<div id="RTEContent">Tom,<br> <br> Now you are fabricating stuff I wrote. What I said was that many Wal-Mart employees make more than you do. And that their insurance is better than UI student health insurance.<br> <br> I never made a reference about your health insurance, which you get from the federal government from a previous job, not from a job currently held in Moscow. <br> <br> The federal government can provide great health insurance because they can run $6 trillion in the hole, hire and train their own doctors, nurses, and assistances, and build their own hospitals, a private business cannot.<br> <br> -DJA<br><br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType
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@page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType><div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> stated:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">“Many people at Wal-mart make more than you do. The Wal_Mart health insurance program is better than the UI Student H!
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Insurance program, and it comes with the job.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If, by your latter sentence, you are suggesting that Wal-Mart is better than the insurance program in which I am a member, Arnold, let me fully assure you that you couldn’t be more wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I am NOT a subscriber/user/member of UI’s Blue Cross insurance plan!
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am a member of Tri-Care. Tri-Care’s premiums are virtually non-existent. The most I ever pay for prescriptions under Tri-Care’s co-pay policy is $9.00. As far as medical/hospital coverage under Tri-Care is concerned: Two years ago I underwent a double hernia operation at Gritman. In addition to the operation, Tri-Care covered a two-night stay at Gritman. The invoice total was in excess of $10,000. Out-of-pocket I paid $359.50. My Tri-Care policy currently expires at age 65. However, due to slow and deliberate degeneration of Medicare, consideration is currently being given to extending Tri-Care policies for life.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: !
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font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The reason why I explained this, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>, is to suggest that not only should UI adopt an insurance program comparable to Tri-Care, but Wal-Mart should offer its employees nothing less.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And . . . oh, yeah . . . my Tri-Care policy came with my job up until I retired and continues to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="!
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Take care, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
navy;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">“I think one of the best ways to support education is to make successful private schools like Logos prosper through tax exemption.”<br> <br> - Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> _____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br>
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