Q. I got hit from behind and the back of the car is dinted causing the boot to stay open. It won't shut by itself so I was wondering if anyone has any tips to keep it closed while I wait on the insurance company.
A. You could take some of those elastic cords with hooks on the end of them to hold it down.
We call them bungee cords, I don't know what other people call them. Depending on the length of the cord, you can hook it at the top of your boot and then at the bottom of the bumper. You can get them at a hardware store or an auto parts store, they usually come in a package of two or three different lengths.
They are also nice for hauling an oversized object in the boot.
We call them bungee cords, I don't know what other people call them. Depending on the length of the cord, you can hook it at the top of your boot and then at the bottom of the bumper. You can get them at a hardware store or an auto parts store, they usually come in a package of two or three different lengths.
They are also nice for hauling an oversized object in the boot.
Why are people rebuilding in hurricane prone areas?
Q. I can understand the sentimental reasons behind it , but I do not think our government or insurance companies should pay for it. People know it is a risk, so they will have to take the responsibility.
A. New Orleans is not optional. History, architecture, culture, and the fact the city is home to many people are usually mentioned when the topic of the city�s future is discussed. However, those factors (while significant) are NOT why NOLA is important to the rest of the United States.
First, New Orleans is a metro area of almost 1.4 million people � not some small town that could be easily relocated somewhere else.
More than 35% of America's energy is either produced in Southeast Louisiana or imported through here, and the infrastructure is focused on New Orleans. What may be the largest oil field on earth was discovered offshore of Louisiana in 2006, and it will be exploited via New Orleans.
The Port of New Orleans is the largest or second largest port in North America each year (tons of cargo) and one of the top ports in the world each year. The Port of New Orleans is not replaceable.
More than 25% of America's petroleum refining capacity is in the New Orleans area. That percentage will increase due to a new refinery already under construction and the planned expansion of existing refineries.
A large percentage of America's non-petroleum chemical industry is here.
New Orleans is one of only three principal east-west transportation points for the USA, and the resulting convergence of water, rail, pipeline, electricity, and highway links is not replaceable.
A large percentage of America's ship building & repair industry is in New Orleans.
NASA builds essential parts for the space shuttle in New Orleans, and will build components for the next generation of spacecraft here. Other manufacturers (ex. Bell-Textron) have factories in New Orleans.
A large percentage of America's seafood comes from SE Louisiana, and the distribution network is focused on New Orleans.
And so on�.
It is theoretically possible to move the industry and the population, but only at horrific cost. The Mississippi river, Gulf of Mexico, and the oil fields cannot be moved. To even attempt to replace New Orleans would cost Trillions of Dollars and the attempt would fail.
In contrast, New Orleans can be protected from future hurricanes with the expenditure of about $15 Billion (that should have been spent before Katrina) spread out over a period of a decade.
In case $14 Billion sounds like a lot, the federal government spent that much for a 3-mile tunnel under Boston harbor for commuters.
Note that New Orleans is NOT "prone" to hurricanes or being flooded. The last one to hit before Katrina was in 1965 and before that was in 1947. Neither of those flooded the city proper like Katrina, which was the strongest storm ever recorded to strike North America (size + surge). Gustav was a near-miss but did test the levee system.
There is a widespread myth that New Orleans is "built below sea level�, but that is not true.
Realize that nowhere is without risk. NYC and Miami are at more risk from hurricanes than New Orleans. Los Angeles and San Francisco are at risk from earthquakes and fires. Seattle is threatened by volcanoes and Tsunamis. The Midwest is hit by tornadoes every year and floods much more often than New Orleans. However, I don�t hear anyone claiming New York, Florida, California, Kansas/Iowa, or Washington (state) be abandoned, or even not rebuilt after the next disaster.
However, people routinely claim New Orleans should be abandoned, or that we somehow don�t deserve help after Katrina.
Why is that?
First, New Orleans is a metro area of almost 1.4 million people � not some small town that could be easily relocated somewhere else.
More than 35% of America's energy is either produced in Southeast Louisiana or imported through here, and the infrastructure is focused on New Orleans. What may be the largest oil field on earth was discovered offshore of Louisiana in 2006, and it will be exploited via New Orleans.
