Nothing is free, especially 8 COVID tests a month

[Guntsu]

@Camp

That makes sense and if there are no tests…

It makes it a very frustrating experience, hunting down a test for my daughter was not easy to say the least.

Which is why I personally applaud this step, I have spent a pretty penny purchasing tests.

Biden dropped the ball in the testing department, hopefully it starts to ease.

[Jezcoe]

@Guvnah

@Jezcoe

Maybe some actions that would prevent spreading it?

Maybe.

I gave examples to the contrary in other posts.

It’s not the tests that prevent the spread.

My work protocol is that that we are tested three times a week and contact traced.

Any positive test goes to the contact tracers and determine if someone gets traced out.

The positive case get two weeks paid time off.

Since Sept 2020 that is what has kept the entertainment business cranking out opiate for the masses.

[Guvnah]

@Guntsu

I prevented the transmission that my daughter surely would have caused if she had gone to school.

Would you have sent her to school if she had some other disease or virus other than covid?

In my book, parents should keep kids home regardless of the sickness. Ditto parents going to work.

It shouldn’t take a special test to make you keep your kid home.

Heck. I was exposed to someone who later that day tested positive for covid. It didn’t take a test for me to self-isolate and work from home. If I don’t come down with symptoms in the next few days, I’ll go back into the office.

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@DMK

@Jezcoe

Covid tests are much less expensive than Covid.

That is a very lame go to argument.

Not really.

The less people that are in the hospital with Covid the cheaper it is for everyone.

Covid tests do not prevent Covid nor keep those with Covid from being hospitalized.

Being tested for Covid is like being x-rayed for cracked ribs. All it does is confirm suspicions.

[Samm]

@Sknyluv

@DMK

@Jezcoe

Not really.

The less people that are in the hospital with Covid the cheaper it is for everyone.

So a test is going to prevent you from going to the hospital?

It should reduce chances of coming into contact with an infected person.

Why? How?

[Samm]

@CanadianJudo

@e7alr

It went right over your head I see.

I fail to see the issue.
why should American pay for COVID test during a pandemic.

Did you miss the part about insurers being forced to cover the cost … which they will pass on to policy holders who are the American people?

[Samm]

@CanadianJudo

@e7alr

I complained that the government plans to push another medical coverage into insurance premiums, that have to be paid whether you receive treatment, or not. You ran off on a typically vapid tangent.

the government should pay for it.
after all its a pandemic.

The government isn’t paying. Of course, even if they did, they would be using our money.

[Sknyluv]

@Samm

Why? How?

From yesterday.

@Sknyluv

Increase in awareness of status should increase number of people who quarantine when contagious, therefore decreasing the possibility of transmission.

[DisturbedGuy]

@zantax

@Scratch

@e7alr

He just made it where your insurer is now on the hook for up to 8 tests a month into the foreseeable future

Oh those poor insurance companies…

whoosh, insurance companies won’t be the ones paying for it, they will pass the cost on to consumers in the form of increased rates. But you knew that didn’t you?

Wait until they base the new rates on the percentage of unvaccinated people in the state.

[WuWei]

@Guntsu

For example my daughter tested positive and instead of sending her to school we kept her home, had she gone to school there was a high probability of her infecting others.

Was she symptomatic?

[Janet_Miller]

What’s next?

Eight pregnancy test per month?

Eight clotting or drug tests?

Why is it certain members of this board don’t see that when more coverage mandates are added, costs go up?

[CanadianJudo]

@Janet_Miller

What’s next?

Eight pregnancy test per month?

Eight clotting or drug tests?

Why is it certain members of this board don’t see that when more coverage mandates are added, costs go up?

no one is mandating you get 8 COVID test a month.
the government is mandating insurance companies pay for them.

personal I think the government should pay for it not out of pocket citizens.

[Janet_Miller]

Where exactly do you think government gets that money to pay for stuff?

Hint les impots.

Ding ding ding ding ding if you guessed the taxes paid by its citizens, you, sir, win a prize!

And citizens should not be forced to pay for each other to have eight anything per month.

Hopefully Joe will strictly be a one termer.

[CanadianJudo]

@Janet_Miller

Where exactly do you think government gets that money to pay for stuff?

Hint les impots.

Ding ding ding ding ding if you guessed the taxes paid by its citizens, you, sir, win a prize!

And citizens should not be forced to pay for each other to have eight anything per month.

Hopefully Joe will strictly be a one termer.

America spent 6.8 trillion in 2021.
I’m sure they can move some money around to pay for testing.

[Samm]

@Sknyluv

@Samm

Why? How?

From yesterday.

@Sknyluv

Increase in awareness of status should increase number of people who quarantine when contagious, therefore decreasing the possibility of transmission.

Not likely. The people who decide to test themselves are the same people who would self-quarantine if they merely thought they might be infected and those who wouldn’t quarantine are the same folks who are the least likely to be tested regardless of how they feel.

[Samm]

@DisturbedGuy

@zantax

@Scratch

@e7alr

He just made it where your insurer is now on the hook for up to 8 tests a month into the foreseeable future

Oh those poor insurance companies…

whoosh, insurance companies won’t be the ones paying for it, they will pass the cost on to consumers in the form of increased rates. But you knew that didn’t you?

Wait until they base the new rates on the percentage of unvaccinated people in the state.

What makes you think they can? Insurance rates have to be approved by the States. Besides, testing has nothing to do with vaccination rates.

[Samm]

@CanadianJudo

@Janet_Miller

What’s next?

Eight pregnancy test per month?

Eight clotting or drug tests?

Why is it certain members of this board don’t see that when more coverage mandates are added, costs go up?

no one is mandating you get 8 COVID test a month.
the government is mandating insurance companies pay for them.

personal I think the government should pay for it not out of pocket citizens.

Right. And where does the government get its money?

[Samm]

@CanadianJudo

@Janet_Miller

Where exactly do you think government gets that money to pay for stuff?

Hint les impots.

Ding ding ding ding ding if you guessed the taxes paid by its citizens, you, sir, win a prize!

And citizens should not be forced to pay for each other to have eight anything per month.

Hopefully Joe will strictly be a one termer.

America spent 6.8 trillion in 2021.
I’m sure they can move some money around to pay for testing.

Okay, you got us there. They just print the money to pay for testing and make everybody’s money worth less. Good plan.

[Guvnah]

@CanadianJudo

no one is mandating you get 8 COVID test a month.

Biden’s vax/mask mandate includes:

“Require Unvaccinated Employees to Produce a Negative Test on at Least a Weekly Basis”

Not 8, but at least 4. Mandated.

[Sknyluv]

@Samm

@Sknyluv

@Samm

Why? How?

From yesterday.

@Sknyluv

Increase in awareness of status should increase number of people who quarantine when contagious, therefore decreasing the possibility of transmission.

Not likely. The people who decide to test themselves are the same people who would self-quarantine if they merely thought they might be infected and those who wouldn’t quarantine are the same folks who are the least likely to be tested regardless of how they feel.

Huh? I think my scenario is much more likely overall. Knowledge of status (through testing) would decrease likelihood of transmission.