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  1. Webmaster

    The healthcare.gov disaster -- experiences?

    Please supply exact numbers, as I did.
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    $750,000 not nearly enough to retire on?

    You can do better than this if you wish to make an argument for promising unsustainable benefits.
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    The Cuba embargo

    That is so, but Cuba would probably benefit much more than whatever constitutes big business. The bigger picture, though, is that Cuba is this island nation much larger than Taiwan and closer in size to Japan, and it's sitting 90 miles from our shores, and we treat it like this leper nation...
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    $750,000 not nearly enough to retire on?

    It is very, very easy to understand, BigMac. Those hard-won benefits are not sustainable, and have never been sustainable. They were handed out to appease union and other demands, and to get elected. Economically, there was never a case for all those excessive benefits. In Utopia, sure, it'd be...
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    The healthcare.gov disaster -- experiences?

    Briefly interrupting the political arguments back and forth, here's my real world example and experience after Covered California finally responded: For 2014, the current high-deductible ($10k) Kaiser health insurance I have as a self-employed person costs US$1,200/month for me and my wife...
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    The healthcare.gov disaster -- experiences?

    "You're an idiot!" "No, you're an idiot!" Sigh....
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    The Cuba embargo

    That is an interesting argument in favor of maintaining a cold war leftover embargo condemned by the entire world except the US and one ally.
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    $750,000 not nearly enough to retire on?

    Unfortunately, life's a journey and it is simply inconceivable for most young people to imagine being old. So except for a very few, like your brother apparently, the need to save for a retirement that is way, way, way in the future just isn't much of an imperative. What that means is that, as a...
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    The healthcare.gov disaster -- experiences?

    I am glad it worked for you. And, given that selling insurance through a website isn't exactly black programming magic, it should be easy and simple. For me, sadly, it hasn't been. Covered California, with which I and my insurance agent have now spent several weeks trying to get it to work...
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    GLBTQ FA Thread

    It still baffles me that this forum, which was so very heavily and forcefully lobbied for, has no traffic at all.
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    My fellow video game nerds, whatcha been playing? Part 2

    Gran Turismo 6 is coming out today. I reserved it months ago and will pick it up at the local GameStop this morning. I've been a Gran Turismo fan since the first version, and though the series at times baffles with bone-headed clunkiness I still prefer its dazzling beauty and clinical approach...
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    The Cuba embargo

    Not sure if this was reported in the US, but it appears that the last US bank that was willing to handle financial transactions between Cuba and the US has discontinued that service. That's quite a blow to the Cuban community in the United States, and yet another bizarre outburst of the idiocy...
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    What is making you SAD right now...

    Apparently having lost actor Paul Walker to an accident that could have been right out of one of his movies. And, spookily, what seems like minutes after it was reported, the Wikipedia page on him was already all in past tense, every sentence.
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    The healthcare.gov disaster -- experiences?

    I'd venture to guess that you haven't actually tried it out yourself. I have. And after spending several hours with it, and with the help of an actual licensed insurance agent, my opinion not only stands, but both of us concluded it's actually even worse than I first suspected. There are...
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    $750,000 not nearly enough to retire on?

    You can look at this from many angles. While many public employees get a large percentage of their final salary for the rest of their lives and are thus pretty much all set, those who don't may see a very substantial reduction in income once they retire. If one is in that position, then having a...
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    $750,000 not nearly enough to retire on?

    Saving is tough these days, what with seemingly everyone determined to squeeze the last dollar they can get out of you. Apparently., however, you still need to save A LOT. According to a USA Today article (see here), $750,000 in savings is "not going to be nearly enough to retire on."...
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    Webmaster's new book

    Some of you know that scuba diving is one of my passions. There's a wondrous world down there, one that few people ever see, and the sensation of weightlessly floating in that world is indescribable. But I tried to describe it anyway and wrote a whole book about it. It follows my first 250...
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    The Many Ways Canada's System is Better than the ACA

    And the Swiss system beats them both. But, sadly, the mess that's been unleashed in the US is what we get. So from now on, millions of middle class people will live in fear that, as Covered California says, "If you take the full premium assistance to pay the premium, and your income is higher...
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    The Swiss Krankenkasse (health insurance)

    The system has worked perfectly well for many decades. The care and services are the same for everyone.
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    The Swiss Krankenkasse (health insurance)

    Switzerland has had mandatory health insurance for as far back as I can remember. It's simple and super-easy. Everyone pays the same, everyone gets the same coverage and services, every insurer charges the same rate. Simply put in your age and deductible and that's that. About the only...
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