radiochaser

36 minutes ago, placeholder said:

 

I just went to the Kaiser's Obamacare calculator. I gave Pennsylvania as a place of residence in a wealthy district of Philadelphia since the costs would be higher there. I typed in an income of $150,000 per year. I wrote that there were 4 adults being covered by the plan. 2 were age 64 and 2 were age 25.  I used the age of 64 since that would be the highest age before Medicare kicks in.

For a silver plan the cost to such a family would be $1063 per month. The subsidy would be $1413

Here's the link

https://www.kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/

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. 

17 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Apparently you are missing misunderstanding me. I should not need to do an internet search to verify your claims of fact.

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.   

3 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

You should imagine that I don't also search. That doesn't take away from my point that it is mandatory to post a link to any claims of fact.

You don't do internet searches?   Am I miss reading that or not understanding your comment?

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’m sure that makes sense, somehow.

 

 

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.   

5 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

I never suggested you were. You suggested that you should be able to post anything you like and required readers to prove or disprove your claim. That isn't how the rules here work.

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!

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So people on low incomes can afford health insurance.

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.


 

17 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

The rules here are designed to ensure that people back up their arguments with links and don't force other readers to hit google every post. This prevents people from posting lies and conspiracy theories.

Am I posting lies and conspiracy theories?

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The NRA should open a Thailand chapter. 

You should know the NRA couldn't do that.  It would not be the Thai thing to do, some people would say. 

20 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

More than just political bias. 

Google is a premium member of the deep establishment and dominant paradigm. 

 

I guessed as much based on my research.   

On 1/29/2023 at 2:40 AM, ozimoron said:

Do you have a link to anybody "knowing" that?

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. 

On 1/26/2023 at 10:34 PM, placeholder said:

Whatever you may have experienced before, the subsidies for ObamaCare have since been greatly increased.

So, people who have a lower income than I can get it with monthly payments of less than $100.00?  

 

Boy howdy, does she look normal or what? 

Just now, radiochaser said:

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!

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 .

On 1/27/2023 at 2:53 PM, spidermike007 said:

Thailand's poster child for the NRA. You live by the gun, you may die by the gun. Sounds like this fool was obsessed with his guns. Congrats to the father in law for dispensing what appears to be reasonable justice considering the circumstances. 

He wasn't an NRA member.  So no poster child status for him!

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Failing that he may also be located bunkered down in his Palace.

 

The residence is located at44.419°N 38.205°E on Cape Idokopas, near the village of Praskoveyevka. Cape Idokopas (Russian: Мыс Идокопас) is a promontory on the Black Sea coast of Russia near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin's_Palace#:~:text=The residence is located at,Russia near Gelendzhik%2C Krasnodar Krai.

That's only 550 miles from Kyiv, as the attack bomber flies!

On 1/25/2023 at 9:06 PM, Pattaya Spotter said:

What comes next...more war, destruction, missing limbs, orphans, and death. Stop the madness!

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/

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!

7 hours ago, ozimoron said:

To be fair to Baldwin, he likely doesn't have a gun licence nor has he had gun training. That's why they employed an amourer on the set.

Do a search on baldwin and gun safety training.   

There was and is no gun license requirement. 

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Anyone who lives valuables visible to anyone should deserves what coming to them, commonsense says don't tempt thieves, not only in Thailand, any country in the world..

car thieves are so sophisticated now that with a help of state of the art equipment, can brake into any car in the world and steal in 30 second or less...

No they don't deserve to have their property stolen.   Stupid for leaving the property out to tempt a thief, yes!

On 1/20/2023 at 5:40 PM, MyFriend You said:

No, Texacan

A Hispanic friend of mine back in San Antonio, once told me, we don't speak Spanish, we speak Texican!

On 1/20/2023 at 12:38 AM, Hummin said:

Obviously you and me are trained handled weapons, but if I was on a movie set given ha movie prop, Im sure I would have for one second believed it was loaded! 

Unfortunately it was a real revolver, not a prop!

On 1/21/2023 at 12:50 AM, Bkk Brian said:

"Many news reports about the case have mentioned the 1993 death of Brandon Lee, who was shot by a fellow actor holding a prop gun during the filming of The Crow in North Carolina in 1993, the shooting, which occurred during the character’s death scene, was ruled accidental."

 

Alec Baldwin Manslaughter Charge Is a Stretch

I have no particular reason to defend Alec Baldwin, but there’s something unsettling about the manslaughter charges announced this week in the wake of last year’s tragic shooting on the set of the movie Rust. The controversial actor was holding a prop gun that he thought was filled with blanks; a live round fired and killed a cinematographer. A horrific accident, yes. But a crime? Here, matters are murkier.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/alec-baldwin-manslaughter-charge-is-a-stretch/2023/01/20/983f0a22-98e2-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html

 

https://archive.ph/BwYgg (no paywall)

Wasn't he charged with "unintentional manslaughter"?   That is like driving drunk with passengers in your vehicle, crashing, and one or more of your passengers dies.   You can be charged with unintentional manslaughter!  

On 1/19/2023 at 9:25 PM, jimn said:

He was making a movie for heavens sake. They employ people to take care of the safety of the equipment. He had every right to expect the gun to be safe. This is just an over zealous prosecutor, the case should be thrown out, utter nonsense.

The person most responsible for firearm safety, is the person that has it in his (or her) hand!  As I understand it, baldwin was the movie or show producer and if I understand that role, then he has ultimate responsibility for what happens on the set. 

baldwin may have the right to expect that the firearm was not loaded, but he had the ultimate responsibility, as the person who was operating the firearm, to make sure that it was not loaded with live rounds.   Easy to do, open the cylinder and look! 

As I have written before, the most common words out of a person's mouth, after a negligent discharge is, I didn't know it was loaded! What do you think that baldwin is claiming now about the firearm being loaded with a live round.   

Besides, he pointed it at a person, which is not done when filming, it just looks like the actors do that, then cocked the hammer on the revolver, then pulled the trigger.  That, is what the FBI investigation has determined.   The revolver did not just go off by itself, he pulled the trigger!  So baldwin has the ultimate responsibility for wounding one person and killing another!