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Sep 28, 2017 14:45:33   #
In my opinion, the two party system has run it's course. The parties are too strong and demand that newly elected, (what few there are), toe the party line. Some are free spirits but way too few. We need to demand that the Independent Party be given equal standing by the Republicans and Democrats. However we know that given the chance, large amounts of Republicans and Democrats would leap at the chance to go Independent therefore making the Independents a force on the political scene. Of course that would simply make a different party beholding to the big money crooks.
The masses need to go into the street to be heard and demand honest Legislators! Of course they would shoot many of us!
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Sep 21, 2017 14:39:03   #
Jakebrake wrote:
There should not be a single soul surprised that an Optical Engineer came up with these 4 sentences to explain what the 10,535 pages of ObamaCare reduced to.

A Great summary by a Notre Dame University optical engineer.

Here are the 10,535 pages of Obama Care condensed to 4 simple sentences. As humorous as it sounds.....every last word is absolutely TRUE!

1. In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.

2. Next, we require the newly un-insured to be re-insured.

3. To re-insure the newly un-insured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.

A terrific treatment of what was easily predictable had anyone known what was in the bill when it was passed. It was passed incidentally by a Democratic House of Representatives because they had the majority and knew that they were going to lose same in the next e******n, which they did! The pompous i***ts who framed the bill had to know that you cannot force Insurance companies to add things like "pre-existing conditions", care for healthy people so that they don't fall into failing health, etc! The Health Insurance companies immediately cancelled all of the existing policies, figured out a new paradigm and jacked up the prices to maintain or increase their earnings. Many Health Insurance companies also dropped out of the markets in many states presumably because they viewed those states as being unprofitable, ie... Arizona only has one Health Insurance provider now. The carnage will go on and on especially if the part of this law governing small business, is actually put into effect.

4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured, so it will be 'free-of-charge' to them.


This, ladies and gentlemen, is called "redistribution of wealth" or, by its more common name, "Socialism" or "Progressivism," the politically correct names for C*******m.
There should not be a single soul surprised that a... (show quote)
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Sep 15, 2017 14:18:30   #
Manning345 wrote:
I am trying very hard to maintain a Christian view of Muslims, but my mind says all of them are bad news for us: Alawites, Sunnis, Shiites, and others are an existential threat to the US, both now with ISIS, and eventually with our internal number of Muslims. If I remember correctly, the Hadith lays out how Muslims can reside in a foreign country, obey their laws, and act just as citizens do, and even accept citizenship there, but they must heed the call to Jihad when the time is right in that country, or be k**led. The time is right when their numbers and positions in the country are great enough to allow a Jihad revolution to be successful, which might be many years---30 to 50 years might be enough, since they breed rather copiously. While they wait for the call, they can practice confusion tactics, masking their intent under pious statements, and even swearing allegiance to the country, since they can lie, c***t, steal, or even k**l infidels and not be punished by Islam. One source has their current numbers in the US at above 4.4 million.
I am trying very hard to maintain a Christian view... (show quote)

Right on Manning, The Muslims are not born radicals, but, they are fed the Koran as soon as they can focus on something. The Koran has nothing to do with Religion, simply being a means to an end, world domination! It requires all true Muslims to k**l infidels, (anyone who refuses to become a Muslim). It states that some infidels can be left alive if they pay enough ransom money. It lays out a set of rules and the punishments for breaking the rules, all of which are hideous!
PAKISTAN ARRESTING AN ISIS LEADER? HA AND HA, what a joke!
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Sep 15, 2017 14:06:41   #
Super Dave wrote:
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Really cool Dave! Now I will be able to remember what L**t means, never could before!

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Sep 7, 2017 15:09:23   #
crazylibertarian wrote:
Thank you there, Terry Hamblin. People have no idea of how much of their insurance premium/taxes go into their actual health care. Just go and spend a day in a physicans' office and note the people in billing and ancillary staff who have no connection whatsoever to care. Medical billers just a few years ago were getting paid about $85,000 a year. See how many independent offices there are. They are few & far between. The neighborhood physician is just about gone. Almost all care is delivered through mega-groups. Any office probably employs 2 billers for every three physicians.

In the early 80s, I started a practice in an old Italian section of Providence, Rhode Island with my wife to help, a fireman on disability who used the extra money to help with family finances and a woman on Medicare.

