Re: {BS} I've changed my mind. I want EVERYONE to have gov't healthcare!

So, you *DID* wait until the last minute to pay in all cases when your coverage was dropped. You need a new plan.

You didn't answer my first question in this thread, so we will assume that you were the cause of the first 3 problems as well as the last one. You can prevent embarrassment by answering the question.

The other three times, did you also wait until the last minute to pay?

Sounds like the same bullshit I've gotten from two private insurers here, and also Rochester Gas & Electric. Incompetence is everywhere.

I always try to pay anything early enough so I can verify receipt of payment and if something flubs up, I can get still get the corrected payment in on time. But if you have a payment receipt, why can't the receipt number clear up everything? If it doesn't, why don't you contact your state representatives?

But why are you, a self-identified conservative, participating in a socialist medical insurance system when purely private coverage is available from the more efficient and morally superior private insurance industry? Obviously you can find something cheaper in the private sector, even with preconditions.

The Postal Service tends to be more reliable than UPS and FedEx, according to about every survey done in the past 15 years for delivery time, loss, and package breakage. Every time electronic parts are delivered to me by USPS, I get them a day sooner than when UPS or FedEx is used, and I save about $2. Explain.

BTW, what's that purely private health insurance system you use that's cheaper than Medicare, accepts everybody for the same price, regardless of preexisting conditions, and provides better coverage? You've never revealed that company's name.

No.

He uses a company called Seagram.

The USPS has a constitutional mandate while UPS and Fedex do not, so the latter can cherry pick the market and ignore much of the US. One way UPS does this is by having the final leg of some deliveries done by USPS. USPS must be terrible if UPS trusts them.

The federal government is running big deficits because GW Bush crashed the economy and made the unemployment rate soar. Each 1% point of unemployment causes federal revenue to drop about $200B, and our current situation is exclusively due to the incompetence of GW Bush, whose last budget, which was in effect until Oct., 2009, had a deficit of almost $1.4T, or about $125B more than Obama's first budget. And you can't give GW Bush a pass due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars because at the height of the Vietnam war, which was much more expensive as a proportion of the national income, the federal government ran a surplus and lowered the debt/GDP ratio, despite simultaneously running the very expensive Apollo lunar program (almost

1% of GDP, or 10x what NASA costs now) and introducing new social programs (Medicare, Food Stamps). The difference was that Lyndon Johnson was competent and GW Bush was a complete bumbler.

I don't know about Blue Cross/Blue Shield of PA, but BC/BS of AZ doesn't cover preexisting conditions, except at much, much higher than normal cost, and you said your plan is cheaper than Medicare. Could it be...Medicare Advantage, which, contrary to your earlier claim, is not purely private and costs the taxpayers about $100 more per month for each participant?

When you wrote, "he is a drink at all times," you proved JoeSpareBedroom right. Here's your fellow alcoholic, AZ Governor Jan Brewer, explaining her 1988 car crash and DUI arrest (0.10% blood alcohol) and why scotch and wine are the same thing: