Odd geezer still tryin' to get "health insurance" from Obamacare "experts"

This is the first time I was aware we were supposed to contact the insurance company about payment.
Odd that the professional chatter didn't have the phone number of Michigan BCBS, as there are ONLY 3 insurance providers in the entire state of Michigan who are part of Obamacare.
Then again, not so surprising.....
We are SOOOOO screwed!

My chat today:

Sunday, 12-15-2013 

Thanks for contacting us. My name is PGSUT0944. To protect your privacy, please don't provide any personal information, like Social Security Number, or any other sensitive medical or personal information.

[10:16:51 am]: PGSUT0944

Hello, my name is Amanda, how may I help you today?

[10:18:57 am]: james

I just spent 10 minutes on chat trying a simple answer. Please help.  Need BCBS phone # Michigan. The phone # the other chat professional gave is for Florida. I live in Michigan  

[10:20:01 am]: PGSUT0944

Thank you. One moment please while I look that up.

[10:21:59 am]: PGSUT0944

Was your plan the Blue Cross Blue Sheild?

[10:22:45 am]: james

yes

[10:22:59 am]: PGSUT0944

Thank you. One moment please.

[10:25:46 am]: PGSUT0944

Thank you for your patience. I am still researching that information.

[10:27:05 am]: PGSUT0944

This may take a little bit, my computer isn't pulling up the number so, I am contacting someone else to look it up.

[10:28:09 am]: james

I'm still here...

[10:29:36 am]: PGSUT0944

Thank you for your patience.

[10:30:50 am]: PGSUT0944

We do not have the number for Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield but, if you call your State Department of Insurance, they can give you the number. Their number is (877) 999-6442.

[10:32:26 am]: james

I thought I was to pay the federal government, not the local insurance company. Obamacare is to bill me. Right?

[10:33:04 am]: PGSUT0944

No, payment goes through the insurance company.

[10:35:06 am]: PGSUT0944

Your insurance company is supposed to tell you how to make the payment but, since you haven't received materials, you would need to contact them.

[10:35:20 am]: james

thank you

[10:35:25 am]: PGSUT0944

Thank you for contacting Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat.  We are here to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

[10:35:47 am]: Your chat session is over. Thanks for contacting us, and we hope we've answered your questions. Have a great day.

[10:35:47 am]: 12/15/2013

Obama's propagandists in the MSM have done a masterful job minimizing this real problem----CBS Notices 'Another Problem' With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit

Waddya bet Obama's "answer" is a special government agency to "fix" the problem. 
"Blue Ribbon" committee!
CBS Notices 'Another Problem' With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit | NewsBusters:
"Scism and Martin detailed how the report from HealthPocket Inc., "a company that compares health-insurance plans for consumers", analyzed the health care plans in 34 out of the 36 states that haven't set up their own exchanges under the controversial health care law.
The report also underlined that the $5081 average cost is "42% higher than the average deductible of $3,589 for an individually purchased plan in 2013 before much of the federal law took effect."

The Wall Street Journal correspondents also noted how "'cost-sharing' subsidies to help pay deductibles are available to people who earn up to 2.5 times the poverty level....[but] the cost-sharing subsidies for deductibles don't apply to the bronze policies.""

Holy crapoli! The DOE has 104,179 EMPLOYEES?!!!! IG: Personal Information Stolen from 104,179 after Energy Department Cyber Attack

And they've accomplished what......
IG: Personal Information Stolen from 104,179 after Energy Department Cyber Attack | Washington Free Beacon:
"Hackers were able to obtain personal information from 104,179 Department of Energy employees and contractors during an attack this summer, according to the Inspector General."

Something is seriously wrong with the Secret Service..... or maybe it's someone else.........Nelson Mandela memorial security scandal: 'There were no checks'

Nelson Mandela memorial security scandal: 'There were no checks' | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"It's becoming increasingly clear that when President Obama arrived at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, he stepped into an atmosphere so chaotic, disorganized, and unsafe that under any other circumstances the White House and Secret Service might well have insisted the president not appear.

FNB Stadium, where the memorial was held, seats 95,000 people.
Even with a steady rain and thousands of empty seats in uncovered areas, there were tens of thousands of people in the area with the president. 
It appears most of them got in without going through any security.

"There were no security checks upon entry to the stadium," a local South African activist wrote Friday in a letter to the Johannesburg Star newspaper.
"I walked freely to my seat without passing through metal detectors, being searched or any other check."

