I think the "Vista Myth" stems from the driver problems suffered at release. A fresh install with some of the older Nvidia & Creative Labs drivers, that were made for Vista, will drop your FPS in half and give you distorted & choppy sound. That's all been fixed for some time now, but Vista hasn't always been the performance king it is today.
Insurance companies are certainly not better off with diabetics. I'm a type 1 and my drug and testing costs alone are in the range of $4000-$4500 a year, just for basic maintenance. But what insurance companies fear most are the costly diabetic complications, like dialysis; which typically runs into the tens of thousands per year (if not month) depending on how far gone your kidneys are. And so far there's no way for an insurance company to tell if you'll still be on their plan if or when you need that.
Because of the costs, it is often impossible for diabetics to purchase insurance at any price. In many states, diabetics have only two options: acquire health care through the state, or get it through an employer. As a diabetic, insurance companies simply will not deal with you unless the state requires them to.
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I think the "Vista Myth" stems from the driver problems suffered at release. A fresh install with some of the older Nvidia & Creative Labs drivers, that were made for Vista, will drop your FPS in half and give you distorted & choppy sound. That's all been fixed for some time now, but Vista hasn't always been the performance king it is today.
Insurance companies are certainly not better off with diabetics. I'm a type 1 and my drug and testing costs alone are in the range of $4000-$4500 a year, just for basic maintenance. But what insurance companies fear most are the costly diabetic complications, like dialysis; which typically runs into the tens of thousands per year (if not month) depending on how far gone your kidneys are. And so far there's no way for an insurance company to tell if you'll still be on their plan if or when you need that.
Because of the costs, it is often impossible for diabetics to purchase insurance at any price. In many states, diabetics have only two options: acquire health care through the state, or get it through an employer. As a diabetic, insurance companies simply will not deal with you unless the state requires them to.