If projections are correct, premiums are expected to jump 40% on average in 2021 just due to covid 19. We are so effed.
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If projections are correct, premiums are expected to jump 40% on average in 2021 just due to covid 19. We are so effed.
If only there were a solution to this that didn't also tie health insurance to employment...Quote:
Originally Posted by Xville
A buddy texted me that he had just lost $40k in the stock market, but at least he saved $1.34 filling up his gas tank! YAY!Quote:
Originally Posted by 94GRAD
I filled up at $1.85 yesterday, but a station across the street from our neighborhood is still at $2.39.....and people still pull in an d fill up all day long. I’m not a penny pincher, but that is just calling me stupid and stealing my money. No thanks.
I know we are a long way from a vaccine being found, produced and distributed. University of Pittsburgh had a vaccine that was tested in mice and produced the virus fighting antibody. Human trial will hopefully start in the coming months. https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...nimal-testing/
Gotta pay for it one way or the other...take your pick taxes, or healthcare premiums. Or I guess we can just print another trillion and pay for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by smileyy
Healthcare is just one part of the result of covid-19 in which we are going to get royally effed.
I think we are (mostly) accurately reporting the deaths, but definitely not the infection rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by xubrew
Even assuming Italy is under reporting deaths I would imagine that they, too, are dramatically under reporting the infection rate.
There is basically no good data on this yet. If we are lucky South Korea has the best data due to aggressive testing that they have been doing, but it's probably too early to say.
So, Governor Kemp has just announced that Georgia will implement a shelter in place policy, because, you know, he just learned that people without symptoms can spread the virus. That must be one big, dark rock he’s been hiding under!
Test the vaccine in the prisons. Start today.
The world hit a million "reported" cases today according to Johns Hopkins.
If they try that, hello socialized medicine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xville