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Time to reset the parameters for the money grab. Stick around long enough and the next big thing replaces the last big thing.

Yes.

@nedboy7 just wondering if you have any thoughts on what a reasonable health plan might look like for your family of two? Monthly costs..,ded etc? You indicated about $2,300 this year, with a 30% increase in 2026. What’s fair given your income, health etc?

Use your own words. Ask.

You're becoming more flumdacious with each passing day.

My wife and I pay about $8k for our high ded plan ($5 K deductible), maybe another $2000-3,000 in a typical year. We don't take much in terms of prescription drugs, hit the annual physical on an every 18 mos cycle due to schedules, doctor availabilty etc. We're a couple years away from Medicare. I've had my issues with health insurance before on the level we need it, I can't imagine difficulties in the event of serious illness and questions about new/aggressive treatments. Still, I understand that very little happens in the world of health insurance that isn't directly controlled by government regulation. ACA is the most recent example of that, and I'm in the camp of thinking that's going exactly as the framers of the program wanted it to go. High cost, access more and more difficult, frustration mounting and the finger pointed at health insurance companies operating in the framework of government regulation. What would you consider a reasonable cost for health insurance for you and your wife, relative to other costs we incur? $500/month with $2500 deductible? $750/month with $5000? How much total out of pocket would you feel comfortable with? My opinion is that a fundamental shift in priorities is long overdue. $2,300 per month is a lot of money, and certainly a lot for routine care what I think of woith routine care. $2,300 a month for access to life saving treatment and care seems like a pretty good deal, especially relative to some of the other things people (myself included) spend money on.

I was discussing auto-correct with 4th yesterday. Apparently, there are documented cases of a post being auto-corrected to words that don’t actually exist. Could be the deal here. Advanced AI. P2025. 51st State Stuff. It’s dietrobical. Edit: I didn’t type dietrobical. I typed dietrobical. Edit: I didn’t type dietrobical. I mean, I did the second time, but only to say I didn’t type it the first time, or the third. The whole thing is dietrobical. Edit: Damn it!!

You sound like Eddie Haskell lecturing the Beav and Larry Mondello, knowing Mrs. Cleaver is listening just around the corner….

What was your monthly cost for your plan….and is it a single or family plan?

His thread title: Just. Imagine. If. This. Was. Hunter. Biden. My response: ….if I was to imagine this was Hunter Biden…. His response: 🤯 Tedious. Devoid of value. But you knew all that.

Oh, gosh, my auto correct changed my words too. I initially typed how brave it was for you to expose your intellectual vulnerabilities while at the same time revealing your own prodigious bigotry.

Leon is proof that in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, not all Head is good head. “We all know you can go places and fine China Town etc.” Perfect, or as you might say, “Perr Fickt”.

Good call, sir.

I’m thinking this poster is BillStime 3.0.

Where money, power and influence are involved, it usually comes back to money, power and influence.

Profit motive and an exceptionally strong lobbying efforts.

It’s not odd at all, I used the features available on the site to block your notifications. I find your process tedious and devoid of value. However, if I was to imagine this was Hunter Biden, Joe Biden or anyone else in the liberal tree, you’d be firmly in their corner no questions asked. Thank you.

Bannon isn’t your problem, Andy. Whether he believes what he says or not, he’s a provocateur poking issues with a stick and riling folks like you up. There are people who do that on the left, too. Your problem is you lost independents and folks who look at the policies you support (and likely see as centrist) and rejected the platform in large enough numbers to put Trump in office. You moved a few steps toward the extreme and likely don’t even know it.

I'm doing well. I pretty much always am. Thank you for asking. As for believing her, gosh, 4th, who knows? She clearly had trauma in her life and on a human level, it's impossible not to feel badly for her. She's not here to tell her story, so it's up to you to make up your own mind. From my perspective--Geo Clooney is quite popular with the dems, and was pretty tight with Harvey Weinstein back in the day--so it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was swimming in murky waters. Could be on the other hand he had a one off completely unrelated to Epstein, or he was deeply involved and one of the reasons Biden didn't release. Or, maybe it's all made up.

Do you think this is why the Dems have shut down the government? To impact SNAP benefits and reduce access to groceries? It tracks with Harris fear-mongering on COVID vaccines at the height of the pandemic.

Geo Clooney, powerful, wealthy influencer of Democrats, you’re up. https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/world-news/ghislaine-maxwell-claimed-she-performed-sex-act-on-george-clooney-virginia-giuffres-memoir-alleges/

He did kick those Russian diplomats out on December 29, 2016. Sure, it was about 20 minutes before he left office, but it was a powerful, powerful statement.

Have they counted the ballots in the U-Haul box under the card table at the back of Buenos Aires Senior Center yet?

Yes. Pretending corporations steer clear of Dem political wrath by taking a hard, moral stand would be silly. Let’s not do that. Or that it simply made sense to donate in improving the WH for the greater good, which is good business generally.

It's almost a prerequisite for democrat AGs in NYS.