Of insurance legislation and elections

Buzz hears that this flier touting the insurance package (which the Senate passed 32-7 Wednesday) was distributed in Sen. Jeff Atwater's district, paid for by the Republican Party of Florida. The incoming Senate president is being challenged by Democrat Skip Campbell.

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insurance industry whoring for the piglicans....piglicans whoring for the insurance industry....any industry whoring for the piglicans....piglicans whoring for any industry....and TAXES ARE STILL RISING!!

you idiots beginning to get the picture?

exactly HOW MANY BUSHES screwing up this state and country will it take to get your exteremely limited attention?

This might actually be a good piece… if these pinheads actually did anything substantive about the crisis. Other than that; it’s good birdcage lining at best.

I think there's already plenty of accountability for an industry that's being forced to charge prices well below their costs and can't change prices without a year or two of court battles with an adversarial regulator.

How about it, small business owners? What if I said you couldn't change prices without a year's notice and millions in legal fees, and had to keep selling all your stuff at the below-cost price to anyone who asked for it in the meantime? Want to locate in Florida? Anyone?

"... an industry that's being forced to charge prices well below their costs... "

That has got to be the most insulting lie you low-life, fear-mongers have put forth to date.

The only ones being “forced” to do anything at the homeowners who are “forced” to pay for your freaking Mercedes and mistresses.

insurance companies ARE GUARANTEED a profit!

understand that?

begin by asking the companies:

"how much are you earning on your current investments?"

"just how much did you reduce your prices as 'come-on' to get the business in the first place?"

"arent you simply trying to recoup your bad investements on the back of policyholders, who have NO CHOICE but to buy your product(s)?"

and, thats just a begining to the questons this "guaranteed-profitable industry" needs to be asked!!!!

[Its not the Bushes, but toxic liberals who have ruined this country. See example of their immoral i]

For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
Martine Powers
Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008
Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts said. "Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."

The "fabricators," or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.

Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.

Art major Juan Castillo '08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

"I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't," Castillo said. "I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."

Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to "provoke inquiry."

"I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity," Shvarts said. "I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts' senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

Few people outside of Yale's undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts' exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups . Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group . said they were not previously aware of Schvarts' project.

Alice Buttrick '10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.

Sara Rahman '09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.

"[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," Rahman said. "It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion."

CLAY member Jonathan Serrato '09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts' exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project "surprising" and unethical.

"I feel that she's manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don't support it," Serrato said. "I think it's morally wrong."

Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.

"It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part," Shvarts said. "This isn't something I've been hiding."

The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street

Hey 10:10, hope you get a little bonus from your insurance agent employer.

Well now, let’s see:

Corporate Welfare (CSX)… 700-million
tax dollars

Undeserving Crackhead parents… 8-million tax dollars

Unjustifiably imprisoned… 1.25-million tas dollars, but deserved more

Baggy Pants… re-freaking-diculous

Insurance Industry pass – 12-million in campaign contributions

Pandering apology… useless

Criminalizing bestiality… a bummer for most of these Legislators

Energy Bill… a joke and a cup of coffee

Our Governor… at a photo shoot somewhere , I’m certain of it

Florida’s economy… in the dirt

Foreclosure rates… through the roof

Voting every last one of these morons out of office for the betterment of our future… priceless.

That's news to the insurers who paid $36 Billion in hurricane claims in 2004-05. Some guarantee.

"I think there's already plenty of accountability for an industry that's being forced to charge prices well below their costs . . .
. . .and had to keep selling all your stuff at the below-cost price to anyone who asked for it in the meantime?"

Seriously? OH you poor little insurance companies, i had no idea life was so rough. - NOT!

To the person who wrote the above quote, your little analogy was cute, but lest your forget that having insurance is something everyone HAS TO have. Any other time you buy "stuff" you aren't always REQUIRED to have it. For example, i can choose whether i want to buy car, it's not a requirement.

Get it?

11:50 - who say's "not" these days? You are very cool.

11:02 - you are right on target.

1. Require insurance to cover outstanding mortage owed, only.

2. Require Insurance companies to return premiums paid – with interest – to any customer they choose to drop or non-renew, provided said customer has made no claims.

Problem Solved!

Wasn't trying to be 'cool', 12:15 - just trying to make a point.

[Crusader]

Wow, there's more copy here than my insurance policy.

When Atwater gets reelected after running the private market out of the state, will he himself provide coverage for me

having insurance is something everyone HAS TO have

Wrong again, you only have to have it if you are burdening someone else (e.g. a bank) to finance the insured asset. Nothing in the Bill of Rights entitles you to borrow money from others - it's a private contract between you and the bank that "forces" you to buy insurance. Don't like it? Find someone who will lend you money without insuring the collateral.

2:16 is right... just think of how "burdened" those poor banks are.

... simp

1. Require insurance to cover outstanding mortgage owed, only.

2. Require Insurance companies to return premiums paid – with interest – to any customer they choose to drop or non-renew, provided said customer has made no claims.

Problem Solved!

[Don Mott]

I may very well be wrong but I think the insurance industry was second only to the oil and gas industry in profits the last two years. Even if I'm wrong they have made a ton of money. And don't cry to me about what they have paid out since it is well documented they declined to pay many claims after the hurricanes and a lot of people are still in court years later trying to get their claims paid. They have dropped customers who have paid their premiums for many years without filing a claim, how low can you get. They are crooks plain and simple. Insurance is not too much different than a legalized Mafia.

"having insurance is something everyone HAS TO have

Wrong again, you only have to have it if you are burdening someone else (e.g. a bank) to finance the insured asset. Nothing in the Bill of Rights entitles you to borrow money from others - it's a private contract between you and the bank that "forces" you to buy insurance. Don't like it? Find someone who will lend you money without insuring the collateral."

UNFORTUNATELY, NO LENDER IS AS STUPID AS YOU !!!!

honestly, do your parents let you have metal scissors with sharp points?

1. Require insurance to cover outstanding mortgage owed, only.

2. Require Insurance companies to return premiums paid – with interest – to any customer they choose to drop or non-renew, provided said customer has made no claims.

Problem Solved!