time work force saw cuts to their weekly hours to ensure that their totals come in below the 30-hour threshold, according to the local News & Advance. The city’s human-resources director said some departments do not have the financial resources to add employees or raise wages to make up for the lost work time.
28. City of Mason, Ohio
Cut hours for 200 part-time workers or take a $3.4 million hit: That was the decision the southwestern Ohio city faced when it started weighing Obamacare’s impact. It opted for the former. Part-timers had regularly worked more than 30 hours, but the city manager told the JournalNews that their weekly workload has been reduced to 20 hours.
29. Township of Toms River, New Jersey
Government workers in Toms River pushing the 30-hour threshold will be bumped down to “below 25” to ensure that they are considered part-time employees, according to the Asbury Park Press. “I think this was not very well thought out,” the township’s business manager said of the Affordable Care Act. “There was this fallacy that the law provisions didn’t apply to municipal government. It sure does.”
30. Lee County, Iowa
Lee County “could be out a lot of money,” a local newspaper reported a supervisor saying, if the county doesn’t stick to its new policy of holding part-time workers to 28 hours.
31. City of Faribault, Minnesota
Employees working 30 to 38 hours per week with the Minnesota city will be bumped down to part-time status to avoid penalties and costs associated with the mandate.
32. Kansas Turnpike Authority
Three eight-hour shifts per week: That’s the new maximum schedule for part-time toll collectors in Kansas. While the state’s turnpike authority previously had part-time employees who worked more than 30 hours a week, a new policy will limit them to the new schedule.
Education
33. University of Virginia
Because of an additional $7.3 million in health-care costs next year, the University of Virginia alerted some of its employees that it will no longer offer health insurance to their spouses.
34. Community College of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
The Pittsburgh-area community college informed about 400 part-time employees that they would see a reduction in their hours starting in January of this year to comply with Obamacare regulations. The school had to make this change a year before the law went into effect because Obamacare stipulates that the federal government must look back one year to determine an employee’s status.
35. St. Petersburg College, Florida
To avoid paying an additional $777,000 per year, St. Petersburg College told 250 adjunct professors that their hours would be cut back for upcoming terms. “I never thought it would impact me directly,” a math teacher told NBC News Investigations. “I was stunned when I got the email. . . . I love teaching at St. Pete College, but that is a significant cut.”
36. Hillsborough Community College, Florida
Hillsborough Community College may have to cut the hours of nearly 10 percent of its part-time work force, according to the Tampa Tribune. By keeping those employees under 30 hours per week, the college can avoid an additional $863,500 in total costs for health plans.
37. Hamilton Township School District, New Jersey
Substitute teachers will see their time in the classroom limited to four workdays per week, the cap set in place in June by the school district . The “strict limits” went into effect at the beginning of this school year. According to a report by the Trenton Times, other nearby districts also could consider similar provisions.
38. Purdue University, Indiana
Despite “pretty radical changes” to the university’s health-care plans for its roughly 27,000 employees, Purdue University still won’t be able to skirt $2.8 million in additional costs brought on by the Affordable Care Act.
39. Oneida Special School District, Tennessee
Most of the non-certified personnel in the Oneida Special School District, such as teacher assistants, janitors, and cafeteria workers, will not be allowed to work more than 29 hours a week.
40. Central Michigan University
Some of the 5,700 students hired as employees by Central Michigan University will be barred from working more than 25 hours a week. While students have said the new limits “will sting a little bit” and make it “increasingly harder” to pay for various expenses, CMU’s human-resources vice president told a local news station that the move would “align us with other schools” making similar adjustments. Without the limits, CMU would have to pay as much as a $5 million penalty for not offering student workers health-care coverage.
41. University of North Alabama
Graduate-student workers at this school in Florence, Ala., will be barred from working more than 29 hours a week.
42. Arizona State University
Associate faculty members will be limited to teaching six credit hours, or two classes, per semester as part of an effort to more clearly define full-time versus part-time faculty, according to the Arizona Republic. “It’s like getting a punch in the stomach,” said one religious-studies teacher. “For some people it’s a major financial setback.”
43. Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana
Ivy Tech Community College, where 60 percent of the professors work part-time, will limit its part-time professors to less than 30 hours per week.
44. Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona
The Phoenix community-college system notified almost 700 adjunct professors and 600 other part-time workers of a new policy that will prevent them from working more than 30 hours a week. An adjunct professor said the changes would affect his personal finances, and he warned that “this is going to come back to bite us” because instructors won’t be able to fill in for one another due to the cap on hours.
