Affordable Care Act to be Topic at Tomorrow's Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") will be the topic of discussion at tomorrow's Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting. Panelists will be Eric Lewis, CEO of Olympic Medical Center; Larry Little, executive director of OMC; Andy Callis, president of Callis & Associates Insurance; and Mary Hogan, manager of Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics.
posted by Tom Harper at 3:46 PM
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I went to school with Andy although I've not seen him since then. I do know he hasn't been able to do a god damn thing to get my employer a better group plan, with double-digit percentage increase for the last 3+ years. I finally realized what a shitty deal it was and now I'm saving over 200/mo with an individual plan from the same company. But I guess that says more about our demographic here in PA: older and unhealthy lifestyles (at least half the people I work with smoke). My new Obamacare plan costs just 5/mo more and adds on vision coverage, I'll take it.
Christ! ANOTHER $99,000 to be spent on ANOTHER consultant for ANOTHER fucked up city project? Sweet Jesus, it's like they've gone on even more of a spending binge since Mania left. He was at least someone who would speak out against these idiot ideas. Now, there's just a whole lot of "Yes, staff" and not much thought at all. Shit...Hey city council, in the real world, $99,000 is a LOT of money.
"Obamacare" will collapse within the next year and be repealed by 2017.
People with pre-existing medical conditions are eagerly awaiting the time when they will no longer be denied coverage and will be able to get health insurance. They do not want to wait another year or more for the Affordable Care Act to take effect. They need this coverage now.
Shame on the selfish and heartless right-wingers in Congress who hold the ACA hostage to narrow ambitions.
Re: the high-priced out of town "Smart" consultants:
The City admits it has/had nobody on staff who possesses the skill to get the new meters to function as advertised. If the system doesn't work, then the City should have long ago been demanding full performance or trying to get our money back.
If for no other reason than to gather expert evidence for use in suing the supplier, it would seem that hiring an outside consultant is necessary. Otherwise, just more costly floundering by the clueless staff and council.
Max, come back!!!
It's depressing how many years I'd have to work to earn the $99,000 they're practically throwing away...
Affordable Care......
Hahahahahaha
Fuck, most of us are so self destructive that all we have to do is get dead. Fuck wasting money on over priced health care so they can live well and have nice toys trying to save our sorry asses when in the end we are dead anyway.
I've ticked off 70 years on this stupid fucking rock and that was 20 more than I expected to be here.
Without fucking doctors trying to save my sorry ass. I have gone to a few doctors over the years of course, the fuckers died on me.
My cremation is paid for (these cocksuckers won't let you dump me in the park for the critters to eat me), do happy naked pagan dancing on the beach when I croak. Bring your own fucking booze and weed.
Testify, Billy!
County to City: Pound sand, motherfuckers.
It sounds like the City Manager is awakening to the huge messes created by the former public works director and his cronies. Examples: Millions spent on a landfill fix that scientists warned wouldn't work and would harm the environment (a shoreline "retaining wall" to hold in the garbage). Now just a few years later it will take at least $19 million more to begin to solve the problem.
Millions spent on wireless utility meters that aren't smart enough to transit usable data.
Just a few reasons why the former PW Director deserves to have his plumped-up retirement package diverted into the CSO system.
Sad.
Port Angeles: Rough cut, no brains.
The PDN is "proud" its front page is on HuffPo. It is a striking graphic, but it's more like being in the right place, right time. Too bad the article SUCKED. One could get more info from ONP's "info" line. Or tune your radio to AM 830! Or talk to a front line Ranger or PERHAPS a tourist???? WHAT A CONCEPT! Or how about a business that relies on visitors to the park?
I've lived here FOREVER, always read the paper, and I don't think I've ever seen a thing in the paper relating local business and hiker/backpacker tourism.
It's fucked up that the PDN would gloat that the park is shut. We joke that this area is provincial. Truth is, it's trending liberal and there is no reversing it. Has been for a while, and this drives the TEABAGGERS here crazy. The subclass of them the teabaggers/realtors that actually run this town rely on the infrastructure here way more than the average Joe, so the last 30 years have been interesting. The last few years have been FUCKING DEPRESSING watching them waste money at such a fast rate on increasingly stupid projects...destroying our chances of making this community a nice place to visit and live. Or so they think.
PDN, it's time to show some pride in the community, and get over the fact that this isn't going to become some teabag rural wasteland, like so much of the US.
No one thing holds us back more than the PDN. No insight. No oversight.
Gasp, the park is closing?
*wrings hands*
Whatever will I do?
Oh hell, never mind, I haven't been in the park for two years anyway.
Folks, don't get all worked up about a stupid shutdown that isn't going to last long. Some of the folks laid off will enjoy the time off and go camping, fishing, screwing and things like that.
The one 17 years ago while Bill Clinton was entertaining us with blow jobs only lasted 22 days and I never even noticed it.
SHUT DOWN PICKUP LINES.
Talk about it some, Billy!
You're one of the few people that make any sense on this blog.
Yean, the PDN is a piece of shit, but what's gonna take its place? This blog? Peter Ripley's blog? Scott's World? Don't make me laugh. The PDN, piece of shit and all, is here for the long-haul. It'll never change. And yes, it's a major, major roadblock to progress. A giant turd in the road.
Start your own paper!
Whatever. Things will be what they will be.
With a really long fed. shutdown looming, has the city council decided yet which consultants to hire to study the repercussions of their cash cow closing? Why don't they just hire themselves? How about a consultant to figure out what to do if the park closes for a few months...or longer? Money well spent? Maybe they can get a federal grant for it?
Small governments run by teabaggers across the country are plotting to do their own part....increase the stupidity and corruption....watch out people....it's all about one thing....their own FUCKING BANK ACCOUNTS. Which they worked so hard for!
When the feds finally wake up, it's people like us, in small towns, that will be screwed and it will mostly happen locally, costs will FUCKING SOAR on all our projects...watch. There will be no clean up. It's more like slowing the rate of how much we make things worse, more toxic, more unlivable.
When the feds finally wake up, it's people like us, in small towns, that will be screwed...
Really? Man, I would love to be screwed but I've become so complex that it's been about six years since a woman took me on for that lovely activity.
And it was a bust, she was a fucking catholic and I'm on different spiritual journey.
THAT SURE WON'T HELP MAKE HEALTH CARE AFFORDABLE..
Like a fellow blogger said, it's just a redistribution of wealth.
Nine foot high pile of antlers catches fire.
My pile of antlers is only six feet high. I'm feeling inadequate and think I need a bigger truck.
People in North America are avoiding facing up to the realities that exist. The corporate capitalist types, those who care only about "the economy", have been wreaking havoc on the planet for their personal profit. Now we all are facing collapsing food chains, and devastating weather events as a result.
Don't expect either the Republicans, Tea Party-ers or Democrats to do jack about any of these problems. Party loyalty is more important than our very survival.
@ 5:27 AM,.....
Hahahahaha
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