The stadium's main entrance was "completely unattended," a reporter for a Washington, D.C., television station told Politico.
"There were no workers performing bag checks or pat-downs — there were no magnetometers to walk through, no metal detector wands being used — anywhere.""

State would demolish Joe Louis under plan for new hockey arena

State would demolish Joe Louis under plan for new hockey arena | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The state will pay to demolish Joe Louis Arena after the Detroit Red Wings move into a new facility sometime in 2017 or 2018.
The hockey team has played at the city-owned arena since 1979.

News of the arena’s fate was disclosed Friday afternoon during a Downtown Development Authority special meeting to approve sending to the city council a concession management agreement between the DDA and Olympia Development of  Michigan for a new $650 million arena and entertainment district at I-75 and Woodward Avenue.
ODM is the real estate arm of the Ilitch family, who own the Detroit Red Wings."

Another heartwarming video-Gunny & Glock - Wrong Girl

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Still waitin' for the guy who would've been Trayvon's Dad to speak out-------New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds

Guess who are the murderers and guess who is the dead medical student.
Is there racism in this country?
You bet there is!
And it's driven by racist politicians who brainwash black youths into believing white success is stolen from black people.
That turns into hate, folks.
New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Paul DeWolf was asleep late that Tuesday night, scheduled to work the next morning at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital.

The sound of the door opening to his basement room in the Phi Rho Sigma house near the University of Michigan campus startled him.
Three men crept in and shut the door.

DeWolf, 25, lifted his head and asked what was going on.
One of the intruders pointed a gun and ordered him not to move.

At some point, DeWolf got out of bed and groped for something on his dresser.
The man with the gun tried to hit DeWolf with the weapon and it went off.

The popular University of Michigan medical student was shot in the neck and killed."

That this is even a question is a disgrace-----Should state hold back 3rd-graders who can't read well?

Hold 'em back?
That'll make 'em feel bad.
No, we MUST promote them to the next grade where they don't teach reading.
That's what we've been doin'.
Don't want no body feelin' bad......
Should state hold back 3rd-graders who can't read well? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"If Michigan lawmakers follow Florida’s lead by holding back third-graders with poor reading skills, the state would join a fast-growing movement across the country. 
But can Michigan replicate Florida, where the 10-year-old policy has resulted in short-term gains?"

A nice way to start your day-----Chicago's Magical Piano - YouTube

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History for December 15

History for December 15 - On-This-Day.com:
1981 - The U.S. Congress passed $200 billion spending bill. At the time it was the largest in U.S. history










1791 - In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia.

Junk science kills people! Study Linking GMOs to Tumors in Rats Retracted

Study Linking GMOs to Tumors in Rats Retracted | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy:
"In September 2012, Food & Chemical Toxicology published a peer-reviewed study purporting to show that rats fed genetically modified corn had a higher incidence of tumors than those that were not.
This was significant, as this study was the first to find evidence of an adverse health effect in any mammal species from the consumption of GM foods.
The study immediately faced a wave of criticism from scientists and experts in the field, who noted the paper’s many methodological failings.  
In response to such criticism, Food & Chemical Toxicology retracted the paper on November 28, after the paper’s authors refused to withdraw it on their own. 
The authors are now threatening suit against the journal, and anti-GMO activists are organizing a boycott, but the editors are standing their ground."

Big Education attending to the IMPORTANT issues----Houston school board votes to ban 'offensive' mascots

Houston school board votes to ban 'offensive' mascots | Fox News:
"While the new policy does not refer to specific nicknames or types of mascot, the school district has said that three campuses — the Lamar High School Redskins, Hamilton Middle School Indians and Welch Middle School Warriors — would be affected.

A fourth school, Westbury High, might have to drop the use of Rebel, even though connections to the Confederacy were eliminated more than two decades ago."

The city's bankrupt. The state broke. And we're borrowing/taxing for new hockey arena?????? Proposed hockey arena district on DDA agenda today

These democrat, economic fascists are taxing the poor (property taxes) and guaranteeing less money for schools so their business cronies can get rich!
When are the PEOPLE gonna get it?
Proposed hockey arena district on DDA agenda today | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The state’s Michigan Strategic Fund in July approved the sale of $450 million in 30-year tax-exempt private activity bonds to pay for construction of the arena itself.
Another $200 million would be private-sector investment in ancillary construction, such as residential, office and retail space around the arena.