The Port of New Orleans is the largest or second largest port in North America each year (tons of cargo) and one of the top ports in the world each year. The Port of New Orleans is not replaceable.
More than 25% of America's petroleum refining capacity is in the New Orleans area. That percentage will increase due to a new refinery already under construction and the planned expansion of existing refineries.
A large percentage of America's non-petroleum chemical industry is here.
New Orleans is one of only three principal east-west transportation points for the USA, and the resulting convergence of water, rail, pipeline, electricity, and highway links is not replaceable.
A large percentage of America's ship building & repair industry is in New Orleans.
NASA builds essential parts for the space shuttle in New Orleans, and will build components for the next generation of spacecraft here. Other manufacturers (ex. Bell-Textron) have factories in New Orleans.
A large percentage of America's seafood comes from SE Louisiana, and the distribution network is focused on New Orleans.
And so on�.
It is theoretically possible to move the industry and the population, but only at horrific cost. The Mississippi river, Gulf of Mexico, and the oil fields cannot be moved. To even attempt to replace New Orleans would cost Trillions of Dollars and the attempt would fail.
In contrast, New Orleans can be protected from future hurricanes with the expenditure of about $15 Billion (that should have been spent before Katrina) spread out over a period of a decade.
In case $14 Billion sounds like a lot, the federal government spent that much for a 3-mile tunnel under Boston harbor for commuters.
Note that New Orleans is NOT "prone" to hurricanes or being flooded. The last one to hit before Katrina was in 1965 and before that was in 1947. Neither of those flooded the city proper like Katrina, which was the strongest storm ever recorded to strike North America (size + surge). Gustav was a near-miss but did test the levee system.
There is a widespread myth that New Orleans is "built below sea level�, but that is not true.
Realize that nowhere is without risk. NYC and Miami are at more risk from hurricanes than New Orleans. Los Angeles and San Francisco are at risk from earthquakes and fires. Seattle is threatened by volcanoes and Tsunamis. The Midwest is hit by tornadoes every year and floods much more often than New Orleans. However, I don�t hear anyone claiming New York, Florida, California, Kansas/Iowa, or Washington (state) be abandoned, or even not rebuilt after the next disaster.
However, people routinely claim New Orleans should be abandoned, or that we somehow don�t deserve help after Katrina.
Why is that?
What are the top strongest dogs in bite and muscle?
Q. I need to know at least the top 5 in each muscle and strangth of bite for domestic house dogs.
I own an Akita and i want to see where he would stand because a man at the local dog park said that they are number 2 on the list of stroungest bite and i want to know if that man was correct.
I own an Akita and i want to see where he would stand because a man at the local dog park said that they are number 2 on the list of stroungest bite and i want to know if that man was correct.
A. I know Pitbull, Akita, and Boxer are top three. I own a Boxer and when I purchased my home owner's insurance the associate told me that I'm lucky they didn't deny my policy because of my dog. A Boxer (to the insurance company) is known as the third deadliest dog. I was suprised but investigated more and found this to be true.
What is the purpose of Private Insurance?
Q. When my employer offered insurance we had many different companies to choose from. I finally picked one, but it was pretty much at random because they all seemed to be offering the same thing. I can certainly understand why you would want to have a choice of doctors; but a choice of insurance companies? Insurance is a pretty uncreative field. I mean what can one company offer that another can�t? Is it the competition? It seems to me that competition among doctors is enough to keep free market health care alive.
A. First, we do NOT have a free market in health care in the US.
Health care is overregulated--at least from the doctor's perspective--his hands are tied all along the way in what he can do, how much the government intrudes on his practice, and more. (See if you can get a doc to freely write pain prescriptions. Even pain specialists get called on the carpet for doing their jobs--each year a number of docs who are NOT "pill pushers" LOSE their livelihoods because idiots second guess them over writing what is necessary for some folks. This has a chilling effect on ALL docs for ALL patients even for short-term pain prescriptions.)
