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05-23-2008, 08:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southeastern US
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| | | Beware the care
The new government health care plan speaks for itself. If you can't afford the medicine you need to remain living, they will pay half the cost of your funeral as long as you stay IN NETWORK. If you want to be burried out of network you're on your own. Hopenopus |
05-23-2008, 11:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 4
| | | What? Did I not get the memo or something? |
05-24-2008, 03:39 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway
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Originally Posted by Hopenopus  The new government health care plan speaks for itself. If you can't afford the medicine you need to remain living, they will pay half the cost of your funeral as long as you stay IN NETWORK. If you want to be burried out of network you're on your own. Hopenopus | Sounds like something Fox News came up with. |
05-25-2008, 08:20 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 205
| | | Unless there's something specifically approved in N. Carolina (only Medicare and Medicaid are national plans; a small number of employer-sponsored plans are national), there is no other "new national government plan." Since insurance is reguated state-by-state, including what plans must cover, this sounds like a state law-mandated change.
Last edited by pegasus : 05-25-2008 at 08:21 PM.
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05-25-2008, 10:46 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mind -Langhorne PA Heart - The Shenandoah Valley
Posts: 635
| | My qusetion is who are "They" 
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06-01-2008, 12:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southeastern US
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| | | My bad
Will not pay for meds. but will pay for funeral. It was a joke. I will not do that again. Hopenopus |
06-01-2008, 05:21 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
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| | | I got a chuckle Hope.
I certainly see the wretched humor around for profit healthcare.
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06-01-2008, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Hopenopus Will not pay for meds. but will pay for funeral. It was a joke. I will not do that again. Hopenopus | I am laughing, I thought all the responses were playing along with it! No Bad Hopenopus...I stole it from you and have been getting laughs from many people, passing it along. Thanks! 
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06-01-2008, 09:54 AM
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| | LMAO! I love it, and the comments that followed!!! 
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06-01-2008, 09:58 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: 3rd Rock from the sun
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| | This is to funny and to true. All but the funeral part. We know they would not pay for that and even if they did it would have to be a mass grave. Dig a trench and throw in 50 to 100 people. Save money. Then big oil would get mad because you would be cheating them out of their share by have a mass grave.
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06-01-2008, 10:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
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Originally Posted by Hopenopus Will not pay for meds. but will pay for funeral. It was a joke. I will not do that again. Hopenopus | I'm still laughing. I think it was hilarious.
And I'm from NC, too. 
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06-01-2008, 11:08 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
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| | | This joke reminds me of the "real" insurance plans that will pay for viagra...but not for birth control pills. I think monkeys are at play with some of these policies. |
06-01-2008, 11:46 AM
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| | OK, got me--at least half. No "health" plan pays for a funeral (bizarrely, you can buy and sell "death" benefits--and that's no joke); I figured Hope was taking what's too often real to the morbid extreme ... 
It's also hard to be too extreme when it comes to the offensiveness of the sickness-insurance industry.  |
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