What’s even more ridiculous is the fact that the Health Insurance companies have given so much money to support the elections of “our” legislators are allowed to get away with this.  It’s no wonder why a National Health Care System has been talked about for a long time.  However, since legislators do not have to pay for any health insurance costs, it’s no skin off their nose to help their constituents stave off these escalating expenses.

What makes this even more galling is the fact that the insurance companies keep raising insurance premiums while claiming that it costs them more and more to operate.  I don’t understand how they put forth such a ridiculous proposition when they dump most of their work on the primary care physicians.  Primary care physicians do not make any money filling out and processing “referrals”.  This is just a ploy by the insurance companies to use these “referals” as and excuse to not pay a claim.  If they actually provided the referals themselves, then they would not be able to deny the claim.  But hey, what do they care,  it costs money to pay the claim — heaven forbid they would have to do that.  Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking this current system is anything more than a fraudulent scam by insurance companies to pass off all their costs onto others while “claiming” higher costs. 

On reason the costs are higher than they should be is due to the amount of reprocessing that occurs with regard to insurance claims.  How many times have you spent hours on the phone with insurance company customer “service” (I use that term lightly)  representatives getting a claim reprocessed because the insurance company did not receive the “correct” information even though the procedure was pre-authorized and processed according to the instructions in the “referral”.  That is where the costs are frivously wasted — your premiums at work.

So what did you expect? Did you think these politicians would do anything that is really important, such as making health care insurance affordable to everyday people?  No, that would be too much to ask.  Let’s just waste some more tax payers money claiming to do something “for the good fo the people.”  Their notion of the good of the people has placed the State of New Jersey on the brink of bankruptcy — but let’s not work on this as the state finacial crisis is too hard to tackle — it might actually require them to listen to someone who really knows what they are talking about.

 Enought said, call your local congresman and let’s dump this bill once and for all.  Little League International has already put in rules to restrict bat performance for 2009.

 Basically,  what he is saying by his actions is that he does not care one bit about the team he put together at WVU.  Wow,  is that a good example for these young men who will move on to regular jobs just like you and I.  What is says is this — do not believe anything you hear from me as I don’t really care about you guys one bit.  When push comes to shove I’ll sell you out and dump you faster than you can call a play in the huddle.

If you are looking to Michigan to play football and get you through college — look somewhere else where you can actually learn about character and team building which will benefit you in later life.  If you want to know how to be a snake oil salesman – well Rich is your man.

Thanks for turning your back on you roots Rich.

Every week I get about one grocery bag full of mail that I don’t want.  Now, lets just say that one bag is 10 lbs.  ==> that’s 520 lbs per year of worthless paper that I just recycle.  I wonder how many trees that is? … hmm  

In order to develop mental toughness as either a pitcher or a hitter, both must learn to deal with the stress that is associated with a batter coming to the plate in a key situation.  If an intentional walk is issued, then neither get to “live the moment” when everything is on the line.   In effect, by focusing on winning the game, the manager has denied that unique opportunity to both players.   If you don’t let them work through those situations now while they are young, how will they deal with those issues as they get older.