45. Granite School District, Utah
Facing at least $14 million in additional health-care costs, the Salt Lake City–area school district, which operates 92 schools, reduced the hours of as many as 1,200 part-time workers. In a letter, the district warned that employees who violate the 29-hour limit for part-time work could be terminated.
46. Alpine School District, Utah
“I would have to look for another job, or we would lose our house,” a school-bus driver told Provo’s Daily Herald after the school district said hourly employees could no longer work more than 27.5 hours per week. “If they cut our hours to 27, we will be up the creek,” another driver said.
47. Fort Wayne Community Schools, Indiana
In May, 610 part-time teaching aides and cafeteria workers were informed by the Fort Wayne Community Schools that their hours would be cut to keep FWCS from having to provide health insurance to those employees. “It’s something that almost all employers with part-time employees are trying to resolve,” a district administrator said.
48. Papillion–La Vista School District, Nebraska
The Affordable Care Act would have added $2.5 million in new health-care costs — or $3.4 million in penalties — to the Papillion–La Vista school district if 281 part-time employees’ hours had not been limited to fewer than 30 a week.
49. University of Akron, Ohio
Already facing a budget deficit, the University of Akron will ask 230 of its part-time faculty members to accept a cut to their work hours to avoid having to provide health insurance.
50. Youngstown State University, Ohio
The university warned part-time faculty members that they will be fired if they surpass the new 29-hour-per-week restriction. “If you exceed the maximum hours, YSU will not employ you the following year,” the school said in an e-mail. “We will have no recourse.”
51. Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Pennsylvania
In June, the district announced that it would have to “restructure hours” to avoid cost increases to health-insurance plans. A local newspaper detailed a handful of options for the district; almost all resulted in fewer hours for lower pay.
52. Southern Lehigh School District, Pennsylvania
The Lehigh Valley–area district reduced the hours of 51 part-time workers to comply with the 30-hour threshold. The cuts will affect employees across the district, including custodians, cafeteria workers, secretaries, health-services support-staff members, and special-education support employees.
53. Zionsville Community Schools, Indiana
One hundred instructional aides, coaches, and substitute teachers in the Indiana district saw their weekly workload restricted to 29 hours.
54. Spartanburg Community College, South Carolina
Adjunct faculty members taught more than half of the community college’s classes, and all but 23 of the 400 to 500 such faculty members will see their hours slashed to meet the part-time requirement. Otherwise the college would face the choice of paying penalties of up to $2,000 per employee to whom it didn’t offer health coverage or paying up to $1 million for insurance.
55. Finger Lakes Community College, New York
The upstate New York community college has set the maximum weekly work hours for adjunct faculty members at “under 30.”
56. Mount Ephraim School District, New Jersey
At a school-board meeting this year, the district announced that the cost of benefits will rise by 18 percent because of the Affordable Care Act, and the increase will be passed on to taxpayers.
57. Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk School District, Wisconsin
The northern Wisconsin school district took steps to ensure that its part-time employees work fewer than 30 hours per week, a local news station reported.
58. Rock Valley College, Illinois
As of July, the two-year Rockford school now hires new employees to work a maximum of 25 hours per week.
Big Labor
59. Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE HERE
The heads of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and UNITE HERE wrote to Democratic lawmakers in July to warn that Obamacare would “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the middle class.” While the labor leaders acknowledged their past support for the law, they remarked that their decision had “come back to haunt us.”
60. AFL-CIO
In an interview with Al Jazeera America, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka conceded that the Affordable Care Act “does need some modifications to it” because companies are “restricting their workforce to give workers 29 and a half hours so they don’t have to provide them health care.”
Restaurants and the Food Industry
61. Cheesecake Factory
The chain restaurant’s CEO warned that while his company already covers its employees who work at least 25 hours, he expects the new law to “be very costly” for most companies. He predicted that if Cheesecake Factory has to expand coverage, the costs will be passed on to consumers with price increases or a lower level of service.
62. Papa John’s Pizza
After causing a stir among Obamacare supporters by suggesting possible price increases and/or cuts to jobs and hours, Papa John’s Pizza CEO reiterated: “It’s common sense. That’s what I call lose-lose.”
63. Buca di Beppo
Buca di Beppo employees across the country say managers told them in June that they would see their weekly hours reduced to less than 30. The founder of the company that owns the restaurants distanced himself from the comments, but employees insist that the Affordable Care Act is the root cause: “I guarantee you it has to do with what’s going on with our country and decisions being made with Obamacare,” said one worker.
