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bob2356 says

bgamall4 says

Insurance scam isn't it? Medicare is the way to go for the nation.

No, the VA would be a much better example. Doctors on salary, no billing, no fee for service, no incentives for fraud or over treatment. Never ever going to happen. Way too much profit in the current system leading to way too much campaign money for politicos to protect the status quo.

Would that be the same VA system that produced the Walter Reed Hospital, where Cheney got the best repair to his broken heart, whereas wounded soldiers coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq got consigned to dilapidated rooms infested with mice and roaches? hmm, since neither condition is attributed to their respective incomes, such real life inequality may actually translate to lower income inequality for the dimwits as neither are paying the bills. On the slave plantation, both the slave owner and the slaves have zero income, so they must be equal according to the numbskulls.

The price menu, against which one can choose to buy or not buy, is what gives people the right to choose and consequently freedom and improving living standards over time. On the slave plantation, the slaves are given free healthcare, free education, free housing, free food and free clothing . . . all at the discretion the plantation owner of course.

Tenured doctors won't work any more diligently than tenured professors. How well have the latter worked out for the millions of unemployed new college graduates?

The problem with our medical system is the government enforced monopoly through license requirement on rendering service. If each city could only have one restaurant, and people are not allowed to cook at home for family members or friends or even oneself, and all food ingredients have to go through multi-billion dollar suitability trials before being allowed on the market, food too would be incredibly expensive!

Socialist politicians talk big about one payer health care, why? because majority of the people do not want to pay out of their own pocket for anything, that's why the majority are losers in life.

Do you know that in one payer health care system you cannot "jump the queue" for treatment even if you have money to pay for it yourself? Why? because the losers want to press you down to their level.

However, the moment these losers or socialist politicians need elective or special medical treatment and they have the money to pay for it themselves, they will fly out of their country and pay for the treatment.

This is no bullshit, google Canada Politicians Medical Treatment for example, you will see many socialist politicians flied out of Canada to USA to get treatment.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

I heard Hillary used Ambassador Stevens' disembodied arm for a dildo while Michelle twerk-decapitated Stevens.

Clearly we haven't had enough examination of this VERY SERIOUS EVENT that killed 4 Americans.

I propose we dedicate an entire phalanx of Congressmen to a standing committee, give them a decade and fund it to the tune of a trillion dollars, so we can get to the bottom of every embassy attack made since 1976. I'm pretty sure if enough GOP Congressmen spend enough time dissecting this, they will PROVE that the Democrats are the ringleaders in a conspiracy of embassy attacks.

This goes WAY deeper than you can imagine, clearly Jimmy Carter is the genesis of all this with his CIA operation to destabilize Iran. Billy Carter was disguised, and right in the thick of the "students" that took the hostages.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

So? No one has yet denied that Lesbian Amazons Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton led the Al Qaeda brigade

This is the key fact.

Most suspicious that the White House website does not specifically use the terms "lesbian," "scissors,", "orgy of Satanic necrophilia", and "ambassadorial corpse dildo" in any point-by-point rebuttal of the allegations.

It would take so little effort to deny these allegations, and yet they are silent. Speaks volumes.

And George Bush was the greatest leader in the history of the World.

Dan8267 says

And people wonder why the economy is shit. Spending half your income on rent is like having half your income cut. You can't spend it on goods and services that lead to the virtuous cycle of production and consumption.

Such high rents SHOULD encourage new construction. More housing SHOULD mediate further rent increases.

That us unless new construction is not possible either politically or physically yet the population continues to grow.

Then you are fucked... Or not if the solution is to institute a zero to one child policy.

My solution?

Mandatory (free) birth control and abortion for anyone unable to qualify for a reproduction permit. Qualification requires savings equivalent to 20% down on the projected lifetime expenditure of each child and an income history proving the ability to pay the rest.

That way the only parents will be multimillionaires and only billionaires will be octomoms. Which is as god intended it to be.

Lets face it, we don't need domestic production of population anymore. Importing a prescreened, motivated and highly educated population is far cheaper and more efficient. Such workers can be allowed to stay throughout their prime working years and deported upon:
*illness (no more expensive healthcare!)
*criminal action (other than for the benefit of the company)
*poor-performance
*"retirement"

Such employees would be free to send money home but only in the form of goods or services provided by US suppliers thus continuing the "virtuous cycle of production and consumption".

