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  1. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Trust me I condensed it down a lot. I really thought it was over when I got the Cobra deal finally, only to find out that even tho they make you pay for the past 2 months, you technically are "covered" but they don't cover anything you had done during that period. I mean I guess I'm lucky in...
  2. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Dude when the hospital calls the insurance company and they say you have insurance and schedule it for the next day and it expired that day the insurance doesn't tell the hospital that. So you go in the ext day and then you find out it expired the previous day and you have no insurance to cover...
  3. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    I didn't find out till almost 2 months or whatever it was that my policy had ended. I had already had the work done at the hospital and they assumed I stll had insurance as did I. It wasn't till a few weeks later (I probably would have gotten a bill sooner or later from the hospial, and I did)...
  4. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    While I'm complainging about healthcare.... I think insurance should cover bail money as well. I had a Dr. examine me for 2 minutes, look at my MRI for 30 seconds and declare "You'll never be better than today, you have massive brain damage, I don't expect you to walk again or regain use...
  5. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    But here's my complaint, if the ACA had not passed my previous insurance that I had for years wouldn't have poofed. Then when I actually got sick they would have covered it and I could continue on that insurance even today. Instead I had to change to a group policy, then lost the group policy...
  6. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Each insurer may have had high risk pool and increased premiums, but when TX passed the state sponsored high risk pool insurance all that disappeared overnight. It was run thru blue cross/blue shield but the state set the price of it by legilslative act and adjusted it each year by law...
  7. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    I haven't looked, the private plans I could buy before disappeared when the high risk pool came out. I'm assuming now that people can go thru the ACA and get pre existing coverage that they aren't offering it either now. My high risk pool wasn't all that expensive, at least I thought. It just...
  8. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Maybe I didn't spell out the time line correctly. Maybe up to 7 years ago I had regular insurance like everyone else and had it since around 1989. Just shopped for a policy and paid 100% of the premium myself. Then the state started the high risk pool and I got thrown into that. When the high...
  9. Borzak

    Gun control

    DC now is going full reciprocity for conceal carry. https://www.facebook.com/EmilyMillerDC
  10. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Except it was fine one day, then the law went into effect and suddenly I became uninsurable to any carrier in the state because the state was now setting the premium price. One day you get competitive quotes from numerous companies and the next nope, it's set by the state now. Then that poofed...
  11. Borzak

    Health Care Thread

    Well as much as I hate to I guess I'm going to have to shop for a policy. Before ACA came about I had a policy I liked and it poofed Jan 1 when the ACA rolled out. Then I got company coverage but now I have to switch over to Cobra. My Cobra cost per month is $2800, I'm 43 and I was the youngest...
  12. Borzak

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yeah but we wouldn't be going 70 on the interstate either. Only one of which has an impact on my daily life. The last time I looked which was also probably about 15 years ago there were more deaths in TX where the contributing factor was listed as vehicle moving too slow than there were those...
  13. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    I'm suprised they have copper in them being vacant. That includes wire, they'll normally grab the copper pipe and the wire, then they burn the wire to get the insulation off of it and take it to the scrap yard. I run into them a lot because when they can't find a place to rip stuff out of...
  14. Borzak

    Depression

    I never have panic attakcs, but at age 43 I've planned my whole life around avoiding people in general. For 25 years I worked at home being self employed. For about 10 years of that I lived in a town of 112 people and the only person I saw on a regular basis was my landlord who would come out to...
  15. Borzak

    Depression

    I did 1000mg of cortasteroids for 5 days. While I was doing it, it was great. I could have worked out in the field or shop for 10 hours a day for at least those 5 days. About 2-3 days after I finished I was pretty much hating life. Couldn't hardly move I was so sore, sore in places I literally...
  16. Borzak

    The Fishing Thread

    Sadly I realise almost all of my fishing pictures predate the proliferatino of the digital camera. That's sad. I've got album after album of salmon I caught in AK, Halibut I caught in AK, largemouth up to 10lbs and various other fish, but none of them digital. I really don't know if I have...
  17. Borzak

