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25 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Part of that unprotected IMO means that they have to pay for hospitalization and health care out of their own pocket (Medicare will not cover it, nor should insurance) should they get COVID and CHOSE to be unvaccinated.  Fuck them.  Stupidity should be a pre-existing condition.

We should let health care workers refuse care to unvaccinated covid patients based on moral grounds.  The mental gymnastics in response to that will be hilarious.

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14 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

I’m fine with that. Of course that can open Pandora’s box as to not covering avoidable illnesses.  Probably more likely non vaccinated see an increase in rates. 

I am fine with insurance rates going sky high for the unvaccinated.  The problem is, I think a lot of these folks are probably on Medicaid, so there needs to be a consequence there.  Sorry, but I have zero tolerance for people that can get the vaccine and choose not to.  Fuck them.

3 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I am fine with insurance rates going sky high for the unvaccinated.  The problem is, I think a lot of these folks are probably on Medicaid, so there needs to be a consequence there.  Sorry, but I have zero tolerance for people that can get the vaccine and choose not to.  Fuck them.

It seems you have a lot of unresolved anger issues. Your Twitter account you linked to before was the most basic bitch Mad Liberal account around.

3 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

It seems you have a lot of unresolved anger issues. Your Twitter account you linked to before was the most basic bitch Mad Liberal account around.

You are really fucking stupid.  Go fuck yourself.

Despite being a wholesale pro-vax kind of guy, I can't think of a bigger "slippery slope" argument than one which links insurability to vaccination.  It would open the floodgates.  The insured would have to prove they undertook no activity or behavior that might have negatively influence their health prospects, and that's not possible.

The math would need to be justified, as it is with the smoker/nonsmoker status, which still gets averaged over the pool.  "Sky high", while hyperbole, just doesn't cut it.  A 5% rate bump?  OK.

14 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I am fine with insurance rates going sky high for the unvaccinated.  The problem is, I think a lot of these folks are probably on Medicaid, so there needs to be a consequence there.  Sorry, but I have zero tolerance for people that can get the vaccine and choose not to.  Fuck them.

You kick your brother out of the house yet? 

9 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

You are really fucking stupid.  Go fuck yourself.

God I love a woman that can swear.....

6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

You kick your brother out of the house yet? 

I told my parents that he has until the day before the payment is due on the 17th to get the 1st dose of the vaccine.  If he does, no issue.  He doesn't, they will have to make the payments until he does.

20 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

It seems you have a lot of unresolved anger issues. Your Twitter account you linked to before was the most basic bitch Mad Liberal account around.

It seems like you are a fucking troll Wal Mart boy. 

Pfizer announcing a vaccine update to target the delta lineage. 
 
Can I download over the air or will I need to plug in?
3 minutes ago, Okie State said:
1 hour ago, Anastasis said:
Pfizer announcing a vaccine update to target the delta lineage. 
 

Can I download over the air or will I need to plug in?

For those of us with the blue tooth enabled microchip, it should be just an overnight update.

26 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

You are really fucking stupid.  Go fuck yourself.

See, basic. 

Can I download over the air or will I need to plug in?
You mean your QR code didn't appear on your arm when got your first round?
1 minute ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
7 minutes ago, Okie State said:
Can I download over the air or will I need to plug in?

You mean your QR code didn't appear on your arm when got your first round?

That was only Moderna. 

Just got word that the 4 most vocal anti-vax Trumpkins (two married couples) in our social circle have all contracted covid-19 over the past month. The older couple are retired and driving their RV back & forth on I-10 from Florida to Texas. The younger couple (40s) have a preschool aged daughter with some developmental issues & is apparently having difficulties breathing. Hoping like hell that girl doesn't experience lifelong health issues due to her mother's idiocy.

35 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Despite being a wholesale pro-vax kind of guy, I can't think of a bigger "slippery slope" argument than one which links insurability to vaccination.  It would open the floodgates.  The insured would have to prove they undertook no activity or behavior that might have negatively influence their health prospects, and that's not possible.

