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Old 09-15-2018, 11:23 PM
 
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I’ve never gotten a letter like that. Has anyone else. Besides Mike.
OK, apparently, it has not applied to you. The letter is sent by a company that contracts with a number of insurers, not all and for certain types of treatments. At least 30% of the people I care for recieve them and most of them have plans from the largest insurer in my state, which is not nationwide. The point is that there are many tactics used to deny, discourage or just make it time consuming and difficult for medical professionals to get paid.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:23 PM
 
Location: Houston
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The democrats give lip service to unions because they are huge donors but that support has limits. American corporations hate unions, when it comes to payroll, average emplyees are costs to be slashed to allow more money to flow to stockholders and enrich the C suite and top executives. A few wealthy individuals and corporations control representatives from both parties. Studies have shown US policy meets the needs of corporations, not average people. This is true no matter which party is in power.
Put 10% in your 401K. If ya cannot beat them join them.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:27 PM
 
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My wife’s bills were over Four hundred thousand dollars including rehabilitation my dad was denied when he had his stroke. I’m out about 15K. I was insured within ninety days of starting my job. Paid forty two years into Mediocre care. Need to live five more to. Use it and still crap insurance.
You are comparing apples to oranges. You are comparing insuring the elderly with insuring younger people. You are complaining that Medicare doesnt cover enough in old age, but thats because corporate donors want it that way. Stop supporting corruption and that will end. Continue to support corruption and Medicare will cover far less than now. That $400 000 bill you are talking about is very likely corruption as well.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:30 PM
 
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Put 10% in your 401K. If ya cannot beat them join them.
The top 1% own 40% of the entire stock market. And that share is increasing, not shrinking. Inequality is now WORSE than it was at the worst moment in American history, in the 1920s before the Wall Street crash. They have tremendous amount of cash to spend on the puppets of their choice. And they are also packing the courts with their favorite henchmen.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:36 PM
 
Location: Houston
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The top 1% own 40% of the entire stock market. And that share is increasing, not shrinking. Inequality is now WORSE than it was at the worst moment in American history, in the 1920s before the Wall Street crash. They have tremendous amount of cash to spend on the puppets of their choice. And they are also packing the courts with their favorite henchmen.
That’s because people are stupid. The large majority of my co workers don’t even put 6% in despite the fact the evil corporation matches three quarters of that first six percent.

Life’s unfair. It’s even more unfair if ya stupid.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:53 PM
 
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That’s because people are stupid. The large majority of my co workers don’t even put 6% in despite the fact the evil corporation matches three quarters of that first six percent.

Life’s unfair. It’s even more unfair if ya stupid.
A few decades ago, before the war on labor unions, inequality in America was comparable to other developed countries. To just blame things on stupidity is pretty silly. Voting for corruption doesnt help either.
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Houston
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A few decades ago, before the war on labor unions, inequality in America was comparable to other developed countries. To just blame things on stupidity is pretty silly. Voting for corruption doesnt help either.
What do you call giving up four and a half percent?
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Old 09-16-2018, 12:10 AM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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That’s because people are stupid. The large majority of my co workers don’t even put 6% in despite the fact the evil corporation matches three quarters of that first six percent.

Life’s unfair. It’s even more unfair if ya stupid.
Investing back into the company just gives them more capital to abuse and limit your labor with.

This is very totalitarian.
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Old 09-16-2018, 12:21 AM
 
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What do you call giving up four and a half percent?
Its far more defensible than voting for corruption.
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Old 09-16-2018, 12:50 AM
 
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Put 10% in your 401K. If ya cannot beat them join them.
A company does not have to starve it's workers to make a profit. I'm not perfect but I make every effort to behave in an ethical manner, including how I invest my money. I'm a self employed professional and my livliehood depends on people being able to pay for my services. Workers spend most of their money in the economy and they are a huge percentage of the people.

Increasingly sending more of the wealth to the few at the top who end up hoarding most of their money while keeping wages low for the average worker is a destructive strategy that does not benefit this country. If average Americans do well, professionals and small businesses can do well. Continuing to lower costs by cutting employees and their wages may create gains in the short run but that will stall when large numbers of people don't have enough to spend in the economy.

Large multinational companies do not depend on American consumers. They have a world full of customers and those are the companies that are thriving the most today. They have billions to spend lobbying our representatives and supporting their campaigns. They donate to both parties and they are the ones who will shape US policy in the manner that is most beneficial to them. Those who buy into corporate propganda and fall into the divisive partisan trap are a sad lot. Stupid is wasting time fighting for one party and against another when neither one of them give a crap about you beyond your vote. A vote doesn't buy anything but a bunch of empty promises. A fortune in contributions and the promise of a 7 figure job if you lose or retire buys you whatever you want.
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