The state bonds will be repaid by the DDA and county property tax capture, $231 million in school taxes within the DDA district that the Legislature in December 2012 approved for the project’s use, and $11.5 million paid annually by Olympia.

The state reimburses the schools for the diverted money, the DDA has said.

Wayne County last month approved an inter-government agreement with the DDA that allocates 1.5 mills of new county property tax capture in the expanded district to repayment of the arena bonds, said Bryce Kelley, director of the Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine.

Tiny Vermont Gets $208 Million to Build Disastrous Obamacare Exchange; Where Are the Press Watchdogs?

Tiny Vermont Gets $208 Million to Build Disastrous Obamacare Exchange; Where Are the Press Watchdogs? | NewsBusters:
"In mid-November, Americans for Tax Reform compiled a list of federal spending on state Obamacare exchanges totaling a breathtaking $4.5 billion.

One number on the list stands out from the rest — and it's not California's, though its $910 million amout is awful, disproportionate, and surely highly wasteful (before considering scalability concerns, the fixed costs of building a web site should be close to the same regardless of a state's population).
The big eye-catcher is tiny Vermont's staggering $208 million. 
The nation's second-least populous state (626,000 as of 2012) has 0.2 percent of the U.S. population, but has received 4.6 percent of grants from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "

NEVER trust the lying (redundancy alert) MSM-------Arapahoe High Gunman: Republicans Are the Party of 'Let 'em Die'

Arapahoe High Gunman: Republicans Are the Party of 'Let 'em Die'

The Denver Post reports that Pierson had "very strong political beliefs" and that one Facebook post he authored tore into Republicans as political party that wanted to let people die:

"[Y]ou republicans are so cute" and posting an image that reads: "The Republican Party: Health Care: Let 'em Die, Climate Change: Let 'em Die, Gun Violence: Let 'em Die, Women's Rights: Let 'em Die, More War: Let 'em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?" …

Pierson also described himself in a Facebook post as "Keynesian" when it came to economic thinking, and criticized free market thinkers:

In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as "Keynesian."

Pierson's classmates described the suspected gunman's political beliefs as "outside the mainstream," and described Pierson as "an outspoken kid about what he believed and a good political thinker." Another classmate said Pierson held "very strong beliefs about gun laws."

The Los Angeles Times quotes friends who described Pierson as an advocate for gun rights. In its lengthy report, The Los Angeles Times does not, however, include the information about the Facebook posts where Pierson describes himself as Keynesian or mocks Republicans as wanting people to die."

Hilarious: NYC artists and independent professionals realize ObamaCare targets them

Blog: Hilarious: NYC artists and independent professionals realize ObamaCare targets them:
"So will these deep blue people turn on Obama?
Maybe, but it will take some time:
It is an uncomfortable position for many members of the creative classes to be in.
"We are the Obama people," said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. 
Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. 
What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.
"I'm for it," she said. 
"But what is the reality of it?"
Ah yes, reality.
That's always the problem for liberalism, isn't it?"

Isn't this sorta like when the FBI knew about Muslims who wanted to learn to fly, but didn't want to learn how to land? DHS IG: Tunnels Along U.S.-Mexico Border ‘Significant and Growing’ Threat

DHS IG: Tunnels Along U.S.-Mexico Border ‘Significant and Growing’ Threat:
"According to a report by the DHS OIG released December 11, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, charged with protecting the U.S. borders, lacks the technological capability to detect subterranean tunnels.
“Illicit cross-border tunnels along the southwest border are primarily used by criminals to transport illegal drugs into the United States, and they are a significant and growing threat to border security,” noted the report.
“In an effort to counter this threat, CBP has modified its operations through patrols, intelligence gathering, and closing of illicit cross-border tunnels, but it does not yet have the technological capability to detect the tunnels routinely and accurately.”"

Obama's america---No sign Rep. Bobby Rush paid rent for South Side office; contributions helped bankroll his wife

No sign Rep. Bobby Rush paid rent for South Side office;  contributions helped bankroll his - Chicago Sun-Times:
"For the past dozen years, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., hasn’t reported paying any rent for his campaign office, records show, in what experts say could be a violation of federal election law or House ethics rules.

It’s one of a series of questionable practices an investigation by the Better Government Association and Chicago Sun-Times found involving Citizens for Rush, the South Side congressman’s campaign committee.
Rush’s campaign also has:

◆ Subsidized the South Side church founded by Rush, who is the congregation’s pastor, giving Beloved Community Christian Church more than $196,000 since June 2004.

