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Re: OT: Hee! Hee!

From	Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: OT: Hee! Hee!
Date	2017-12-30 07:43 -0800
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On 2017-12-29 16:51, bitrex wrote:
> On 12/29/2017 07:03 PM, Joerg wrote:
>> On 2017-12-29 15:35, bitrex wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2017 05:09 PM, Joerg wrote:
>>>> On 2017-12-29 12:09, bitrex wrote:
>>>>> On 12/29/2017 12:43 PM, Joerg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>                            ... A healthy individual (lots of young
>>>>>>> people, for example) wouldn't have much trouble choosing between
>>>>>>> $5k in
>>>>>>> almost useless Obamajunk "insurance" with a giant deductible, and
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> much-cheaper freedom tax.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sure, just as I knew people who preferred to buy a fully decked-out
>>>>>> Camaro from the "savings" of not having health insurance, pre-Obama.
>>>>>> Sorry, but that's their problem. When they get sick, not my problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Incidentally a not-fully-decked-out-but-perfectly-nice new Camaro
>>>>> isn't
>>>>> absurdly expensive. A V6 manual coupe with a couple do-dads is IIRC
>>>>> under 30. They'll certainly let you spend 70 if you want to though.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And they did. Others bought Mustangs and there it's the same.
>>>> Roush-this, Roush-that, and pretty soon it cost more than the stock
>>>> broker's big Benz.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There's a natural life cycle to vehicles like that, after a couple years
>>> and a couple payment defaults/repossessions/sales they end up in the
>>> loving hands of someone who deserves them. There is an order to things.
>>
>>
>> There sure is. What I don't understand is how someone can skip health
>> insurance for that. There is all that lamentation about how
>> "unaffordable" it is in the US and, under Obamacare it largely has
>> become unaffordable for the middle class over 400% FPL, but so far all
>> people I met who didn't have health care did so per choice. One lost
>> almost the whole colon because of it :-(
>>
>> They all think "Oh, nothing really bad is going to happen to me". And
>> then it does.
>>
>
> Well, you know what my answer is going to be: in a Western country in
> the 21st century nobody should even be spending time on these questions
> as there should be a basic level of medical care available to all
> citizens at no charge. Joe Citizen's anxiety over health care coverage
> questions times a hundred million plus the overhead of dealing with it
> all likely results in many billions of dollars of lost productivity a
> year, far more than the rather meager billion or two the health
> insurance industry skims yearly off the top.
>

Yet it's ok for Joe Citizen to die on a waiting list?


> The private insurance industry doesn't provide a single penny of direct
> healthcare services to anyone.
>
> If I sent the various healthcare insurance companies billable hours for
> all the times I've had to discuss plans and options and cost with
> friends, girlfriend, and family members in the past year, when if I
> lived just about anywhere else I wouldn't have o, it would easily meet
> or exceed what I've had to pay them for myself. Expect my bill
> forthwith, I accept cash or check and I'd be happy to call it even.


Not sure what you are doing there but my process was always very simple. 
I spent a few hours on researching health plans and picked one for our 
family. It isn't rocket science. Then we stuck with that for, oh, 20 
years or so.

BTW, that was the same in a semi-socialized medicine country (Germany). 
My health is IMO worth that much invested time.

Just one example of many: Why should I be thrown into the same risk pool 
with smokers and pay for their bad habit when I don't smoke? With 
Obamacare it doesn't make a difference because the legislators pushed 
that law were too stupid for that.

Obamacare is a whole different matter. I explained it to people 
countless times before they made some colossal mistake. For example, 
hardly anyone knows about the cliff and most of all about the workarounds.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 17:45 -0500
    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 20:17 -0500
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 21:41 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 21:45 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 22:02 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 22:11 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 22:24 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 22:39 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 11:47 -0600
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 21:54 -0500
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 19:53 -0800
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 23:39 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 23:43 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 00:00 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 21:52 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 01:20 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 11:57 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 13:11 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 14:22 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-29 12:26 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:10 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:15 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:10 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:33 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 13:42 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:48 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:16 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 19:43 +0000
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:51 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 21:53 +0000
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 17:29 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:39 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 19:39 +0000
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:59 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 21:54 +0000
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:32 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:41 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 21:51 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-28 22:18 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 02:18 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:46 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 11:05 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:16 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-29 13:01 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:13 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 15:25 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:32 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 16:44 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:45 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:44 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:56 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 20:08 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 22:28 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:34 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:29 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:54 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 14:56 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 13:53 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 17:28 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 15:09 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:27 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:04 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-30 18:07 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 19:14 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:38 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:40 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 10:55 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 18:37 -0800
  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 20:17 -0500
    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-28 18:03 -0800
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 21:28 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:30 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:18 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 10:46 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:50 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:02 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:45 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:06 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 14:53 -0600
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:02 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:20 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:58 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-30 08:41 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:27 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:13 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:26 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:15 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:28 -0500
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 09:36 -0800
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 09:43 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 10:53 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:16 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 11:58 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:05 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:04 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:44 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 12:49 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:05 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 07:12 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:13 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 23:43 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:45 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:08 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:07 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 20:07 +0000
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:52 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:10 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:09 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:09 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:35 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 16:03 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 19:51 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:43 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:20 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:25 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:37 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:32 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:42 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:29 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:24 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:32 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:13 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 16:52 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 11:00 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:19 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:35 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:46 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 08:32 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 06:05 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:20 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:32 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 06:44 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 06:47 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 09:56 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 17:31 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:39 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:00 -0600
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 16:39 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:11 -0800

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