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Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Are you using a VPN. I find that when my VPN is active, I have to do capta, but not if the VPN is not active. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Yes, I did. Twice, just this week! https://aseannow.com/terms/ -
Obamacare sign-ups soar to record 16.3 million for 2023
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
That is interesting. Those are much lower figures than the obamacare website provided when it went on line, which is when I checked, a few months later. I also called the call center for the obamacare system and spoke to a woman. That was how I found out that I had to get permission to visit a health care provider, or I would have to pay the entire bill if I did not have permission. She also told me that the bronze plan was only good in the county I resided in, Bucks, and was only good in 5 states if I were traveling through (or in) those states. Perhaps things have changed. I will still keep my health care plan as it covers me anywhere I go in the world (first world countries) if I need medical care. I can and have used it in Thailand. Sometimes the caveat is, if it isn't emergency medical care, then I send the bill in to the insurance company and they reimburse me. I just checked that website. My income is much greater than what you entered and there are only 2 in the family. The payments are much lower than it was after obamcare was instituted. I pay a little more than that per month for the health care plan I kept when I retired . Still, the obamacare plan's out of pocket expenses $18,200.00 are much greater that what I have now, by about $6,000.00. But it would only matter if I were to be hospitalized. My wife is still under SS age right now and the copay is only $30.00 a month. The other thing is, she does not need a referral from our doctor to see any medical professional. When the office rep asks if she has a referral from her doctor (which they asked me too) she says no and tells them what health insurance we have, they say ok, you don't need a referral. I also have very good pharmacy coverage. e.g. I picked up a large number of pills one time for my wife. I asked how much and the pharmacist said, fifty cents. I immediately and erroneously exclaimed, what? Per pill? She laughed and said no. Fifty cents for the prescription! I get a 90 day prescription of pills that I have to take 1 daily. Without my pharmacy coverage that would be $270.00, with my coverage it is $32.00. I don't understand why you had higher monthly figures unless they costs are higher in Philadelphia county. The website said the silver plan for the two of us would be $618.00 a month or $7420.00 a year. I pay about $1000.00 more a year. But again, my out of pocket expenses are over $6,000.00 less. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
So you meant that you do internets searches. I guess I did misunderstand your comment. You don't have to verify anything that I post. You have every right to disregard any and everything that I post. You have every right to not believe anything that I post. I will not be offended if you don't believe any thing that I post. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
You don't do internet searches? Am I miss reading that or not understanding your comment? -
Obamacare sign-ups soar to record 16.3 million for 2023
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
Yes. Besides as I wrote, the bronze obamacare plan only covered me in one county in Pennsylvania and only 5 states, but only when I would be traveling. I also checked out their, I think it was the gold plan, it was, if I recall correctly, $2500.00 a month! But the yearly deductible was only still pretty high. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I think you should re read my post. I wrote what I do and suggested you might do the same. I made no demands that you do as I do. I am not going to try and repeat what I found in the past and then post links showing the results of each and every search engine I use. I see posted comments frequently that causes me to use internet search engines to research what others have posted. I don't expect them to furnish a one link. I open several links from different search engines to read them. I sometimes get caught up in the research and will spend as much as an hour or more reading what I find on the web pages. Some of those web pages leads me to do additional searches. I might end up with over 20 tabs open from just one search engine or from multiple searches with one or more search engines. It can be very interesting. I thought it might be interesting for you too! -
Obamacare sign-ups soar to record 16.3 million for 2023
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
If I, as a non low income individual, had to pay the government for their low quality health insurance, then I would also be low income after making the payments. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Am I posting lies and conspiracy theories? -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I guessed as much based on my research. -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
No. It has been a while. But you might be able to find out by trying all of the search engines yourself. I do that frequently, just because I have a lot of curiosity about all kinds of things. I don't just depend on other people to find the links for me. There was something in the news I was looking for before I found out about the discrepancies between google and other search engines. I was looking for something that I knew had happened, could not find it with google. Tried a different search engine and it responded with several links. Tried other search engines as well. One had the same results as google did, so I guessed that it was using google as it's search engine, even if it had a different name. -
Obamacare sign-ups soar to record 16.3 million for 2023
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
So, people who have a lower income than I can get it with monthly payments of less than $100.00? -
Canadian woman pleads guilty to sending Donald Trump ricin poison
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
Boy howdy, does she look normal or what? -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I couldn't edit my post for some reason, even though I tried less than 15 seconds after posting. Wanted to add, that I like google's mapping function and frequently use google earth . -
Google reports major changes in Thai searches
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Yes, on occasion, but I also use, duckduckgo, startpage, bing, bravesearch, and some others too. google search is known to not provide results for certain search requests, due to political bias! -
Which countries are sending tanks to Ukraine and what comes next?
radiochaser replied to Social Media's topic in World News
That's only 550 miles from Kyiv, as the attack bomber flies! -
Which countries are sending tanks to Ukraine and what comes next?
radiochaser replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Current wars or conflicts in the world today! It isn't just Ukraine! https://revisesociology.com/2021/03/03/ongoing-wars-and-conflicts-in-the-world-today/ -
Obamacare sign-ups soar to record 16.3 million for 2023
radiochaser replied to Scott's topic in World News
I checked obamacare out when it first went on line. My yearly income was $100 or $150.00 too much for the subsidized health care, which would have cost about $100.00 a month if I made $200.00 a year less. The cheapest bronze plan would have cost me $1200.00 a month with a $24,000.00 deductible for myself and my wife! It was valid in only 5 states (U.S. of A) and only in the county I lived in, in Pennsylvania. I would have had to ask permission to see, any, health care provider if I did not need emergency, life saving, medical treatment! If I did not ask permission first, before I went to a medical professional, then I would have to pay 100% of the bill! The subsidized plan would have given me better coverage, but not much better! Good thing I kept my health insurance plan that I had before I retired. It was about $475.00 a month in 2010 and is almost $800.00 a month now. It covers me anywhere I go in the U.S. of A. and anywhere in the world. Deductible has gone up a lot though. Yearly fee increases were minimal before obamacare, monthly costs increasing from $295.00 to $475.00 in 23 years, or only about $180.00 a month. The increase in monthly costs since obamacare went into effect are a little over $300.00 a month! I wonder if I am one of the people subsidizing the $100.00 a month obamacare plan! The obamacare website was sending me 3 - 4 emails a week this year, urging me to sign up for their service. Back in 2019, I was in the hospital for surgery. There was a pre-prep waiting room where patients were on a gurney waiting to go into the pre-surgery room for administration of anesthesia. I heard two guys take a man in the next stall in to pre-surgery. One guy asked the man, where is your pillow? The man said, they didn't give me one. The guy said, oh, you must be on the obamacare health plan! Man said yes. Me, I had three pillows on my gurney! -
Delivery guy had a sideline - breaking into cars
radiochaser replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
No they don't deserve to have their property stolen. Stupid for leaving the property out to tempt a thief, yes! -
A Hispanic friend of mine back in San Antonio, once told me, we don't speak Spanish, we speak Texican!