Phoenix writer was so pwned today

By adamg on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:19pm

Blue Mass. Group captures the interchange between David Bernstein kvetching about a young woman asking a gubernatorial debate question about health insurance and the woman, who checked Twitter to see what people were saying about the debate.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:58pm.

Well... I can see your point,

By anon on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 7:50am.

Well... I can see your point, Swirly, but I just don't think the faux pas is worth resigning over. I think we hold these people to higher standards than we do the politicians themselves, which seems unreasonable.

Thoughts?

Amusing. Maybe now they can

By NotWhitey on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 8:06pm.

Amusing. Maybe now they can acknowledge Susan Bump's tax write-off shenanigans.

For the first time.

Couldn't tell if he was joking or what

By Kaz on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 9:33pm.

But it fuels the "damn liberal elites!" anger out there to somehow assume that getting a job is the same as having or affording health care these days.

Word

By M on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 5:57am.

I'm working two jobs (about 50 hours a week) and neither offers benefits. I love Commonwealth Care with all my heart and soul, and will not grouse about taxes later because I can see, first hand, where at least part of the money's going, and I truly appreciate it.

Commonwealth Care is awesome, but there are holes

By eeka on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 8:27am.

I'm eligible by income, but I can't get CC because my job offers health insurance and pays at least 33% of our premium, which means I therefore have access to health insurance in CC's view. They don't care that my job only offers a really really expensive plan with high deductibles and that they offer only single and family plans with no two-person option. The state's affordability worksheet assumes that everyone has two-person plans available (they have columns listing reasonable prices for single people, two-person families, three-or-more-person families), so it says my ass-expensive family plan isn't considered affordable. But it's still the cheapest plan available to me, so I'm paying up the ass for it.

Also, if I leave my day job and go to entirely self-employed work, which I may do in the distant future, I have to be uninsured for six months before I can get Commonwealth Care. I get that they have to do this as a business so people aren't hopping around, but yanno, a single payer system would fix all that.