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http://www.opm.gov/status/

Government is closed tomorrow!

3 days after the storm DC still cannot get its act together. This city for some strange reason thinks it's in the south and so even though it snows EVERY YEAR it shuts down like this is some unprecidented event no one has seen before. The New Yorker in me laughs and laughs.

And you want them to control our health care??????

Only because I've seen how our insurance companies run it.

Oh sorry sir, though your heart surgery was covered, your anesteic was not. That'll be $7000.

They tried that garbage on me a few weeks ago, actually.

I went in to get all four wisdom teeth removed, and they tried to protest the insurance claim on the grounds that:

Although I am 22, currently enrolled in a college and taking 16 credit hours--because those 16 credit hours are considered "online courses", they were ineligible.

After about a half hour of citing their own paperwork--which states that the only time online courses are ineligible to cover you for health insurance under my father's insurance umbrella is if it's something like University of Phoenix or those other "online" campuses. Being physically enrolled in a local community college and then going from taking all hours on the campus, to getting fed up with North Raleigh traffic and ending up 2 hours to, and 2 hours back from the campus--actually still covers you, as you're physically enrolled and eligible to use any and all student service facilities on the college campus.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Only because I've seen how our insurance companies run it.

Oh sorry sir, though your heart surgery was covered, your anesteic was not. That'll be $7000.

Actually the whole concept of the HMO can be credited to Ted Kennedy. Not to mention insurance companies run it based on the millions of regulations required by federal and state government. Its a mess because government has fiddled in it for decades.

Oh and the cost is so high mainly because insurance can't compete nationally and current tort law allows for an over abundance of frivolous law suits.

Kanluwen wrote:They tried that garbage on me a few weeks ago, actually.

I went in to get all four wisdom teeth removed, and they tried to protest the insurance claim on the grounds that:

Although I am 22, currently enrolled in a college and taking 16 credit hours--because those 16 credit hours are considered "online courses", they were ineligible.

After about a half hour of citing their own paperwork--which states that the only time online courses are ineligible to cover you for health insurance under my father's insurance umbrella is if it's something like University of Phoenix or those other "online" campuses. Being physically enrolled in a local community college and then going from taking all hours on the campus, to getting fed up with North Raleigh traffic and ending up 2 hours to, and 2 hours back from the campus--actually still covers you, as you're physically enrolled and eligible to use any and all student service facilities on the college campus.

I wonder why with all the movement against the insurance companies there isn't more demand to simply enforce the contracts the insurance companies signed into. I mean, that has to be able to get support from the right and the left, doesn't it?

ChaosDave wrote:
Actually the whole concept of the HMO can be credited to Ted Kennedy.

By "Ted Kennedy" do you mean "Paul Ellwood", or "Richard Nixon" (without even discussing the fact that HMOs have been around since the 20's)? Because Kennedy pushed for a single-payer system.

ChaosDave wrote:
Not to mention insurance companies run it based on the millions of regulations required by federal and state government. Its a mess because government has fiddled in it for decades.

I heard that the government sunk Atlantis too.

ChaosDave wrote:
Oh and the cost is so high mainly because insurance can't compete nationally and current tort law allows for an over abundance of frivolous law suits.

Interestingly enough, enabling national competition involves the federal government (OH NOES!) trumping state's rights.

dogma wrote:Interestingly enough, enabling national competition involves the federal government (OH NOES!) trumping state's rights.

Hey now! we can't have that! Someone will secede. (Lordy does that word look odd.) Then we'll have to burn Savannah again....