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WCDT strips 4190-4194 (3rd - 7th February 2020)
Is it cold in here?:
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--- Quote from: awkwardness on 05 Feb 2020, 21:19 ---Point of order from a resident: it's only a requirement that you HAVE it, not that you GET it. It's not "everyone is covered" as is believed, it's a requirement that you have it or you can't get your state taxes back. That's it. It's intended to get you to be covered, but doesn't provide for everyone in the state. The state is a master of manipulating the truth, she might not be eligible for free care(MassHealth) due to her making too much and she might not be able to afford to buy it. So she actually might not have ANY health insurance and what she might get from the state in taxes is a fraction of what she'd have to shell out for health insurance costs.
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I won't lie. I did not understand a word of this.
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That is a common reaction when people hear about the American health insurance system.
Romneycare is just Obamacare at the state level.
If your employer doesn't provide health insurance as a benefit, the only way to get it is to buy it yourself or to be poor enough to qualify for indigent health care. Buying it yourself is cost-prohibitive and Mass. does not enough to subsidize the purchase.
Buying it is legally required, to make sure there are enough healthy people paying in to meet the costs of the people with pre-existing conditions.
So it's advertised as universal coverage but if you work as a bar back you might get stuck in the middle between being poor enough for state-funded insurance and being rich enough to buy a private plan.
Is that at least comprehensible, even if it doesn't make sense as policy?
QC Massachussetts must be a little different from ours if a small coffee shop can afford to buy health insurance for employees. Maybe QC Romneycare has a generous subsidy for small business to buy insurance.
Drunken Old Man:
The answer to the poll...the only POSSIBLE answer...is Boo-Boo.
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flondrix:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 06 Feb 2020, 09:54 ---QC Massachussetts must be a little different from ours if a small coffee shop can afford to buy health insurance for employees. Maybe QC Romneycare has a generous subsidy for small business to buy insurance.
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In QC Massachussetts, all those employed AIs have to pay taxes (they're gettting paid a salary, after all) and are required to either buy "health insurance" or pay the penalty, but since no "health" plan covers their repairs they opt to pay the penalty. This helps subsidize the health care of slacker humans.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 06 Feb 2020, 09:14 ---Is that not a common occurrence for tall women? Anyone here who can speak from personal experience?
Aaaand I have screwed up the quotes.
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My wife is quite tall (though not as tall as Bubbles) and yes, this does happen to her.
Case:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 06 Feb 2020, 05:56 ---Let's not even get into the name that the book for my classical mechanics class used for the canonically-transformed Hamiltonian...
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Wich one did you use - Goldstein? (My class used Kuypers, but methinks that one not so well-known in the Anglosphere)
Asking for a friend Science ... :angel:
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