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2012-03-01 Economy

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Posted by Beavis 2012-03-01 08:41|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Obamacare is not helping. Just got notice from my health insurance company that next month my premium is going up $57/month - or 8.7%. Now, $754/month for me (51) and my two teenage sons. The coverage isn't great either.

It's like "OMG" - this can't go on.

Posted by LeighG 2012-03-01 11:22|| 2012-03-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeez! I don't really want to tell you "I told you so" but hey, I told you so.

Posted by past master of the obvious 2012-03-01 11:28|| 2012-03-01 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I think Americans are coming to the conclusion that government isn't the answer.

Posted by DarthVader 2012-03-01 11:35|| 2012-03-01 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Are the doctors supposed to send out teams of investigators to determine all the facts about each and every snake bite or can they just take the patients' word for it?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-03-01 11:57|| 2012-03-01 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 And each one of those codes opens up the possibility of denying coverage for equally inane bureaucratic reasoning.

Of course the real reason is to save money and kill off the unworthy.

Posted by AlanC 2012-03-01 12:04|| 2012-03-01 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 ...of course, like the NHS, the 'worthy' will have a separate tier of (fully subsidized) coverage.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-03-01 14:03|| 2012-03-01 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 An obvious solution to the problem of suffocating regulatory burden is to create a Bureau of Regulatory Oversight to monitor and evaluate the various regulatory agencies, and to implement and enforce the edicts of the new Regulatory Czar.

Posted by SteveS 2012-03-01 16:18|| 2012-03-01 16:18|| Front Page Top

#8 How about department of sabotage?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-03-01 16:52|| 2012-03-01 16:52|| Front Page Top

#9 A former co-worker of mine said he wanted to be the Commissioner of Bullsh*t. He would look at a decision like this, declare it bullsh*t, and it would be undone.

Very unlikely in today's climate.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-03-01 18:26|| 2012-03-01 18:26|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the main non-financial reason people retire is not due to age, but the fact that a person can only take so much BS in life, and when you've reached that quota of BS, you either retire, die, or go postal.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-03-01 18:37|| 2012-03-01 18:37|| Front Page Top

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