Comments on: Adding it up. http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adding-it-up one writer's daily download Mon, 21 May 2012 18:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7739 brian stouder Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:53:58 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7739 "OK, not fair, but they were willing to match what I had" Au contraire! Completely 'fair', I believe. We have an HSA, accessible by debit card, and I love that thing “OK, not fair, but they were willing to match what I had”

Au contraire! Completely ‘fair’, I believe.

We have an HSA, accessible by debit card, and I love that thing

]]> By: Connie http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7727 Connie Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:57:59 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7727 Gas was $2.85 when I drove to work this a.m., and $2.95 when I drove home. As an employer providing health insurance, our health insurance premium costs have increased an average of 20% a year for the last five years. I am paying the full cost for the employee, but they have to pick up the cost of spouses and children themselves. Very few do, the cost is prohibitive. My board wonders how much longer we can afford to pay the full premium for our 74 participating full-time employees. I have a negotiated contract which also pays a big chunk (80%) of my family coverage, OK, not fair, but they were willing to match what I had to convince me to move. Gas was $2.85 when I drove to work this a.m., and $2.95 when I drove home.

As an employer providing health insurance, our health insurance premium costs have increased an average of 20% a year for the last five years. I am paying the full cost for the employee, but they have to pick up the cost of spouses and children themselves. Very few do, the cost is prohibitive. My board wonders how much longer we can afford to pay the full premium for our 74 participating full-time employees.

I have a negotiated contract which also pays a big chunk (80%) of my family coverage, OK, not fair, but they were willing to match what I had to convince me to move.

]]> By: Joe Kobiela http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7721 Joe Kobiela Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:26:21 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7721 N, Found a new web sight for music called pandora. You might want to try it pandora.com, type in a group, say the allman brothers and it finds and plays all music like what you put in. pretty cool. By the way I am paying anywhere between $4.32 and $2.99 a gal for aviation gas. Joe N,
Found a new web sight for music called pandora. You might want to try it pandora.com, type in a group, say the allman brothers and it finds and plays all music like what you put in.
pretty cool.
By the way I am paying anywhere between $4.32 and $2.99 a gal for aviation gas.
Joe

]]> By: alex http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7719 alex Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:02:06 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7719 Yeah, Danny, been meaning to tell ya that you've won me over. I don't need to think for myself now that I've got you to do it for me. Instead I'll direct my energies toward more important things like making enough money to pay for health insurance and gasoline and scoring enough brownie points with God to have better than second-rate accommodations in the great hereafter. Danny, you rock! Yeah, Danny, been meaning to tell ya that you’ve won me over. I don’t need to think for myself now that I’ve got you to do it for me. Instead I’ll direct my energies toward more important things like making enough money to pay for health insurance and gasoline and scoring enough brownie points with God to have better than second-rate accommodations in the great hereafter. Danny, you rock!

]]> By: Danny http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7690 Danny Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:08:12 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7690 Yeah, Nance, everyone's comments were also cut off from a few threads back when they were about to acknowldge that they agreed with me about everything. Weird... Yeah, Nance, everyone’s comments were also cut off from a few threads back when they were about to acknowldge that they agreed with me about everything. Weird…

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7682 nancy Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:55:09 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7682 Thanks for the feedback on comments, guys. Don't know why it's happening. But I'll pass it on by to the tech boss. Thanks for the feedback on comments, guys. Don’t know why it’s happening. But I’ll pass it on by to the tech boss.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7673 brian stouder Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:01:01 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7673 My remark above about the n-n-n-n-nineteen year old(!) "author" was also arbitrarily truncated....but in my case, that is probably a good thing. Leaving that aside, and with apologies for another non-sequitur, I thought this was funny - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12480293/from/RS.3/ an excerpt - >>After turning down offers to pose for the magazine [Playboy] in the past, Margolis said she accepted this time because she felt posing nude at the age of 40 is empowering. “In the past it would have been for gratuitous reasons,�? she said. Now, Margolis said, she is enjoying being the ultimate desperate housewife. “It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don’t have anything on me,�? she said. things that make a person go "hmmmmmm" My remark above about the n-n-n-n-nineteen year old(!) “author” was also arbitrarily truncated….but in my case, that is probably a good thing.

Leaving that aside, and with apologies for another non-sequitur, I thought this was funny -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12480293/from/RS.3/

an excerpt -

>>After turning down offers to pose for the magazine [Playboy] in the past, Margolis said she accepted this time because she felt posing nude at the age of 40 is empowering. “In the past it would have been for gratuitous reasons,�? she said. Now, Margolis said, she is enjoying being the ultimate desperate housewife. “It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don’t have anything on me,�? she said.

things that make a person go “hmmmmmm”

]]> By: Laura http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7646 Laura Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:22:08 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7646 Wow, that's weird. My comments were cut off. What I said in repsonse to Nancy's guess that her insurance will someday skyrocket, was that mine already had--almost $1000/month. Wow, that’s weird. My comments were cut off. What I said in repsonse to Nancy’s guess that her insurance will someday skyrocket, was that mine already had–almost $1000/month.

]]> By: 4dbirds http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7612 4dbirds Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:37:52 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7612 $3.09 and I have a 45 min commute each way. Not sure at what point I'll cry uncle and spend 1 1/2 hour each way on public trans. $3.09 and I have a 45 min commute each way. Not sure at what point I’ll cry uncle and spend 1 1/2 hour each way on public trans.

]]> By: Laura http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7604 Laura Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:22:11 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2006/04/25/adding-it-up/#comment-7604 >> I fully expect spousal health care benefits to either go away or become ruinously expensive within the next few years >> I fully expect spousal health care benefits to either go away or become ruinously expensive within the next few years

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