Monty by Jim Meddick for February 11, 2016

Go ahead Jarvis! Do it on him! You know you want to! In fact we all want you to!

You better let him help him or YOU’RE IN trouble!

Former Bengal’s WR Chad (Ocho Cinco) Johnson said his treatment for an ankle pull was asking fellow player for their “uric acid” and soaking his foot in it.

Friggin’ hilarious. Skewers the right wing, 1% stereotype so well.

Next time make the jellyfish sting him on the chest, and be done with him forever

Uric acid and vinegar are not recommended anymore.

There are people I know that had great insurance before ObamaCare and now they cannot afford their insurance because of it! He promised that if you like your plan you can keep your plan and that did not happen. There is a list of more if you do some research.

Politicians like to use hot button issues to voice their opposition to the Affordable Care Act such as birth control or the right of people NOT to have health insurance. But there were two provisions that I think were distasteful to health insurers.1) You may not be denied insurance because of a preexisting condition nor have coverage delayed for that condition.2) Premiums used to be calculated based on the oldest person in the family. One year I split our family’s health insurance into two policies. Myself alone and my wife with the kids. This saved us about $270 a month in premiums. We used to joke with our providers that my wife and I had to get a divorce because of health insurance costs. Premiums now have to be calculated based on the ages of up to the five oldest in the family. (My family is whole again)..Both of these provisions affected the insurance company’s bottom line and #1 above promoted competition. Two things the insurance companies did not want to see happen.

Not if he was on fire!

It can be a do-it-yourself treatment, Sedgie. Just step behind some cover for privacy and “do it”! Or, get used to the pain and whatever side effects may follow. Bite that driftwood!

Poor people in states that rejected expansion of Medicaid, like in Tennessee, can’t afford Obamacare. The cheapest plan is $600 a month, $5000 deductible and 50% copay. I know because I’m one of the “working poor” in TN. While it doesn’t hurt me, since my income is below the tax penalty threshold, it certainly didn’t help me. And, if my income were just a little higher, I’d not only not be able to afford Obamacare, I’d also be stuck for the tax penalty. It’s really bad.

Obamacare is like all government programs. It benefits some people, and makes things worse for others. Some people now have insurance that were sick before, and couldn’t get it. Others had good plans that had to be discontinued because they weren’t compliant, so the people had to buy plans that were both more expensive, and have higher deductibles. Still others are worse off because they still have no insurance, but have an additional expense in the penalty. Probably the biggest complaint against it is that it does nothing to actually control costs, it simply spreads the costs in a different way. Since it hurts some, and helps others, some like it, some hate it.

vinegar kills jellyfish stingers and doesn’t involve your own bodily functions…of course you could just cut your leg off, you can always pay someone to walk for you.

Good to know Wakeangle,since I’ll be going to Mexico next week,and since I’m Canadian I’ll have my own supply of vinegar with me.As for the cutting off the leg part do’nt you know that half the posters on go comics take everything you say literally?

“Absolutely not, Jarvis! That remedy is for peons!”

I’m a democrat and poor, but even I know this isn’t working out. The working poor can barely afford the increase in our monthly payments and no one I know can afford to use it because we cannot pay the massive co-pay and whatever the hell co-insurance is. My hernia surgery will take a good five years to pay off. Bernie’s single payer plan is starting to look real good now.

Nobody could legitimately have taken Obama’s “if you like your insurance you can keep it” statement literally, because the fundamental feature of Obamacare is that everyone is required to buy insurance. So obviously, they’re required to buy a certain minimum amount of insurance. His promise makes sense only as, “if you already have the minimum required insurance, you can keep that insurance.” This contrasts with competing proposals where everyone would have to buy special new Obamacare policies, possibly from the government.

How do I do a thumbs up for you Bryan?

Republicans love to cry and whine about the ACA but have yet to show anyone a viable alternative. Although they seem to like that “just let ’em die in the street” idea a whole lot…

definitely know he’s a 1%er, he actually knows what Uric Acid is at his young age.