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Actually about 15 years ago when TX passed the law that required you to move over for faster traffice they had a big PR campaign including TV comericals and billboards about how it didn't matter how fast the person in the left lane was going, if you were going slower you needed to move over. As...
  18. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  19. Borzak

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    That's why I have grille guards on both my trucks, if you live in deer country and drive much at night in rural areas it really saves on the body damage.
  20. Borzak

    Border Issue

    Won't have to worry about people coming over the border much longer. We'll make some of them refugees so they don't have to come thru Mexico. Log In - The New York Times
  21. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I've worked at home until the first of this year for the last 25 years, since I graduated high school. I guess people for the most part look at whatever they make as being the minimum they can live on. One company I work for gives out a bonus each June at a minimum of 20% of gross pay and...
  22. Borzak

    Yet another missing plane, Algerie

    Air Algerie plane disappears from radar - Yahoo News
  23. Borzak

    The first thing a woman would do after landing on Mars

    Same answer I gave for a man, take a leak.
  24. Borzak

    The first thing a man would do after landing on Mars...

    I was going to say take a leak, that's a hell of a long ride. You know you wouldn't stop on the way cause you were making good time.
  25. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I have bills, I just try and not let it dictate my lifestyle choices. My bills include utilties, food, and whatever fun stuff I decide to buy each month. My best friend is hating life now because of it. He was/is a trauma/ER nurse and loved it. He wound up making some bad decisions money wise...
  26. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Eh maybe. There's a job opening near here that would be very rural and I would take half the money to relocate to there and be very happy about it and that is no indication of the cost of living.
  27. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Phone interview tomorrow. I hate these, they always want to talk money over everything else. I guess I'm in the super minority. I have debt, no bills etc...I would take a job I enjoy or wanted to do for 20% of what I would charge someone for a job I really don't care for. Working environment...
  28. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  29. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    At the top of the reply box where it has font size. bolt etc... on the right side just past where it says insert image, click on insert video and past away.
  30. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  31. Borzak

    The Fishing Thread

    I partially paid my way thru college fishing bass tournaments. In East Texas it's a huge business and at the time I lived less than an hour or two from some of the best lakes in the country. I lived right on Sam Ruburn, a short time from Toledo, Fork, Murval (the previous TX record holder before...
  32. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Rest in peace
  33. Borzak

    Electronics manufacturing

    There must be "some" electronic manufacturing going on in the US still. Elecraft is a company in CA that makes (or assembles) components and says 100% made in the US and they make amatuer radio (ham) and associated stuff like amps, panagraphs etc....
  34. Borzak

    Malaysian Airlines 777 Shot Down (?)

    Talked to a guy in Kiev this morning on the radio. Was news to him. Not sure if it's not getting much airtime over there or he just hadn't listened to anything.
  35. Borzak

    Promotion / Relocation

    I can't help on the promotion and pay end. There are only a handful of people that could take over my job tomorrow if needed. By a handful I mean 3-4 people and my dad is one of them. However I have relocated twice. I like being paid a lump sum rather than reimbursment, but maybe that's just me...
  36. Borzak

    Border Issue

    Americans would riot quicker if you cut off their cheap shit form China before they rioted for having to take a bicycle.
  37. Borzak

    Border Issue

    I'm OK with that. The time to give fucks has passed. Country is god damn broke. At the rate we're going we'll be using one of these soon. People are bitching about XX going up in price, it's not because of demand. It's because we're flooding the country and a good portion of the world...
  38. Borzak

    Border Issue

    Nothing says wanting to integrate like breaking several laws just to get here on top of whatever else they have done in the past before they got here, and no way to keep track of what they've done since they got here.
  39. Borzak

    Pics of the ugliest whores/escorts in your hometown

    Baton Rouge is the closest backpage for me. 100 miles away.
  40. Borzak

    Border Issue