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Headline today NY Times: House G.O.P. Passes Bill to Avert a Shutdown, Daring the Senate to Accept It Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a * filibuster and to passage before a midnight deadline on Friday. * 60 vote

Even if existing benefits are untouched, it seems in shutting offices and laying off personnel that new accounts or customer service can be impacted.

Official White House response: FACT CHECK: President Trump Will Always Protect Social Security, Medicare The White House March 11, 202 https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/

OK I am lucky. But I first got medical insurance in Thailand 20 years ago when I didn't have any disqualifying pre-existing conditions. One thing the self-insured folks say they either have a reserve or have otherwise access to a lump sum cash. I don't. My finances are geared to the 65K retirement extension so paying an annual premium is OK but I would have a difficult time especially on any timely basis coming up with major lump-sum cash.

Well there are 2 reasons people on here go for self-insurance: 1. is that they have some medical condition which prevents them from getting health insurance, and 2. Those that want to let you know how much smarter they are than the actuaries at Lloyd's (where almost all health insurance policies eventually end up).

Thanks. Self - insurance as commonly used here is not insurance as there is no shared risk -- which was the bedrock of insurance as founded at the Lloyd's coffee house in the late 1600's.

So, you don't have any insurance. You have a 'reserve' for any emergency prior to your getting yourself back to US assuming the 25 hour or so flying time is possible.

And many of us have insurance. While self-insurance is always an option, there is then never an option to have a claim paid for more than you put in.

As a single indication of what I believe, Morgan Stanley recently stated that ... That's OK. Morgan Stanley handles my accounts.

That presumes you are well enough and 'fit to fly' even to the airport in Bangkok.

Applying this to Donald Trump— 'cause he said it: “We will begin a new era of soaring incomes,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in October. “Skyrocketing wealth. Millions and millions of new jobs and a booming middle class. We are going to boom like we’ve never boomed before.”

Yap. Yap. Yap.

So maybe it's just taking a day or 2 off:

My endgame is to reach my full potential and keep on pushing for more. More knowledge, more money, more women and more life experiences.

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I like topics like this from Bob or the other usual suspects because, if I can read them and not feel compelled to reply, I know my anti-psychotic medicine is working.

Asked about the difference between a recession and a depression, President Harry Truman said: It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/203941.Harry_Truman

So DEFINITELYT there is a higher probability of having a claim denied than having a claim paid. Thank you, Mr. Wise.

Thank you. So, if someone were to say that '"claim denied" is likely and common' could one then infer the suggestion that the probability of a claim being denied exceeds the probability of a claim being paid?

I am on record here many times dealing with the boo birds. Relax.

Yes Trump plays 3-dimensional chess, so he is 5 moves ahead of everyone else. Lao Tzu - Machiavelli all wrapped in one. And Art of the Deal was written by a ghost-writer. Trump just being Trump (TM) And Mr. Trump may not be able to pull this one as many times as Lucy:

And be sure to ask them who is their underwriter and what is their A.M. Best rating. (REDUX As has been 'helpfully' pointed out many times by others))

Once you have CKD, it and the accompanying kidney damage cannot be reversed. However, diagnosing and treating CKD early may help stop it from advancing. There are new treatments in the past few years that have been described as “game-changing” for their ability to slow the progression of CKD for years and possibly even decades, Dr. Luciano says. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/why-is-chronic-kidney-disease-ckd-on-the-rise However it seems -- based upon a reasonable search -- that the only claim to have reversed kidney damage occurred right on this very forum and topic, Whoda thunk

She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid. March 6, 2025 Updated 2:59 p.m. ET Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the junior member of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, having served just three full terms. But her vote may be decisive as the justices consider whether and how hard to push back against President Trump’s efforts to reshape American government. <SKIP> But Justice Barrett’s role in the recent cases has given rise to a powerful backlash from former supporters. “Barrett deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist,” Mark Levin, a conservative podcaster, said on social media. “The power has gone to her head.” NY Times via https://archive.ph/kfZvm#selection-1241.0-1249.35 NB I was beginning to think Ms. Barrett may end up being Trump's Justice Souter.