Way to do your research. None of these plans were primary “health insurance” plans. They are all limited-benefit plans, otherwise known as “supplementary” insurance. They are what you pay for if you want to get back your copays/deductibles, etc... from your primary health insurance. If you are going to the doctor once…

How do you buy car insurance? Do you pay for insurance to haul hazardous waste but you only drive a car? I mean you’re in the “risk pool”.

Now poor people have insurance with deductibles that are so high they don’t do them any good! Insurance does NOT equal helthcare!

I don’t think you understand how insurance works. You buy it to cover things that might actually happen to you. The insurance is then priced accordingly. You don’t pay the same car insurance rate as a guy that owns a Ferrari if you own a Honda. You don’t buy flood insurance if you live on a hill in a desert. Why…

Ah yes, but at the same time, no free nation has the right to FORCE you to buy ANYTHING, and threatening my taxes or my assets (or my credit) to make me buy insurance is ‘force majur en extremis’. No liberal would want me forcing them to buy a gun, to reduce the threat of personal jeopardy on the streets, I’ve yet to…

Do you mean to say Constitution instead of Declaration of Independence? Just want to make sure. Also, there is only one copy of the Constitution that was ratified and the language on it is much less precisely repeated that the DofI.

Too many folks do too much of this:

All excellent tips, to which I would add:

Just tap the top corner of the lid on 4 separate sides with the handle of a butter knife (enough force to slightly deform the corner, which is not much). It will come off like magic. This takes 10 seconds and has worked for all 30 years of my jar-opening existence thus far.

Tried sticking my head in the sand once. Got kicked in the Butt.

Yeah really sounds like the new FCC is eviscerating your consumer protection. It was clear with the popularity of Netflix and YouTube that Unlimited data plans were going bye bye. No FCC investigation was going to bring those back at a reasonable price.

I think myself as a classic liberal, but here is my take to your issues raised.

To answer your question, yes I did read the article. I am also a pretty active consumer of news on FCC regulation and action, since my current job is closely related.

This is a common strawman argument. The truth is, having actually lived in rural America, there are multiple problems. As companies find cheaper labor in Bangladesh, Thailand, China, and elsewhere, they close down various rural businesses. The residents there, not having made enough money to be considered above…

I am a republican, not Republican and the difference is an important distincition. Trump wasn’t my candidate, but to make broad generalizations like that shows ignorance. I am neither rich, stupid, nor a Bible Thumper.

Like what? No consequences have happened yet. This article is speculating at all the possible bad things that could happen even though we don’t know what exactly is changing. Its going to be different that is for sure, but assuming everything is going to be bad for the consumer is stupid. Follow Pai directly here. …

Congratulations, you got all four issues you tried to cover wrong.

Denigrating those different from you may be cathartic but you cease being an informed citizen by stereotyping said voters into groups like that. I’d recommend reading many of the articles at the Guardian and Atlantic as well as Der Spiegel to review exactly what the majority of rural America experienced during the 8…

No, the idea about subsequent holes is just finding how far out you can go without digging too deeply to access water. The more barrier, the more ground between you and the stagnant water to act as a filter, the better.

Or just make a nuclear battery charger for your phone out of some tritium vials and amorphous solar cells, which will last 10+ years and constantly outputs 4+V. It can be done for a little over $100., and while it seems like a lot, it really isn’t for 10 year charger, albeit a slow one that only outputs a bit over a…