As an added bonus this would eliminate the DoED and teacher unions as all education would be private. Workers could focus on work instead of l90% of playgrounds and schools could be re-purposed for condos or in high population areas tiny apartments.

Frustrated wannabe parents are free to adopt pets as surrogates.

I thought he was a better choice than Romney. Didn't like either candidate, but Romney seemed like someone who would institutionalize incumbency of wealth even more. And I didn't want that, I wanted America to stay the land of opportunity where social movement is well off.

Dan8267 says

And people wonder why the economy is shit. Spending half your income on rent is like having half your income cut. You can't spend it on goods and services that lead to the virtuous cycle of production and consumption.

The landlord will spend the money on goods and services. Likewise, the rent/tax that the landlords pay will enable the bureaucrats to spend the money on goods and services. As you can see, such demand-side analysis is dead end. You have to go to the supply side to see why more production is not taking place.

As for high cost of housing expense as percentage of income, the real issue is housing availability vs. population growth (New Renter above is onto something) . . . and why low income people stay in high rent area. I suspect the number is highly skewed by Section-8 households with massive government subsidies. That, and high income households that can afford spending 50% of after-tax income on housing as investment, as their other living expenses such as food, clothing etc. add up to 2% of their income.

Dan8267 says

And people wonder why the economy is shit. Spending half your income on rent is like having half your income cut. You can't spend it on goods and services that lead to the virtuous cycle of production and consumption.

Nonsense.

Landlords spend all their earnings creating jobs: every cent goes into start-ups that create high-paying positions in manufacturing and electrical engineering.

Renters just sock the money away in offshore accounts.

Michele is the Manchurian Lesbian. She will twerk decapitate Obama when shown a specific photograph of Hillary's clit ring.

bob2356 says

CaptainShuddup says

There's no such thing as free. I would just rather our tax dollars go to shit that would have a better lasting impact. Like healing the sick, with out a billing system or profit center in the center of the operation

So you are advocating a "socialist" medical system? Or do you have no clue what you want other than to complain?

bob2356 says

carrieon says

Single payer systems work elsewhere when everyone contributes the same amount of money each month, including their unemployed.

Sort of like a utility payment.

Do your homework. Most other countries health care is paid through taxes.

AH! So you do know, what I'm talking about, You're just being a Dick because that's what Liberals do. That's how they roll people!

bgamall4 says

Now, we have telecom companies competing

There is no competition when every company in a industry has to give one company money to utilize their pipe. The company at the top is the one really setting the prices.

Thanks for making my point against a "Single payer".

I voted straight Democratic for 42 YEARS in a row. Never again will I participate in a Soviet Politburo election where both levers are owned by 2% of the population.
The winner here is George W. Bush, who is now forever relieved of the title "Worst U.S. President in modern American History". At least I only voted for Obama once (god, I even rang doorbells for him and donated money). It took him about 60 days to sell me out to his owners: The Too Big To Jail Banks, Wall Street, and the Military INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. And then spy on anything that moves. I guess if someone is going to spit in my face, I'd rather have a person who is honest about who they represent (Bush), as opposed to a liar's spit (Obama).

The oligarchy is going to love Hillary... did you see that she accepted a $500,000 gold necklace "gift" from the King Of Saudi Arabia a couple of months ago ? It was disclosed by the State Dept. per U.S. law. Think she'll wear it at the inauguation? Remember folk music?

"Mama, she keeps them unprepared
To meet the enemy
That's comin' unto us
Teach them that evil dwells across the sea
Lives in a mountain
Like they see on TV

Down in the heart of town
The Devil dresses up
He keeps his nails clean
Did you think he'd be a boogeyman?"

Buffy St. Marie
Suffer The Little Children

But every night Obama would come around,
And let the country down!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/XAAlZYY01FI

I think Gore was the last guy I voted for president. After that I stopped because I realized what a sham presidential elections are. I still enjoy the local and state elections though.

Call it Crazy says

OK, So who's paying those taxes and where are they coming from????

People who aren't paying $1500 a month for health insurance.