The math would need to be justified, as it is with the smoker/nonsmoker status, which still gets averaged over the pool.  "Sky high", while hyperbole, just doesn't cut it.  A 5% rate bump?  OK.

When pricing a security, should you not consider factors that could increase the risk to the underlying thing? Why shouldn't a for-profit healthcare industry raise prices for people engaging in riskier behavior? 

14 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

See, basic. 

I know you think you are clever, but you are not.  It was pretty obvious when you posted all the pro-Trump, anti-Biden stuff then had the audacity to ask who Marjorie Taylor Greene was.  Your game is old and tired.  

30 minutes ago, Captainant said:

When pricing a security, should you not consider factors that could increase the risk to the underlying thing? Why shouldn't a for-profit healthcare industry raise prices for people engaging in riskier behavior? 

I wonder what price increase the actual math would justify.  Especially when compared to other voluntary health decisions. There would probably be an age/BMI component. 

35 minutes ago, Captainant said:

When pricing a security, should you not consider factors that could increase the risk to the underlying thing? Why shouldn't a for-profit healthcare industry raise prices for people engaging in riskier behavior? 

I didn't suggest otherwise.  I'm mostly reacting to the "sky high rate" comment.  In the years to come, covid will almost surely fall well below heart disease and cancer in terms of mortality, at least in the US, and will probably be edged out by accidental death, lung disease, stroke, dementia, and diabetes.  The whole point of health insurance is to spread the financial risk around a large pool.  The unvaccinated will be like the smokers, hopefully charged more, but not uninsured or priced out of the market entirely.  Should an unvaccinated person in perfect health be unable to afford health insurance at all?  That doesn't balance risk in an appropriate manner.

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

We should let health care workers refuse care to unvaccinated covid patients based on moral grounds.  

No we shouldn’t

4 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

I wonder what price increase the actual math would justify.  Especially when compared to other voluntary health decisions. There would probably be an age/BMI component. 

 

I think that you can close a lot of the gap with the carrot over the stick.  Premium rebates for vaccination could go a long way.  Money talks. Maybe a little more stick for the publicly funded health plans (medicare and medicaid).  Auto disenrollment for failure to vaccinate. 

 

 

Just now, jimmyjazz said:

Sorry if already posted:  Pfizer indicates a booster might be necessary.

I think that it is very prudent to develop a test a delta booster, but we are a long ways from establishing that one is actually necessary. 

2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

No we shouldn’t

Sure, but maybe we shouldn't compel other people to fund it. 

12 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

“Getting vaccinated could save your life.”

Kind of the whole point of vaccines throughout history.

Funny you never hear about smallpox anymore

1 hour ago, Okie State said:
3 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Pfizer announcing a vaccine update to target the delta lineage. 
 

Can I download over the air or will I need to plug in?

Only if you have 5G.

Dang double post!

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3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Sure, but maybe we shouldn't compel other people to fund it. 

You’ll save more money doing that with people who eat fast food

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

God I love a woman that can swear.....

I don’t know why I thought @PenelopeWitherspoon was a male poster.
 

I think it wouldn’t hurt to broaden your horizons, but I apologize for the tone of my post. That’s not how to speak to a woman. 

42 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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Beat me to the punch. But at this point it should be grandma 

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

You’ll save more money doing that with people who eat fast food

If only we could tie such things to a reliable medication intervention that could be implemented over the course of 21-28 days to basically totally obliterated the risk of serious outcomes.  

13 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

If only we could tie such things to a reliable medication intervention that could be implemented over the course of 21-28 days to basically totally obliterated the risk of serious outcomes.  

Because tying healthcare access to behavior would stop with getting the Covid vaccine?

14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

If only we could tie such things to a reliable medication intervention that could be implemented over the course of 21-28 days to basically totally obliterated the risk of serious outcomes.  

