Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 Im not familiar with Kaiser, but I would stay away from any HMO¡Çs. With special needs it can be extremely hard to get authorization for visits to specialists, etc. Also, before you switch make sure you contact each one and ask if they can send you what they cover in relation to ASD¡Çs. Some insurance companies cover nothing. Health Insurance Hello All, My son was recently diagnosed as being within the Autistic Spectrum of Disorders. Currently we have Kaiser insurance for him. We are planning to switch to some other options. Does anyone have any options on any of the following insurances? We are in Northern CA. United Healthcare POS Pacificare of California - North CA Bluecross Blueshield Thanks, - Ankita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 Supertraining is devoted to sports, strength and fitness science, training, therapy and education.********************************* what we have. If you look at capitalism as one end of a continuum and socialism at the other end, we are getting closer to the socialist end all the time. We need to start moving back in the other direction. ********************************* I'm sorry, but I think this is a joke. This idea that we're constantly moving towards socialism is absurd. In fact, Colbert made a big joke about it one night when he had the actual leader of the Socialist Party come on as a guest. The Socialist Party leader basically said how absurd it was that people were calling Obama a socialist and that Obama would move us further towards socialism. It was a big joke. ***************************** masses. The public schools, controlled by the leftist teachers union, ****************************** " Leftist teachers union? " Give me a break. I've seen no such evidence. Do you even know what a true leftist is? What people consider " leftist " in this country would be considered center-right in most other countries. **************************** The universities staffed with Marxist professors are not going to do it. ****************************** Marxist Professors? I've met many professors in my life and they have all varied widely among the political spectrum. *************************** The leftist media is not going to do it. ***************************** Leftist media? Do you have evidence for this assertion? ******************** Most people are not interested in history or facts and are happiest in arguing from their altruistic emotions. *********************** For someone interested in facts, you're certainly throwing out a lot of hasty generalizations with no evidence to support them. ***************************** Within that number there will be many who choose not to work. In a free country, and the way things used to be, ************************* The way things used to be? Are you serious? It " used to be " that women didn't have the right to vote. It " used to be " that blacks had to go to separate schools. The capital gains tax rate during the Eisenhower years was around 90%!!!!! And people bitch that Obama might raise capital gains? There is not a shred of evidence that somehow we used to be " freer " than we are now. *************************************** those truly destitute are cared for by charity organizations, their church, or the immediate family ************************* Unfortunately, charity organizations stop with their charities when economic times get tough. People hunker down and stop giving to charities when economic times get tough (the times when the poor are in the greatest need). And not everyone has immediate family to help them (and if they do, there's no guarantee that the immediate family will help them). ****************************************** When it came to the subject of seat belts, car seats, playgrounds, etc. I realize those are all beneficial things and I failed to make my point. The problem with all those things is that the government mandates them. No seatbelt, get a ticket. ******************************************** Given that the government is the one building and maintaining the highway system, I think the government has every right to set rules on how the highway system is to be utilized. Second, given that someone who is seriously injured in a car wreck can end up costing you and I, the taxpayers, money, then yes, it is in the best interest to have these laws. ************************************* instead of a car seat, get a ticket, etc..This has resulted in a culture of people who assume no risk or responsibility ************************************* That's a non-sequitur. If you have evidence that government regulation automatically leads to personal irresponsibility, then please provide it. I've always found this claim somewhat incredulous, given that other countries that have greater government involvement don't necessarily have a bunch of lazy asses sitting around doing nothing. Laziness and responsibility are more issues of culture and not government. *************************** They want the government to protect them from every conceivable risk by passing some law. *************************** Welcome to human nature. Since humans first started putting together governments, they've all asked their governments to pass laws to protect them. No surprise there. ************************* How often has the government revised the food pyramid? ************************** They actually revise it every 10 years or so. But the problem is that there's a lot of lobbyists from industry that are usually involved in the development of the pyramid. The other problem is that when you're trying to get a bunch of people of differing opinions to agree on something, it can be a very slow process. ********************************* Many nutritionists now blame the low fat craze with increased obesity and Atkins turns out to be more correct than many of the government experts. ******************** It's a lot more complicated than that. Some experts do say the low fat craze may have played a role, but it's certainly not necessarily a primary role. It's the " cum hoc, ergo propter hoc " fallacy...people like to blame the low fat craze because that's when obesity skyrocketed. But of course many other things happened during that time as well, including decreases in physical activity levels, increased frequency of eating out and fast food consumption, increased energy density of foods, etc. Likely they have all had a factor....the rise in obesity is multifactorial. Krieger, M.S., M.S. 20/20 Lifestyles Research Associate Editor, Journal of Pure Power www.2020lifestyles.com www.jopp.us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Supertraining is devoted to sports, strength and fitness science, training, therapy and education.******************** Posted by: " bobjjdan " rdannegger@... bobjjdan failures. On the other hand, many if not most government sponsored health care systems provide poor service ************************************* Then why is it that some of the top-ranked health-care systems in the world are government-sponsored? My fiance' is a dual citizen of both the U.S. and England. She has experienced both types of health care. She has told me that the care she experienced in England better than here, and she has a solid job with good health insurance here in the U.S. The fact is that we get less health care in the U.S. despite paying higher costs than other countries. Something is fundamentally wrong with that. ****************************** and/or going broke ************************* Evidence, please. ***************** continually have to raise taxes. ****************************** Evidence, please. ************************************* I'm afraid the law of supply and demand and the associated costs of excess demand has yet to be overturned anywhere. *************************************** Unfortunately the problem with applying health care to free market economics doesn't work very well, because supply and demand are affected by unique things that don't affect other free market systems. Health care is not like going to Best Buy and shopping for a TV. For example, there is a natural monopoly in health care. When you need to go to the emergency room, you go to the closest one. There's no time for comparison shopping like when it comes to a TV. Or, consider rural communities where there may only be one doctor or one hospital. And you can't visit your doctor over the internet like you can buy a TV over the internet. Krieger, M.S., M.S. 20/20 Lifestyles Research Associate Editor, Journal of Pure Power http://www.2020lifestyles.com http://www.jopp.us Redmond, WA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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