64. Fatburger
The CEO of the burger-joint chain announced that franchises have begun making efforts to keep employees under the 30-hour threshold, including some franchises’ engaging in “job sharing.” For example, an employee at one Fatburger could work 25 hours a week at one location, and another 25 hours at a different location with a different owner, without falling under the Obamacare mandate.
65. Wendy’s
An Omaha Wendy’s franchisee alerted almost 100 non-management workers that their hours would be reduced to 28 per week in order to comply with Obamacare mandates.
66. Subway restaurants, Illinois
Employees at 15 Subway restaurants in central Illinois have begun to see a reduction in their hours. “We don’t like doing that,” the owner said. “But if we were to have to pay for everyone to have health insurance or pay the full penalties, we would be out of business.”
67. Subway restaurants, Maine
The owner of 21 Subway franchises in Maine told 50 of his workers that their hours would be reduced to a maximum of 29 a week. “To tell somebody that you’ve got to decrease their hours because of a law passed in Washington is very frustrating to me,” he told NBC News Investigations.
68. PoFolks restaurant, Alabama
The restaurant’s owner told a local news station that he will have to cut the number of full-time employees from 16 workers to four to meet the “great challenge” Obamacare poses to the company.
69. Joe Bologna’s, Kentucky
In order to limit employees’ hours and save money, a Lexington businessman has closed his restaurant on Mondays. He told a local news station that additional costs, which could be as high as $20,000, probably would have to be passed on to customers.
70. Five Guys franchises, North Carolina
The owner of eight Five Guys franchises in the Raleigh-Durham area said he will have to use all the profits from one of his eight stores just to cover “any added costs [that] are going to have to be passed on” by the health-care act.
71. Charco Broiler, Colorado
The Fort Collins restaurant informed three full-time employees that they would drop down to part-time work to keep the company under the 50-employee threshold, above which employers must insure all full-time employees.
72. Shari’s restaurant, Oregon
A Portland-area waitress told a news station that she has struggled to pay her bills after Shari’s relegated her status to part time due to one of the law’s mandates, cutting her schedule by almost ten hours a week.
73. Russ’ Restaurants, Michigan
Non-managerial employees are no longer allowed to work more than 25 hours per week.
74. Burger King, Washington, D.C.
“I’m not sure if Congress understood the devastating effect that this will have on businesses and on employment,” said a human-resources officer for the Maryland-based company that owns Washington, D.C.’s largest Burger King franchise. From the beginning of this year, the company has hired only part-time employees, who are “guaranteed no more than 29 hours per week.”
75. Taco Bell, Oklahoma
No employees at the Guthrie Taco Bell will be allowed to work more than 28 hours a week, resulting in a $200 reduction in one employee’s paycheck. “Several of the other people I work with, some of them are single parents, and we do the best we can, and 28 hours a week just isn’t going to cut it for the bills,” the worker said.
76. A Virginia Beach restaurant, Virginia
The owner of a Virginia Beach restaurant and catering company told Bloomberg that he has stopped hiring people to work full time and is even drawing back on part-time employees’ hours. “I can’t afford health insurance for everyone,” he said.
77. Jim’s restaurants, Texas
The San Antonio restaurant chain might be required to pay as much as $1 million more annually after Obamacare takes effect. In response, Jim’s, like many other companies, is considering a reduction in employees’ hours so it won’t have to provide them with insurance.
78. CiCi’s Pizza restaurants, Texas
Bob Westbrook owned the state’s three top-performing CiCi’s Pizza franchises but calculated that the costs of providing health care under the employer mandate would leave him about $78,000 in the red at the end of the year. Ultimately, Westbrook figured, it was most cost-effective for him to sell his franchises, after nearly 20 years.
Grocery Chains
79. Whole Foods Market
The CEO of Whole Foods may not know exactly what changes will take place when the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, but he’s sure it will negatively affect workers. While he would like his company to continue offering health insurance to its employees, he said there might have to be a tradeoff in the benefits equation: “That just means there’s less we can pay for wages.”
80. Trader Joe’s
Even though it has previously provided health-care coverage for its part-time employees, an uncommon practice in the industry, next year Trader Joe’s will give employees who work less than 30 hours a week $500 to purchase a plan in the upcoming Obamacare exchanges. With federal subsidies and possible earnings from other employment, the company said, workers can find coverage that will be just as good. One employee described her soon-to-be lost coverage as “one of the best parts about the job,” and her reaction to hearing it would be dumped was “pure panic, followed quickly by anger.”
