2008-07-03T22:16:30Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/51030 2008-07-03T22:16:30Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-03:/comment/32312 Anonymous As a practice administrator, I must speak out to the importance of this bill. I come into daily contact with a multitude of confused and dissatisfied senior patients. They are being targeted by these Advantage insurance companies, told they have a 5.00 Copay, which then increases to a 15.00 copay, etc. etc....on top of that I spend endless hours trying to track down which Advantage plan they currently have, some claims have been in limbo so long that when I finally get it to the correct insurance I get a "past timely filing" denial. Our patients praise our doctor regularly, they complain of the dishonest and misleading tactics used by the advantage insurers regularly.....tell me again WHY!!!?? are the doctors and clinics get a pay cut and the crooked and FOR PROFIT medicare Advantage insurers getting even more of a FREE RIDE??? 2008-07-09T21:03:52Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-09:/comment/33075 Anonymous you are right on! these advantage insurers are elderly abusers, plain and simple!! 2008-07-13T18:08:47Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-13:/comment/33858 Anonymous Jump to: navigation, search For the 4 Non Blondes song, see What's Up (song). For the Boston, Massachusetts street newspaper, see Whats Up Magazine What's up? is an informal question meaning, depending on situation and emphasis: "What are you doing?", "How are you?", "What is happening?" or "What gives?" It is sometimes used as an informal, casual greeting in itself. This expression was made popular by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny who used it as early as 1940 as part of his catch phrase "What's up Doc?" (where each word was pronounced distinctly). Whassup (sometimes spelled Wussup or wassup) is also a commonly used African American Vernacular English term of the same meaning. It was the central theme of an advertising campaign for Anheuser-Busch owned "Budweiser" beer brand in the early 2000s. The phrase is often shortened to "sup", and this term is commonly used as internet slang. It also sometimes but very rarely used to mean "nice to meet you" "What's up?" is now rephrased in many ways, mostly for Internet slang and chatting. A few include: "sup" "wassapening" "waz up" "waz^" "wts up" "wts new" "waz happenin" "WUZZAH!!" "wuzzup" "whussup" "wuzzgoinon" "wattup" "Zappening" "Zup" [edit] See also What's Up, Doc? What's Up Fox [edit] External links Look up what's up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.A video of a myna bird at Honolulu Zoo imitating human speech, including several instances of "What's up?" "What's up" at Urban Dictionary Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_up%3F" Categories: Slang | Greeting words and phrases | Sociolinguistics | Language varieties and stylesViewsArticle Discussion Edit this page History Personal toolsLog in / create account Navigation Main Page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page 2008-06-25T14:20:30Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-25:/comment/28537 Anonymous What is the logic behind not voting for this bill? As it stands doctors still lose money (just not as much), and patients will still see their disgruntled doctoers who are essentially taking a pay cut. It seems like a republicans dream. 2008-06-30T16:53:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-30:/comment/30925 Anonymous If this bill passes how can a doctor afford to practice. Is anyone concern if we get quality healthcare. Everyone else in the country gets a raise while doctors pay high malpractice insurance and pay cuts. 2008-06-25T16:19:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-25:/comment/28599 Anonymous The issue is that the people out there who are telling these people about the programs and are getting them enrolled won't be able to afford to do their job. They do not get paid much as it is and they also have to pay all of their own expenses, including gasoline. The bill makes up for the increased cost of additional services to seniors by cutting the pay to the insurance companies that provide Medicare Part C, which in turn will result in a pay cut to all the people working to reach these seniors. What good will the improvements do if there aren't people telling them how and where to access them???