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girl: School got way less stressful when I just started buying my own gold stars at Office Outpost. Too bad I can't carry that independent approach into a career without prohibitively expensive health insurance. Frazz: You are learning well on your own.
Varnes over 12 years ago
cap, yup! But it is kinda funny that republicans are for an independent population, yet embrace prohibitively expensive health insurance….Republicans have no choice but to do what the insurance companies want them to do……especially after the millions of dollars insurance companies have spent buying the dudes………….BTW, they also have no choice when it comes to oil, too. They have to vote against the American people because of the money they receive from the oil lobby.
archipelago Premium Member over 12 years ago
Let me guess: her parents are self employed.
luvcmx over 12 years ago
They are not spending their own money.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 12 years ago
I am of the firm belief that we need equal national health care for all. Reports I have read suggest that with what we spend now…. and with the roughly ~45% of that money simply going to pay the “middlemen”…. (mostly the insurance companies, but also the huge number of folks who most medical agencies have to utilize to handle all the myriad of different insurance plans),,, we WOULD be able to have universal care for all. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++A person’s job, nor his hourly wage, nor the “benevolence” of his employer should be what determines how his health is treated. It is just as ludicrous as suggesting that how much you earn, your job, or your employer has a right to say how much air you can breath.
ronpolimeni over 12 years ago
Under the “Affordable Health Care Act” only those with no insurance at all will be required to purchase health care from an independent insurance company (not from the Gov.). And of those many would receive a subsidy. Everyone with current ins. through their employer or otherwise, would not be affected whatsoever. The analogy to the gov. forcing everyone to “buy a Chevy Volt” is false.
jbarnes over 12 years ago
AMEN!
“Research is desperately needed to find a cure for the dreadful affliction which causes people to read politics and political commentary into events and situations which contain little or no political content”
Konabill over 12 years ago
She should go for the government job that pays the most.
Homeward Premium Member over 12 years ago
I know I’m the millionth person to hopelessly wish political comics would stay on the editorial page and I shouldn’t bother mentioning it, but yeah, dammit, I’m mentioning it. sigh
underwriter over 12 years ago
Funny you should mention that, Sharuniboy – I’ve been trying to tell colleagues that if the Supreme Court strikes Obama care down, there goes mandatory auto insurance, and a whole lot of jobs with it. I don’t think too many people have connected the dots.
Goyeshiva over 12 years ago
Tis an ailment found in people who live on getting their opinions validated.
lectricdude over 12 years ago
…the only… “honest”…politician is the one that, upon discovering the inherent corruption…endemic…to politics quickly… GETS OUT…of politics
mklange Premium Member over 12 years ago