More Obamacare fuckups

[Gnome Rage]

/enjoying my health insurance just to spite you all!

(actually, I'm trying to figure out what financial paperwork I -still- have to send in to confirm my enrollment. I was 'temporarily' enrolled without all the necessary paperwork to avoid the fines, because the MA facilities were overwhelmed with late applications and didn't have the manpower to actually deal with it on time, they just gave me health insurance and sent me something that says, you need to do this by feb something or we'll take back our insurance)

if they take it back... do I still have to pay the fine?... lol

[Gelston]

/enjoying my health insurance just to spite you all!

(actually, I'm trying to figure out what financial paperwork I -still- have to send in to confirm my enrollment. I was 'temporarily' enrolled without all the necessary paperwork to avoid the fines, because the MA facilities were overwhelmed with late applications and didn't have the manpower to actually deal with it on time, they just gave me health insurance and sent me something that says, you need to do this by feb something or we'll take back our insurance)

if they take it back... do I still have to pay the fine?... lol

You apparently can't afford shoes, so I guess you need it.

[Gnome Rage]

You apparently can't afford shoes, so I guess you need it.

They were fucking BRAND new shoes, and I tried to take them off by putting the toe into the heel and popping it off my foot. I BROKE THEM. they were brandfuckingneewwww

[Gelston]

They were fucking BRAND new shoes, and I tried to take them off by putting the toe into the heel and popping it off my foot. I BROKE THEM. they were brandfuckingneewwww

Buy better quality ones then!

[Gnome Rage]

Buy better quality ones then!

They were throw aways! They were supposed to last one whole season, then get tossed. They're to protect my REALLY expensive boots from the salt w/o being my nylon winter boots.

[Gelston]

They were throw aways! They were supposed to last one whole season, then get tossed. They're to protect my REALLY expensive boots from the salt w/o being my nylon winter boots.

You could just buy some mid range shoes that will last years and aren't expensive.

[Gnome Rage]

Then I don't get new shoes every season. Boring

[Gelston]

Then I don't get new shoes every season. Boring

And this is what is wrong with America.

[Parkbandit]

And this is what is wrong with America.

New shoes every season is a basic human right!

Are you some sort of animal??

[Kembal]

What you're saying is true, what you're not realizing you're saying is that the only way these things will work with each other, from an economic standpoint, is death panels. Go ahead and joke about it, but it's 3) in your original post. WTF do you think it means by "most cost-effective"? It means guess what, buddy...you've paid in to this Federally-mandated Insurance program only to find out that now that you have terminal cancer you're a drain on the program and we're not going to fund your potentially life-saving treatment because you're probably going to die anyway and we're not going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a 15% chance. Crb is dead-on with his post...what this created is the insurance form of crony capitalism.

Yeah, no. Without debating your specific hypothetical (which has a hole so large in it I could drive a truck through), cost-effectiveness doesn't mean that. It does mean that if a pharmaceutical company develops a new treatment that is no more effective than current treatments but costs five times more, it probably shouldn't be covered.

This probably wouldn't be an issue if pharmaceutical companies weren't allowed to do consumer marketing like previously, but since they are, it's now important to do so.