chaoskitty

Hey I'm a better swimmer than I am a canopy pilot.

Hey, me too!

Are you scared of your sister at Thanksgiving dinner? It looks like she might eat you. (ps- that was gross! )

I walked over 30 miles this weekend. I'll get your chest if you'll get my feet.

The hard core training has begun! I did my first back to back training walks this weekend. 15 miles through NW Atlanta yesterday, and 16.5 miles through midtown, Piedmont, VA highland, etc. today. I'm kinda proud of me, and my friends who did it with me! My feet hurt.. but my ass looks awesome!

I know. Miss you too.. and your random neck massages.

Hey, you've already accomplished a lot just by jumping out of a plane at least once. Don't give yourself such a hard time. You just have to identify your problems and come up with a plan to solve them. Treat this the same as you would any other problem in your life.

Billy.. theres stuff outside called FRESH AIR. Go take the little one out there. (Dont forget your alabama perfume)

You must mean Lord Dante Pinkerson Esquire.

Happy birthday to your dog! I am curious though.. what happened to Yukon Cornelius von schnoodle, and Yukon Cornelius von schnoodle, Jr.?

But isn't it best when they suck AND have nice boobies?

I'll see you tomorrow at The Farm, right?

Wow.. that sounds like something I would say to BV! jk. It sounds like whoever died in the BASE fatality was close to the person who wrote that email. I will admit that after losing a lot of people I've cared about, I don't really even think about the person when its someone I don't know. And I'm glad when its someone I don't know. But when it is someone I know.. I notice the insensitivity of the people who didn't know them and just ask questions about the incident. I am pretty sure that is all just a self-defense and preservation mechanism. Anyway.. Spence, don't waste your energy on this guy. You know who your friends are.

I don't have the exact numbers, but I imagine a lot of people never send in for the rebate because they either miss the deadline, lose the receipt, throw the box away.. or do something else that allows the company to keep their money. The last few rebates I've received have been a pre-loaded visa card with an expiration date on them. I imagine that either the company who issued the rebate, or VISA gets that money if I don't use it, of if I leave a balance of a few bucks on it. So the point being, if they gave everyone the POS discount, they don't benefit from the people who don't send in the rebate.

Wow, what an original idea! No one else has ever done stories about vampires before! Well.. not every idea has to be original. How many movies did John Wayne make?

I think Anna Paquin is a little british girl.

OK, here's the deal: We will trade you McCain, Palin, Biden, and Obama for any 4 of your politicians. Oh, hell, tell you what; We'll give you the whole lot in exchange for Eddie Izzard. I would vote for Eddie Izzard.. or hell why not Russel Brand? At least we'd have some intersting hairdo's in the White House. This election is really depressing. I'm more excited about the USPA election this year.

New series on HBO. Anyone caught it? It doesn't have the most compelling plot, so far.. and the fake southern accents are kind of annoying. But it feeds my addiction to Vampire fiction.

I think you're focusing on the exception, not the norm. But you're right, and thats why I said in an earlier post that a better indicator would be the number of prescriptions or diagnosis a person carries. I don't think there is a good and fair solution, but it seems Alabama has a significant enough unhealthy population to try and do something about it.

So to parallel back to the other situation, you (as an employer) would not provide health care coverage to the employees that caused the premiums to go up? Thats not really an option.

Exactly. Here's a different perspective that (I think) works.. You have 2 teenage kids driving the same car. They split the cost of the insurance out of their pockets. One kid gets 2 tickets in a year. The other kid doesn't get any tickets. Policy comes up for renewal and its $300 more. Should they continue to split the insurance bill evenly? Or should the one who got the tickets and caused the increase pay more?

The premium doesn't have anything to do with numbers on a scale, it has to do with the $$ amount your insurance company has to pay your health care provider. Its not a suprise that obesity is the cause for a large number of other health issues. Think of the cost of treating a type 2 diabetic alone. So to answer your question in a round about way, yes, if a company's employees are healthier, they generally spend less on health care, and their company will have access to insurance plans with lower premiums. But it seems what is happening in AL, people are becoming more unhealthy rather than healthier. Ins. premiums are going up. Instead of passing the cost on to all employees, they're trying to recoup that cost from the obese employees. Fair or unfair?

That would be true if this had anything to do with hiring/firing people. What theyre actually trying to do is recoup some of the cost of the insurance premium paid by employers. I've seen some employers go about it the other way by paying for gym memberships (based on usage), which is a benefit for those who use them. Bottom line is, there are people who don't care about being healthy. They don't excercise, and they won't excercise. There is a prescription drug to treat every obesity-related health issue, and thats the road they choose. Unfortunately, that road costs their employer more money to insure ALL employees. Not just the individual premiums of the obese employees. IMO, a better indication of health (rather than BMI) would be the number of prescriptions you're taking and how many different diagnosis you carry around at once. Of course, that information is protected under HIPAA.

Looks great! Thank you for sharing with us! xox!