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Post by athn64 on Mar 21, 2019 9:30:56 GMT -6
Sometimes I regret not working in the private sector, but then health insurance discussions pop up and I realize how sweet a deal I have as a county employee. We have a $1500 per person deductible. Junie's birth last year was just over 1k OOP. Yeah H switched from private to state employee last year and our premiums went down along with no longer having a deductible. It was so freaking awesome.
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Post by athn64 on Mar 21, 2019 9:33:13 GMT -6
So 45 is showing actual maps of troop movements by holding up a map of Syria and pointing to a 'spot' of ISIS that still exists and will be gone tonight. Yeah this is COMPLETELY NORMAL Wtf? Way to show our enemies where our people are dipshit.
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Post by athn64 on Mar 21, 2019 9:34:30 GMT -6
That's so awful dc2london. If I was close, I'd watch your sick girl so you could go in and raise hell.
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 9:37:53 GMT -6
That's so awful dc2london . If I was close, I'd watch your sick girl so you could go in and raise hell. I'm sick too, will you come make me tea and pat my hair? lol
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Post by athn64 on Mar 21, 2019 9:49:44 GMT -6
That's so awful dc2london . If I was close, I'd watch your sick girl so you could go in and raise hell. I'm sick too, will you come make me tea and pat my hair? lol Lol. Sure. Be there in about 18-20 hours
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Post by Ls2012 on Mar 21, 2019 10:01:16 GMT -6
Oh my, dc2london. I am so sorry for you ds. That's awful. Raise hell at that school. Bullying is monstrous and schools are supposed to be safe zones. If they don't take his safety seriously, my heart hurts thinking about the messaging that sends him.
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Post by notblanche on Mar 21, 2019 10:16:26 GMT -6
One perk of being a fed is that we do have a pretty kickass insurance plan. I paid $0 to have my second- all OB visits, hospital, ultrasounds, testing, etc. It still confounds me. And we paid shockingly little for my husband's SCA event and 2 week ICU stay. But yes, golden handcuff. Golden handcuff is a great metaphor. Not a fed, but a nonprofit employee. My employer pays 85% of our family's health insurance premiums on a $0 deductible plan. It is beyond generous and I feel an enormous amount of guilt over these conversations — because I lived for several years without health insurance at all. I also feel obligated to remain employed here indefinitely because who is foolish enough to give up benefits like that?
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Post by cakewench on Mar 21, 2019 10:32:15 GMT -6
What the ACTUAL FUCK:
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Post by byjove on Mar 21, 2019 10:36:16 GMT -6
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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Post by jkjacq on Mar 21, 2019 10:44:51 GMT -6
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????? HOLY FUCK
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Post by Ls2012 on Mar 21, 2019 10:48:17 GMT -6
Omfg I hope those teachers sue. That is such bullshit.
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Post by AmyG on Mar 21, 2019 10:53:16 GMT -6
I knew I was lucky, but reading everyone's insurance situations makes me realize just how incredibly lucky that my individual deductible is $500 and our family deductible is $1250. And MH's employer does a 100% contribution for insurance for our entire family. It's a serious unicorn situation. Health insurance in this country is so messed up. It shouldn't be unequal like this. We were in a related boat, $600 deductible per person, for 20 years. They paid dh in full and very low cost fir other 3 of us. Worst thing about dh being unemployed.
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Post by AmyG on Mar 21, 2019 10:57:29 GMT -6
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK They arent even teaching the right protocol. Its supposed to be 1st run. Then if you cant run, hide. Thrn if they find you, fight. The teachers instead of going into lock down and being shot at, should be taught best ways to fight and work together and such. Best way to throw a desk at an assailant? Sucks all the way around.
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 10:59:28 GMT -6
that's not even the first time that has happened with the active shooter drills, sadly
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Post by coconutbacon on Mar 21, 2019 11:05:05 GMT -6
I knew I was lucky, but reading everyone's insurance situations makes me realize just how incredibly lucky that my individual deductible is $500 and our family deductible is $1250. And MH's employer does a 100% contribution for insurance for our entire family. It's a serious unicorn situation. Health insurance in this country is so messed up. It shouldn't be unequal like this. We were in a related boat, $600 deductible per person, for 20 years. They paid dh in full and very low cost fir other 3 of us. Worst thing about dh being unemployed. I'm sorry. I hate that insurance is attached to employment.
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Post by coconutbacon on Mar 21, 2019 11:07:30 GMT -6
Wow. That's horrifying. I know I've heard that many students who go through these drills end up with PTSD. I'm sure there's lasting psychological damage for the teachers too, in addition to being physically injured.
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 11:16:30 GMT -6
Charlottesville schools are closed today due a student threatening to conduct an ethnic cleansing
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Post by byjove on Mar 21, 2019 11:24:54 GMT -6
Charlottesville schools are closed today due a student threatening to conduct an ethnic cleansing I'm running out of WTFs. Is it the full moon? What is happening today???
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Post by misspatty on Mar 21, 2019 11:30:52 GMT -6
Um.
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Post by misspatty on Mar 21, 2019 11:32:11 GMT -6
Everyone here is talking about this. Will one of you let me move in so my kid doesn't have to go to school here? I'm a good cook and I'll water all of your plants...
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 11:40:21 GMT -6
Everyone here is talking about this. Will one of you let me move in so my kid doesn't have to go to school here? I'm a good cook and I'll water all of your plants... DIBS I CALL DIBS ON ROOMMATE PATTY
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 11:42:01 GMT -6
Isn't Bibi here right now? Typical . No, sorry, Pompeo is in Israel. Lol sorry Mike
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Post by jkjacq on Mar 21, 2019 11:44:08 GMT -6
Charlottesville schools are closed today due a student threatening to conduct an ethnic cleansing I'm running out of WTFs. Is it the full moon? What is happening today??? Yes
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Post by cakewench on Mar 21, 2019 11:45:58 GMT -6
Trump expected to sign EO protecting free speech on college campuses - because you know, all those conservative voices are being silenced:
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Post by dc2london on Mar 21, 2019 11:47:46 GMT -6
Mueller, driving himself, arrives to his office this morning in Washington. Photo by AP’s Andrew Harnik t.co/89pauEqf8f
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Post by byjove on Mar 21, 2019 11:53:43 GMT -6
I'm running out of WTFs. Is it the full moon? What is happening today??? Yes Amazing.
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Post by Ls2012 on Mar 21, 2019 11:57:21 GMT -6
Everyone here is talking about this. Will one of you let me move in so my kid doesn't have to go to school here? I'm a good cook and I'll water all of your plants... **waves hello from just north of you** You can come up here, but I'm not sure it's a whole lot better. Michigan is trying, though. You'll have to bring the plants. My house is void of greenery.
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Post by cakewench on Mar 21, 2019 12:02:52 GMT -6
WH rejects demand for Trump-Putin documents:
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Post by Minerva on Mar 21, 2019 12:19:21 GMT -6
Every time I look out the window these days, I really do expect to see the world burning down around me.
The diplomacy (or complete lack-thereof) by tweet is absolutely killing me. At least have the decency to compose a memo to announce your terrible Middle East policy, Donald. 😡
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Post by stringy on Mar 21, 2019 12:27:36 GMT -6
I'm behind, but dc2london, I'm so sorry about DS. As a fellow parent of a rule-following kindergartner, I'd be devastated and angry. Did no one witness the event?
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