**Also, if it so wonderful, why won't congress and the first family take this coverage** That's sort of a confusing question--it seems like you think the new law creates new insurance policies that we all have to switch to, or something? And so you're wondering why Congress and the first family don't switch to the new policies? But the law doesn't do that. There is no coverage that Congress or the Obamas, or you for that matter, could switch to. The only new coverage options are the state-run exchanges for people with preexisting conditions who cannot get insurance on the private market, and a few new options for low-income people. But if you don't have a preexisting condition that has prevented you from getting insurance, or if you aren't low-income enough, you don't qualify for those new options. So there's nothing that Congress, the first family, etc., could switch to. Under the new law, you just keep your existing insurance (or move to whatever other policy your employer offers that you want). And so does Congress and the first family. What the law does is (1) change the rules for insurance companies so that your existing insurance is more reliable, (2) requires everyone to have health insurance, and (3) creates more options for lower-income people and for people with preexisting conditions, so that such people can get insurance more easily (through state-run exchanges, Medicaid and so on). So in other words, the coverage you have under it is the same as the coverage you have now--and the coverage Congress and the first family have is the same as what they have now--except with better rules: now your insurer can't cancel you for getting sick, can't exclude your kids for pre-existing conditions, as of 2014 also won't be able to exclude adults for pre-existing conditions, has to let you keep your children on your insurance until they're 26 if you want to, can't impose a lifetime cap on benefits, and so on. As for the waiver, I really have a problem with Fox News and others leaving out a few critical details, like the fact that McDonalds, Universal Orlando (the theme park), and other very mainstream companies got it (and you can google "McDonalds political contributions" to see that most of McDonalds' donations went to Republicans), and the fact that the waiver only lasts for one year. Apparently the purpose of it is to let part-time lower-income workers keep their extremely basic plans, which do impose a lifetime cap on benefits, while the details of their new plans get ironed out and the new system gets up and running. Most employers don't offer such bare-bones plans, so they don't need a waiver. I'm also a little confused by what you said about creating dozens or hundreds of new federal agencies. Here's an article (link below) that clarifies that. I took a look at the letter you posted, but there's no sense in responding to it because it's not talking about the law that actually got passed. It's talking about certain things that, at the time the letter was written, were being considered. I'm just going to stick to the law we actually have, not a 15-month-old letter about other possibilities. But I do want to point something out--you were comparing the price projections on page 28 of the letter to your own insurance premiums in 2010. Those price projections were for 2016. Even assuming those projections turn out to be correct--which would be a total fluke, since they were based on things that did not end up being passed in the actual law--it doesn't make sense to compare your price in 2010 to a projected 2016 price and then say, based on that, that the new law is going to increase your costs.

same Birthday, different lifestyles & attitudes, yet there is a commonality among the quoters I find interesting, wonder what an Astrologer would make of this. I enjoyed today's reading very much I noticed all have a fodness for cats

T. S. Eliot Quotes American - Poet September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot This love is silent. T. S. Eliot Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. T. S. Eliot As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T. S. Eliot Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. T. S. Eliot Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. T. S. Eliot Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. T. S. Eliot For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. T. S. Eliot O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. T. S. Eliot It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T. S. Eliot Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. T. S. Eliot People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. T. S. Eliot It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. T. S. Eliot My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. T. S. Eliot Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' T. S. Eliot The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. T. S. Eliot A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. T. S. Eliot Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. T. S. Eliot So the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. T. S. Eliot Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. T. S. Eliot The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. Eliot Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. T. S. Eliot Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. T. S. Eliot Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. T. S. Eliot The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T. S. Eliot Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T. S. Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot Martin Heidegger Quotes German - Philosopher September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976 The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. Martin Heidegger Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Martin Heidegger If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger The possible ranks higher than the actual. Martin Heidegger We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time. Martin Heidegger Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. Martin Heidegger True time is four-dimensional. Martin Heidegger When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. Martin Heidegger Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. Martin Heidegger Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. Martin Heidegger To dwell is to garden. Martin Heidegger Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. Martin Heidegger Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. Martin Heidegger Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? Martin Heidegger As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. Martin Heidegger Language is the house of the truth of Being. Martin Heidegger We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. Martin Heidegger To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. Martin Heidegger The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger Only a god can save us. Martin Heidegger Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. Martin Heidegger The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. Martin Heidegger Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Martin Heidegger The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. Martin Heidegger Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. Martin Heidegger But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. Martin Heidegger

Don't know where my comment from yesterday went, might be at the same place my Sunday newspaper disappeared to. I would like to have Annie Besant at the party too.