81. Wegmans
The New York–based grocery chain announced in July that part-time employees will no longer receive health-care coverage due to Obamacare. Wegmans previously offered insurance to part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week.
82. Trig’s Supermarkets, Wisconsin
Sixty-five percent of the 1,100 workers at the Wisconsin supermarket chain will see their hours reduced to below 30 per week. “Doing nothing was not an option,” an executive with the company said. “Within a year, it would have put us out of business.”
83. Waldbaum’s, New York
At least one of the New York City–area supermarket chain’s stores has told employees that they will now be part-time workers, with some seeing a reduction of 20 hours or more from their usual weekly total. Some of Waldbaum’s 100 employees affected by the change are now seeking second or third jobs, according to a local newspaper.
84. Royal Farms, Maryland
The company’s 146 convenience stores in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are transitioning to an almost entirely part-time work force, reducing even full-timers to fewer than 30 hours a week.
Small Local Businesses
85. Southern Hearth & Patio, Tennessee
Health-insurance costs have more than tripled under the Obama presidency, said the owner of Southern Hearth & Patio in Chattanooga. He’s had to offer smaller bonuses and lower pay raises because of the Affordable Care Act.
86. Tsunami Surf Shop, North Carolina and South Carolina
A manager for Tsunami Surf Shop told a local news station that the company will “have to control the shifts” from now on in order to ensure that employees are working fewer than 30 hours a week.
87. Kerns Trucking, North Carolina
The family-owned trucking company had to cut insurance benefits for 81 workers to avoid having to pay an additional $100,000 under the law’s tax.
88. AAA Parking, Georgia
Next year, AAA Parking will move half of its 500 full-time hourly employees (out of a work force of 1,600) to part-time employment. “Our executive team has spent extensive time evaluating the impact of this mandate, and the financial impact for AAA Parking is dramatic,” a company memo explained.
89. Circle K gas station, Georgia
An employee at the Savannah gas station told a local news station that a supervisor informed workers that they would now work a part-time schedule due to the mandate.
90. Maritz Research, Missouri
The business-research firm informed its 300 employees in July that, starting next year, the company would have to “proactively manage average hours worked on a weekly basis” and enforce a 25-hour threshold.
Premium Rate Increases
91. California
Individual-market premiums in the Golden State could jump as much as 146 percent, according to an analysis of the state’s exchange program by Avik Roy of National Review and Forbes. For example, the cost for a nonsmoking 25-year-old in California who purchases the second-cheapest plan on the exchange would go from $92 to $205.
92. Colorado
Colorado’s cheapest health plans, which are generally geared toward younger people, are expected to rise dramatically in price next year, according to The Hill. Consider a nonsmoker under 30 years old. This year, this Coloradan could have purchased the cheapest catastrophic plan for $56 per month; next year, the cost is expected to climb to $135.
93. Florida
Florida regulators say the average premium for individuals will increase by 30 to 40 percent. For small businesses, the rates will be between 5 and 20 percent higher.
94. Massachusetts
According to a study by the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, well over half of the state’s small businesses will see a rate increase, with some prices potentially doubling.
95. New Mexico
In a study conducted by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, by a team including our own Avik Roy, New Mexico was rated the state that would see the largest average hike in premium costs, at 130 percent.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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TGT^^^That list will me much longer in the not too distant future.
Also...Impressive tantrum Norton. Way to be liberal and open minded lol
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I miss the days when California was the best state in the union.
It's not?
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Nope^^
Not if fiscal health is a criteria
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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since when is fiscal health a criteria...
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dirtbag
climber
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Boy the righties here sure are delusional.
Republican negotiating tactics:
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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since when is fiscal health a criteria...
Maybe it isn't. Lets keep running in the red and see what happens. Spending what you do not have always leads to positive a outcome.
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dirtbag
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Yeah, that's it, cragman. Obama is just a kenyan marxist chicago thug. An angry black man for sure, using black brute force to impose obamacare.
You do know that Obamacare was passed in Congress, survived a supreme court challenge, and 40 attempts to overturn it?
Dipsh#t.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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TGT...here's the solution....Single payer...
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Snowmassguy thoughtlessly said:
Nope^^
Not if fiscal health is a criteria
how typical, how predictable, that you who vote and obviously think "republican" ....
that you do not even know that now that California has rid itself of every single Republican holding State office, that the Democrats there have turned a 27 billion dollar deficit into a balanced budget
just think how flat out wrong you are on so many other issues
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gov-Brown-proudly-signs-balanced-state-budget-4628307.php
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed
Ghandhi
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed
Here Grandi expresses the true nature. To everything there are two sides to every coin. Making the ONE coin.