Insurance is in the hands of a few and it's a nightmare. Let's hope you stay healthy, but let's also hope you and others will learn the truth and start demanding that contract and antitrust laws be enforced in this country:
When 75% of the people who declare bankruptcy over medical bills ARE INSURED, then insurance is CLEARLY not the answer.
"Aldrich�s situation is "asinine" but increasingly common, said Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. Thorne, co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that ratio has likely worsened since the data was gathered.
...
Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured. "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20201807/
Linda Peeno, MD testified that SHE had often denied treatment JUST to save the insurance company money http://www.thenationalcoalition.org/DrPeenotestimony.html
Furthermore:
"the vast majority of health insurance policies are through for-profit stock companies. They are in the process of �shedding lives� as some term it when �undesirable� customers are lost through various means, including raising premiums and co-pays and decreasing benefits (Britt, �Health insurers getting bigger cut of medical dollars,� 15 October 2004, investors.com). That same Investors Business Daily article from 2004 noted the example of Anthem, another insurance company. They said the top five executives (not just the CEO) received an average of an 817 percent increase in compensation between 2000 and 2003. The CEO, for example, had his compensation go from $2.5 million to $25 million during that time period. About $21 million of that was in stock payouts, the article noted.
A 2006 article, �U.S. Health Insurance: More Market Domination, More CEO Compensation�
(hcrenewal.blogspot.com) notes that in 56 percent of 294 metropolitan areas one insurer �controls more than half the business in health maintenance organization and preferred provider networks underwriting." In addition to having the most enrollees, they also are the biggest purchasers of health care and set the price and coverage terms. ��The results is double-digit premium increases from 2001 and 2004�peaking with a 13.9 percent jump in 2003�soaring well above inflation and wages increases.�" Where is all that money going? The article quotes a Wall Street Journal article looking at the compensation of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. His salary and bonus is $8 million annually. He has benefits such as the use of a private jet. He has stock-option fortunes worth $1.6 billion."
--Save America, Save the World by Cassandra Nathan pp. 127-128
"Insurance Companies Robbing Patients
Robbing patients to pay CEOs leads to unprecedented medical insurance corporation greed.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:52 AM
By: Michael Arnold Glueck & Robert J. Cihak, The Medicine Men"
http://www.newsmax.com/medicine_men/medical_insurance/2008/01/03/61543.html
There is also a lack of price transparency--insured or not you don't know what things cost when we're past routine basic care--see that info again on bankruptcy.
We have a SHORTAGE of doctors and nurses and the current system doesn't deal with that--the larger chapter on health care in this book not only offers a sensible plan but addresses the abuses I noted and more:
QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE health care for all.
That means preventative care (physical with follow up). Real medication (no Medicare "donut holes" the really ill are ripped off again.) No bogus ridiculously low "caps" on needed medical procedures. No abuse of the ER. No paying for the silly with the sniffles to go to the doc for free. No more bankruptcies over medical bills. I want THIS plan that ends abuse of the taxpayer, takes the burden off employers, provides price transparency, and ends the rip-off of the US taxpayer at the hands of greedy insurance CEOs (which has been repeatedly documented).
http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.html
Read the PDF, not the blurb, for the bulk of the plan. Book is searchable on Amazon.com
Cassandra Nathan's Save America, Save the World
When you have POCKETS of free market you see the difference in cost:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/0217er17.html
A doctor owned and run hospital that sees everyone gets care, no matter what happens to the bottom line.
http://www.simplecare.com/ a doctor-driven group where reasonable rates are charged.
Note you can go to a walk-in clinic at Wal-Mart or CVS or the like in many cities and get many of the most typical reasons for seeing a doc addressed for under $100.
The price of LASIK has DROPPED dramatically over a decade. Plastic surgery is CHEAP. Compare a major procedure like a tummy tuck with the bill an uninsured patient will get for a medically necessary appendectomy WITHOUT complications.
We NEED a free market, but we absolutely do NOT have one now.
Health care is overregulated--at least from the doctor's perspective--his hands are tied all along the way in what he can do, how much the government intrudes on his practice, and more. (See if you can get a doc to freely write pain prescriptions. Even pain specialists get called on the carpet for doing their jobs--each year a number of docs who are NOT "pill pushers" LOSE their livelihoods because idiots second guess them over writing what is necessary for some folks. This has a chilling effect on ALL docs for ALL patients even for short-term pain prescriptions.)
