visibleholstein

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_bi_ge/us...

50 million currently not coverered. New plan leaves 25 million not covered.

So, for $829B (over 10 years), we cover 25 million more people than we cover now. AND this doesn't address Medicare patients, who are a HUGE drain on healthcare costs.

Per year: 829/10 = $82.9B

$82.9B / 25 million = $3316 PER PERSON.

3316/12 = $276/mo.

Family of 4: 276 x 4 = $1105/mo

I don't know about you, but I can do a lot better than that right now with private insurance. Explain to me how this helps control costs?

Explain how this is good for covering people, other than the fact that every month, it will take $276 out of the pockets of taxpayers and hand it over to other people to provide them with free insurance?

Yahoo's spell checker doesn't know how to spell the word "worshipped" (which you can see if you try to use that word, because it will keep annoying you with the "spell checker" window to your right.) This is only one of a million things it does wrong.

So..... how do I turn it OFF?

While I am typing questions or replies in Yahoo Answers, this obnoxious script keeps popping up boxes telling me about spelling errors (and they are NOT spelling errors, they are acronyms or words that Yahoo doesn't know). I will manage my spelling and grammar myself, thank you very much. How do I turn that thing off?

When they cut off the "Discuss" option on news stories, they did it with the lame excuse that somehow a "limited number of people" were able to "dominate" the discussion boards. I never did believe or understand this nonsense. Anybody can post to those boards any time they want, and I never felt that one or two people could "take over" a particular board.

Personally, I think they didn't like the hatred, vitriol, racism, and on the positive side, criticism and open bashing of political policies and groups. I believe Yahoo!, or rather someone very high up in it, has a personal axe to grind against letting "Mr and Mrs Front Porch" spout off and see that they are not alone in their views.

It is no accident that among the myriad categories and Yahoo! products you are allowed to post a question in here about, "Yahoo News" is one subcategory that is conspicuously absent.

After months of seeing the same useless "new" Yahoo! TV listing function, I went back and did a quick test. Type "Christmas Carol" in double quotes into the search. I get 27 hits under "TV Shows". None of the titles or brief descriptions indicate year of release or major actors, so you have no idea which one is the one you want without painstakingly clicking on each one. There is no way to filter them out so ONLY THE ONES THAT ARE ACTUALLY ON are shown. Instead, you are basically presented with 27 useless links to 27 shows that are NOT WATCHABLE.

What idiots. You know, in the 1970s, when you looked in the TV section in your newspaper, you saw what was on. And I mean what was ON.

Get it, Yahoo? I'm sure it's no accident that their Yahoo Answers categories, under "Yahoo Products", does not include one for "TV". They know darn well it would be loaded with hammerings like this.

In the news today, Australia has announced that they are going to ban and gradually phase out the sale of all conventional (incandescent) light bulbs, nationwide. Everyone will be forced to use fluourescent replacements, with very limited exceptions for things like ovens or medical use.

Personally, I think this plain nuts. I use those fluourescents here and there in non-critical places and in places where the bulbs are hard to reach and replace. But the quality of the light is crap compared to conventional lamps. They are rotten to read by, and rotten to do close work under. If they had the same light spectrum as incandescents, I'd say "more power to them." But they don't.

I think what Australia (and everybody else) should be doing is pouring money into making fluourescents produce the same quality of light as conventional lamps, and getting the cost down. That will get everyone to use them.

Just look back over the list of what they've given "Song of The Year", and you'll find, amazingly, "We Are The World" (1986), "Hello Dolly" (1965), "I Write The Songs" (1977) - yes, Barry Manilow, and a raft of really mediocre-at-best songs. Sure, once in a while they picked something really good like Shawn Colvin's "Sunny Came Home" (1998) or truly legenday for its composition like "Moon River" (1962). But mostly, they are real schlock.

Agree?

I say he is. He has just been granted "absolute decree" power by his congress for the next 18 months. I think he is following the path of Hitler, gradually taking over complete control of his country under the guise of "nationalizing" and "improving" public services.