Now it's YOUR choice to respond to which is enlightened, and which is prejudiced.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Democrats there have turned a 27 billion dollar deficit into a balanced budget
Norton, you don't understand numbers any better than you understand laws!
Riley, ur an idiot!!!!!!!!!!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Facts are stupid things, eh, blueblocr?
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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I love how u can ask a random stranger what would they prefer ACA or obamacareż
So many think they are two seperate plans.
Werner is right stupid americans
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Snowmassguy
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Calirado
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Norton, you are good at making assumptions about me and my beliefs. I am a realist not a blind repug or demotard. Sorry but reality is a MF'r.
Pretty easy to sell DEBT and call it a balanced budget. Hey look...I took out a loan to pay off my credit card debt....I can now go buy a shiny new rack and a bunch of Sh**.
Yep...California politicians are good a polishing a turd.
"On Thursday, the state sold $5.5 billion of this debt, known as “revenue-anticipation notes.” The total was down from ten billion dollars last year, signaling that the state’s finances were so improved that it didn’t need as much short-term help"
In the wake of Proposition 13, two things have happened. First, of the hundreds of new initiatives that have passed, many have promised a tax cut or an expanded service without compensating financing, so much of the budget was allocated before the legislature even had a chance to negotiate. Second, the requirement for a super-majority for any tax increase made it almost impossible for policymakers to raise revenues. The consensus appears to be that California has become unmanageable.
Here is some reading for you Norton.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2013/08/28/why-california-cities-are-in-fiscal-trouble/
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/08/the-california-comeback-myth.html
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Pretty decent cartoon apropo the subject:-)
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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^^^ Wrong, try again.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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"NV health exchange has numerous bugs in the system"..
which because you have been a strong opponent of the ACA from the beginning.....
we know what you are really saying.....you can't stand the exchanges being..busy
because that means the ACA is a resounding success, and you hate that from all your postings
because........lots and lots and lots of people actually, LIKE YOU, are INTERESTED
clue: this is not a bad thing, this is a ......good thing
I will put it more simple terms: when Apple introduces a new Iphone, should they
be criticized by Known Dubfuks because people line up around the block to buy their Iphones?
jesus fuking christ you guys are just relentlessly stupid, and so you...must.vote..republican
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Need health insurance? The Obama administration has you covered. Simply dial 1-800-F*#KYO to reach the next available health-care provider.
Far from being a mistype, that’s the official number that Health and Human Services wants Americans to dial when seeking health care. Obamacare’s national call center really did list its number as 1-800-318-2596, helpfully spelling out President Barack Obama’s tendency to blatantly flip the bird in plain view.
After allowing for the lack of letters attached to 1 on a traditional American telephone keypad, the number spells out a clear message. For every duped voter, every young invincible weighing the cost of a penalty versus a newly tripled yearly deductible, every ailing old granny in a wheelchair (whom, remember, Paul Ryan wants to push off a cliff) who needs adequate and affordable health care, Obama’s message is:
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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System bugs will work them selves out. I tried to get on Colorado's site. The system "barfed" and produced an error message when trying to set up an account.
These are IT issues that will work out once the journalists and others that are really not even trying to sign up stop overloading the system.
Like I said the government has lots of motivation.....YOUR MONEY.
Let's sit back and watch government efficiency at its finest. As we all know, our government is efficient and can certainly spend our money better than we can. HAHA
Yep it is the fault of those stupid Democrats. No wait, it is the stupid Republicans.
Hiding behind an outdated ideology is why we are Fu**ed. Use your brain people ( sheep).
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10b4me
Ice climber
Soon 2B Flagstaff
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""NV health exchange has numerous bugs in the system"..
Thats putting it mildly.."...
Dude, you'll grab at ANYTHING it seems...
LOL!!!...
EDITED:
By the way...
I saw on the news last night that the issue with the system shutting down at least here, was do to so many people signing up...
Just like I originally said when you said I was wrong...
Pretty sure that's what happened elsewhere as well
;-)
Well said Locker
Edited:
I am agreeing with Locker again!!
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Damn, Norton is genius. I bow down.
Obama care will not be a cluster F that drags our economy down and provides less than stellar care for an inflated government price. It will be our glorious savior!!!!
