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**whembly**

but misdirection and manipulation are just part and parcel when it comes to politics in a democracy

That's gutter politics and should always be challenged.

**dogma**

whembly wrote:
Looks like Harvard just got "Gruber'ed".

That's pretty much just standard Faculty v. Administration drama.

Though this bit...

The university is adopting standard features of most employer-sponsored health plans: Employees will now pay deductibles and a share of the costs, known as coinsurance, for hospitalization, surgery and certain advanced diagnostic tests. The plan has an annual deductible of $250 per individual and $750 for a family. For a doctor’s office visit, the charge is $20. For most other services, patients will pay 10 percent of the cost until they reach the out-of-pocket limit of $1,500 for an individual and $4,500 for a family.

...is pretty bad. Varying your deductible according to procedure is a terrible practice that has been going for a long, long time.

whembly wrote:

That's gutter politics and should always be challenged.

You don't challenge it when it suits you, same as everyone.

**Ouze**

We've now gone from A.) bumping this thread it with zero updates when it was greater than >30 days to

B.) now apparently bump it with stories that have absolutely zero to do with the original topic.

**whembly**

Ouze wrote:
We've now gone from A.) bumping this thread it with zero updates when it was greater than >30 days to

B.) now apparently bump it with stories that have absolutely zero to do with the original topic.

I wouldn't say it's completely unrelated.

It's an exercise to have a shadenboner too!

I blame it on America's short attention span.

I'm doing a PSA to "inform" folks that the PPACA is still a piece of gak, through and through.

**motyak**

Well keep that "PSA" on topic and not reaching too far, or else you'll be sending this joke of a thread further off topic. Which will break my heart because I'll have to put the final bullet behind its ear.