If you are a small player you go to the grey bar hotel. If you are a big player you compete for a cabinet post.

For the banks it is the cost of doing business, for the state and federal AG's it is a chance to declare victory every week.

For the rest of us it is evidence of the failure of the rule of law and the rule by a moneyed aristocracy.

Chuck Prince of Citigroup fame should be renamed Prince Charles of Citigroup.

Reality says

Medical tourism is currently a $10+billion market (2012), and expected to double this decade.

Yes and a large part of it is Americans going to other countries. Don't you ever look up facts before you post?

"A McKinsey and Co. report from 2008 found that between 60,000 to 85,000 medical tourists were traveling to the United States for the purpose of receiving in-patient medical care. The same McKinsey study estimated that 750,000 American medical tourists traveled from the United States to other countries in 2007 (up from 500,000 in 2006). The availability of advanced medical technology and sophisticated training of physicians are cited as driving motivators for growth in foreigners traveling to the U.S. for medical care, whereas the low costs for hospital stays and major/complex procedures at Western-accredited medical facilities abroad are cited as major motivators for American travelers. Also, the decline in value of the U.S. dollar is offering additional incentive for foreign travel to the U.S., although cost differences between the US and many locations in Asia are larger than any currency fluctuations."

Reality says

Tenured doctors won't work any more diligently than tenured professors.

Yet they manage to work quite diligently all around the world. They aren't tenured, they are employees. Do you know how health care works anywhere else?

MoneySheep says

Do you know that in one payer health care system you cannot "jump the queue" for treatment even if you have money to pay for it yourself? Why? because the losers want to press you down to their level.

Other than Canada that's false. There is private health insurance available in every other public health care system. There are doctors who see private patients outside of the public systems for people who want to "jump the queue". Try to actually find out what you are talking about before posting.

Reality says

Would that be the same VA system that produced the Walter Reed Hospital, where Cheney got the best repair to his broken heart, whereas wounded soldiers coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq got consigned to dilapidated rooms infested with mice and roaches?

I don's suppose you would like to document dilapidated rooms infested with mice and roaches at Walter Reade? Nah of course not, you never care to actually document anything. Easier to just talk out your ass.

My sister was treated at Walter Reade after Kuwait and I didn't see any dilapidated rooms infested with mice and roaches. Where did you find them at? Got any pictures? How much time were you at Walter Reade? Zero I would be willing to bet.

The majority of vets treated by the VA are satisfied with the VA. That's pretty damn good considering the kinds of serious problems vets frequently have. There are certainly some bad VA hospitals. There are some really bad private hospitals. So what's your point?

bgamall4 says

Captain. You need a dementia test

I don't think there is any reason at all to bother to test the captain for dementia. That would just confirm the overwhelmingly obvious.

LoL! The other SCOUNDREL has to cover the face in order to hide a full on SH*T eating grin

Yet, I'm always right.
I should change my handle to Al Weiss Right.

CaptainShuddup says

Yet, I'm always right.

I should change my handle to Al Weiss Right.

You are a legend in your own mind.

Well it is one honor that I wish Obama would prove me wrong.
But the more Teaparty, Racist, Republican I sound while describing the shit storm that Obama's short sighted follies will create, then the more right I am.

Obama is free to prove me wrong anytime. Though most here suspects he never will.

He's not even on your side. If you wanted to sit at the table with Obama, you would be sitting at the kiddie table with Cheney, Rove, and Woody. Obama sits with his Corporate titans in Bush's old Captain's chair.

bgamall4 says

YOu are full of it. Most people had no clue prices went down in real estate. The shills said it wouldn't. Remember David Lereah?

Wong, your defense of Wall Street is shameless and disgusting.

I don't think it's fair to call him shameless or disgusting. I agree the lenders need to be held responsible, so does the mainstream media for withholding the truth and being in the back pocket of the banks and real estate associations, but the public is still responsible for their own choices and mistakes. None of them should be bailed out, nor should a person be bailed out if they make a bad investment in the stock market. It really is time people start taking responsibility. Big business needs to be held accountable, but so does each individual. We live in a bailout culture that has learned to validate all negative actions under the sun. I believe we need to return to having standards and taking responsibility. We can't expect politicians and business leaders to take responsibility if we are not willing to take responsibility ourselves.

bgamall4 says

Most people had no clue prices went down in real estate.