It will work out great, we will have top notch care from the best medical minds in the world. Obama has OUR best interests in mind.
His ego, political and legacy ambitions have nothing to do with Obamacare. His rough and tumble upbringing at Punahou School opened his eyes to the fact that many rich folks are smart but Americans in general are stupid sheep.
Worship me minions. I know what is best for you. Don't like it, tough luck as I am smarter than you. Now log on to the internet and give me money. In return, I promise sub par care for an inflated government price. Yes...lower middle class it is time for you to pay up. Heck, I am in my second term and could care less about re-election. You dumb F's elected me hahahahahah
Obamacare will be just another success story ( OK get your partisan boxing gloves on now)
just like:
The Postal Service
The War on Drugs
Social Security
Freddie Mac
No Child Left Behind
The War on Poverty
The Department of Energy
Head Start
The list goes on and on. Remember sheep, government is good.
OK, I am done now. Off to work( at my employer that is dropping employee coverage like it is hot) to make money so I can give a larger percentage of my very modest income to the government. Oh wait, I am a contract employee now....no corporate health coverage.Yes, the government needs my money. My children/family are secondary. Bow down.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Snowmassguy.... +100
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Uh yeah, cuz 'socialized' health care has failed in Canada, uk, and every other first world country?
Why are Repbublicants always on the wrong side of history?
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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In the 50 billion threads I've seen on single payer health care and "socialism/communism OMG!" I've never seen one post from a citizen of another country denouncing their system and advocating what we have here.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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REtardPUBLICANS...the hillbilly inbred when it comes to social issues and compassion. Yeah, it does seem like they frequently stand on the wrong side of history. Must all be born with some sort of dumbf*#k gene. Not claiming the other side gets a brilliance award, just not as many "haters" in their ranks.
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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In the 50 billion threads I've seen on single payer health care and "socialism/communism OMG!" I've never seen one post from a citizen of another country denouncing their system and advocating what we have here.
Hello From Canada, we love our health care!!! Do you know how many corner stores have coin boxes to help out folks who got sidelined by health problems
ZERO
Which is the same amount of people in Canada who have gone bankrupt from health problems
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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^^^^
oh no, that kind of stuff really pisses em off, sends them into a rage
why, it's like proving them WRONG and they just can't stand that sh#t
ya gotta dig in, insist until the cows come home that two plus two is five
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Got to love the name calling. Makes my 3rd grader look quite mature.anyway...
Canada....... a climbing buddy of mine is a spinal surgeon born and educated in Canada. He is one of the top guys in his specialty. He moved to the US because of frustration over government red tape.
He now makes big $$ serving the Canadian rich as well as those that REALLY need surgery and can scrounge up cash. They travel to the US to have their very necessary surgery.
Wait time for MRI's and surgery approval literally puts many at such a risk that these poor Canucks dig into their life savings to have surgery here. Cash money baby!
The government does not care about you. If you think they do, your a fool. When someone you know dies because your paperwork is covered in government red tape, Obamacare might not be viewed as the savior you Fu**tards think it is. Haha, now you have reduced me to your 3rd grade level.
Hanging around ST is sending me into a state of devolution. Keep on hatin'.... your friendly government will bail you out.
Enjoy your wait in line at the DMV. Oh sorry , I meant DR office.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Dipsh#t. LOL
YEP, a little cut and paste "dirtbag" name calling. Now I feel like one of the tribe.
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dirtbag
climber
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SM you guys don't care about facts so why bother?
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Good luck with that. I love the DMV too. A life time of positive experiences whooopppiiieee
Too bad you wont be seeing the DR at future appointments. It will all be about the P.A.
You are either for or against Obamacare. Not many folks are changing their opinion at the moment.
Personally, I see it being a disaster down the road and not at all what it was marketed to be.
I hope I am wrong. I voted for Obama and regret it . Obamacare fails, your best repug friends will be in power real quick.
Only time will tell.
Since you guys are smarter than me and have had so much first hand experience with Obamacare, it must be awesome..right ? Our gov't is such an efficient administrator, I cant wait to see what is in store !!!
Peace out. Gonna get on the rock this afternoon before winter blasts Colorado! Going to....BOULDER(not in Boulder). If I turn an ankle, at least I still have health insurance.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Snowmassguy by all means welcome to the tribe...name callers of all spectrums united by our love of climbing and emotional immaturity.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Snowmass did not see your last post...Colorado huh...Climbed at Eldo and Lumpy in August, what awesome places!! Politics and climbing what a weird combo @ times
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Just like a popular climb, get to the Dr. early in the morning! I used to go later in the afternoon, but went early once and saw the doc, got blood work, and got stuff at the pharmacy in 40 minutes total.