◆ Paid Rush’s wife Carolyn Rush a year-round salary since January 2007 totaling $404,000 as a consultant. That’s nearly a quarter of the $1.6 million the congressman’s campaign fund has raised in that time."

Scariest thing about North Korea's Kim Jong-un? He's totally sane

Scariest thing about North Korea's Kim Jong-un? He's totally sane | Mail Online

Judges have pronounced sentence for crimes as trivial as owning a Bible, communicating with South Koreans or Christian missionaries, or simply complaining about the hardship of life in a state where millions spend their lives close to starvation.

The prisoners — a rock stuffed in their mouths to prevent them shouting out and ‘defiling the great leader’ — are tied to a post and shot, one by one, by a three-man firing squad. 

Armed with rifles or machine guns, their killers shoot them so many times their faces are usually unrecognisable. 

The bodies are thrown into bags and dumped.

As with any ‘offences against the people’, not only are the perpetrators punished but also three generations of their families — with grandparents and children alike ‘disappearing’ into horrifyingly brutal prison camps.

Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners such as these are locked away in a network of North Korean ‘kwan-li-so’, or penal-labour colonies.

Such is the regularity of executions in these godforsaken places that according to one former prisoner, Kang Chol-Hwan, in his book The Aquariums Of Pyongyang, a bulldozer preparing some ground to become a field in his prison camp unearthed masses of body parts. 

‘Scraps of human flesh re-emerged from the final resting place,’ he remembers. 

‘Arms and legs and feet, some still stockinged, rolled in waves before the bulldozer. 

I was terrified.’

We spend billion$$ for presidential security and get this?-----Funeral Spice

Funeral Spice | National Review Online

But how heartening, as one watches the viral video of Obama droning on while a mere foot and a half away Mr. Jantjie rubs his belly and tickles his ear, to think that the White House’s usual money-no-object security operation went to the trouble of flying in Air Force One, plus the “decoy” Air Force One, plus support aircraft, plus the 120-vehicle motorcade or whatever it’s up to by now, plus a bazillion Secret Service agents with reflector shades and telephone wire dangling from their ears, to shepherd POTUS into the secured venue and then stand him onstage next to an $85-a-day violent schizophrenic.

Heartwarming story of a girl and her protector

▶ Hilarious gun commercial - YouTube: "

We pay these people? Really?!!!! Hamilton High Suspends Girl for Christmas T-shirt but Says Okay to Hijabs

Hamilton High Suspends Girl for Christmas T-shirt but Says Okay to Hijabs - National Report | National Report
:Mia’s mother Gina Mendez spoke with local reporters about her daughters punishment.
“The district’s policies are way out of line. There are Muslim girls who attend school at Hamilton and four or five of them frequently wear hijabs.
Tell me that isn’t a religious symbol. If a hijab is permissible attire on campus then how does a T-shirt saying you love Christmas not?”

Hamilton High School principal Jerry Kemp spoke with the National Report about the school’s dress code. Kemp told us, “The district addressed religious attire on campus two years ago and the policy here is the same for all schools in the district. The law states students have a legal right to reasonable accommodation in matters of faith, so long as the attire does not present health or safety concerns. The district recognizes Christian faith does not have a strict dress code as do other faiths. Sometimes this has lead to concerns that our dress code has a disproportionate impact on students of Christian faith, but that is not true.”

Kemp explained, “The hijab is a piece of traditional headwear that is part of the religious and cultural beliefs of students of Islamic faith. 
Wearing a hijab is derived from and mandated in the Quran.
While the district recognizes a students rights to wear a hijab, it does not recognize a T-shirt that has text promoting a religious holiday or belief.
Christian students are not mandated by their faith to wear specific religious garb.
We do not allow students on campus to wear clothing that says, I love guns, drugs, or sex either.”

Obama's war against parents protecting their own children from harm------From Sandy Hook to Malpractice?

PJ Media » From Sandy Hook to Malpractice?:
"As we approach the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, it has become clear that civilian disarmament proponents use 20 dead children to promote their disarmament agenda. Missing from the dialogue are many truths they intentionally circumvented.

Government mandates that taxpayers support government-run schools, but exempts itself from responsibility should your children die while in school custody:
The Supreme Court rules repeatedly, via cases like DeShaney v. Winnebago and Castle Rock v. Gonzales, that government agencies have no duty to protect your children.