I could go on but it is so large a problem that it would take all day.
Thank you there, Terry Hamblin. People have no id... (show quote)

I agree crazylib, but you are still talking about the rape that exists now!
The ACA did several things:
1.- Paid for a 6 million dollar website out of our hard earned tax money, actually, the same thing already existed, all you had to do was google "Health Insurance". Naturally the dimwits in Congress (All Democrats) added on the subsidies IF you went through a State - Run System, of course the clamor was humungous when the people went through the Federal System, so then the Supreme Court white-washed the stupidity ruling that everybody who qualifies, (is poor), supposedly gets subsidized.
2.- The sacred brain trust in the Democratic Party decided to add things in as requirements for Insurance companies such as Pre-existing conditions, provide healthy things for healthy people to keep them that way and so on. Since Insurance companies do not ever want to see their profits go down they cancelled a bunch of policies, created a new paradigm, and offered the new and better insurance at about twice the price as before the ACA.
3.- The ACA mandated the expansion of Medicaid and the Hospitals jumped on it. Everyone that visited the Emergency rooms and could not pay were signed up for Medicaid on the spot by the hospitals. So did the expansion of Medicaid for poor people make any difference as to the number of people visiting the emergency rooms? No, but the Hospitals are now getting paid for these people, so who benefitted from the expansion of Medicaid? The Hospitals!
4.- The ACA either created new taxes or jacked up percentages on existing taxes, 25 of them in fact.

Turns out that the ACA was aimed at 10% of the population, now I would venture a guess that at least 20% of the population is without health insurance because they simply cannot pay for it, cheaper to have the IRS tack on $2,500 to your tax bill as a fine, some Democracy!
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Sep 1, 2017 13:20:14   #
crazylibertarian wrote:
Your friend was right and what kind of a friend are you to advocate the same thing that's screwing him over?
Your overall argument is sophistry at its basest. As Milton Friedman said, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for it. I can assure you, that with every program, incluiding Medicare, Medicaid & the ACA, there are people waiting to figure out how to to get the most money out of it.

Exactly crazylib, you named all of the current s**ms, especially the ACA. Doctors do not get screwed, but neither do they make tons of money under a single payer plan. Not as bad as what happened to me when the assholes in the UN decided to knock off building commercial nuclear plants.
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Aug 30, 2017 14:19:47   #
[quote=crazylibertarian]I'm a physician and I've dealt with all these other government 'solutions' my entire professional career. I have had elevated PSAs and a 12 point prostatic biopsy which came out negative. I don't want to e a burden to my children. This system will explode eventually, Bills would be no where near as astronomical without Medicare and Medicaid. I might be out of a job without them but I'd take my chances.

I prefer freedom.

Crazylib, as a physician maybe it is your handwriting in this post that confuses me??? "This system will explode eventually"-- You mean the ACA I assume and I agree, Insurance rates are going up and up and the small businesses have not been raped as yet! "Bills would be no where near as astronomical without Medicare and Medicaid, I might be out of a job without them but I'll take my chances" You are saying that Medicare and Medicaid bump up Doctor bills???, but without them you might not have a job??
I had a very good friend in Spain who was an excellent Doctor, he complained that in the single payer system he did not get paid as much and he had a lot of paperwork to contend with. His parting comment was, "If I don't work within the system I will have no patients since no one is going to give up the free stuff, go outside the system and pay"....

I know that Libertarians want everyone to be free of everything, but no huge insurance bills, no huge hospital bills, and no huge doctor bills would be a really good start in that direction!
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Aug 29, 2017 14:42:36   #
crazylibertarian wrote:
As I've written here several times without a single response from any of the socialized medical care cabal on OPP, you think single payer is so great? APply it to your own occupation or business, if you have one.


Well crazylib, I am retired and I have a United Health Care Advantage plan. I recently went through Radiation therapy on my prostate, (get ready, when you get old enough you too will enjoy being told that your PSA is too high and you should go to a Urologist!) Long story short, after doing a 12 point biopsy, the Urologist recommended that I do radiation therapy and gave me a hormone shot to shrink the tumor, which it did, ie.. PSA dropped radically. I then went to my first appointment with the Oncologist and he outlined the plan. Since I could see the co-pay bills surging upward in my future, I went and talked to the Financial advisor available in the Oncologist's office and she asked me if I was a Veteran and I said yes. She told me to go to the VA and ask them to do the radiation therapy and since the VA does not do that, they referred me to the same Oncologist and authorized payment through the VA, ($24,000). But I still received a co-pay bill for $1,273. Upon reviewing the bill I discovered that the hormone shot, (Lupron), costs $7,320 per shot, thus the big co-pay. Since I had already been told that 3 more Lupron shots over a two year period were necessary, I went back to the VA and asked if they would administer the shots and they said yes very rapidly. I could not get the VA to pay for the first shot because my treatment had not been authorized at the time, but I will save about $5,000 in co-pays since from the VA the shots are free!
Crazy, I don't understand your comment about applying single payer to my business or occupation. Single payer is for each individual regardless of occupation or business. If it comes to pass, the individual simply calls for an appointment and goes into a clinic to be treated. Yes taxes will be a little higher but you will not be strangled by a Health Insurance provider, or a huge Hospital bill and you will not have astronomical doctor bills. If the system is put into effect and run properly, it is all FREE!
The VA by the way has cleaned up it's act to the point where I am going to return there for my health care in it's entirety. I have talked to several providers at the Hayden VA hospital in Phoenix and have been assured that the aim of the VA is to prove the single payer system and beseech Congress to adapt the system once it is proven.
Maybe you are rich and famous and can pay easily for everything that the Health Care Industry can throw at you but most of us little guys would appreciate not having the bills h*****g over our heads.