My health care is EXACTLY the same as last year. But I know people with pre-existing conditions who can now purchase health insurance and they are stoked.
BUT THE SHUTDOWN CONTROVERSY IS NOT ABOUT OBAMACARE. It's about one party using coercion to try to get what they want. Obama needs to nip this sh#t in the bud, or it will just being modus operandi for congress moving forward, dem or repubs. It's the radical right doing it now and you may agree with them about Obamacare, but next time it could be the loony left wanting free abortions or THEY will shut down the government or refuse to raise the debt limit and screw over the whole world's economy.
Anyone who thinks this Repubs are doing the right thing needs their heads examined.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Hellroaring...glad you were able to get out to Eddo and Lumpy before the floods. Cant get to Lumpy and Eldo is as screwed as my health insurance policy. Sad.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/most-efficient-healthcare_n_3825477.html
This is all about the huge amounts of money health insurance, heathcare and pharmaceutical companies are making off the current system to give us substandard care. Doctors and healthcare providers want to do the right thing, but they have to carry around 100lb parasites.
The GOP fanatics are willing to fly the plane into the ground to protect their profits.
Obama/RomneyCare isn't the problem. Repealing will do nothing to fix it. It is a convient "shiny thing" to distract those with a short attention span from the real issues.
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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He moved to the US because of frustration over government red tape.
He now makes big $$ serving the Canadian rich as well as those that REALLY need surgery and can scrounge up cash
You see the problem, thats what you stand for, doctors that can serve the rich...and fundamentally thats not what I, Canada, or I suspect may who support Obama feel. We feel that all humans, rich or poor should have access to health care, the same health care that my rich friends get.
Yes your friend would have loads of red tape to deal with in Canada if he wanted to serve the highest bidder in a multi tiered health care system.
I dont have to phone my insurance provider before dailing 911, the ambulance just gets me like everyone else, its quite civilized you know.
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dirtbag
climber
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And locker, they'd be right!
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Pepe Le Poseur
Social climber
Parts North
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they were for it, before they were against it...
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Pepe Le Poseur
Social climber
Parts North
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Everything has been "so f*#ked up" to somebody since the Romans...
Only truism is that the more f*#ked up you think "it" is, the further you are from the mainstream....despite the mainstream all thinking that "things" are f*#ked up. Ponder that.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Locker, get your a$$ back and work on those shoes
so we can go climbing again!!!!
Be quick about it!
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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StahlBros post is spot on.
Oct 3, 2013 - 02:49pm PT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/most-efficient-healthcare_n_3825477.html
This is all about the huge amounts of money health insurance, heathcare and pharmaceutical companies are making off the current system to give us substandard care. Doctors and healthcare providers want to do the right thing, but they have to carry around 100lb parasites.
The GOP fanatics are willing to fly the plane into the ground to protect their profits.
Obama/RomneyCare isn't the problem. Repealing will do nothing to fix it. It is a convient "shiny thing" to distract those with a short attention span from the real issues.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Sheep. Believe the all powerful Obama. You are going to love your new deductibles when you do need major medical services. Have fun boys and girls.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Butch Matthews is a 61-year-old former small business owner from Little Rock, Arkansas who used to wake up every morning at 4 A.M. to deliver canned beverages to retailers before retiring in 2010. A lifelong Republican, he was heavily skeptical of the Affordable Care Act when it first passed. “I did not think that Obamacare was going to be a good plan, I did not think that it was going to help me at all,” he told ThinkProgress over the phone.
But after doing a little research, Matthews eventually realized how much the law could help him. And on Tuesday, his local Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) provider confirmed that he would be able to buy a far better plan than his current policy while saving at least $13,000 per year through Arkansas’ Obamacare marketplace.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/02/2721501/butch-matthews-obamacare-convert/
It turns out that pre-Obamacare, Matthews was paying $1069.per month with a $10,000 deductible. Matthews’ doctor visits went from a co-pay of $150 to $8. Matthews has a simple message to all Americans. He says,
I would tell them to learn more about it before they start talking bad about it,” he noted. “Be more informed, get more information, take your time and study and not just go by just what you hear on one side or the other. Actually check the facts on it.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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For any young person making more than $20,000 a year, insurance premiums -- not even counting deductibles of several thousand dollars -- would cost more than paying the penalty for not getting insurance.
