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healthiest half of the population consumes only 3% of health care costs. The only alternative would appear to be taxpayer subsidies. It is next to impossible, politically, to take away freebees once in place. Income redistribution continues to increase. The 2010 health law, also known as Obamacare, forced insurers to sell coverage to anyone, at the same price, regardless of their risk of incurring big claims. That provision was popular. Not so were rules requiring nearly everyone to have ins ...

How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece MATT TAIBBI Posted Mar 31, 2010 8:15 AM If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 of her fellow public employees woul ...

These transcend party: 1. Hillary Clinton is utterly devoid of moral character. 2. Hillary Clinton betrayed her office and peddled influence on a scale that even Boss Tweed would have found staggering. 3. Hillary Clinton is entrenched in exactly the old-time back-room inside-dealing power structure of which this nation has had more than enough - on both sides of the aisle. However reluctant some might be to admit it, we all know that these three things are true. Any one of them is suffic ...

is about the CIA and its findings as well as DT saying that intelligence briefings are of no value to him. Yet no mention on this board as yet. Do Trump supporters think that waiving intelligence briefings is a good idea? Accepting that investigation will not change the outcome of the election, do you not see the Russian hacking as a problem? Do you think it's a good idea for the president elect to openly dismiss the findings of his own intelligence community? ...

It's at work at noon, so can't bring anything cooked, unless it's crockpot. Any ideas? ...

I am a lover of Main Stream Media. The more I see of some of the weirdness outside the mainstream news sources, the more thankful I am that we have a good source of news that we can depend upon. Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing the term, "Main Stream Media" as if it were a bad thing, and then to make it worse, Sarah Palin's ignorant use of it as the cutsey term, "Lame Stream Media"? Pesonally, I am perfectly capable of viewing any media, whether it be on the regular networks or ca ...

Who is the most interesting person you have ever met? Why? OR: Who is the most influential person you have ever met and why? For me the most interesting person I ever met was when I was in college. To fill in some elective hours I was suppose to take 9 credit hours of history. I registered late one semester and the Latin American history class (Mex-Black American) I wanted to take was filled up. All that was left was African America history. W ...

but related and nonpartisan (I hope). How much difference do you think any candidate can make under the present system? It is said that every senator, from the time they take office, has to spend 1/3 of their time raising money for the next election. Once in office they then have to "pay back" their donors in some way. Would you like to see the system change and how do you think it would affect politics? ...

Serious question: Does anyone ever wonder why you exist. I mean what is the purpose of life. I have no kids, don't live near family. I get up, walk to the computer, turn it on and work, and work, and work, and work. Oh yeah, pay bills, go grocery shopping, and cook. Have a DH but he doesn't work (lack of jobs in the economy). My family is across country, his family is in another state. Have no friends. Sometimes I feel like I just e ...

I'm in my 30s and thinking of getting a tattoo. Do you all have any and where are they and how old when you got one? I'm thinking of one on my foot. ...

For the progressives: Name a conservative that you may disagree with mostly, but admire he/she for some characteristic (name the chr). For the conservatives: Name a progressive that you may disagree with mostly, but admire he/she for some characteristic (name the chr. ...

skyrocket, not because of ACA but the uncertainty on if they will get paid through subsidities with the republican plan. A big part is the pubs want to remove the mandate that everyone have insurance. What folks don't understand is that was the whole idea of the mandate. You can't just have sick people have insurance. I know you folks on the pub side will disagree with this idea yet you have no problem with people losing insurance if they have preexisting conditions ...

On my mind has been the stealth helicoptor that was left behind in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. I think the young heroes on that raid just got a little too anxious on that one. We could talk about whether or not America tortures people, waterboarding, etc. I believe that torture isn't right, whether it's being done to or by American soldiers. Another topic I wouldn't mind discussing is whether Americans disagree about politics more these days than in the past. ...

Well, some of us saw this coming... ...

http://www.mediaite.com/online/sen-mcconnell-bought-bogus-story-about-guantanamo-detainees-getting-gi-bill-benefits/ BTW, a few months back we had a poster on here get extremely insulted when others tried to explain that the Duffle Blog is not a news site. *Warning* the following link contains questioning of sources and is intended for a mature audience. Rated QOS18 ...

I think Jindal's comments were a step in the right direction. ...

