IrishAyes
IrishAyes's JournalA possible workaround to healthcare.gov???
Please don't press me for details because I only caught the ending of a news story this evening on CBS or ABC - they're the only ones I get. Anyway, I heard a website mentioned called healthcircle.com which reportedly lets people deal directly with the insurance companies for ACA-compliant plans. Can't speak to the veracity of this website and don't believe everything I hear on tv, but it's at least possible that after the Benghazi debacle they're checking their facts a little better at least temporarily. I think it would be worthwhile to at least look at this new website with the caveat to be sure they don't steer you into a plan that makes you give up present grandfathered benes you might now enjoy.
Even if you didn't sign up right away, it might save you time further down the road when healthcare.gov is more fully operational. In other words, you could get your research done ahead of time instead of maybe sweating bullets over what will happen.
That's only one of the many reasons I believe in women being taught how to fight.
And I don't mean 'like a girl' either. The way my brothers and later sensei taught me. Early on I got the nickname 'the Sicilian' because of my fondness for kneecaps.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
One time I paid off a car loan with BofA and got the usual congratulatory letter. Six months later they sent me another bill claiming I still owed them $300. No matter how many times I showed them proof that I was paid up, they wound up turning me over to a collection agency. I went to the state attorney general with my complaint and proof to get the bank off my neck. Along the way I found out from any number of other former customers that BofA had a habit of doing that. Most people paid the extortion because the amount was never over $300, and it would've cost them more than that to hire a lawyer. I didn't need a lawyer.
Good grief, my SS is more than Goytia makes and I don't have kids to feed!
And despite my lifelong super thrifty ways, it's hard enough for me to squeak by.
My kudos and prayers to all those protesters. Good, brave people.
Thanks for all the pix and info
I didn't know about the connection between the Carters and the 47% expose.
President Obama can be very stoic; but he's human and you know that has to hurt to some extent.
We can't just be silent 'supporters' either, even when it causes some of the fire to be directed at us. And we need to let him know of our support, and follow through. Give him a Congress he can work with!
This is sad; I'm old enough to remember when Charlie started out as liberal enough to get in trouble
for it. No more, apparently. Maybe he's getting senile?
Sick as it makes me to mention this,
You know there are women who pimp out their daughters. I've known two women who stayed with men they knew were molesting their daughters. I'd have saved the state the cost of a trial. But some people are so screwed up it's almost incomprehensible. They don't end up well either.
Sweet of you to say, and I appreciate it.
Probably some of my aversion to being photographed comes from the years of hell with my husband, a maniacal photographer who kept a camera in my face half the time. I hated it. It was like living with my own papparazo, and I wasn't famous or well known. He didn't even appreciate my efforts to please, always complained about his model rather than his attitude. On my own initiative I once skiddled out on a rock ledge with a sheer drop below of hundreds of feet; my toes were sticking out over the ledge, that's how narrow it was. Not good enough for him, though. That was probably the final straw in my waning loyalties.
Well, I try not to let myself be easily recognizable. Don't want to scare people, y'know!
In every picture since 1983 my face is at least half hidden by a hoodie or dog or whatever cover presents itself. I don't photograph well at my age.
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