Mama Carol

And how unfair it is that people who don't play don't have a chance to win. Hey, math might not be my best subject but I know a bit about playing the odds. I learned percentages from figuring batting averages.

Anyone got a chart that shows where the lottery money goes?

The discussion isn't about medicine or doctors. It's about the lottery and school taxes. WHERE is the cheating? The lottery funds are being used for what they were intended to be used for. The school taxes are being used for what they were intended to be used for. Get rid of a few administrators, pay teachers more and spend more per pupil on the students.

Absolutely!! Make schools competitive so that they HAVE to provide better.

You're certainly free to pay more in property taxes. Be sure to ask your commissioners and the school board to increase the millage rate for the school tax, so the spending can catch up. But the beginning and end of the story on the lottery is it cannot be used for operation of the schools. It is to be used for the HOPE scholarship and the lottery funded Pre-K program. Nothing else. There is no "missing" money. The lottery money IS being used for what it is intended to be used for.

Please follow along. The lottery funding pays for the HOPE scholarship and the lottery funded Pre-K program. School taxes pay everything else. End of story.

Some place I used to go--bowling alley or skating rink--had a sign that said to clean up after yourself because your mama doesn't work here.

On one of our many trips to Florida before we finally moved, we were approached, separately in fact, by a woman at a truck stop who gave a sob story about having to get back home to somewhere like Mississippi and could we please give her some money to buy gas. I just walked by her and pretended not to hear and hubby told her no. Another customer asked her why SHE was doing the asking when there were two men in the car with her. Why weren't they helping or why didn't they provide help. Last we saw them, they pulled out of the station not long before we did, even though nobody gave them anyt

THE LOTTERY MONEY DOES NOT GO TO THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM OR THE FREE OR REDUCED COST LUNCH PROGRAM. That's where it HASN'T gone. The school lunch program and the free/reduced cost lunch program are not funded by state lottery money. They are federal programs.

The free or reduced price lunch program is not funded by the lottery.

EXACTLY what does that have to do with free or reduced price lunches? I'll tell you, NOTHING. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Can I get in line to pop him in the mouth?

The health care providers have to make up that loss of income somehow. Guess how they do it? Yep, by charging others through the nose.

A lot of the "systems" use a central billing for billing for the hospital as well as the doctor's offices, physical therapy centers, rehab centers, etc. They have no personal knowledge of your bill, just what has been sent to them to process. Try finding out anything from anyone. Nobody in the office or the hospital knows the answer and neither does anyone in central billing, which is likely in another state and possibly another time zone. There is way too "administration" in everything--from healthcare to schools. If we cut out some of the administrators, prices (not to mention serv

Unless you've seen the reimbursements to the doctors, you don't "get it". I've seen them. It's really pathetic. My husband recently had a procedure, a routine procedure at that, and the cost billed to Medicare by the hospital was over $10,000. The amount that was paid was...........sit down for this because you'll be amazed. Just slightly more than $500.00 . Yes, folks you read that correctly. Billed by the hospital was over TEN THOUSAND dollars and all they got was slightly more than FIVE HUNDRED dollars. And what did we have to pay? Zero. So, my husband got a great deal on this

I'm in Florida. They choose not to expand Medicaid. I totally agree with their decision. I support that 100%. I moved from Georgia because of the idiots. BTW, you'll be a six hour drive from me.

Yes, and we don't qualify. We're also a family of two (though temporarily we are a family of six).

You, my dear, are a miracle worker. I tried for almost two years to straighten out Pubby. My Might take a bit longer to straighten out the wife. Oh Laurie, I thought we gave up on that.

I've been "OFFERED" coverage that I can't afford. I've been told I have to have insurance.

TP, listen to me. I don't qualify for the AFFORDABLE health care offered mandated by the government! I have to pay full price. $700 a month. I can get a plan for around $450. This is NOT employer provided coverage. I am NOT EMPLOYED and really can't work because of arthritis. My husband is NOT EMPLOYED. My husband is DISABLED and our only income is his Social Security Disability. I cannot get help to pay for the insurance the government says I must have. I do not qualify for Medicaid as my husband's SSDI is too much. We, as a couple, qualify for ABSOLUTELY ZERO help. I curren

What happened to the idea of not posting vehicle descriptions involved in accidents, particularly fatality accidents?

Some people who can't afford it won't be able to get help either. I don't qualify for a "tax credit", don't qualify for Medicaid, can't afford the insurance. So exactly WHO will get the help?

MY options haven't increased. I am losing my insurance at the end of January and I may not be able to get more that I can, like InLa, afford to pay the premium and continue to eat. And please don't insult me by telling me I'm wrong. I know my options. I have been exploring them for three months.

Fixed it for you.

If she can't afford it, she can't afford it. I'm in the same boat. I can't afford the premiums for the insurance I need. I can't get assistance to pay the premiums. I don't qualify for Medicaid. Doesn't matter how "affordable" someone claims insurance is if it takes 45% of our monthly income, it isn't AFFORDABLE and I can't afford it. I think InLa is in the same predicament. They don't have enough income to get a subsidy so they have to pay all of the premium. How does that make sense?