This is really a vent/rant more than anything, but I wanted to share an experience in regard to renting an apartment and wondered if anyone else had anything to share. The rental market where I live is extremely tight, rent has gone up across the board and it's really difficult to find nice, affordable housing. I live in a pretty nice place and have had the same landlords for years at 2 different locations, there really aren't any issues here. Recently I have bee ...

Well, I guess I just got my first taste of Obamacare. My health insurance premium just went up $200.00 a month! Just barely treading water now, going to drown soon. ...

Posted in an earlier thread but worth it's own post: Here's ONE example of why Obamacare is a bad idea. See link for many more: • Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc. Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3962/pub_detail.asp#ixzz271Wn6qUz Under Creative Commons License: Attribution ...

I had Obamacare and even with the subsidy still could not afford it and was paying for nothing essentially because there was no way I would ever meet the deductible. To be forced to have to have something is not the answer and as awful as some think that the repeal and replace of Obamacare is, we have to do something and we have to start somewhere. Obamacare was meant to fail and did noone any favors and, by the way, we were LIED to. We have to have choices and competitio ...

Does anybody know how this might positively or negatively affect our jobs as transcriptionists. I haven't really been following the particulars of the bill that closely. ...

This healthcare bill only has a few good things in it, but it was passed so it can insure 30 million people in america that don't have health insurance. there are 300 million people in the united states. The healthcare bill is not about health care or insurance at all, it's about making the government more powerful. Now they can tax our behavior. It's about expansion of government. Exerting behavioral control over american people. Th ...

Insurance should cover prescription drugs, such as antibiotics, narcotics, antidepressants (how many here are on THOSE??) and birth control pills. Are birth control pills considered different b/c they're related to sex? Is that what it boils down to? I was put on them at 14 years old by my pediatrician. It wasn't covered; we had to get them at PP. Why wasn't it covered? If I'd had an infection, antibiotics would have been covered. A small percentage ...

I don't happen to think the new healthcare exchanges are political, happen to believe they belong on the health issues board because they will affect all of us. This article explains the value of Obamacare to me in that EVERYTHING IS CAPPED SO YOU DON'T PAY MORE THAN ~$6000/year. It also explains the meaning of the "10 essential benefits" insurers need to provide to qualify for Obamacare. It doesn't matter if your premiums go up a little or down, what matters to me is I get co-p ...

But one million more than before are covered. Woot! Woot! link ...

Quoting Ellis Winningham, economist. "...the fact is, the issue of universal healthcare doesn’t come down to compassion; it comes down to macroeconomic necessity (see fourth paragraph for an explanation). Canada is the same as the US with regard to how Canadian dollars work – ...tax dollars do not fund Canadian healthcare. The US would be the same. Then secondly, what the federal tax is itself. The Obamacare tax (fine) highlights one of the main purposes of federal ta ...

My sister-in-law is in her mid 50's and not in good health; however, much (granted not all) of the problem is her lifestyle choice. She smokes at least a pack a day, she is sedentary to the point of using a lift chair, motorized scooter & cane to get around, she is at least 100 pounds overweight and her knees are problematic for her as there is too much weight on them. She had a nervous breakdown about 30 years ago after a bad breakup, and then about 10 years later she got d ...

The President’s Health Care Proposal: Trying To Get Blood From A Stone by Dr. Elaina George If the goal of the President’s proposal was to drive doctors into hospital based practices or community health centers, or if it was to break the spirit of providers and bend them to the will of the government that holds the threat of criminal prosecution over their heads if they are found to be Medicare cheats, or if the goal was to dumb down the practice of medicine by ramping up ...

Oh - not so good? Dear, dear. I am SO very surprised! ...

It was made very clear tonight that the politicians voted against what their constituants wanted. That to me makes a sham of our political system. We should not be democrats vs republicans; we should be Americans. What kind of mess are we leaving for our children to clean up and how will they do it if they do not have the education and resources to do it? This is all being done on fake money. It will run out, and like many who learned that you cannot buy a house t ...

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Also, be sure to follow it up with this... - sm

IGNORE THIS. There is something wrong with the link. - NM

You can find it - old and burned out

SEE ARTICLE BY FORBES ABOUT BRILL... - Enlightenment (NM)

Just read a couple of these articles - old and burned out

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