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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
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  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  SKIP income guidelines effective April 1, 2006
  Family size*	Annual family income	Monthly family income
  2	$26,400	$2,200
  3	33,200	2,767
  4	40,000	3,334
  5	46,800	3,900
  6	53,600	4,467
  7	60,400	5,034
  8	67,200	5,600
  * Add $6,800 to the annual family income for each additional family member. "Family size" is the total number of people in your household.

  HL pardon me for intruding and I don't know your exact circumstances, I'll speak in generalities.

  I was in my early twenties with a child as a single parent making less than $20K full time many years ago and I STILL had enough money to put her on my employer's health plan.There were bills I always paid. Rent. Food. Gas. Utilities. Car Note. Insurance.Everything else was frequently "rob Peter to pay Paul." The $85 a month to insure my daughter was the least of my problems.

  If there are just the two of you, that's $26,400. They don't count your first car as an asset.

  If you are making more than that, you're close to $30K and well able to afford the cost to add a child to your coverage. Not doing it endangers your financial security! You must have other priorities. I didn't.

  Swife

  and all this time I thought you were the one who planned ahead, scrimped, saved, suffered, toiled...never would be caught without a back plan

  If the government forces me to go on NHS they have taken away my options and therefore eliminated planning.

  Lisa
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  Really?????

  Yes, Swalker, Really. I swear. check out irs.gov.
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  LOL!!!!!! A tax write-off!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!! You'll be the first in line at the pearly gates sister!!! DAMN!

  
  

  
  LOL,

  Now I'm *SURE* you were a "President."

  FYI Tax write offs on charitable contributions are not dollar for dollar. They are, at best, 25% on the dollar. The least reason I can think of for 'donating' is a tax write off. Also doesn't count all the money I give to my daughter's friends who are not as fortunate as my daughter.

  An Amway downline doesn't count as a 'company.'

  Lisa
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  (by any reasonable standard of measurement).

  Let me get out my roach-stompers and do the happy dance!

  My offer still stands.

  Show me a system of National Healthcare that:

  • guarantees that if we go over budget, we snatch the assets of everyone who signed the bill and voted for it
  • guarantees that we as a nation educate Drs. and other valuable health care professionals so they do not start practice hundreds of thousands in debt
  • guarantees a standard of living that attracts the best and the brightest
  • guarantees that we address the medical malpractice industry (meaning we strip it out completely so that no one is entitled to any damages because god forbid we sue out 'neighbors' who are helping fund the medical care)
  • guarantees that we as a nation do not increase our Social Service program users because of putting this system into play
  • guarantees that we as a nation be entitled to be educated and see the NUMBERS for the proposal so that we have a choice and are not forced into it.
  • guarantees that we set a cost on a human life, so that we do not spend $2,000,000 on a premature baby at 26 weeks and then millions for the rest of that person's life.
  • guarantess that the program has the ability to monitor and force treatment to stave off greater costs down the road (think diabetes).

  Oh yes, there are some hard questions being asked here. Some I bet you don't like. Me either. Somebody has to balance the books though.
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  well geez..you used it as a point and said the point itself was good. Why use it then if you don't think they deserve it in the first place?

  ummmmm as an example of the 'quality of life' that federalized health care has created for them.......mmmmkay?
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  Won't regal you with stories of blindness though - don't want you to crack.

  It's okay, I'm already blind from reading the nonsense you've posted.

  I chose to plan an exam for now because my original plan of getting one later was thwarted by my schedule.

  HIGH-larious.
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  Little Toe - please bear in mind too that you have to be covered by medicare in order for that first 80 to be covered by them! For anyone falling in between the cracks that isn't covered by medicare - you pay it all and often upfront - before you get the service!!!! I just called for quotes for an eye exam and the lowest cost is $65.00 at Walmart with the highest being $275.00 at an optometrist. Walmart is booked up for a month solid and the optometrist is booked up until the end of September. Now - I can get in at a location that is a 2 1/2 hour drive away and it will cost $125.00 for the exam or another place only 1 1/2 hours away and the cost is only $105.00 for the exam. I'm travelling to the one an hour and a half away simply because I need the exam. The lines for medical service that everyone keeps harping on with the Canadian system and the length of time it takes to get an appointment is no less in the USA. Every system has it's worms.

  Sorry,

  I can't stop laughing! This is the perfect example of the PLANNING I spoke about in the previous thread on healthcare!!!!! Yes the exact type of planning I recommended MONTHS ago, you couldn't even be bothered to do. So now you will waste gas, and time, to go get a cheap exam 90 minutes away!!!

  This is the exact type of wasteful spender who is just PINING away for NHS!

  With poor planning like this, it's no wonder you want Nationalized Healthcare!

  Lisa

  Schedules Yearly Appointments Ahead of Time (Including Scrapes) Class
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  So then - you know all about tax dollars and national care of every sort. Does that mean that you support American Indians receiving national healthcare but not anyone else? Doesn't that go against your planning and your 'too bad for you no matter who you are if you don't have the cash' attitude? If you support national healthcare for one specific group of people, regardless if they are able bodied young men and women between the ages of 18 and 60 - if you support them because of who they are and not based on their need - then we have another issue don't we? sammieswife.

  No,

  and I don't approve of them getting monthly payments from the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) nor a free education because they won some bizarre birth lottery of entitlement.

  Any other questions?
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  LDH

  As you know she is the epitome of human kindness and her well of compassion is full because she doesn't take the time to drink from it.

  LOL! Good one!

  Too busy laughing to add that I offered on the other thread (and said offer still stands) to show my family's charitable contributions vs. yours or anyone else's, using tax returns.

  Of course, you and your ilk ignored that. Could it be, that for all of your talk, you don't give a damn penny to anyone?!?!?!?

  Lisa
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  National Healthcare for the USA

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just an fyi for anyone interested - there is a major drive on to push the bill forward for national healthcare in the usa.

  you can sign the petition by going to http://www.onecarenow.org/.. it has gone through one part of the process last year and now the push is on to get it moved to the next level - it is backed by over 400 groups including the uaw i believe.

  it is no longer if it happens, it is only a matter of time as to when it happens.

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  LDH

  Little Toe - please bear in mind too that you have to be covered by medicare in order for that first 80 to be covered by them! For anyone falling in between the cracks that isn't covered by medicare - you pay it all and often upfront - before you get the service!!!! I just called for quotes for an eye exam and the lowest cost is $65.00 at Walmart with the highest being $275.00 at an optometrist. Walmart is booked up for a month solid and the optometrist is booked up until the end of September. Now - I can get in at a location that is a 2 1/2 hour drive away and it will cost $125.00 for the exam or another place only 1 1/2 hours away and the cost is only $105.00 for the exam. I'm travelling to the one an hour and a half away simply because I need the exam. The lines for medical service that everyone keeps harping on with the Canadian system and the length of time it takes to get an appointment is no less in the USA. Every system has it's worms.

  This is making me laugh. Back on the drama pill, huh? You didn't know you needed an eye exam a month ago? What you woke up today and your eyes went wacky? Could it be that you've been reading to much leftist material? You love your drama, huh?

  As you know she is the epitome of human kindness and her well of compassion is full because she doesn't take the time to drink from it.

  LOL! Good one!

  SWalker as a President of a 300 life company, you would have had an entire compensation package which included long-term disability and health care that you could convert. While your life is no picnic, you are just pissed off now because you don't have the same benefits that worked for you for many years.

  SWIFE You are just pissed that I can find the holes in your arguments. It's too easy.

  Lisa

  HR Queen Class