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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:54 PM Original message |
One more new underclass |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's worse than that... |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yay, Im second class! |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm bracing myself for the expected rise in insurance rates in June, |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
5. My nightmare |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I just had mine. They raised it $100. That I do not have anywhere in my budget. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:40 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Mine went up the same so I switched plans |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. I too am thinking of switching. Which Plan did you get? |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 12:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Anthem BC/BS PPO 2 |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. And with climate change, we are running out of ice floes |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Modified to .. hand you a bagged sandwich and push you off a bridge. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. At least, I am hoping tht we will get some choice as to what is |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
8. You just wanted to buy into Medicare and fuck everybody else n/t |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. again, someone who is bitter and doesn't see that there are "many" that will have big problems. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. How unfair for you to presume that from what the OP said |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 02:37 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I wasn't presuming |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 02:41 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. if adding older people to Medicare opened the common sense door to Single Payer for All |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 01:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. You're mad at anyone who isn't kissing Obama's ass. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. +1 |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. You've noticed that, too, eh? n/t |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 04:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Everybody else doesn't have to pay three times as much for shitty underinsurance |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. I hear you. And thank you fo r this topic. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 04:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. you're confused. the people fucking everyone else = congress & this admin. |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yup, especially if they now pay for their own health care. |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
17. I'll be fifty in July |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
19. Isn't it interesting, just as the boomers reach their retirement years. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Trial run for SS, it will be "fixed" shortly. Another HISTORIC accomplishment! nt |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
25. How exactly? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. try being unemployed when you are in your mid fifties. |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. That's one instance, but the OP seemed pretty broad. |
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Digit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 02:56 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Yep, been trying to find work for over a year now and I am over 55 |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
29. Because you have to pay more for insurance than a healthy 21 year old? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. It fucking well does. Have you ever heard of this concept called |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I don't think a 3-1 limit on age rating is unreasonable. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:20 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Why don't you just call us disposable human garbage and be done with it? |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I think your complaints will fall on deaf ears, and rightly so. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Yes, undet this fucking stupid MANDATORY plan they would be more expensive |
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WT Fuheck (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
32. judging by the rampant ageism in the employment market, |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 03:13 AM Response to Original message |
34. eridani, you rock. :) K&R |
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Neecy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
36. I'm a double second class citizen |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
37. Please explain - I thought folks over 55 could get Medicare? |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Nope. It's still 65. n/t |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 09:31 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Then how are the over 50s getting screwed worse than the rest of us? |
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