<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Which do you prefer, Mr. Falen?</div><div><br></div><div>- A system that requires all businesses to provide health insurance to their employees, with fines levied against those businesses that do not comply, or . . ,</div><div><br></div><div>- the status quo where the only "health insurance" available, to those who cannot afford high premiums, is the nearest emergency room.</div><div><br></div><div>Your choice, Nr. Falen?<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:24 AM, lfalen <<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style>div.iw_mail p{margin:0;padding:0;}</style><div class="iw_mail" dir="LTR"><style>div.<span class="spell">iw</span>_mail p{margin:0;padding:0;}</style><div dir="LTR" class="iw_mail"><p>Sunil</p><p>I think you are right. All government employees(Federal, State and local) have employer sponsored health insurance. So do most of those who work for larger companies. Obamacare would cover those who cannot afford insurance and those in the low income brackets. The potential problems are that some companies will convert some employees to part time. They will be hit with a double whammy. Getting insurance on their own will is most cases cost them more and they will have a reduced income to pay for it because they are now part time. Older folks and the disabled can get Medicare. the Indigent get Medicaid. Some of the money to pay for Obamacare is to come out of Medicare. Just how or where, I do not know.<em> </em>I pay a little over $100.00 per month for Medicare and $66.33 to the University for Part D and Dental, which Medicare does not cover. My doctor and has just quit taking Medicare. I assume this means I will have to change doctors.</p><p> </p><p>Roger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br> </p><div class="signature"></div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 1em; font-family: tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 1em; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;" dir="LTR" class="reply_block"><hr size="1">-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Sunil Ramalingam" <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Date: 10/15/13 17:27<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Story in Chicago Tribune Oct.15, 2012<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Wayne,<br><br>If they are not covered under the Act, isn't it because their insurance is covered as an employment benefit? Isn't the same true for University of Idaho employees?<br><br>Or am I wrong about this?<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div>
<hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:15:59 -0700<br>To: <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Story in Chicago Tribune Oct.15, 2012<br><br><div>Roger,</div>And this is a surprise ?<div>Why do you seriously think that neither the White House nor Congress is part of "Affordable Health Care"?</div>
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<div>On Oct 15, 2013, at 5:08 PM, lfalen wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ecxiw_mail"><div dir="ltr" class="ecxiw_mail"> <div class="ecxsignature"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="ecxApple-style-span"><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline">Adam Weldzius, A Nurse Practitioner is privately insured. His monthly insurance premium of $233(deductible of $3,500) will more than double. For the same coverage his deductible will be $12,500.</span></div>
<div class="ecxsignature"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="ecxApple-style-span">A Tribune analysis shows that 21 pf the 22 lowest plans on the Illinois health exchange for Cook County would have annual deductibles of over $4,000 for individuals and $8,000 for family coverage.</span></div>
<div class="ecxsignature"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="ecxApple-style-span">People who have health insurance threw their employer have an average deductible of $1,100 according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.</span></div>
<div class="ecxsignature"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="ecxApple-style-span"></span> </div>
<div class="ecxsignature"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="ecxApple-style-span">This is from a story in the Chicago Tribune. They are not my figures.</span></div>
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