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Originally Posted by PolarExpress
Amen to that..My mom has said many times that with all the money they waste on mailing useless paperwork, she could have what little raise they get in Social Security without the increase in what they take out for insurance..She usually ends up making less since the hike in insurance premiums is higher than the piddling amount they raise SS..
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hey PE,
I think the bottom line is that they are covering their butts more than they are worried about ours...
but I must say that we, the people (well, some people. LOL) are partly to blame for some of this and it goes back to our system.
Somewhere along the line, somebody must have complained about not receiving notice and then it probably started a chain of complaints and lobbying and then, boom. We start getting junk mail from our gov't.
Somewhere along the line, somebody probably complained about something very minor and then it became the new clause and then that gets added and then more paperwork...
but the problem is that now all these stupid clauses and and laws get buried in all the political jargon and I really doubt ANY ONE law maker or lawyer can understand it all...and we have old rules and new rules all jumbled together.
and something as trivial as leaving something blank would actually start a chain of tags.
we learned very quickly that we have to write "N/A" on anything that we are supposed to leave "blank" and I can remember having something sent back to us because it was left blank...and that cost more time, money, and energy (our body)...
it just becomes ridiculous...and the problem is, EVERYBODY knows it and agrees! EVERYBODY agrees it is annoying and ridiculous...and that's where it stops....that we all say, yes, this sucks and it's ridiculous but what can we do...
I am asking this: HOW are we going to change all that?? We NEED to change it...somebody HAS to...period...no excuses!!
we can do better...much better...but it'll take people to stop complaining about every little thing as well...
just my humbled opinion...
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Originally Posted by ewizabeth
DH and I pay nearly $900 a month for our insurance, not including our deductibles and expenses. Something has to be done. There are many that can't afford to pay what we pay so they go without. I hope that the new president will make it a priority to make insurance affordable. By the way, a tax credit will not do it for me or most others.
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I don't really like neither plans that's been proposed by either candidates myself...
but I am with you, wiz...the new President needs to address the affordable insurance issue and really, be flexible...
implement a plan and if it doesn't work, TRY something else...instead of implementing a plan and when it doesn't work, blame the OTHER party...
when something doesn't work, stop blaming the OTHER side and just make changes....how HARD is that??
well, apparently pretty hard....
if we can bail out people from AIG and let them spend half a million dollars partying at a hotel for ONE day...
we CAN make the insurance affordable for EVERYONE...
OK, I think I really need to hush before I get into trouble...LOL
I do miss those very clever AIG commercials, though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VvGW98D3XA