Actually, people did know. We were encouraged to jump in before the bubble by almost everyone and the media backed them up, but just a little research showed us that housing went up and down a little, basically followed inflation, and was generally no more than twice the median income. One thing was obvious, nothing in our history looked anything like the market before the bubble, or now. It wasn't extensive research, just looking up the facts available to everyone. Patrick.net warned of the coming bubble and the shady loans the whole time. This very website warned of the clearly inflated housing market of the late nineties, and kept warning citizens with articles, graphs and historical evidence all the way to the bubble burst. The information was available, but everyone wanted to be in on the wave. It happens with stocks, gold and all kinds of potential investments. No one should be bailed out if an investment goes wrong. An investment is a gamble, and no one can convince me that people buying a home for nine times their annual income had no clue it was a gamble. They knew.

This must be the "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" study.

Hard to really figure out how they sorted out the controls for this study, although the conclusion is one of those "Annals of DUHHHH!" stating the obvious things.

Did the study account for the reasons for the heavy drinking? Maybe loss of memory was the best thing to happen to those poor saps.

Call it Crazy says

"because of time constraints, CMS is awarding the Accenture contract on a
sole-source basis."

This reminds me of Halliburton, Dick Cheney and no-bid contracts in iraq. Obozo the lying hypocrite is worse than Bush.

hrhjuliet says

but the public is still responsible for their own choices and mistakes.

we continuously over look this especially when we hear about "recovery"
in prices vs a long denied correction downward to normal market balance.

yes the public is responsible for denying a house bubble existed before in late 80s and more recent. How could so many be in denial in 2002 given 10 years prior we all pretty much saw prices decline, even written in the papers.

bgamall4 says

I don't buy that at all. Most people just wanted a house for their families, and the few that were on the wave were taught by Lereah that the real estate could not crash.

If you you believed anything Lereah said, you were trully a fool.. no Lereah even back in the early 2000 was catching flack for his comments.. no wonder he left the NAR from the public pressure.

bgamall4 says

So if the doctors require that you diagnose your own illness and you screw up should you be held responsible? Lenders are responsible for telling you how much house you can afford and it was against the law to lend more to people than they could pay back. Notice the FIRREA Act of 1989 that W ignored.

Hype... it was all hype as we have seen since the Gold Rush which lured many westwards... As far as Regulations or lack of ... even the SEC act 1933/34 failed to prevent the Stock Bubble of late 90s. Even though we had Tech companies IPOs before and mindfull buying/selling was based on revenue growth, earnings, and Price to Earnings matrix. All that failed somewhere around 1995-2000...

just ask your typical bubble head why they think their home is worth $1M... there are lots of them in SF prime...

bgamall4 says

So if the doctors require that you diagnose your own illness and you screw up should you be held responsible? Lenders are responsible for telling you how much house you can afford and it was against the law to lend more to people than they could pay back. Notice the FIRREA Act of 1989 that W ignored.

. It is a very different situation. I always research my own diagnosis, and in one case my research helped lead to answers for my little cousin when the doctors had said her elimination process was probably just diet. It wasn't her diet, and she needed intervention and she got it, due to my research. I agree that the banks should be punished for not following the law. But in the case of the homeowners the information WAS available and a bail out for homeowners is not a fair solution. They took a gamble, and it was a poor one. I am sorry that happened to them, but they must take responsibility for their own choices. The information was easily available and this very site was a source.

bgamall4 says

lostand confused says

Perhaps you just aren't smart enough to see the obvious. Perhaps you are lost and confused.

Note that this article is from zero hedge. There are 500 million lines of code? I don't buy that. How about some documentation on that? Never happened with ZH.

bgamall4 says

hrhjuliet says

I always research my own diagnosis,

No you research the disease, not the diagnosis.

No, I always do both. With something as important as a diagnosis or a potential disease, I would always research the heck out of them and get a second opinion, and often a third and fourth opinion.

What if you drink and do some mnemonic exercises, while smashed?

Doesn't that simply kill the bad cells and strengthen the good ones?