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Higher Cost SS Health Care Plans?

  In will be moving in about two weeks to Texas so I will need a new Medicare insurance plan for Texas.  I looked a little bit on line and it looks like I will be paying out more money this year.  I have not done a complete check of all the plans yet.
  Today I got information from AvMed.  They are the plan I been using here in FL.  They are not in Texas so I can not use them next year.  I took a look at the AvMed plan for next year just to get an idea of what is going on with insurance.
  The good news…Next year they will cover one Colonoscopy each year and the same with a Mammogram. 
  Then you get to the bad news…last year a impatient hospital stay cost 0.  In 2010 days 4 to 23 will cost $100.00 each day….A visit to a Outpatient Rehab Facility last year was 0 and it is $5 per visit in 2010….To see a Specialist last year, well this year, was zero and next year it will be $5 per visit.
  God forbid you need Kidney Dialysis because this year it is 0 per visit but next year you will have to pay 20% of the cost. 
  Outpatient Diagnostic Testing 0/$50 and next year $25/$100 plus 20% of a PET scan. 
  Then you get into the Medications.  This year I been paying zero for my three medications.  Next year I would be paying $20.00 for one of them and my guess is any doctor I see is going to want to add a couple of medications and my guess is that under this plan next year I would be paying $60.00 for medications each month.

  It looks to me like Medicare health care plans are going to cost each of us more money next year.
  Insurance corporations are allowed to fix prices …  They can get with each other and decide what to do to make more money! 
  I did not know that.  I was watching MSNBC and the woman, forget her name, said that the only two industries exempt from government oversight were insurance companies and major league baseball.
  This is crazy…Insurance companies are exempt from price fixing oversight and laws.  
  Why have we not heard about this?  Why has this not been corrected?

  You and I know what why… Money… We need to fix our election laws.  We need public funding of elections.  The NRA, insurance companies and unions should not be allowed to buy elections.   OK OK… I do not think any unions have that sort of money.. But you got to include them and others to get a law passed.  We need to put an end to corporations or organizations buying elections. 

New carpet

  Darlene reported that they put in new carpet in my apartment today.  It will not be long.  I will be in Fort Worth in 15 days.  
  Jimmy, my son, missed his office visit so now he can not get an appointment and he has to just show up and they will work him.  I think that is an attempt to punish or teach him a lesson.  I am not sure that is the way to handle someone with Schizophrenia.  If I was running a mental health office I would be looking to see if there was some way to go and pick up the patients or make home visits.  When someone had Schizophrenia you want to make sure they take their medication.  If they do not get and take their medication the patient, the family and everyone suffers. If the patient does not take his medication he is going to end up in the hospital and is going to be in the hospital for weeks and it is going to cost a lot of money.
  I guess if I win a lottery someday I can put my idea to a test and see how it works.
  I bet someone someplace has already done something like this…  
  I do not want to be to hard on the place that Jimmy is going…I have not seen it and do not know anything about it… I do know that he is being seen for free and getting his medication for free.

  Jimmy has been in Texas now for about one year. 

  I switched my BoostMobile phone to the $50.00 unlimited plan today.  I plan to just use the cell phone as my phone and not have a land line.  One problem I see is the cell phone battery does not seem to last long. 
  I had a land line phone here but Darlene is the only one that called me.  I suspect she will be calling me more when I am there in Texas.
 
  I did not get any boxes yet.  I want to get some boxes and start packing.  I will feel better when I get stuff packed and sent.  I am worrying about how much it is going to cost to send everything.

Passport with 9/11 suspect’s name found in Pakistan

  How sweet it is… With Pakistan in South Waziristan and having captured a town some pressure must be on al-Qaida.  I know they got lots of places to hid and I suspect Pakistan will not even hold the area and when they leave the rats come out of the hills and return home.
  But at least some of the fight is being taken to them and with the passport of Said Bahaji being found it looks like the Pakistan military is close.
  No matter how many they find and kill there will be more of them.  Pakistan and the rest of the world need to stop the conditions that makes people want to go and blow up woman and children and die. 
  Former President Bush got a lot of people to join the ranks of the killers.  They should give him a award for his efforts.
  I hope the Pakistan government will keep up the attack.  God bless them.

Happy 40th Birthday Internet

“…On October 29, 1969 Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to "talk" to one at a research institute.

Kleinrock was driven by a certainty that computers were destined to speak to each other and that the resulting network should be as simple to use as telephones.

US telecom colossus AT&T ran lines connecting the computers for ARPANET, a project backed with money from a research arm of the US military.

A key to getting computers to exchange data was breaking digitized information into packets fired between on-demand with no wasting of time, according to Kleinrock.

Engineers began typing "LOG" to log into the distant computer, which crashed after getting the "O."

"So, the first message was 'Lo' as in 'Lo and behold'," Kleinrock recounted. "We couldn't have a better, more succinct first message."

Kleinrock's team logged in on the second try, sending digital data packets between computers on the ARPANET. Computers at two other US universities were added to the network by the end of that year. ..”

