WHO IS THE WAR MONGERS, DEMOCRATS.

Hillary Clinton's Iraq War V**e Still Matters

An unreformed advocate of regime change.

Zane Albayati

January 19, 2014

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Hillary Clinton seems destined to run for president in 2016. Her chances of capturing the Democratic nomination are once again taking on that familiar quality of inevitability, redolent of the runup to the primary contest in 2008. Prominent Democrats are already pledging to stay out of the race in 2016 to make way for another Clinton candidacy while others have begun to offer premature endorsements, hoping not to be left behind when the Clinton Express begins its journey to Pennsylvania Avenue. In spite of these developments, Brian Schweitzer, the former Democratic governor of Montana and a potential rival to Clinton in 2016, took a not-so-subtle jab at the former Secretary of State and senator from New York. Schweitzer seemed to suggest that, without citing names, anyone who v**ed for the Iraq War was still, more than eleven years out from that controversial v**e, disqualified from holding the office of the president. Whether or not Schweitzer himself is a credible alternative to Clinton is peripheral to the issue he raises, an issue that deserves to be relitigated, both because of the catastrophic consequences the Iraq War entailed for the United States and the relatively recent resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq.

In the 2008 Democratic primary, Iraq, more than the economy, was the paramount issue that framed the contest and sealed the respective fates of the two major candidates vying for the nomination: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton tried everything to distance herself from the affirmative v**e she cast for the Iraq War Resolutionof 2002, a resolution that gave President Bush carte blanche in determining when and how to remove the regime in Baghdad. The measure passed both Houses of Congress with strong bipartisan support and put members of Congress on the record less than a month before contentious off-year e******ns were to take place

Your showing your ass

575 US troops died in Afghanistan during the Bush presidency. By August 18, 2010, following two troop surges initiated by President Obama, that number had doubled. Today, over 1500 US troops have died in Afghanistan since President Obama took office—and yet, little in that war-torn country has changed.

These numbers should give us pause. While the Administration has publicly conceded that there is no military solution in Afghanistan, and claimed that it supports 'Afghan-led reconciliation', its policy on the ground is marked by a refusal to establish a timetable for full military withdrawal even after misleading Americans into thinking that all US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

We must ask ourselves how many more lives will be sacrificed before the Obama administration sets a clear end date for America's longest war.

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Brilliant, so you went from bad to evil and worse.

Birthed from a love child, suffered oxygen loss and heroine addiction at birth. Have some compassion, it must be difficult being a child of incest

Excuse me, Bush, and Cheney? It's obama's year 7, and has lost more lives in war, which still has nothing to do with the previous administration's.
Your the stupidest, person on this site I think, I have ever had the displeasure of responding to.
There is a sad side calling on my compassion, you must have struggled your entire life following morons, knowing your always a step behind those with special needs.

Excuse me, Bush, and Cheney? It's obama's year 7, and has lost more lives in war, which still has nothing to do with the previous administration's.
Your the stupidest, person on this site I think, I have ever had the displeasure of responding to.
There is a sad side calling on my compassion, you must have struggled your entire life following morons, knowing your always a step behind those with special needs.

You are aware c*******t in your party are dominating policy.
YOU SAID SAVINGS

May 30, 2014

The Hidden Cost Chickens in Obamacare Coming Home to Roost

By Brian C Joondeph

Labor unions have been reliable supporters of President Obama and his policies. Their support for Obamacare was critical to its passage in 2010. Yet they are continuing to learn that their members will be paying more for their healthcare, not less.

One of the selling points of Obamacare was the lowering of health insurance costs. Nancy Pelosi promised, “Everybody will have lower rates.” President Obama was more specific, telling us that his signature program would “Bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.” A year later, however, Mrs. Pelosi, in the face of rising premiums for many, forgot her promise of the previous year, "I don't remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium."

Mrs. Pelosi’s sudden bout of amnesia isn’t surprising. Health insurance premiums rose up to 56 percent under Obamacare and some of her constituents in California are paying over $2600 per month in premiums. But that isn’t the worst of it.

Premiums are just the opening salvo for consumers paying for health care. Paying the premium means you have insurance, but that doesn’t mean you can leave your wallet home when visiting the doctor or hospital.

It’s the hidden costs that will thin your wallet. Copays, deductibles, and coinsurance to be specific. Insurance behemoth Cigna reassures us that these added costs, “All work together to help reduce your medical expenses and protect your finances.” Really?

The copayment is a fixed amount, typically between $20-40, that you pay each time you access the healthcare system – physician visit, x-ray, laboratory, or hospital.

Coinsurance can take a bigger bite out of your wallet. It’s not a fixed cost, but instead a percentage of your bill. Once you meet your deductible (the third hidden cost), you may still have to pay anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of your medical bill based on your policy coinsurance percentage.

The largest hit on your wallet, however, is the deductible. It’s this amount that you pay in full before insurance pays anything. Family deductibles range from $6000 to $10,000 for the most popular silver and bronze Obamacare plans. Until meeting the deductible, you might as well be uninsured, paying cash for your medical care.

It’s not just the Obamacare exchange plans with high deductibles. In 2013, 17 percent of employers are providing high deductible plans as the only option for employees. This is a 31 percent increase from the previous year, and a trend that will likely continue.

