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Dex , I'm missing something ? Can you give a little more detail ? When you start at bottom & add up 9 years Living$$'s / 9 , it's got to be more than 26,585 average Hell's bell's I'm seeing only one year $26,504 & that's year 10 so to spe…
@Dex, OK Dex, you didn't say that, but do you honestly believe: "Healthcare.gov site development alone might have paid for those people." That's almost 17 million new people added to the insurance rolls, many of whom are sickly and previously uncove…
@Dex: As far as there being more people uninsured today than before the ACA, I don't know where you're getting your facts. All the evidence I've seen indicates more people are insured today because of the law:
Add to your homework.
Quote me where …
@Dex I am well aware stock prices are not profit margins, but there is a correlation between the two, no?
Before you ask any question ... do your homework.
Your not understanding stock price, gouging and profit margin tells me you are not aware. …
@Dex, What you're saying isn't accurate. Health insurers have been seeing record profits because of the ACA and they have been gouging customers, particularly small businesses. Yet many more people are insured under the law:
publicintegrity.org/20…
A technical response from Golledge as to what is significant is
The 50% is a goal for the USA not the world.
What would have to be done (not goals) and is it realistic to avoid the point of no return? Describe the world - e.g. would private car…
@Dex, The thing I find interesting is you blame the ACA and not the insurers themselves for gouging people. I think the ACA was the best legislation that could be passed to insure millions of Americans without insurance given the current political c…
Yet I believe the ACA was the best solution to our healthcare problem, given the political climate in which it was passed.
Obamacare and global warming are two thing we really can not change or do anything about. I'm estimating paying $7,500 in…
@Dex The primary researcher states their research indicates "Without significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the next couple of decades, we will commit the Antarctic ice sheet to ongoing and widespread melting for the next few thousa…
@Dex, That depends on how you define the point of no return. A significant number of scientists say we have already passed the point of no return.
My gut tells me the same thing. And the cause in population growth in the poorest parts of the world…
@Bee, That the poor have less savings to cover their healthcare costs has less to do with they're not being "frugal" and more to do with the fact that wages for the average American have not increased on an inflation adjusted basis for over 30 years…
noway, I dunno who is that, except he is a regular contributor.
Like when paris Hilton was asked about WSJ: she said "is it gooood?"
He is a black hole of knowledge and information - get too close and he sucks you into an alternative universe where …
Thanks dex for like thoughts.
Person A: why are you idle? Person B: So?
A: you can work hard B: so?
A: you can earn more and save more. B: so?
A: You can enjoy your retirement. …
When I was 62 in 2014, I thought of retiring. But with ACA coming up, I dropped the plan and sticking to my job and so it will be till I turn 66 :and will have insurance sharing plan in the company: with deduction of 158/ pm pretax currently.( for …
Grandmothered/Grandfathered plans: Grandfathered plans are still allowed to cap benefits on an annual basis, and are not required to provide preventive care for free (or any of the other essential ACA health benefits). On the other hand, like AC…
@ Jim0445:
>> If you qualify for Medicaid and live in a state that participates, your fellow citizens will pay a portion of your premium, maybe. The whole thing is revolting.
I know! Like property taxes for schoolteachers and firefighters an…
This year I had a general physical with tests - free
Colonoscopy - free - I think the cost was about $2,000 or so. I didn't pay attention; I didn't pay it directly (of course it was in the premiums).
Add that to the cost factor.
the government picking up the same gross amount as last year with me picking up the entire increase.
That's interesting. It might get people to complain. But I doubt anything will change. Except fewer people will sign up for Obamacare.
Lolz, only in his own mind is Dex a journalist, not in any authentic sense of the word.
>> As a journalist myself, I can tell you that Salon is passé and swill.
@Dex, Priceless. I understand you want to discuss these economic issues and part…
To Bob C.
A logical government policy wouldn't expend taxpayer money to ensure more time on SS or Medicare.
Why do I now feel this urge to re-read Ayn Rand?
There will be medicare in name only ... similar to what is happening in Canada & Eng - …
This is just a guess, but I think we may be able to find things which require maintenance without spending too much effort.
Guess ... guessing ... haven't we had a little too much of that e.g. Bush/Iraq!
"Since 2010 public investment has been falling as a share of G.D.P. in both Europe and the United States, and it’s now well below pre-crisis levels. "
Why is he so wrapped up in public investment as a share of GDP? If, a bridge is in great shape, …
@Dex- I am continually impressed by the depth and subtlety of your insight on these matters, and the originality of your thought processes. You should seriously consider a career in commercial network television news.
It's a gift.
That ignores the basic fact that many Americans are now salaried employees who work well beyond the traditional 40-hour work week. In fact, thanks to the cell phone and the Internet, there is precious little division between work and private life so…
The Poor in the US Are Richer than the Middle Class in Much of Europe ... OK let's go with that.
What should be done about it? Should Europe do something to get their middle class up to the level of the US poor?
Or
Should the USA lower the sta…
If today's college graduates live to age 105 or 110, I don't see working to age 75 as a bad thing, assuming health continues to improve as it has over the last 50 years. There have always been a percentage of people who must work past what they w…
Even when study participants have similar health, education levels and socioeconomic status, those with more negative outlooks about aging show greater declines in a variety of areas over time. They have shakier handwriting, poorer memories, higher…
our accumulations may need to stretch into income that lasts 20 or even 30 years."
So few people will have the option to spend, it really doesn't need to be discussed.
Blinder does more great work:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/16/a-new-study-finds-that-we-fought-the-great-recession-with-much-success/
What is missing are the gov't policies that led to the Great Recession - e.g. Gov't ec…
"If it looks like there's a lot of grumbling about no SS increases"
It would be really interesting to know what percentage of the SS grumblers also vote for politicians who promise "smaller government and absolutely no tax increases".
Most people v…
Do we REALLY need to require such implements to have a blinding yellow caution light and the BEEP BEEP BEEP in reverse-gear that wakes everyone at 3:00 a.m. --- which is often when they'd do the snowplowing???
http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/inde…
@msf I think that George Will must have at least a corner of the market in straw by now. This has been going on with him for so many years I don't even bother reading what he has to say; he's a smoothy, but invariably you get half-way thru any of hi…
Well, if you really do not understand how it will do so (income increase, spending, savings), then there is no further discussion to be had, which I guess is a form of no answer, and you can continue to find that UCG's Eric Snow offers something wis…
