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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:28 AM

Re: Medical providers: up-front payment

>>>Or there's this: vote with your dollars. At least whenever possible. <<<<

I could not agree more. And would love a system that made this more common.

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:38 AM

Re: Medical pricing varies wildly

>>>>Each time that happened, I got three different letters--one from the insurance company saying they were reviewing it, one from the hospital saying they were giving the insurance company further info, and one from the insurance carrier [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:27 AM

Re: Medical pricing varies wildly

>>>>Simple: Single payer system.<<<

Then are you ok with

1. the pace of medical advancements slowing, and the quality of care going down, as suppliers try to maximize profits while the "Single Payer" [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11:48 AM

Re: Medical pricing varies wildly

>>>The current fee structure in medical care is an example of the free market run amok<<<<

I would argue that it is the free market system driven over the edge by the idea that we obtain a service from our employer or [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11:43 AM

Re: Medical pricing varies wildly

>>>And yes, you CAN comparison shop for a lot of treatments. <<<


And exactly why would I? I just go the hospital that is most convenient or I think has better outcomes or is in my network. I will pay the same copay. If [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 2:19 PM

Re: Star Trek and Economics

If the things we value now, energy, land, resources have unlimited supply the will have zero value (or at least very low value) The question is will there still be things that have limited supply and thus still have value, creativity, leadership [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:32 AM

Re: Struggling in America?

>>>>This gets back to my whole argument that when we say things like "something's better than nothing," and the "poor should even sell their shoes if they will get out of their hole," we are being unrealistic, [more]

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ed1007 posted to the Mastering Quicken board. 10:30 AM

Online Quicken "Mint"

The previous thread got me thinking about moving to the online version. I am not ready yet but having moved a lot of other types of data to the "cloud" over the years I am starting to think about it seriously.

Regarding the online [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:43 AM

Re: Struggling in America?

>>>You can sell some land. You can't sell one boot. <<<

You seem to be assuming that she only has one pair of shoes. While I seem to be assuming otherwise. (Based on my life experiences I have a feeling that I am closer to [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:53 AM

Re: Struggling in America?

>>Should she be required to sell those things now?<<<

In my humble opinion, yes.

What if an owner of 10,000 acres of land suddenly could not pay his bills. Are you saying that he should not sell any land because he [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Apple User's Group board. 2:19 PM

Re: Duplicating Iphone

#2 I have set.

#1 I have reported it lost to the carrier and filed a police report in the city I was in at the time. Is there anyone else that I should contact?

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ed1007 replied to the Apple User's Group board. 10:22 AM

Re: Duplicating Iphone

Thanks

I was able to get everything onto the new phone, it worked great.

The old phone still shows up in icloud so if the person who has it will ever turn it on around an open wifi connection I still may get it [more]

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ed1007 replied to the Apple User's Group board. 9:08 AM

Re: Duplicating Iphone

So if use a PC and never backed up to the cloud, I am out of luck????

I took the replacement phone over to AT&T and had the service transferred to it yesterday. Assuming that I can restore from an itunes on PC backup, how do I get back [more]

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ed1007 posted to the Apple User's Group board. 10:20 AM

Duplicating Iphone

I recently lost my iPhone 4S while at Disney world. Find my iphone can not locate the phone and the service provider has indicated that it has not connected since a few min. after I lost it. A phone call made to the phone within 15 min. range several [more]