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CosmicCowboy
10-17-2008, 10:11 AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
JoeChalupa
10-17-2008, 10:19 AM
Political.....oh, never mind.

Thanks for the link.
BacktoBasics
10-17-2008, 10:30 AM
Scare tactics are the new Ipod.
marini martini
10-17-2008, 10:36 AM
:greedy:greedy:greedy

Wall street journal? WTF? I don't even line my bird cage with that!:lol

You're starting to worry me Cowboy Bob! Can you still afford your horses?:rolleyes If not, you need to turn them loose!!!
BacktoBasics
10-17-2008, 10:37 AM
You know I don't mind paying higher taxes for healthcare. Let me explain myself.

3 years and running my left testicle is getting larger and larger...scary large. After incuring a little over 2,500.00 in doctor bills I had to put a stop to it because it was about to spiral out of control. Having straightened my life out I couldn't bear the thought of destroying my credit again. I'd worked to hard for what I have. This would have domino'd into an easy 20k if not more. A hole so large it would have taken a decade to recover from.

Secondly I've had 3 heart surgeries and require annual testing and checkups. I can no longer afford the 2k a year it costs to get checked. Its just too far out of reach and I'm a modest spender.

I guess I chose to not live in poverty in hopes of surviving without healthcare. Tons of people are in the same position as I am. Not all tax increases are bad.
Richard Cranium
10-17-2008, 10:44 AM
Now I know why you are so ballsy in your posts. Good luck. :tu
BacktoBasics
10-17-2008, 10:47 AM
At one point I had healthcare. I had a hernia and when it was all totaled up the final billings tallied over 23k for the operation. 23k is a lot of money for a minor procedure. I was told my co-pay would be about 1k which was totally inaccurate and I got slammed with approx. 5,600 in bills. Took me 2 years to clean it up.
JoeChalupa
10-17-2008, 11:03 AM
That sucks. Props for hanging in there.
CosmicCowboy
10-17-2008, 11:40 AM
Damn B2B...if you were a car they would have already hauled your broke down ass to Pick-n-Pull and parted you out...
BacktoBasics
10-17-2008, 11:45 AM
Well the heart surgeries were when I was born. So as of now and as far as I know I'm healthy but due to the severity on the surgeries I'm supposed to monitor it regularly.

As far as the testicle goes I guess if it was actually cancer it would have killed me by now.