And don't they make most of their money in markets? How do they even know what they're profit margins are given the long term nature of the Stock Market and Real Estate.

My guess is they are booking assets as costs to evade taxes and increase leverage.

what is really going on here behind the insurance company claims blandly repeated in the story. Are they really losing money on the ACA in TN, or are they fudging the figures? If they are not losing money, why would they leave?

I know one thing: I would not for a second trust any of these companies' own reports. Lying, cheating, dissimulation, and lawbreaking are inherent features of corporate capitalism - not anomalies. But businesses on this scale make decisions based on bottom-line calculations. Knowing the details might offer some empirical insight into the actual policy weaknesses of the ACA (which many of us argued was a poorly crafted bad idea from the start).

Eat animal fatty shit like chicken thighs and your diabetes will disappear. You can cook the thighs if you want ;).

"Leg quarters" -- leg-and-thigh combos -- are among the cheapest chicken you can buy, too. And tasty. White meat chicken, the shit they keep pushing? Let the poor bird live, for all that's worth!

I'm in the same boat, however, if you had non-government insurance (meaning medicare/medicate/military) you can get a discount card from the manufacturer. Obamacare plans are fine, that's what I have. At least for the pen versions for type ii.

I had been using the novolog faster acting, and my doctor switched me to Tresiba, which under my just died Obamacare coop insurance was $35 for 3 pens. I just tried to refill this week and my new BCBS plan (also gold) told me it was going to be $260/3 pens (one month).

So doctor tried Lantus Solostar; that was worse they wanted $360 for 1 month, which at my dosage was less than a month.

From their site, Lantus there is a card that will drop the price by about $200/month for 12 months (presumably you can reup for the next year).

Tresiba, however, has a card that will reduce the price by up to $500/month supply. I had trouble getting it from there website and had to call them, but finally got my Tresiba about an hour ago for $15/3 pens.

And this card last for 24 total fills. (and maybe reuppable).

It's a joke/a ripoff but what do you do?

Anyway, if you use lantus, you can probably use tresiba which is cheaper, and which is really good.

I have been out of tresiba for 2 days with this mess, so I used my old faster insulin yesterday and today and before lunch today, I was actually hypoglycemic for the first time ever (that I know of) because of my "reduced" dose of the fast acting stuff.

Alone, the fast acting stuff wasn't keeping my fasting levels down at night; previously I was lucky to be at 130 after waking up. So the tresiba keeps on working even if you miss doses. I am amazed at it.

It's Novilin N and R that Walmart carries that's about $26 per vial OTC. My insurance is shit and they want 50% copays for Humalog and Lantus and they don't cover Novolog, never mind that it's the same price as Humalog these days, which is over $400 per box of five pens. I wrote a thing about it at TOS/TOP back when I was still active over there. But anyway I've used the Novolin R the same as Novolog, and my husband's grandpa died in July and he was also diabetic and his grandma gave me all the insulin pens they had left (Humalog and Lantus) and blood sugar test strips. I can use Novolog, Humalog or Novolin R all interchangeably. The vial will last me about a month and a half, before it goes bad. The discount cards from the companies won't help you if you have any insurance, at least last time I checked; maybe it's changed in the last year, but at least there's some option out there for us with no or shit insurance.

If I may make a suggestion, use ONLY home farmed and/or organic eggs if you plan on eating them raw! I buy mine from a local woman who keeps chickens in her backyard, and have never once gotten sick in spite of routinely using them raw to make mayo, etc. I don't know if they're organic, but I do know that she takes good care of her birds, they look healthy and happy, and they are the damn tastiest eggs I have ever eaten. She has some chickens that lay MONSTROUS white eggs with huge yolks that are absolutely perfect for making mayo! From the chicken's butt to my plate in under a day. If you buy organic from a store, if you get sick they should be able to track exactly where those eggs came from as well.

That's one of the reasons I only buy organic meat and animal products, usually from local farming operations. There are quite a few but that's certainly one of them, I like knowing exactly where my food came from.

home farmed eggs, you might look into organic eggs, preferably also cage-free, or pasteurized eggs (which will be dried), even a liquid egg substitute for your homemade eggnog. You can buy an egg substitute, but the always accommodating Mr. Google provides recipes for home made egg substitutes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=egg+substitute&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

was willlowy before. So overweight is not a cause. Again, correlation. So many Americans are now overweight that that statistic is hard to add to studies. A joke ensues, sorry.

his speechilicious scriptifying, Aaron Sorkin was fundamentally a boob when I heard him assert that pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing should never be left to the devices of the public sector because inefficiency or some such.

NATIONALIZE THE LOT.