Stupid questions about America

[Yoshi]

Concerning health insurance, I think Yoshi is full of shit. I cover my parents and my "family" (ie... me and my kid) on a marginal health plan and it costs me $2008/month. Unless my math is fuzzy, that's equivalent to a $300,000 mortgage. Add to that day to day expenses (rent/mortgage, food, electric, phone/cable, etc...) and you have to make $80K per year, minimum, to be able to afford to cover your family. The system is broken.

My wife and I pay $80/month, and we have a HSA to which we make tax-free deposits to get up to the deductible. We went for a high deductible plan, since we are reasonably young and healthy.

[Othello Harrington]

I don't have to pay insurance anymore, but when I did I payed 40 dollars each check (bi-weekly). Well worth it.

[Fe 26]

Way off. And my post was entirely grammatically correct; some of you need to go back to high school English.

It may have been grammatically correct, but being understood is part of good writing. You should try to stay away from "wordy" sentences when talking about something so simple.

[icarusfall]

It's just that people would rather buy new rims for their debt-machines and drink alcohol than to buy insurance.

This just proves that no matter how hard they try, black people can't not talk about rims.

[Tain]

Damn. Didn't think it was that bad.

[Mykozo]

Except it wasn't a run-on sentence a run-on sentence is when you go from one sentence to the next without using ending punctuation and initial capitalization like this yes that sentence was long but every part of it was a properly connected piece of a single coherent thought.

You can get rims these days for the same cost as the loans, at least the ones that those of us without at least upper-middle class parents would procure, have to take out to get a college education, in order to even have a shot at getting a good enough job to afford health insurance?

Even better when you start speaking parenthetically:

You can get rims these days for the same cost as the loans our parents (at least those of us without at least upper-middle class parents) have to take out to get a college education in order to even have a shot at getting a good enough job to afford health insurance?

Coherent now, and you are welcome.

Oh, health care in emergency situations will never be denied here. You'll get the bill, but if you show up at the hospital, they will never turn you away. There are actually are good people in healthcare. The hospital staff could care less if you pay.

Shoes? If they want em off, I'm ok with that. Big fucking deal. But, I don't take my shoes off til I hit the sack. Carpets can be cleaned...but duh...buy dark carpeting.

Broadband? I live in the city...I can have whatever I want...FIOS, Cable, DSL; it's all there.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

No No No. The loan IS the "debt machine" for which you're supposedly getting rims.

[Pineapple]

There are actually are good people in healthcare.

you wordsmith, you.
sorry, read it and laughed, had to point it out.
<3

[kedawa]

Wearing shoes in the house isn't a cultural thing as much as it is an individual choice. I actually noticed more people wearing shoes indoors in Europe than I ever have in Canada, but there seems to be plenty of people in both camps in both places. I haven't spent enough time in the states to really pick up on their habits, but I imagine it's the same there too.

I almost never wear shoes in the house, but I often don't wear pants, either.

[Josh]

I still don't know what mr. farts was talking about.