Insurance is in the hands of a few and it's a nightmare. Let's hope you stay healthy, but let's also hope you and others will learn the truth and start demanding that contract and antitrust laws be enforced in this country:
When 75% of the people who declare bankruptcy over medical bills ARE INSURED, then insurance is CLEARLY not the answer.
"Aldrich�s situation is "asinine" but increasingly common, said Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. Thorne, co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that ratio has likely worsened since the data was gathered.
...
Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured. "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20201807/
Linda Peeno, MD testified that SHE had often denied treatment JUST to save the insurance company money http://www.thenationalcoalition.org/DrPeenotestimony.html
Furthermore:
"the vast majority of health insurance policies are through for-profit stock companies. They are in the process of �shedding lives� as some term it when �undesirable� customers are lost through various means, including raising premiums and co-pays and decreasing benefits (Britt, �Health insurers getting bigger cut of medical dollars,� 15 October 2004, investors.com). That same Investors Business Daily article from 2004 noted the example of Anthem, another insurance company. They said the top five executives (not just the CEO) received an average of an 817 percent increase in compensation between 2000 and 2003. The CEO, for example, had his compensation go from $2.5 million to $25 million during that time period. About $21 million of that was in stock payouts, the article noted.
A 2006 article, �U.S. Health Insurance: More Market Domination, More CEO Compensation�
(hcrenewal.blogspot.com) notes that in 56 percent of 294 metropolitan areas one insurer �controls more than half the business in health maintenance organization and preferred provider networks underwriting." In addition to having the most enrollees, they also are the biggest purchasers of health care and set the price and coverage terms. ��The results is double-digit premium increases from 2001 and 2004�peaking with a 13.9 percent jump in 2003�soaring well above inflation and wages increases.�" Where is all that money going? The article quotes a Wall Street Journal article looking at the compensation of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. His salary and bonus is $8 million annually. He has benefits such as the use of a private jet. He has stock-option fortunes worth $1.6 billion."
--Save America, Save the World by Cassandra Nathan pp. 127-128
"Insurance Companies Robbing Patients
Robbing patients to pay CEOs leads to unprecedented medical insurance corporation greed.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:52 AM
By: Michael Arnold Glueck & Robert J. Cihak, The Medicine Men"
http://www.newsmax.com/medicine_men/medical_insurance/2008/01/03/61543.html
There is also a lack of price transparency--insured or not you don't know what things cost when we're past routine basic care--see that info again on bankruptcy.
We have a SHORTAGE of doctors and nurses and the current system doesn't deal with that--the larger chapter on health care in this book not only offers a sensible plan but addresses the abuses I noted and more:
QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE health care for all.
That means preventative care (physical with follow up). Real medication (no Medicare "donut holes" the really ill are ripped off again.) No bogus ridiculously low "caps" on needed medical procedures. No abuse of the ER. No paying for the silly with the sniffles to go to the doc for free. No more bankruptcies over medical bills. I want THIS plan that ends abuse of the taxpayer, takes the burden off employers, provides price transparency, and ends the rip-off of the US taxpayer at the hands of greedy insurance CEOs (which has been repeatedly documented).
http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.html
Read the PDF, not the blurb, for the bulk of the plan. Book is searchable on Amazon.com
Cassandra Nathan's Save America, Save the World
When you have POCKETS of free market you see the difference in cost:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/0217er17.html
A doctor owned and run hospital that sees everyone gets care, no matter what happens to the bottom line.
http://www.simplecare.com/ a doctor-driven group where reasonable rates are charged.
Note you can go to a walk-in clinic at Wal-Mart or CVS or the like in many cities and get many of the most typical reasons for seeing a doc addressed for under $100.
The price of LASIK has DROPPED dramatically over a decade. Plastic surgery is CHEAP. Compare a major procedure like a tummy tuck with the bill an uninsured patient will get for a medically necessary appendectomy WITHOUT complications.
We NEED a free market, but we absolutely do NOT have one now.
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