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Aug 28, 2017 15:10:22   #
I'm back again everyone, and glad to be here! Some months ago I wrote a post about single payer Health Care.
1.- I used the single payer system in Spain for about ten years and it was excellent. Also all of the problems that we have here in the U.S. did not exist.
a.- No healthcare insurance companies to figure out ways to wring you dry. Just a small increase in individual income tax. (I heard no complaints).
b.- No huge hospital bills to ruin you just paying co-pays.
c.- No huge Doctor bills to do you in just paying co-pays.
d.- The Spanish government cut deals with "Big Pharma" to reduce drug costs to the people.
and on and on.....
One of you challenged my love for the Single payer system by citing te VA as a single payer non-workable system. I have found recently the the VA has done an extreme turn-about. I went into a clinic in Hayden hospital in Phoenix some weeks ago for an appointment. When I left the VA about 5 years ago it was because there were so many veterans crowded in there that you always had to stand for an hour or so to have your appointment. When I got there recently there were 6 people in the clinic and 3 other clinics that I saw were closed. The VA has made outlying clinics available to veterans so very few now go to the main hospital. I was taken care of half an hour early and I got the VA to pay for my prostate cancer radiation treatments at a top shelf facility, because the VA does not do radiation treatments. On the other hand I found out that the hormone shots that the Urologist administers to shrink the tumor cost $7,320 EACH! You need four of the shots over a two year period! (co-pay of around $5,000). I went back to the VA and asked them to administer the shots, no problem!

All in all I am shifting my care back to the VA!!
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Apr 28, 2017 13:30:57   #
Why am I of the opinion that no one on this thread, "gets it"? Why are sanctuary cities, sanctuary cities? I believe that the point is the above crazy question! Why do so many cities in California earn the moniker "sanctuary city". Is it possibly better to refer to them as "s***ery cities"? California has lots of fruit to pick and obviously large growers and retailers don't want to pay anything to get the "pickin" done. Just as cheap cotton pickers fueled the Civil War, cheap latino labor is fueling the fire over sanctuary cities. So who is at fault? Could the unsk**led laborers be the culprits, or would it be the unscrupulous "patrons" who are picking up the cheap labor on street corners with a pickup truck, working them all day and paying them a pittance under the table, before dropping them off in the cities again?
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Apr 25, 2017 13:59:11   #
crazylibertarian wrote:
I'm a physician. Before you start running off your mouth about the wonderful things with a single payer medical system Hamblin, why don't you tell us what your occupation is and then the rest of us can advocate for a single payer system for your industry. Then after a couple of years tell us how much you like it.


Til then, shut your mouth.


O.K. Crazy: You are a physician so inherently you don't want to have anything to do with a single payer system. Why? Because you won't make as much money, and the paperwork would be increased since governments are in the cover your ass business!

I am a retired Nuclear Power Plant Startup Engineer and an 11 year veteran of the Nuclear Submarine Service. My comments come from my good experience with the Spanish single payer system which I used for about 10 years. All of the things that you guys on this thread are blithering about are non-existent in a good single payer system. I have had to change my Medicare Advantage plan three times in three years because the G.P. that I like has dropped out of the Humana network and then out of the Cigna network, I am now with United Health Care and so far it is very good, especially with medication costs, out of six meds that I take I only have to pay for one.
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Apr 21, 2017 13:23:07   #
bahmer wrote:
I am not real rich in fact I am what most would call poor. I am on social security and I am 74 years old. But if you go with the free market system and then allow insurance companies to cross state lines that would lower costs as well. Another cost saving that could be implemented would be limit the amount of awards that can be had when a person sues the physician. Most of these lawsuits are ridicules as to the amounts being awarded which in turn increases the doctors malpractice insurance through the roof. Other cost savings would be go to a separate clinic for MRI's and the like they charge substantially less than does the hospital. I have heard that having an MRI taken and read can be as low as $2-300.00 and you have the results the same day you don't have to wait for a week and be charged $2-3,00.00 for the same thing. There are all kinds of money saving things that can be done to lower the costs of insurance but people have to take the initiative to implement them.
I am not real rich in fact I am what most would ca... (show quote)


bahmer, you have just gone through many things that would disappear with a good single payer system!!

