Comments on: Fat baby can’t get health insurance

By: Randall W. Capps

Randall W. Capps — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:48:28 +0000

More than 50% of this story came from an outside source, Chyth! Are you too busy to write your own material? Was this on Yahoo! the day you decided to run it?

This really doesn’t say anything but just repeats a story that has been in the news. This is what wins P.Prizes? Did you graduate from a Georgia high school?

By: Public Option Doing Swell

Public Option Doing Swell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:55:48 +0000

This 4 month old’s insurance application was caught in a software glitch. What’s more urgent is that the parents were required to pay a huge increase in their premium because this 4 month old is their second well child.

On a day when Republicans are foolishly touting a “trigger” and democrats without spines are crowning Olympia Snowe an empress and trying to grant her power to write legislation that Presidents since Roosevelt have not had as to healthcare, the threat to raise premiums higher and faster that comes from the insurance companies is the largest concern.

By: TnGelding

TnGelding — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:11:37 +0000

say what?

October 14th, 2009
4:05 pm

Congratulations on your parenting skills.

By: Public Option Doing Swell

Public Option Doing Swell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:50:42 +0000

If your child is not between ages 2-4 at this minute, he or she will be turned away from any Fulton County health clinic. Fulton County is the largest county in Georgia with over one million people. No care givers are being vaccinated. The largest newspaper, AJC is incorrectly stating “no one will be turned away.” That’s incorrect and the two reporters keep making that mistake.

There seems to be no competent editorial control at AJC today.

Contrary to website listings by DCH, physicians’ offices do not have any form of vaccine at this moment.

A 10 year old child, Summer Rockerfeller died on Saturday 10/10/09 due to complications from H1N1. The AJC did not mention whether the child, who lived in Augusta which is the home of MCG’s clinics and major teaching hospital received Tamiflu or Relenza as timely treatment. This child would not be able to receive vaccination right now in Fulton County if the child were alive. Then there would be an 8-10 year perior for antibodies to form and immunization to take place.

That’d be Cynthia Tucker’s AJC.

By: samuel

samuel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:03:59 +0000

For those on this blog, like Turd Ferguson and DannyX, who complain about welfare mothers, or even, in DannyX’s case, his own mother getting benefits you are, for some reason, very angry and resentful people. I wonder, did someone do something to you to make you this way? Relatively few unemployed and uninsured people are in that position because they are simply bad people who want to be a drain on society their entire lives. There are people who’ve lost their jobs and insurance through no fault of their own. There are physically and mentally disabled people, including retarded people, for whom keeping a job is difficult, if not impossible. There are children, whose vocation is, and always shoul be, student. Then there are people who work hard every day, but simply don’t have the skills or the intellect to make much money or have decent benefits. As someone has said many times over the years, most poor people work every day. It is not always one’s own fault that they are poor or lack benefits. Some people are simply more fortunate than others. And those less fortunate should be helped as much as possible. And that includes providing health insurance.

By: say what?

say what? — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:05:07 +0000

Only reason the insurance company made a change was because the father was a news reporter. Had it not been for his career, this story would have been filed under the subject “so what”.
My son was 20 pounds by age 4 months; now at the age of 12 he is at h is BMI, exercises daily, and eats more veggies than meat and starches. Had the insurance company looked at his 4 month weight we would have lost coverage.

By: Chris Broe

Chris Broe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:45:18 +0000

Wrong, debbiedoright, (of the mounties, I hope), the baby was the one who needed a drink after the delivery. You’d need a drink too if’n your born-on date was the same as the fat baby’s. Imagine being born with two strikes against you: drunk and fat. (that’s no way to go through life, deb, so don’t even think it).

By: DebbieDoRight.

DebbieDoRight. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:34:20 +0000

That's one BIIIIGGG Baby!! Imagine pushing that baby out!! Whew!! The mother probably needed a drink after that!! OK to the point: Insurance companies are a business. Period. Businesses don't have hearts they have cash registers. Insurance companies have been known to screw over their OWN people/employees for profit!! So they'd really screw over everyone else!

By: TnGelding

TnGelding — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:25:06 +0000

Sorry those columns didn’t line up. That’s not the way I submited it. Do a search on “social security trustees report.”

By: TnGelding

TnGelding — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:48:06 +0000

Cosby Smith

October 14th, 2009
2:33 pm

Social Security is far from broke. But then, $2.4187 trillion isn’t what it used to be.

OASI DI HI SMI

Assets (end of 2007) $2,023.6 $214.9 $326.0 $42.9
Income during 2008 695.5 109.8 230.8 250.0
Outgo during 2008 516.2 109.0 235.6 232.6
Net increase in assets 179.3 0.9 -4.7 17.4
Assets (end of2008) 2,202.9 215.8 321.3 60.3

(Expressed in billions)

You make a good point, tho. This beast has to be slain.