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I looked at them as opposed to reading them.
"I certainly did not go to their websites. How is that pertinent when the accusation was about their marketing?"
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11/5/2013 7:47:53 PM
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Important info (though not the proof or the statistics that we are waiting for)
- alcaray -
11/4/2013 7:31:41 PM
Cool
- RobVG -
11/5/2013 3:49:07 AM
"Deceit"
- TB -
11/5/2013 4:20:41 AM
What occupies my mind and in what percentages... and whether the percentages are correct...
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 6:34:42 PM
Do the math.
- TB -
11/5/2013 6:59:06 PM
The insurance companies do not currently have the info to do the math. Only a liar would say that he does.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 7:07:40 PM
Re: The insurance companies do not currently have the info to do the math. Only a liar would say that he does.
- TB -
11/5/2013 7:20:04 PM
Were you?
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 8:08:51 PM
I know someone who was.
- TB -
11/6/2013 12:25:06 AM
People will listen to what they want to hear.
- RobVG -
11/5/2013 4:49:46 AM
Some pay more; some pay less; some pay the same.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 6:37:41 PM
I didn't present any numbers did I?
- RobVG -
11/6/2013 12:13:51 AM
You said "all people are talking about". I thought you might be talking about me, so I clarified my position.
- alcaray -
11/6/2013 1:31:47 AM
I didn't mean you. Mainly prominent people in the news. Also I've started to listen to NPR.
- RobVG -
11/6/2013 3:27:49 PM
Did you read the actual letters (linked in the article)?
- TB -
11/4/2013 9:35:27 PM
I looked at them as opposed to reading them.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 6:50:10 PM
"I certainly did not go to their websites. How is that pertinent when the accusation was about their marketing?"
- TB -
11/5/2013 7:47:53 PM
Next time you make the "they refuse to note the facts" argument, please recall this thread.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 8:10:26 PM
We'll see
- FrankC -
11/4/2013 9:24:21 PM
Insurance companies have just as hard a time as anyone predicting the future, when there's a big change to take account of.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 7:18:45 PM
Individuals predict the future...
- FrankC -
11/5/2013 9:07:51 PM
And using the very best data they have available. And it is always a gamble.
- alcaray -
11/5/2013 11:58:11 PM
I agree
- SteveS -
11/5/2013 1:39:09 PM
Then there's the "generation war."
- TB -
11/5/2013 3:48:53 PM
And rewriting history for the new generation
- SteveS -
11/5/2013 4:21:34 PM
To be fair, the signmaker might have been thinking "small-d" democrat.
- TB -
11/5/2013 4:43:20 PM
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