Posted on 01/08/2017 4:36:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Jan 8th, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reince Preibus, incoming chief of staff to Trump; Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Defense Secretary Ash Carter; Kellyanne Conway, adviser to President-elect Donald Trump; Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Preibus; Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Cory Booker, D-N.J.
THIS WEEK (ABC): (Soon to be Former!) President Barack Obama.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Conway.
List of victims now being written about:
Kabar, sorry, I am not even going to read your post.
First, you call him my “beloved”. That’s just crude.
I said I am not going to argue this point.
You may now have the last word.
I shall ignore.
carry on.
They all signed up for a few years of heavy subsidies from the feds, during the first few operational years for Obamacharitycare. Now that the subsidies have been eliminated or severely reduced, they need replacement revenue. Companies can't live forever on cost reductions in order to meet stockholder expectations. Eventually, revenue needs to increase in order for companies to thrive or even stay in business.
As Elvis and I share the same last name all I can say is: Thank you. Thank you very much.
I just watched Maria on FNC and she had Sen. Thom Tillis on saying that at least 30 countries now have some hacking ability and that the Russian hacking has been going on since they invented the internet. So we are witnessing a huge political event brought on by the Chicago regime pissed that they lost.
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Rick Santelli eating everyone's lunch on F.Chuck its priceless.Finally someone who fights back,libs begging Santelli to let them finish. Finally Santelli gets so much traction F. Chuck has to go to break and get rid of the panel to get out of harms way. The libs on F.chucks pathetic show are not used to having to defend anything they say since everyone on the show is usually a rino or hard lefty.
Health insurance companies fared quite well for most of my adult life....I don't know why they won't again unless government gets in the way.
oh, wait.....
Some proposed solutions involve decoupling health insurance from employment. I think that call it transportable. I'd remove that burden from business completely. Business's higher profits would find there way into employees pockets. Let the people shop for what they want and need. Prices will drop.
While I’m in a sort of writing mood, let me tell the story of the $76 container of medicated talc.
First, know that I have what is called a Medicare Advantage plan. It is Cigna, if anybody knows of it. This means that Cigna, NOT Medicare, takes care of all of my medial bills. Cigna, as I am to understand, gets reimbursed by Medicare.
Anyway, my medical people accept Cigna here in Delaware where we have an older population. Obama desperately tried to get rid of Medical Advantage plans....NOT the same thing as a Medicare supplemental plan.
So I went into the hospital to have a stent put into my vein going into my leg. It was at first to be an out-patient thing but they said if they did the stent (evidently there was some question if the cardiovascular guy could get to the blockage) then I would spend one night in the hospital.
So the did the stent, all went well, no problems. I spent the night in the hospital but where the incision was made to insert the stent was rubbing on my fat belly and at some point it became irritated. The nurse came in, handed me a vial of sort of talc powder with medicine in it, so I was told. I was to sprinkle this stuff on the irritation and I did and it helped.
Then I was given a daily dose of my medicine, medicine I could have brought with me to the hospital but they told me not to. It was about four pills, cholesterol med....that sort of thing.
FOUR PILLS.
Anyway, like Medicare there are co-pays with Cigna but it’s handled very differently. Not that important.
But I am told by Cigna WHAT to pay in the form of co-pay and it NEVER matches what the medicos, be it out-patient or a hospital or even a doctor’s office....it never matches what they say I should pay.
As a Cigna patient, I am to pay what Cigna tells me to pay.
My co-pay for this little medical procedural, nightly hospital stay, payment to the cardiovascular guy....was $300.
I sent the hospital $300 bucks BUT....they charged me $405.95.
So this is $105.95 MORE than Cigna authorized me to pay so I didn’t pay it.
Of course they call me, they are going to hang me in public square, I will be turned over to the Russians to hack.
So I must study what’s going on.
Turns out that the extra $105.95, get this, includes $76 bucks for that container of medicated talc (hey I got a fat belly hangs down and I use Desitin, about four bucks from Walmart, and it works fine) with the rest being for those few pills that I could have brought with me from home but they told me not to.
Seriously? $76 for two ounces of medicated talc powder? Over $25 bucks for four pills that I already had?
I have been talking to Cigna, who told me the hospital, if they expected payment for that talc costing over a thousand bucks a pound they would have to submit THAT part of the bill to Cigna’s pharmacy.
Of course I am still fighting this and it will probably end up on my credit record and I shall suffer. Because I assure you nobody at that hospital will ever remove those charges from my bill. Maybe I can get somewhere with Cigna.
Whatever....if this isn’t an example of how absurd hospital costs are and why it’s a hot mess....I just can’t imagine a better example
Thanks for the ping.
Pass go collect whatever is left of the currency.
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It's pretty clear this week that there is only one talking point this week.It goes something like this:
Russia is guilty of hacking and giving the election to Trump anyone who doesn't want to go to war with Russia is bad; our side(dems) is good.
Trump bad obama good.
That's the game and take it a step further if LC is correct and 44% of our tanks are positioned against Russia overseas and they are little more than easy targets,does that portend that zero may have been playing everyone all along? Is he on Putin's side,a Russian plant as Rence suggested years ago. Does zero want to see Putin blow us up no matter what he has to do before he leaves office? INquring minds.....
Also as LC suggests if we have the tanks removed will the dems use or try to use that against us in 2020,will zero run again,pass the corn.
I wonder if McCain and Lindsey will be interviewed in their bed? :-)
I do the link, but often her lineup isn’t a lineup, but more like a paragraph or two. It doesn’t fit the format.
Sad,sure would be nice to get to the bottom of all this.
I’m betting it was a hit.
Their names are in brown for a couple of reasons :)
Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
John: Lean in closer, linda. You won't believe the weekend I have planned just for us.
linda: Sounds good, sweetie. BTY, I love what you're doing with your left hand. Shall I bend over this chair a bit more?
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I'm certainly not.
My line has been:
"The Russians hacked the election" actually means...the RATs tried and failed to steal the election.
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They're also going to use this as a "fake-news" cover, since Obama, Hillary et al need be prosecuted and convicted for their cavalier handling of US top-secret security information on non-government protocol servers.
Rick Santelli back kicking everyone’s ass again. The rats can’t stand him. He’ll never be back again.Santelli is a great American.
Two ol’ gay guys just making life miserable for everyone else....
I suspect that's how ‘the poor’ are charged for a case of the sniffles when they go to an emergency room in lieu of a private doctor.
Then hospitals take it off their taxes meaning the taxpayer gets hit more than once.
ObamaCare incentives MUST be changed... Rumor is that OUR GOVERNMENT pays insurance companies $100,000 a year PER PERSON for those on Advantage Plans... then they nickel and dime the folks on the plans.
Trump and Ryan need to look into all this stuff before they start to 'change' the disaster known as ObamaCare...
There's a concept out there known as "Association Health Plans".
They are very much like an employer's group, including national coverage, but unlike the formen, you can join an association...like the NRA for example, or a credit union.
There needs to be some restrictions, however, as one of the things that makes the "guaranteed issue" aspect of employer groups work, is: If you're health enough to work, you're probably healthy enough to insure.
That would not necessarily be true of the membership of an association.
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