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From: Kurt Ullman on 5 Apr 2010 13:33 > > I thought part A was hospitals and part B was doctors. Part A is paid for > > out of the medicare deductions from your paychecks, but part B is paid for > > by a $98 (or so) deduction from your social security check. Part A is > > automatic, but you can opt out of part B if you wish. I opted out of Part > > B because I'm using the VA system for my medical needs. > > One other consideration. MCare pays NOTHING outside the US while some types of Gap coverage does. Obviously this is of differing importance depending on how much traveling one wants to do in their dotage (g). -- I get off on '57 Chevys I get off on screamin' guitars --Eric Clapton
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 5 Apr 2010 15:59 Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Technically, yeah, because the banks aren't allowed to be shut for 4 > days. Huh? Who doesn't *allow* them? The same people that allow them to be shut for four days when December 25th and 26th fall around a weekend? > But union agreements include it for lots of people. So? -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 5 Apr 2010 17:09 VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > Closing down gov't offices because the vast majority of people celebrate > a given holiday is not forcing those who do not to observe it. It's just > a day off. Schools in the proNJ are closed more for Jewish holidays (the > first month of September is almost like summer recess) and I don't see a > huge outcry that it's forcing people to don yamakas. There's a very small > minority in the schools here with Lakewood right next door. Philadelphia closed their schools down for the Jewish high holidays in the late 1960's or early 1970's because enough of both the staff and pool of substitute teachers were Jewish and they could not get enough people to cover the classes, even with managment filling in. The demographics of the area have changed and recently they dropped it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Warren Oates on 5 Apr 2010 17:32 In article <eirun.863$z%6.115(a)edtnps83>, me(a)home.spamsucks.ca (Király) wrote: > Huh? Who doesn't *allow* them? The same people that allow them to be > shut for four days when December 25th and 26th fall around a weekend? > Maybe you should look it up. > > But union agreements include it for lots of people. > > So? Jebus, who pissed in your cornflakes. Easter Monday is a holiday for anyone who can get it, mostly union goons. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Warren Oates on 5 Apr 2010 17:33
In article <timstreater-A36A68.21243605042010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In any case, they weren't shut for four days. They were shut Good Friday > and today, Easter Monday, as bank holidays. But they would have been > open Saturday morning as usual. Ha, not where I live. The bank's open today, I checked. Chequed. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |