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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 10:16 AM) No on makes you accept the job. Benefits, such as salary, work environment, location, stress, etc should be taken into consideration when pursuing jobs. I fail to see how anyone can not view that as a choice. It actually fits the definition of a choice to a 'T'. Yes and no. I know, in my case, the job I was offered had better pay and stability than anything else I would have found immediately after graduating college. But the health coverage sucked. So, I could have taken a job somewhere else with lower pay and maybe a SLIGHTLY better health option, or had no job with no health coverage.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) When less than 1% of people decline their employer's health insurance and go out and get some on their own I fail to see that as a true choice. And yes I made that figure up but I'm probably not far off. Why would someone willing leave their employer's system unless they are making millions of dollars a year? It's just too expensive to go on your own. And as was mentioned, when you decline your employer option, you dont get that money they were using to pay for your insurance. So, while you may have been paying a small amount towards your employer option, you now have to pay 100% out of pocket. And this whole tax rebate thing McCain tried to blow up our butt is a joke. A $5000 "credit" is not NEARLY enough.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:49 AM) For most professionals, health care coverage is part of your compensation. My company won't give me cash in lieu of forgoing those benefits. Essentially, to switch, I'd be taking a pay cut and having to turn around and spend a few hundred a month. And here is the kicker to me, it depends on how much your employer is willing to spend on you.... I work for a church/school, and all I hear from my bosses... the pastors and our director of operations... is how evil this new healthcare system will be. Yet, when you look at the insurance they "give" us, it's absolutely horrible. I like to say it's overage for the sake of saying we have coverage. It doenst really cover much of anything. A single stress test I took a few years back was over $500. My wife had an ectopic pregnancy and had to have emergency.. what ended up being life saving... surgery. For the entire hospital stay and the emergency surgery, I think we payed just a hair UNDER $500. Needless to say, when my daughter was born, I jumped over to my wife's coverage (her insurance price only goes up once when you add additional people. We can have just me, or me plus 5 kids and it's all the same price). It's no surprise that when given the option, many will leave to be on their spouses plan. The point of my story is this: I dont know the exact details of the government option being floated around, but I KNOW it will be better and cheaper than the crap my employer gave me. And when we look at being fiscally smart, if they arent willing to at least EXPLORE the option of using the government option, I'm not sure what i will say.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:46 AM) Private corporations can always take care of you better than government. Government is a failure at everything and private enterprise results in unbridled success and better conditions for everyone. /libertardianism Under that idea, then every citizen should be taxed.... i mean... have to pay a toll every 100 feet to pay for the road you just traveled over.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) I tend to believe the Barackus the Great who said be believes in the single payor system but knows that we will have to get there in steps. I've thought this for a while. I think the LONG TERM plan... maybe 10-20 years, is a single payer system. But, as I said a long time ago, you cant do it all at once. It's too major of a shift for the market and system to take. It would only make things far worse. So, do it in steps. 1) Reform with an optional Government option... or co-op 2) Full Government option. 3) Tighten the screws on non-Government plans. 4) Single Payer.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) Oh man, I'd hate it if my hose was on fire. That sounds really painful. might want to see a doctor if that were the case

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:30 AM) lulz at libertardians. If all taxation is theft, therefor there should be NO taxation, how does he propose we... pay the president? pay congress? What will he say when his local roads are nothing but gravel with deep potholes? Who will he call when his house is broken into or is on fire?

Man With Assault Rifle Outside Obama Event: 'We Will Forcefully Resist'

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:21 AM) You can leave a private corporation. Under this plan, you can't leave the government. Canada says hi.

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DING! Time is up! Jon Hayman- strasburg appears to be close to agreeing to a deal for $15 mil, sources say.

JonHeyman- Dont buckle! Dont let Boras win! Kevin Goldstein-

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 07:44 PM) The reality of being poor and dying from a curable disease. http://www.themonitor.com/articles/past-29...alonzo-ran.html well, dont tell the anti-reformers this story. They would have to find a way to explain how they are more worthy of that care than someone else (the base argument that universal care will create "lines" to get care). That's not a comfortable argument to make... saying I am more important than someone else.

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I hate rookie contracts in general. I dont like that rookies in most leagues... including the NFL... are making more than people that have proven themselves at that position. I know you are paying on potential, but most businesses dont pay their employees 3x more than someone who has been there for years. You earn what you make.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 05:04 PM) Becks looks to be gettin on another hot streak baby, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if he can crack .320 with some luck. HE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll admit it, I have a Beckham Boner.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 08:53 PM) Wow thanks a lot, I was going to go paintball one last time before college next week. Now I might reconsider. I've been paintballing numerous times, never wore a cup before. Never thought of the consequences. Now you've just made me realize this and have made me totally uninterested. Thanks... LOL do you wear a paintball holster? If so, i have used that. If it makes you feel better, i think it was a close range shot. I had a friend get hit in the nuts once. He was in pain for a while, but he was ok.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 04:42 PM) The phrase "death panel" is pure, naked, unmitigated hyperbole, and portraying it as anything other than that smells like a copout. Especially since these "death panels" were once advocated by both Palin and Gingrich. When they proposed them, they were great ideas. Now they are euthanasia boards.

"Sensitive" Oil Industry Memo Lays Out Plan For Astroturf Rallies Against Climate Change Bill

wow. fascinating. thanks for the info. very neat.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) dont forget Glen Beck http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-augu...eck-s-operation HA! I know people like to rip the daily show because it isnt "real news", but they do some of the best "compare to what he once said" reporting of any "news" organization.

My brother in law knew a guy who got shot in the nuts while playing paintball and the testicle popped out.