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October 2, 2013 at 4:03 PM in reply to: My experience getting a dedicated EV TOU 2 electric meter with SDGE #766080
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ParticipantSo far, so good, only 1 in 10,000 bursting into flames after striking road debris…
Tesla shares fall after mysterious car fire and analyst downgrade
All snark aside, still great looking technology even if the Media is more infatuated with it than Apple and Jobs.
ParticipantSo Obama extends the employer mandate by a year unilaterally and that’s fine.
The Republicans ask for it on the individual mandate and that’s extortion.
Hypocrits.
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=no_such_reality]No SK, the house already sent over appropriations to reopen critical parts of the government which the Senate rejected.
The Senate is playing our way or the highway and the Media is singing the tune saying the Republicans are to blame.[/quote]
Imagine this scenario. We have president Romney, a Republican controlled Senate and a Democratic controlled house. And the house refuses any continuing resolution that doesn’t include raising the top tax bracket from 39% to 45%. They’ve refused any conference on the issue with the Senate for nine months. The government shuts down, and they send appropriations bills over to the Senate that only include continuing funding for Obamacare, Head Start and the NIH.
Which party would be playing “my way or the highway”?[/quote]
Nice extortion, just like the media.
[quote]The second measure would have kept the government open in exchange for delaying the health care law’s individual mandate and eliminating federal health care contributions for lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides.
I mean, really, let’s not fund anything over whether or not individuals ‘have to’ buy insurance. Not, prevent the exchanges, not gut obamacare, just whether or not there is a financial penalty.
ParticipantNo SK, the house already sent over appropriations to reopen critical parts of the government which the Senate rejected.
The Senate is playing our way or the highway and the Media is singing the tune saying the Republicans are to blame.
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=no_such_reality][quote=6packscaredy]What’s the worst case if they cannot compromise?[/quote]
Well, either Wall Street and the world investment community reacts the way they did to the shutdown and ignore it or the don’t.
Either we mint a trillion dollar coin or we default on our debt (or do we?) I don’t think we do, all they have to do is appropriate a modest sum to paying the interest.
So 50% investment collapse, or nothing.
Who knows. I tend to lean towards more chaos rather than less.[/quote]
We don’t need a trillion dollar coin to solve this problem. We need a continuing resolution to appropriate funds so the government can spend money. [/quote]
The Senate already rejected that.
I want the coin. It should be small, like a dime, made of 100% tin and not shiny. Obama should hold it up and say watch this, turn to Lew and hand it to him and say, make a deposit and pay our bills.
Just for sh*ts and giggles.
In all seriousness, the Media is being complete whores on this topic and could do the world a favor and really report the complete obstinance and idiocy occurring from both parties on it.
The Republicans will lose on this one and be perceived as even more disruptive and petty. Sadly, that will actual play well in somewhere between 33%-51% of the house districts.
ParticipantThat’s just a honey truck run. Make any repair in the tank? 🙂
Participant[quote=6packscaredy]What’s the worst case if they cannot compromise?[/quote]
Well, either Wall Street and the world investment community reacts the way they did to the shutdown and ignore it or the don’t.
Either we mint a trillion dollar coin or we default on our debt (or do we?) I don’t think we do, all they have to do is appropriate a modest sum to paying the interest.
So 50% investment collapse, or nothing.
Who knows. I tend to lean towards more chaos rather than less.
ParticipantShoveler has it right. The Republicans miscalculated how it would be played out in the media and Cruz didn’t help them
From my understanding they’ve agreed to everything but whether the ACA individual mandate should be delayed a year
That’s it just whether individuals can be fined for not having insurance this year
Now what’s the spin your news source is carrying?
Participant[quote=CA renter]
EconProf,
Those who thought that a 40% decrease in revenues wouldn’t affect services…38% of the population(!), not 28%. And the decrease in property tax revenues was actually much greater than that. Sorry, but that is insanely idiotic.
And I fully understand [/quote]
The only problem with this claim is the fact that property tax revenues have increase faster than population growth and inflation combined.
Participant[quote=6packscaredy]very interesting, looking down in that septic tank. there was a filter down there that needs to be cleaned[/quote]
So the operative question is how much do we need to pay an American Citizen to do that job?
ParticipantI’ve found copays highly varied depending on the doctor practice and your insurance. Kaiser is very strict. With HMOs, the Doctors also tend to be more strict. With PPOs, the Doctors offices are a little more careless with collecting or billing.
Other specialty practices will vary depending on the organization level of the office. The larger the practice the more likely to collect.
Finally, the larger the copay, the more likely the office is to collect.
Mid-year the company I work for switched their prescription coverage to a new provider. Tier 1 copay $10, Tier 2 copay $20, Tier 3 copay 50%. Basically any brand name falls into Tier 3 now.
ParticipantPersonally, I like a doctor about 5 years older than me.
That way I figure he’s just gotten done dealing with what I’m starting with.
ParticipantThere aren’t a lot of Doctors either. If your eyes have swelled shut, I’d consider that a shock type scenario, that’s not a normal allergic reaction and I suspect doctors would agree. If your eyes have swelled shut, what else is going to swell shut.
Those expenses are just as expensive on a PPO non-preferred list. With coverage often around 50% and a typical doctor visit in the $150-$200 range.
Are for prescription coverage, the Rx is the Rx, where it was prescribed shouldn’t matter.
Good info about the plans being cheaper off the exchange in the other States. I hadn’t thought of that and in retrospect, it makes complete sense.
If you’re under 400% FPL, the plans on the exchange aren’t the plans, they’re enhanced plans and the enhanced silver quickly looks more like a Gold plan due to the lower co-pays etc.
Essentially, the plan Silver plan is based on an expected applicant pool that will really qualify for a “gold” plan service level on a “silver” plan, where as off list, the silver plan is the silver plan.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
And what if one gets in the middle of, say, KS, intending to spend a week or two in mid-June and finds out they are horribly allergic to the poppies that grow wild in every cornfield? Will seeing and ENT or allergist there and getting a prescription be considered an “emergency?”
[/quote]First, it’s not an emergency, unless one is so allergic that we’re talking shock.
Second, why wouldn’t one just go to a minute clinic at CVS or Urgent Care or similar and pay the $80-$90/cash for services for a basic allergy or many other issues consultation?
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