Quote from: WishIStartedSooner on May 29, 2013, 11:33:13 AM

just ignored a hero member. nice. Jim, I hope that dick is full of as much bull as he's spouting...

Ouch. I'm very much against the Ignore button. Where's the fun? (grin)
It doesn't matter to me if he's just spouting or is actually having me investigated. We get investigated by so many agencies every year that one of my main "jobs" is keeping all our paperwork and computers organized for easy accessibility and understanding. Most agencies default action to not understanding your data is denial of services, negative action, Not Good Stuff. Then you have to appeal and it just increases the paperwork and hoop-jumping. I've long ago gotten use to making the process as painless for us as possible with the most amount of transparency to them. So if the hero member wants to spend his money having us investigated, fine. Just another Monday here. (grin)

The assumption seems to be that I am committing fraud, or wanting to commit fraud in some way by using bitcoin to hide assets or income, and not reporting it. My stating otherwise doesn't seem to deter the assumption. Oh well. Gives me a reason to check the thread until it dies from repetition.

Here's another anecdotal story about living the "entitled" lifestyle: During the 24 month period of time when we got to "pay our share first", after my wife's acceptance to receive Social Security Disability, during the automatic 24 month delay before approval to receive Medicare, "our share first" meant that all medical costs, prescriptions, Hospital inpatient, outpatient, Emergency Room, etc., physical therapy, home healthcare needs, stays at the lovely "drunk tank" (there isn't any other place you can be held if you are declared a danger to yourself or others and you have no health insurance) until you have a seizure and get to visit the indigent hospital ER, and every little bit of equipment, supply, transportation, or contracted service by said medical suppliers is billed to you, and very quickly adds up to $10s of thousands of dollars.
The fun part is that a couple of weeks into this 24 month coverage gap, we got a call from Social Security asking if we wanted to participate in a study they were doing to see if people in the SSD/Medicare gap would benefit from Health Insurance Coverage. The program would consist of 3 study groups: Group A would get a Health Insurance Card that would be accepted by all medical providers that accepted Medicare+Supplemental, and an RN trained in providing HR services to the disabled person.
Group B would receive just the Health Insurance Card, but would be expected to provide all their own HR services. The Health Insurance Card would pay for a maximum of $100K before it "maxed" out and would no longer be accepted.
Group C would receive a phone call once a month, and if they agreed to take a survey on how it was going without any Health Insurance like coverage, get $25 a month.
I was ecstatic to hear we had been chosen for Group B. Without that study group program, our medical debt during that 24 month period would have been $100k higher. I'm glad that we didn't get chosen for Group A because I wouldn't have received the training I did during that time in dealing with the default denial reaction of most government and medical services, and learned the process of appeals, transparency and persistence necessary to navigate the "entitled" lifestyle "successfully". Joy. (grin)