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Comment on: Higher-ed bubble will inevitably burst - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Tiger may be playing well again, but he has become just one of 50 players or so on the PGA tour who can win on any given Sunday. The other players have long gotten over the intimidation factor that u more »
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Comment on: Brian McGrory: Tough landing for roaming bear - Metro - The Boston Globe
Couldn't agree with you more Brian...it's a miracle this bear wasn't killed when he hit the ground. What kind of moron wouldn't think about the bear's safety first before shooting? This kind of pathet more »
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Comment on: Time for that talk with your junior about college costs - Business - The Boston Globe
Bravo!!!! About time a parent stood up to Junior and told him/her that Mom and Dad have a budget set up for their college education, and that it has limits! We did the same thing with our two children more »
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Forum Post: Coakley pricing bill means Mass. confusion
It doesn't take health care providers any time at all to bill you once services have been rendered.....they have all of their pricing, "line item by line item" at their finger tips in their system alr more »
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Comment on: 'Attorney General Martha Coakley circulating plan to control health care costs'
Great News....Finally!!!!!!!!!! Here's a personal example of "health care pricing games" that my family has experienced recently. My brother's daughter was given a diagnostic test and he wanted to kno more »
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Comment on: Insurers, flexibility, and savings - Business - The Boston Globe
The new tiered plans and limited network plans are just more gimmicks that the insurance companies are throwing at us to distract us from what they are really doing....and that is playing "Blind Man's more »
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Comment on: Insurers, flexibility, and savings - Business - The Boston Globe
The real problem with health care costs is that hospitals and insurance companies play games with what they charge for services. If they were forced to post all of their fees for procedures and servic more »
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Comment on: 'Persistence, additional information can overturn a health-claim rejection'
Tom Murphy is "right on" when he states "it's not personal, just business" when your health insurance company denies payment of your medical bills...talk about a conflict of interest?...your insurance more »
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Comment on: 'Limits to save $80m on health plan'
applepete--insurance companies, hospitals and politicians love saps like you...don't ask any questions, fall in line, bark twice, roll over, and take the poisoned medicine that they dish out. What you more »
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Comment on: 'Limits to save $80m on health plan'
Great....just what many of us said would happen when Massachusetts forced health insurance on us....wait a few years....premiums will continue to far outpace inflation (they have)....medical costs wil more »
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Comment on: 'Health care costs are killing city'
Last I checked, it's 2011. When you visit a doctor or hospital, the first thing that happens is that you are asked to hand over your insurance information so that they know about your ability to pay.. more »
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Comment on: 'Care and cost top insurers’
Regarding the comment that recent caps put on health care insurance premiums by Governor Patrick aren't sustainable is "just not true, or accurate". Rather than posturing and telling us that caps won' more »
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Comment on: Also, act now on health costs - The Boston Globe
healthpolicywonk: you are partially correct....the hospital did falsely bill for services provided....but they did it on purpose to pad their payment from our insurance company, as I found out when I more »
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Comment on: Also, act now on health costs - The Boston Globe
It's not the patient that "started gaming the health care system" in this country, rather the shoe is on the other foot! The patient is only fighting back to level the playing field because our politi more »
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Comment on: Also, act now on health costs - The Boston Globe
It's not the patient that "started gaming the health care system" in this country, rather the shoe is on the other foot! The patient is only fighting back to level the playing field because our politi more »
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Comment on: 'Health insurers sue to raise rates'
Bring it on!!!!!!!!!! It's about time the price gouging issue has been brought to the front of the line. The insurance companies, for once, have picked the wrong fight. They have already lost in the c more »
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Comment on: 'State rejects health insurance rate hikes'
I'm fully on board with Gov.Patick taking this approach to putting a stop to the insurance companies practice of unfairly gouging us with their outrageous annual double digit rate increase game. The W more »
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Comment on: The health care fight is not over - The Boston Globe
Two things wrong with the Massachusetts and Federal health reform bills....COSTS....MANDATES!!!!! In the Federal bill, the Wednesday before it was passed, language that put caps and controls on annual more »
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Forum Post: How much do you pay for health care?
Harvard Pilgrim recently raised my family premium 34% from $875/mo. to $1,173/mo. They offer 25 plans, the one we have is the 3rd least expensive option, meaning 22 of their other plans are more expen more »
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Comment on: 'Health rate hikes flout new state cap'
Imagine stopping in at Dunkin Donuts and buying a cup of coffee, but not being told up front what the cost will be. Instead, three months later, a bill arrives in the mail at your home for $22.31 with more »
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Comment on: The first four steps - The Boston Globe
It kills me how this whole health care reform debate keeps talking about everything but actual costs in dollars and cents that we can all relate to. When you go out to buy groceries, you know instantl more »
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Comment on: The first four steps - The Boston Globe
It kills me how this whole health care reform debate keeps talking about everything but actual costs in dollars and cents that we can all relate to. When you go out to buy groceries, you know instantl more »
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Comment on: 'Teen’
Principal Smith says "We will never know the specific reasons why she took her own life". What an out of touch loser he must be!!! He's the direct cause of this young girl's death, no question about i more »
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Comment on: 'Worries grow that health overhaul could price out many'
If we sit back and watch our politicians pass into law a requirement that we all must purchase health insurance of their making, not ours, a law that will also "force" us to pay a hefty annual penalty more »
When I graduated with my 4-year civil engineering undergraduate degree in 1976, my all in cost for my senior year, including tuition, room and board, was $3,650. And my starting salary was $10,600. more »