United Healthcare believes a high deductible plan is, “A more economical way to help protect your health.” Economical for whom? It certainly is for United but how about for the family suddenly on the hook for ten grand after a family member needs surgery or a few days in the hospital?

Some policies have an out-of-pocket maximum, limiting the cash hemorrhage. But read the fine print. The maximum may not include prescription drug costs or may only include prescription drugs. Copays may still be in effect even above and beyond the out-of-pocket maximum.

Here’s a novel idea to take the bite out of the high deductible. Let individuals or families prepay their deductible with a prepayment discount. Let’s say I have a $6000 deductible for my family insurance plan. Let me pay $5000 on January 1 and for the year my deductible is met. I save $1000 by accepting the gamble that my healthcare costs will exceed my deductible amount for the year. If my costs are lower, I lose the bet. But the insurance company gets cash up front, and unless I get sick on January 2, will have the use of that money until I spend up to my deductible.

Most states offer prepaid college tuition plans under the same concept. Pay in advance to secure a lower tuition bill, but with the risk of losing the prepayment if your kid ends up not going to college or going out of state.

The bottom line is that the insurance hidden costs, while euphemistically described as cost sharing, serve only as a subtle way to ration care. Faced with a high deductible, many will forgo seeking medical care hoping their problem goes away. If it doesn’t, then the only option is a trip to the emergency room, where by law, care must be provided for any "emergency medical condition." And what a surprise, emergency room visits are increasing since Obamacare took effect.

Just as increasing income tax rates drives taxpayers toward loopholes, placing excessive cost burdens on the patient will incentivize poor decisions which ultimately increase costs for everyone.

Dr. Joondeph is a retina surgeon at Colorado Retin



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Get off your Marxist propaganda machine, step into reality! !!
ObamaCare has delivered another sucker punch to the middle class. This time it’s sticker shock.

Now that most people can get past the tech problems of HealthCare.gov and actually see the real cost of insurance plans available, they are finding that Affordable Care is a big hit to the family budget. And when the family budget gets hit in the solar plexus, guess what happens to consumer spending and the economy?

In California, policies for about 900,000 Californians are being canceled because of ObamaCare’s mandates, and about two-thirds of these do not qualify for subsidies, according to The Chicago Tribune. The result: These folks will be paying higher premiums.

In Alabama, premiums have doubled for some middle-class families, like that of Courtney Long, a stay-at-home mother of four. She told WHNT News, “It’s devastating. I started crying

Your Barry has stacked it for the 1%, get educated.

Your all backwards, your the c*******ts party

There has been a call to all who will listen. For the last 14 months I have been warning, the greatest depression is at hand, giving as many as possible a chance to respond, prepare. We are seeing a perfect alignment to the great depression, the 70's 80's, 90's, and 2008-09 market adjustments. The slide to adjustment by way of oil crash, choppy markets, behaviour of banks, the wealthiest change investment strategies, home prices dropping, and more.

Headline February Real Retail Sales Fell by 0.8% (-0.8%), Annual Retail Sales Growth at Recession Level

– First-Quarter Real Sales Contracting at 2.6% (-2.6%) Annualized Pace, Worst Showing Since Depths of Economic Collapse

– Real Earnings Were Down for the Month

– February Year-to-Year Inflation: 0.0% (CPI-U), -0.6% (CPI-W), 7.6% (ShadowStats)

– Unstable Home Sales Data – New Sales in Protracted Stagnation, Existing Sales Trending Lower

– Durable Goods Orders in Back-to-Back Quarterly Contractions, Both Before and After Consideration of Commercial Aircraft Orders and Inflation

– Signal Is for an Intensified Decline in Production and GDP, in Both First- and Second-Quarter 2015, a Looming Recession

I'm with you, you don't have blinders. Your delusional, drunk with Marxist love.

Famous words of Pelosi " let's v**e on it, so we can see what's in it".
Obamanationcare, has little to do with health care, it's about government take over. We already had medicare for the poor and low income. What we didn't have was the ability to purchase health insurance outside of the state you live in, which would have driven competition and lower cost, a form of existing health problems but not what is in the bill today. It is exactly like never paying for home owners insurance for 20 years, having your house burn down, then purchasing home owners insurance and having a new home built, driving up cost for everyone else. We didnt/ still don't have controls on the FDA allowing small companies to compete in pharmaceuticals and the advancement of new drugs due to the millions of $$$$ for approval. Which most everything I just wrote was in the gop plan, plus more to increase coverage, lower cost, unlike obamacare that increased on average $2,500, and a massive tax burden eating up 4 what any other nation has as a % of their GDP

Half right, Pelosi had a secret closed door v**e Dems only. ....not one GOP was present and/or able to v**e up or down. This method is a travesty on our political system. Then of course Harry Reid, with a dominant senate stamped the approval.

Sounds more like a Cult you were in, not a Christian church. Since every man is a sinner, never perfect, never... your saying that when I sin I am to praise God, by your teaching.
You were either in a cult, or never ever understood what you were being taught. That is unbiblical, no such scripture "in context"
One other very possible option, your lying now in order to make a point, I'm betting this is the correct option.