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The 3% is cited all over the place. I googled a couple of health insurance discussions and saw that number again. You also see the range 3-5% which seems reasonable. Either it's accurate (I've never seen it seriously challenged) or it's a top quality urban myth. Private health care supposedly runs in the 25% range. Friends of ours, health care professionals, complain constantly about the plethora of paperwork, the infinite variety and complexity of data requirements of individual insurance companies, the varieties of eligibility and so on. Obviously limiting eligibility for health care goes straight to the bottom line for private insurers. As I pointed out in my original post it does not have to be that difficult to provide effective health insurance administration. Balkanizing health insurance into hundreds of companies does nothing whatsoever for actually providing care and every indication is that it reduces access and limits care.
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COBRA costs. The amount you may be required to pay may not exceed 102% of the cost to the group health plan for coverage of a similaryly situated plan. Another words you pay the same as your employer is charged plus 2%
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more good news for the warmonger in chief supporters, just read that the white house has announced that he plans on cutting funds which supplies health insurance to 4.1 million uninsured children!! guess halibuton&cheney need more of our money to waste on his failed oil war.
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I'd vote for Hillary or any one legged dog before I'd vote for never mind don't want to hurt any feelings being to feminist!
She may be taking the health care dollars, but perhaps she has a plan for those dollars in the future and can afford to turn her back on those who fed her from the health care Corps. Women can be like that! Go Hillary give them a run for their money!
Don't you get it???????? Corporations have so much money they can scatter it around like confetti!! Read up, they all play both sides of the street to one degree or another, and both the repugs and demos take the bait in differing amounts depending on the company ideology! But they give it both ways to hedge all bets. Geesh
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I just love Obama I wonder why you like hillary over obama have you ever heard him talk such a kind good man.heres a slogan
Obama beats Osama or something like that
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anela, I find it very easy to listen to Obama, and think he would be a good candidate, and if not a candidate at least keep the other front runners on point. It would be a privilege to vote for the first woman president, and it would be a privilege to vote for the first male president who happens to be black. I haven't voted yet! LOL. Just talk talk and read read!
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mella i totally agree! as a woman i wish hillary were a better candidate then the choice would be easy, cause you know its just time.
but obama is so great! at least its a win win either way!
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You'd vote for Hillary & Obama and so would we... But the question is -- will 51 percent of America vote for them on election day?? That unfortunately is a sad realization. Why back these good people, when they have such high negatives to begin with? And the 'swiftboat' ads haven't even started yet!
This approach will only result in another 'bushy' president, with bushy policies and a continuation of bushy fascism.
...Win the 'war' -- not the battle!
['bushy': corrupt, incompetent, untruthful, arrogant, aloof, counter-productive, catastrophic, wasteful, crude, ironic. ex.: "His answer seemed a little bushy."]
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By "Win the 'war' not the battle" -- I mean, win the White House, not the point (that a black guy and a woman can run for president).
In other words, at the end of the day, we'll all feel great about our 'symbolic' votes. But you'd better get used to hearing the following phrases:
"President Romney"
"declares war on..."
"abolishes abortion..."
"cancels the Constitution..."
and "appoints his newest wives to the Supreme Court..."
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""But the question is -- will 51 percent of America vote for them on election day??""
Aint that the truth. Although I'm not to sure that the last two elections 00/04 have honestly reflected the true American desires.
I do know that I have never been more dissapointed in these Great United States than I was the day after both of those last two elections.
I personally would like to see them both... Yepper, a Clinton/Obama ticket would be great and I think Obama is young enough to serve a few years as VP and then run for President.
The Dems. seem to do half of the work for the Republican party in the primaries. By this time the Dems. should have learned their lesson in that the election can't even be close or the Republican thieves will run the country for another 4 years.
Ok.. so what was this thread about? Sorry for the Hijack/Rant.
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield"
Blessings,
dave
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