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Apr 18, 2017 14:57:21   #
Bahmer,

If you think that the present system works wonderfully, then you are really rich or you have no idea what normal people are paying to have health insurance, be the health care good or bad! The insurance companies studied the changes that the ACA mandated and cancelled a BUNCH of existing policies and then offered the Obamacare healthcare policies at approximately double the previous price. Trust me, healthcare is a money maker and I think that many of the things included in the Obamacare act were to appease the insurance companies and increase taxes. You use the VA as an example of a single payer system and you are right, the VA is a prime example of a BAD single payer system, which has been horribly managed from the get-go, but if any of the Congressmen look into the VA system and also good single payer systems throughout the World, maybe they would figure out how to run a single payer system and also fix the VA!
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Apr 17, 2017 13:23:06   #
One thing, at least, is logical.

1.- The only Healthcare system that actually works for the little guy is Single Payer Health care. I used the single payer system when I was living in Spain.

a.- The Healthcare professionals were excellent, including Hospitals and Clinics.

b.- The Spanish people do not have to stumble around looking for insurance that they can pay for. They just call the nearest clinic and get an appointment.

c.- I don't know how much taxes increased to pay for the Health Care system but no one complained about it.

Cons...

a.- Doctors complained that they weren't making enough money since they had to hire clerical workers to take care of the paper work, but... if the doctors were not in the system, they had no patients, ie... no one wants to pay anything when they don't have to!

b.- Every Arab who could get across the strait of Gibraltar showed up for free health care and got it, without being a citizen, just as they will here.!

The problem in the U.S to enact a single payer system is three-fold,

a.- The American Medical Association is lobbying fiercely to maintain things as they are.

b.- The insurance companies are lobbying, paying bribes, you name it, so that the goose that laid the golden egg will not go away.

c.- Big Hospital conglomerates are also fighting tooth and nail against the Single payer system.

Again, why clarify and make health care easy?
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Oct 3, 2016 13:03:47   #
Subject: New Yorker Magazine on Trump

WHEN AN ULTRA, ULTRA LIBERAL MAGAZINE SUCH AS THE NEW YORKER .....WRITES AN ARTICLE SUCH AS THIS... YOU REALIZE AMERICA IS FINALLY WAKING UP TO THE CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE AND IGNORANCE OF Washington......
This is absolutely brilliant. A surprising article from the New Yorker Magazine. This magazine has always been a left wing apologizer so this article is even more amazing. Don't pass it up. The author is the political correspondent for Bloomberg and wrote extensively about Obama even before he was nominated.



"Who is Donald Trump?" The better question may be, "What is Donald Trump?" The answer? A giant middle finger from average Americans to the
political and media. Most Trump supporters have simply had it with the Demo-socialists and the "Republicans In Name Only." They knew there
wasn't a dime's worth of difference between Hillary Rodham and Jeb Bush, and only a few cents worth between Rodham and the other GOP candidates.

Ben Carson was not an "establishment" candidate, but the Clinton machine would pulverize Carson; and the somewhat rebellious Ted Cruz (justifiably so) would have been tied up with natural born citizen lawsuits (as might Marco Rubio). The Trump supporters figure they may as well have some fun tossing Molotov cocktails at Wall Street and Georgetown while they watch the nation collapse. Besides - lightning might strike, Trump might get elected, and he might actually fix a few things. Stranger things have happened (the nation elected an [islamo-]Marxist in 2008 and Bruce Jenner now wears designer dresses.)

Millions of conservatives are justifiably furious. They gave the Republicans control of the House in 2010 and control of the Senate in 2014, and have seen them govern no differently than Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Yet those same v**ers are supposed to trust the GOP in 2016? Why?

Trump did not come from out of nowhere. His candidacy was created by the last six years of Republican failures.

No reasonable person can believe that any of the establishment candidates [dems or reps] would have slashed federal spending, rein in the Federal Reserve, cut burdensome business regulations, reform the tax code, or eliminate useless federal departments (the Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, Energy, etc.). Even Ronald Reagan was unable to eliminate the Department of Education. (Of course, getting shot at tends to make a person less of a risk-taker.)

No reasonable person can believe that any of the nation's major problems will be solved by Rodham as she is simply the third verse of Obama's waning swan song.