See Internet turns 40 with birthday party

  

The Kleinrock is Leonard Kleinrock.  Keep in mind that the world wide web did not come around until 1995.  See Internet for information. 

Levi Johnson going full monty for Playgirl

  TMZ is reporting that “Levi’s Going ‘Full Johnson’ for Playgirl.”  Here is what I had to say here in September:

Levi Johnston nude in Playgirl

  It is a crazy funny world.  Levi Johnston the father of Bristol Palin’s baby is going to appear nude in Playgirl magazine. 
  God, I wish I was good at using PhotoShop.  I would make a photo of Sarah Palin looking at the center fold of Levi Johnston.  I think it would be funny.
  There has got to be a lot of funny jokes in this entire event.  Remember Sarah Palin and her family AND Levi Johnston at the GOP convention?  Them going around the United States…family values and everything.
   Do not get me wrong … I do not think this is going to hurt Sarah Palin or the GOP I just think it is funny as hell.
   Levi Johnston will get a lot of money for this ….  Plus he could end up doing a TV show or in movies.  

   I was just reading on the Internet.  There is no printed Playgirl magazine.  It is an on line publication only now.
   So I am not sure how much money he will get for that…  Plus not sure how many people will see his Johnston if it is just online.  If it was a magazine I think you would have a lot of people going and buying the magazine.  I am not sure how many are going to brother to go to the Playgirl online site and I suspect access is not free.
  OH MY GOD… This just gets better and better…

It looks like Playgirl magazine online is a gay site.  I do not know what to say now…  I suspect he does not know that…  What do you think?

Is monogamy still realistic?

“If you were to judge the success rate of monogamy by the sex lives of public figures, perhaps couples should change their marriage vows to say, "Till a tempting new partner do us part." FULL STORY

  CNN has a story by A. Pawlowski and it is listed as a “Mate debate: Is monogamy realistic?” 
  I know news sites run a lot of stories and reports around subjects like this… anything that talks about sex, sin, stars, mating… People jump on it and want to read it right away… 
  My gut feeling is that this sort of story on CNN does nothing but hurt them.. If I were one of the born again bible beaters this story would set me off and make me think that CNN had a issue and a goal. 
  Now knowing what I know about Faux News (aka Fox “news”) I could not turn to them because they run and show more sex than all the other networks.  They of course pretend that they are showing you how bad the other networks are or that they are showing you how sinful the others are… That would not work on me but I bet it works with a lot of the God squad people.
 
 

Last FL Casino Visit

 
  Ken and I went to the Miccosukee Indian casino.  We have been a number of times.  Why we go to it I never know.  We never win… never see or hear about anyone winning. 
  I lost $60.00 tonight.  If you come to Miami FL for vacation…Enjoy the weather, the beaches and everything here except, my advice, skip all of the casinos. 

Sunshine Cleaning

  I got a DVD on the way from Netflix called “Sunshine Cleaning.”  I do not plan, when I move, to have cable TV at my new home.  I may change my mind later.  So I think I will keep the Netflix movie service. 
  I have used both Netflix and Blockbuster and I like them both.  I am such a movie fan I find it hard to find movies that I want to see or that I have not seen many times in the past.
 
  Russ and I have filed, online, our change of address form.  The post office changes you $1.00 to do it.  If you do not file on line you can still file for free.  I think the $1.00 help with ID security.

  I think I can take apart this computer desk and ship it to the new address.

FTC to crack down on bloggers

  Today new rules from the Federal Trade Commission go into effect.  The FTC is going to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products and get freebies or money and do not tell readers.
  I have always told you up front if I am getting any money or anything else.  The new rules will not bring much of a change here.  The new rules will make me think a bit more when I post something. 
  I post here daily about sites that I like or services or things I buy or want to buy and never tell you that I do not get paid for those comments.  I may have to start telling you, some how, that it is an un-paid recommendation.  I know that is not the rule… I need to tell you when I AM getting paid.  But I do not even want anyone to think that I might be breaking the rules.  I think the FTC rules are a good idea.
  I have seen a few excellent blogs that I did read go to hell… Because when sites like PayPerPost and others started up …those blogs that were so excellent would then be just post after post of promotions so they would get paid.
 

Flying on Friday the 13th

  I used PriceLine to buy  the tickets.  Russell and I will be flying from Miami to Fort Worth on Friday the 13th.  We are flying direct.  It will be a three hour flight. 
  We could have got a non-direct flight on a different airline for $75.00 and that is a great price.
  Our ticket cost us $120.00 and that does not include taxes and any extra charges the airline may have for bags and stuff like that…. Ken will drive us to the airport.
  Right now the plan is to get a cab at DFW.  The cost of the cab will be about $80.00 to get us home.  YES, almost the cost the flight and more than the discount ($75) flight.  We will look into something cheaper than a cab … but right now that is the plan…  I do not have a problem flying on Friday the 13th.

  I checked the price of boxes at the The UPS Store…My God … their boxes must be made out of gold.  But they are nice boxes and they have all sizes of them.