That raises the prospect of young people deciding the plan makes no sense for them.
That possibility could be critical, because the administration is counting on signing up enough young, healthy people to offset the cost for the older and less healthy.
If that doesn’t happen, the costs of ObamaCare could soar.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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No mass...I have an australian friend who practices anathesiology in California.. He practiced in Australia and Canada and in his opinion thinks their health care systems are superior to Americas' health care system... he's almost a John Bircher...My other friend is a retired anathesiologist , an American and he thinks the American system is pitiful...He use to be a republican but finds the current party incompetent...
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Not so sure on this one. Those punk kids might not subsidize you old geezers.
Enjoy your large deductible.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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RJ, anaesthesilogists have the highest drug abuse rate in the medical professions. Jess sayin'.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Sad thing is in 20-30 years, Obamacare will be viewed as the single largest social and fiscal mistake our country has ever made.
The uninsured will not sign up, the younger folks living just above the poverty line/lower middle class will not be able to afford to sign up, the boomer generation will bleed it dry ( unless the death panels fix that issue), it will no longer be normal for business to offer health care benefits, the quality of care will decline, the economy will not recover. The ER's will still be filled with uninsured people. The list goes on...
Just one more factor contributing to the decline of our great country. Hey but the supporters of Obamacare can flaunt their egos now and claim to be smarter that anyone that disagrees.
By the way I pay $11,592 per year in premiums. My new annual premium is estimated at over 18K per year with a 8K deductible.
Good luck with your ego Hedge. Amazing a dumbf**ck like you can even operate a computer HAAAAAHAAA
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Reilly...So do climbing shoe re-solers...RJ
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"By the way I pay $11,592 per year in premiums. My new annual premium is estimated at over 18K per year with a 8K deductible."
Yeah, well, congenital brain malformation is pretty expensive to treat. Be proud, though...you can actually type a sentence on a computer!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The 'shut-down' was described today as a bump in the road. The impending debt default is a reinforced concrete wall in the road.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Rep. Cruz from Texas said " It's no different than the weekend. The Gov. is closed on the weekend."
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Sad to see Boehner go to such depths just to stay speaker and then get booted anyway. I've always thought of him as an American. But with the tea bag anarchists running the show at gunpoint, I guess Boehner is the one who caved in order to protect his family.
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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there you have it GOP tools
and worshipers of the uber wealthy (it's never gonna happen for you so get over it)
LESS guberment?
nows your chance to rake it in $$$$$$$ w/ uncle sam out of your way
thats what you wanted right?
smaller guberment?
so stop bitchin'
if its BIG guberment thats been keepin you down
stop whinning and....
prove it!
The Healthcare reform act of is a law.
it was deemed constitutinal by the supreme court years ago.
It survived a presidential election.
if the people didn't want it Mit (really? Mit?) would be in charge.
so NOW...
years later!!!
is not the time to negotiate.....
if you hero george W wasn'tsuch afukup a black dude named Hussain Obama would never be president and
and
GET RE-ELECTED!
s0..
do we still pay taxes during the 'shut down'?
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Out-of-control health care profiteering
This is exactly the root problem and why the vested interests have poured so many millions of dollars into an insidious disinformation campaign.
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Pepe Le Poseur
Social climber
Parts North
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Riley - now come on, that's a little over the top. You don't need to SH#T in those empty pumpkin shells as well. A more lucid critique serves better....although I would not discourage Tioga from heading to his bunker in the boonies and staying there -- for a long time.
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coastal_climber
Trad climber
north island
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I pay 50$ a month for the two of us. Canada = win
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Riley - Your use of the C word to describe these people is an insult to the female anatomy...but otherwise spot on.
Edit: meant to say ....otherwise the RANT was spot on ...Not the use of C word.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Locker
Quit ranting and get back on those shoes--finish 'em up
so we can go dangling again.
PRONTO!!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Couldn't a been Prod's --they're in Santiago--no, knot KARMEN!!!
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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LOL ^^^You mean since he caved to the mullahs so they can continue processing and heading towards a bomb, he should be caving to the Republicans too?
hahahaha Good one. Not.
not funny really.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Yeah Ron but it seems you're making up scenarios based on no facts.
And you'd be happier if those million people (did you make up that number too?) had no insurance and just got sicker until the system had to take care of their serious illness for nothing because all their money was gone by then?
Peace
Karl
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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which cave did they lock Obama in?
is he going to turn into Jesus?
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