Taxpayers also fund tuition for Obama’s — and other government employees’ — children at Sidwell School, which employs 15 Special Police Officers and other security personnel to provide armed defense against the terror that resulted in Sandy Hook Elementary School being razed and replaced, costing taxpayers another $50M."

Mount Soledad Cross Will Be Purged from Veterans Memorial

Mount Soledad Cross Will Be Purged from Veterans Memorial: "After 24 years of litigation, a federal court revealed in an emotional hearing that it has ordered the famous Mount Soledad Cross removed from a veterans memorial, holding it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. 

Since 1913, a cross has stood as the centerpiece of the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, surrounded by nearly 3,000 granite plaques, individually honoring war heroes from every American war, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The structure is a 29-foot Latin cross, which was erected in 1954.
For much of this time, it was in a city park in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego.
Then, in 1989, the ACLU filed a lawsuit, arguing that allowing a cross on government land violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
This memorial has been embroiled in litigation ever since."

Somethings seriously upside down in America these days

A clear war on our national celebration by zealots of the Fundamentalist Atheist Religion-------9-Year-Old Suspended For Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ To Teacher

9-Year-Old Suspended For Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ To Teacher - National Report | National Report
San Francisco, CA — The ‘war on Christmas’ continues as a simple well-wishing of ‘Merry Christmas’ has led to big trouble for one fourth-grade San Francisco boy this week.
Timothy Dawson, a 9-year-old student at Argon Elementary School in San Francisco, CA., was in the school cafeteria Monday eating with friends when he was taken to the principal’s office and given a week-long suspension.
His punishment was consequence for saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to his homeroom teacher earlier that morning.
Dawson’s teacher, 35-year-old Paul Horner who is an outspoken Atheist, was offended at the students display of Christmas spirit and had staff suspend the young boy for the rest of the week.
“I say ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone,” the boy told CNN. “I didn’t think it would cause so much trouble just for saying a couple little words.”

Arguably the most import and depressing article you will read in 2013----What Will It Take?

PJ Media » What Will It Take?:
"Let me begin with a categorical statement that, given current events and recent political history, can be easily defended: Barack Hussein Obama is a willful, indoctrinated child of the Left with strong Islamic sympathies who is not fit to govern.
Indeed, he would not be fit to govern Lower Slobovia, let alone the United States of America.
Obama is a historic disaster of the first magnitude and, if not restrained, he will see to the irrevocable decline of the country which foolishly elected him, leaving the world on the brink of a conflict — or in the midst of one — whose repercussions cannot be underestimated."

Oh my golly! You MUST read and see this wonderful video------Husky abandoned on trash heap develops friendship with chihuahua

Do grab a hankie....
Husky abandoned on trash heap develops friendship with chihuahua | Mail Online:
"A dog who was discovered clinging to life on a pile of trash in a junk yard has been given a second chance by animal rescuers and made a stunning transformation.

The female husky was weak and covered in painful-looking mange when Eldad Hagar from Hope For Paws found her in a Los Angeles garbage dump.

In a moving video, Hagar shows the resilience of a dog who was abandoned and likely abused and left to die on a pile of garbage."

WALMART? Who Funds the Far Left? You’ll Be Surprised

Who Funds the Far Left? You’ll Be Surprised | Power Line:
"The Center for American Progress is a left-wing organization that is closely associated with the Obama administration.

Its principal product is a web site called Think Progress.
Think Progress is part of the internet cesspool that modern liberalism has become.
Written by hack left-wing bloggers, it is bitterly hostile to free enterprise.
It is a low-rent site that traffics in the most absurd smears and conspiracy theories.
Many have wondered for some years who finances far-left web sites like Think Progress.
As of today, we know at least part of the answer, as CAP released its corporate donor list for the first time."

* Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists.
* American Iron and Steel Institute
* America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
* Apple Inc.
* AT&T
* Bank of America
* Blackstone, one of the largest multinational private equity firms
* Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
* Citigroup
* The Coca-Cola Company
* Comcast NBCUniversal
* CVS Caremark Inc.
* Eli Lilly and Company
* Facebook
* GE
* Goldman Sachs
* Google
* Japan Bank for International Cooperation
* Microsoft Corporation
* Northrop Grumman, defense contractor
* PepsiCo
* Samsung
* Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States
* Time Warner Inc.
* Walmart
* Wells Fargo

MSU Rose Bowl 2014: Prepare For Glory

Rose Bowl 2014: Prepare For Glory - YouTube: ""