This brings up an important question:  why aren't the anti-vaxxers raging about autism and the covid vaccine?  Did I miss that particular angle?  I hear much more about "government control" and the random "5G", "Bill Gates chip", etc.

What happened to autism?

1 hour ago, GRHorn said:

I don’t know why I thought @PenelopeWitherspoon was a male poster.
 

I think it wouldn’t hurt to broaden your horizons, but I apologize for the tone of my post. That’s not how to speak to a woman. 

Don't be so hard on yourself cyka, English isn't your first language

7 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Because tying healthcare access to behavior would stop with getting the Covid vaccine?

It's already been tied together, mostly incentive based. But there is a pretty stark distinction between fast food and COVID vaccination in terms of the immediacy of the benefits.  If you want to get the actuaries involved, its a pretty clear cut picture in a world where outcomes are generally measured with 12 to 36 month run outs. 

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8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This brings up an important question:  why aren't the anti-vaxxers raging about autism and the covid vaccine?  Did I miss that particular angle?  I hear much more about "government control" and the random "5G", "Bill Gates chip", etc.

What happened to autism?

They aren’t vaccinating babies yet

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

It's already been tied together, mostly incentive based. But there is a pretty stark distinction between fast food and COVID vaccination in terms of the immediacy of the negative outcomes.  If you want to get the actuaries involved, its a pretty clear cut picture in a world where outcomes are generally measured with 12 to 36 month run outs. 

Where is access to healthcare tied to behavior?

Just now, Sawbonz said:

They aren’t vaccinating babies yet

But muh hepatitis. 

 

Just now, Sawbonz said:

Where is access to healthcare tied to behavior?

Premium surcharges for health behaviors are fairly common place at this point.  

11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This brings up an important question:  why aren't the anti-vaxxers raging about autism and the covid vaccine? 

This is not an "important question".

 

3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

They aren’t vaccinating babies yet

I guess I never grokked the idea that vaccines only gave babies autism.  I think my brain shut the front gate at "what about . . .".

I don’t know why I thought [mention=550]PenelopeWitherspoon[/mention] was a male poster.
 
I think it wouldn’t hurt to broaden your horizons, but I apologize for the tone of my post. That’s not how to speak to a woman. 
I bet if you tried not being an asshat troll, you wouldn't have to worry about switching tone based on a poster's gender.
8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Premium surcharges for health behaviors are fairly common place at this point.  

Can you point to a premium surcharge that comes close to paying for the total cost of the healthcare needed due to the behavior? I know we like to get pedantic around here but the point I was refuting was excluding coverage for anything covid related based on vax status. That would be a horrible precedent to set, and would require a repeal of a portion of ACA

 

edit I would be fine with a premium surcharge for obesity, high lipids/cholesterol and uncontrolled DM (and covid vax status) similar to what is allowed for smoking. 

Edited by Sawbonz

10 hours ago, GRHorn said:

I don’t know why I thought @PenelopeWitherspoon was a male poster.
 

I think it wouldn’t hurt to broaden your horizons, but I apologize for the tone of my post. That’s not how to speak to a woman. 

I think she should smile more.

I don’t know why I thought [mention=550]PenelopeWitherspoon[/mention] was a male poster.
 
I think it wouldn’t hurt to broaden your horizons, but I apologize for the tone of my post. That’s not how to speak to a woman. 

Don’t be patronizing.
15 hours ago, Anastasis said:

These slides from CDC ACIP get at the expected event rates and first dose/second dose effect. Expected and actual event rates (per VAERS) are exceedingly small compared to the number of doses administered, but there is a pretty clear association with second dose in particular. Real question in my mind is what are the predisposing factors beyond just sex and age.  

 

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dumb question but how dangerous are the noted myocarditis or pericarditis cases?  how many of the 300+ males 12-24 years old died or suffered apparent long term complications? i realize the latter half may be unknown right now.

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