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In lieu of flowers...please pass Healthcare Reform

Teddy Kennedy do not rest in peace.  Work your magic from above.

Rosemary - Thanks for the invite.  And on Healthcare reform you're right.  If I am indigent, or an illegal alien, the hospital picks up the cost.  I went to the emergency room for four stiches to a cut finger. (I'm a former Boy Scout, and only went when the bleeding would not stop after many hours).  The bill was 1,100.00 for four stiches, no shots, or anything else.  My insurance (paid through me and my employer) paid 40.00 of the bill.  My girlfriend has individual insurance.  She had a gall bladder operation.  The insurance paid 1,600.00 of a 15,000.00. bill.  We knew of someone with no insurance, and they paid nothing for the same operation.

Pandora - I sold insurance when I first got out of college for a number of years.  I have never seen an industry where there were so many people touted as "experts" who knew absolutely nothing (or almost) about what they were selling.  Talk about an industry that needs a truth in advertising watchdog, and this would be the first one I'd mention.  When one of my bosses and I  (one of the few ethical people I knew in the industry) would compete against another company making wild promises, we would say, "That's really a great benefit.  If you can get them to agree to everything you've said in writing, on a letter signed by an officer of the company you've got a great deal."  Of course they never would.  I have started to believe that the big insurance companies are not unlike Vegas casinos.  Everything favors "the house".

Good one Rich...go give that boy a hug from the east coast