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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 04:48 PM) I don't remember if I've mentioned this idea here before or not. Federal civilian employees can choose from dozens of different plans from a variety of providers, with the employer (government) picking up 3/4 of the cost and the employee paying the other 1/4 via pre-tax payroll deduction. Because the workforce is so large (> 2 million), the prices are lower than what some random person could get buying directly from an insurance company and also lower than what small employers could get for group plans. Why could the government not just pass a law requiring insurance providers to offer the same prices to every American that they offer to Federal employees? Then, even if private employers aren't providing it to employees, at least the employees have affordable options. Then you could throw in some kind of incentive for employers to cover some/most/all of the cost. You mean like setting up exchanges?

Insurance companies use purchasing power leverage to force lower costs for procedures and medicine. Pushing more people into insurance would facilitate that. I do find it funny that during the creation of the law the idea of cost controls was DOA, yet as soon as it was removed all the sudden the biggest rightwing critique was "it does nothing to control costs!". Well it does throw the book at every marginal cost control idea to control costs, more price transparency, batched payments, etc. It also pushes a bunch of people into medicaid which has cost controls on payments.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) So, the only place I have seen that Robin "quote" is the SSS Twitter account. That being the case, I am thinking it was not an actual quote. In fact, the tweet doesn't actually attribute to Robin at all, if you look more closely. Has anyone seen this written anywhere other than SSS? I think they were just joking. I'm glad I'm not only one who thinks that was a joke tweet. No way RV says that, and it reads pretty hilarious.

Trying to get Roddy White for Ryan Mathews in my other league. I feel like he might bite.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 08:04 PM) The Yahoo blurb about last night's game was that a lot of people DROPPED Decker after his awful game in week 1. You never overreact based on one game, especially the first game of the season. I had a guy tell me a week ago (on Monday night before Bernard had his break out game) he dropped Giovanni Bernard because he was Law Firm's backup. I was puzzled as hell. Looks like it's the other way around now. It's always amazing seeing the sleeper recommendations with %owned as their basis, and I'm always wondering what kind of leagues could have these players available.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 07:35 PM) And since you couldn't include a link I had to go find one to know what you were talking about. That was already linked.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 06:30 PM) Did you see Trindon Holliday last night though? Same s***. Yeah, Devin has kinda always done that crap, and it's only worked one time, if I remember right, against the Broncos in like 08 or 09.

Sorry that was in reference to the Zygi Wilf (Vikings Owner) article on his RICO charges, which puts the stadium in jeopardy.

God I hate nothing more than publicly financed stadiums when the worth of franchises continues to skyrocket.

I think the Raiders have played about as good as you could hope. Yeah, they looked bad against Denver but so did everyone. They've been pretty damn competitive in first two games.

Those power rankings seem pretty lazy. "Okay, well all 3-0 teams go first, then the 2-1 teams, then"... isn't the power supposed to indicate they are putting more thought than the easy indicators?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 03:40 PM) Devin Hester had one awesome game, and two games where he had no idea what he was doing. I'll say this in his defense (beside punt returns where he has been terrible), the problems we've seen with devin I've seen league wide in games. Kickers are getting really smart with placement on kickoffs now. With KRs back so deep to get where kicks are landing, I've seen a lot of these kicks that hit at about the 10, really far for them to run up. It puts the return men in either terrible catching position or it creates a weird bounce. We saw that with hester where the ball bounced straight up at the 5, he had to take it out and only got to the ten. The extra 10 yards has allowed kickers to worry less about distance and focus on placement and they are making life difficult as hell for return men.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) It will be interesting to see them against another prolific offense. Their defense has been very good so far, but against some tomato cans. And they'll eventually get Von Miller, who may still be beasting from Steroids.

I have a 1A and it is just freaking the f*** out. It's actually an HTC brand charger too. Maybe my wall station at work is just too low.

Anyone with HTC One notice you can only charge your phone with their charger that came with the phone? Super annoying, I bought a generic usb charger for work, forgot to charge my phone last night and it's just freaking out.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 10:21 PM) Well I have Morris, Rice and Gore for 2 RB spots and a flex in a ppr. Rather have any of those three since they are more of a sure thing week to week. Meanwhile Roddy White sucks horribly and I desperately need a WR other than Stevie Johnson. What have Rice and Gore shown you so far that leads you to believe Bernard is expendable?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 07:07 PM) Agreed. Still, I don't care. Can't wait for the season to start. When Rose goes off for 35/8/8 and a dunk or two, all will be forgiven.

Wow that is dumb.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 04:59 PM) Or not, crazy NFL rule makes it a non defensive touchdown. ROWAND WINS!!!! What was the rule? Was it offensive since it happened on fourth down? I can't think of anything else.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 12:33 PM) Call me crazy, but I'm on Kessel's side. This gigantic 6'8" talentless goon is trying to beat the s*** out of you, what would you do? Stand up and fight him? Hell no. Get the hell away from him anyway you can. Either way, that whole video shows why fighting in hockey needs to go. You don't use your stick as a weapon.

Thought I was dead in water yesterday with Rice and MJD out (I thought he'd be screwed injured up against seattle D), and instead playing D McFadden and McGahee. Surprisingly am only down 19 pts with 3 players tonight (welker, decker, and mcfadden). I'm optimistic. It's amazing considering another mediocre Brady performance, 3 pts from M. Wallace and .9 points from McGahee. Thank you Bears D and Jimmy Graham.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 03:05 PM) The Bears always seem like their record is better than their performance. One reason is turnovers. The other reason is special teams. One thing I liked about Lovie was his dedication to excellence on special teams. Between their kicker, punter, and returners, the Bears are always winning the field position battle. I just hope that the roughing the kicker penalty and blocked PAT are not a sign that the new regime has de-emphasized special teams. I mean, through three games it's safe to say our special teams have noticeably dropped off. That's stuff we rarely saw that we've seen in each game. I find it funny Decamillis came from the Cowboys, b/c it's exactly what it seems. The huge plays are there, but the boneheaded lose you the game plays are there too.

Jennings was on Brown on his end of half touchdown, and Tillman was out most of second half. He had a bad game vs. Green but also was suffering of dehydration in the game after his long int return. I think we will see a hobbled Tillman more often b/c of his age, but a lot of what was driving me crazy last night was poor safety positioning again and Briggs not getting back far enough on dropbacks. He's leaving huge caps on the field. Frey as well. I've been completely unimpressed with Briggs, he had some nice rushes but he had plenty of oppos for them.

Game. Glad we won. Still unsure on this team. 400 yds passing to this Pitt team? Hard to swallow.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 03:32 AM) Oh they remembered that holding is a penalty Slauson and long have held all game.