Many Americans, and especially Trump supporters, have had it with:
Anyone named Bush
· Anyone named Clinton
· Anyone who's held political office
· Political correctness
· I*****l i*********n
· Massive unemployment
Our out of control federal spending
Our National Debt that exceeds our GDP (Can you say Greece?)
· Phony "official" unemployment and inflation figures
· Welfare waste and fraud
Money being spent on I*****l i*******ts
· People faking disabilities to go on the dole
· VA waiting lists
· TSA airport groping
· ObamaCare
· The Federal Reserve's money-printing schemes
· Wall Street crooks like Jon Corzine
· Michelle Obama's vacations
· Michelle Obama's food police
· Barack Obama's golf
· Barack Obama's arrogant and condescending lectures
· Barack Obama's criticism/hatred of America
· Valerie Jarrett
· " Holiday trees"
.Hollywood hypocrites
· Cop k**lers while Black L***s M****r
· Gun confiscation threats
· Stagnant wages
· Boys in girls' bathrooms
. Whiny, spoiled college students who can't even place the Civil War
in the correct century... and that's just the short list.

Trump supporters believe that no Democrat wants to address these issues, and that few Republicans have the courage to address these issues. They know that Trump is their way of saying, "Screw you, Hillary Rodham and all the Do Nothing Republicans!" The more the talking head political pundits insult the Trump supporters, the more supporters he gains. (The only pundits who seem to understand what is going on are Democrats Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell and Republican John LeBoutillier.
But America does not need a tune-up at the same old garage. It needs a new engine installed by experts - and Hillary Rodham is not a mechanic; she merely manages a garage her philandering husband abandoned. Trump is also not a mechanic, but he knows where to find the best ones to work in his garage. He won't hire his brother-in-law or someone to whom he owes a favor; he will hire someone who lives and breathes cars.

"How dare they revolt!" the "elites" are bellowing. Well, the citizens are daring to revolt, and the RINOs had better get used to it. "But Trump will hand the e******n to Clinton !" That is what the Karl Rove-types want people to believe, just as the l*****t media eagerly shoved "Maverick" McCain down GOP throats in 2008 - knowing he would lose to Obama. But even if Trump loses and Rodham wins, she would be nothing more than a caretaker, not working to restore America 's greatness but merely presiding over the collapse of a massively in-debt nation. A nation can perhaps survive open borders; a nation can perhaps survive a generous welfare system. But no nation can survive both - and there is little evidence that Hillary Rodham understands that. The United States cannot forever continue on the path it is on. At some point it will be destroyed by its debt.

Yes, Trump speaks like a bull wander[ing] through a china shop, but the t***h is that the borders do need to be sealed; we cannot afford to feed, house, and clothe 200,000 Syrian immigrants for decades (even if we get inordinately lucky and none of them are ISIS infiltrators or Syed Farook wannabes); the world is at war with radical Islamists; and we cannot continue trying to spend our way out of debt. Is Trump the perfect candidate? Of course not. Neither was Ronald Reagan. but unless we close our borders and restrict immigration, all the other issues are irrelevant. One terrorist blowing up a bridge or
a tunnel could k**l thousands. One jihadist poisoning a city's water supply could k**l tens of thousands. One electromagnetic pulse attack from a single Iranian nuclear device could k**l tens of millions. Faced with those possibilities, most Americans probably don't care that Trump relied on eminent domain to grab up a final quarter acre of property for a hotel, or that he boils the blood of the Muslim Brotherhood thugs running the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
While Attorney General Loretta Lynch's greatest fear is someone giving a Muslim a dirty look, most Americans are more worried about being gunned down at a shopping mall by a crazed [islamic] lunatic who treats his prayer mat better than his three wives and who is fool enough to think that 72 virgins are waiting for him in paradise.

The establishment is frightened to death that Trump will win, but not because they believe he will harm the nation. They are afraid he will upset their taxpayer-subsidized apple carts. While Obama threatens to veto legislation that spends too little, they worry that Trump will veto legislation that spends too much.

You can be certain that if Hillary wins in November 2016 ... [her] cabinet positions will be filled with the same people we've seen before. The washed-up has-beens of the Clinton and Obama administrations will be back in charge. The hacks from Goldman Sachs will continue to call the shots. And America will continue her continuing decline as other great democracies in history.

If the establishment wins, America loses.
Roy Kaplan

Added by T. Hamblin

If you do not believe any of the above you are a hopeless koolade junkie. I know that if only 1% of the things that Hillary has been accused of are true, she should be in prison in a cell beside Bill so they can fade away from the h**e that they have for each other!
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