On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:49:13 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote:
"Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:15:46 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote:
"Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:10:52 -0400, Cliff wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:33:46 -0700, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:30:35 -0700, BottleBob
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:17:31 -0800, sittingduck
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Chip Auger wrote:
1: jon_banquer : 34 2: Gunner Asch
: 34 3: Cliff
: 31
Are the three stooges sick? What gives?
Asch is in the hospital.............
Tom:
Gunner's in the hospital?
Yes, since last Wednesday.
He just got OUT of the hospital, where there some complications?
That is my guess.
Is it serious?
I don't know but it's an unexpected hospital stay six weeks after
open heart surgery, I would guess it's serious.
Tom
Dang welfare state !!!!
I'd wager he ignored the doctor's instructions,
may have pulled his sternum open with some gun crazy stuff .... not
taken his $$ meds .. ?
Worst case might be endocarditis .....
Highest probability is a stroke/clot. Given his years of bile for
the poor and health care, I wonder what the tab is for Gunner, the
Welfare Queen, now?
Something just doesn't fit. Gunner claimed he was making $75/hour
yet had no health insurance. At his age of 54, 55, 56 health
insurance would cost less than a day's work. Even if he was 70 as
one post indicated Blue Cross with a $5k deductable would still be
less than two days a month.
Was gunner lying about his income or irresponsible about his health
needs? In either case he is now the lowest form of life in his own
words. Gunner should have watched "My Name Is Earl."
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Regards, Curly
$75/hour is a reasonable rate for an experienced machine tool
mechanic. But he's self-employed, which means that you don't get many
billable hours when things are slow. I worked on that basis for a
couple of decades as a freelance writer; some weeks I worked 60 hours
or more, others, none at all. My impression is that Gunner works long
hours when the work is there. He may need a better marketing approach
to even it out. g
Considering where the business is now it's likely that he can't rely
on a specific monthly income so it's hard to commit to something like
individual health insurance. It cost me around $12,500/year a few
years back, when I was paying the whole thing myself. It's around
$15,000 now for the same coverage, with typical coverage you'd get if
you worked for a good company. That's why we need a better plan in
this country. If you're self-employed and you don't have close to a
year's worth of savings to start with, health insurance is
problematic.
Those prices are not indicative of normal health, didn't you say that
you had a pre-existing condition? Gunner didn't.
Those were prices under COBRA. Everyone pays the same rate, exactly like
job-based insurance.
Again, that was for a typical policy, two individual family members
included. If you're buying on your own, without COBRA, you won't go for
the bells and whistles.
In CA, rates are lower than in NJ. But a policy for someone over 55 or
so ain't gonna be cheap. Gunner probably had enough preconditions to
either jack up the prices or to exclude covered conditions, in any case.
The premise here was gunner, alone. I stand by my original data that if
he makes the income claimed that he could have purchased health insurance
for less than a day per month of income.
He didn't and became the Welfare Queen that he's spent years hoisting as
the enemy of America.
But I don't want to segue into health care costs, the bottom line in
this thread is that Gunner abused the poor who had to rely on public
health and even the institution itself.
Now Gunner is the Welfare Queen he so hates.
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Regards, Curly
It's not the first time he's had second thoughts about how health care
works. We'll see what he thinks when he gets back.
We'll see what happens when his personal property is confiscated for the
bills he ran up. Remember, he spoke here about transferring it to
someone else to avoid paying his bills.
He became the parasitic leach that he once blamed on the poor.
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Regards, Curly
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