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Save Money On Medical Bills By Questioning Charges

Commented by SkokieGuy:
11:22 AM on February 10, 2012

If legislation were passed that 25% of the amount of a billing error caught by the patient was to be paid to the patient, I bet a lot more people would scrutinize bills and a lot fewer errors would occur.

Scientists Find Cancer Drug Can Put Alzheimer's On The Ropes In Mice

Commented by SkokieGuy:
10:19 AM on February 10, 2012

Who moved my cheese?

No One Is Allowed To Love Meat On Their Pizza Unless It's From Pizza Hut

Commented by SkokieGuy:
11:02 AM on February 8, 2012

I think there's a whole bunch of adult websites that Pizza Hut is going to need to sue if they want to truly protect their trademark.

Woman Sues Wells Fargo For Telling Police She Was Contemplating Suicide

Commented by SkokieGuy:
3:20 PM on February 7, 2012

From a comment in that article's thread:

Found this online: "The court noted that a medical emergency justifies non-consensual treatment only when it is not possible or feasible to obtain informed consent from a person legally entitled to provide or withhold consent. Even in a life-threatening situation, a care provider cannot substitute his or her own judgment for that of a mentally competent adult patient or family member. Shine v. Vega, 709 N.E. 2d 58 (Mass., 1999)."


I had an incident where a stranger came to my home after a domestic violence incident. She wanted to use the phone to call for a ride from a friend. She was pregnant in appeared injured and in pain. Long story short, police were called. An ambulance came as well. She refused to go to the hospital. Both the police and EMT told me they could not take her to a hospital against her will.

Woman Sues Wells Fargo For Telling Police She Was Contemplating Suicide

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:44 PM on February 7, 2012

Anyone find it interesting that a hospital can charge you for services you did not request and actively tried to refuse?

Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:56 PM on February 2, 2012

The Westboro Baptist Church had done more to persuade people to support LGBT equality than any march or parade every could.

Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:37 PM on February 2, 2012

"How dare they have their own morals" How amusing. Telling me how to live my life has nothing to do with their own morals. They are welcome to not engage in gay or lesbian sex if their morals do not approve, but their "own" morality has not place telling other consenting adults how to live.

In language you might be able to comprehend - If I get punched in the face by a bully, I am going to punch back. That's not attack, that's defense.

More importantly, cloaking discrimination as "values" or "morals" and wrapping it in the bible or flag, does not automatically make it acceptable. Shall we continue killing firstborns, owning slaves, genital mutilation, honor killings?

Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:22 PM on February 2, 2012

Mixed emotions about your statement. Will the average reasonable person laugh at their claims, yet become more educated that hate and LGBT bigotry still exists?

I live in Illinois where civil unions are legal. I have many friends who can't understand why LGBT people are still fighting for their rights.

This may spur some conversations.

But I too, hate to give vile groups publicity, (i.e. the Koran burning "minister", the "God hates fags" jerks, etc.)

Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:17 PM on February 2, 2012

I haven't shopped in a JCP in years, but thank you Mom's, I am shopping there this weekend.

So do tell, how many starving children have you fed? How many homeless young mothers have you housed? Other than spewing hatred and obsessing about the imagined sex lives of others, what have you done to make the world a better place?

Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres

Commented by SkokieGuy:
2:06 PM on February 2, 2012

Dear One Million Moms. Please submit your vaginas and complete sexual histories for us to review and judge, because clearly that is what you are doing.

Out of curiosity, did you ask your web developers, marketing people and all employee and volunteers of your organization exactly what they do with their genitals, and what they think about doing?

If you haven't you might have unwittingly accepted someone who masturbates or uses birth control - OMG!

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