The opposition to Universal Healthcare

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 ...

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 ...

Lets hope the democrats stick true to their word. There are so many other qualified democrats. - Anyone but her. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/06/moderate-dems-line-opposition-pelosis-bid-minority-leader/ ...

Why am I not surprised? ...

This is really about whether we want a war in the Middle East that would dwarf anything we've been involved in there before. Excerpts from: "Neocons Against Chuck Hagel: The Independent Senator Who Wouldn't Genuflect," by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow. First, excerpts about him and them. Lower down about the end-times/Christian Zionist theology powering the Neocons and trying to lead us into what they see ultimately as Armageddon. The entire article is at the link below. ...

You have to hear the whole thing! I'm shocked! And for the people months ago who said that it wasn't legal to kill American people, that it was a bunch of bull...read below - this ALSO from MSNBC!!! The Times has now been exonerated, as are others who tried to get the memo under FOIA. >>>> A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders& ...

Actor Clint Eastwood has added his autograph to a legal brief arguing against a ban on same-sex marriage. Along with more than 80 prominent Republicans, the “Dirty Harry” star has signed an amicus brief in opposition to California’s Proposition 8, Breitbart News first reported. The American Foundation for Equal Rights, sponsor of the federal court challenge to Prop 8, confirmed to POLITICO that Eastwood has signed the document. The brief will be submitted to the Sup ...

Racism linked with gun ownership and opposition to gun control in white Americans Oct 31, 2013 A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control policies. The research, published in PLoS One, was led by Dr Kerry O'Brien from The University of Manchester and Monash University and used data from a large representative sample of white US voters. After accounting for numerous other fac ...

Even to casual observers, it has been obvious for months that the left is orchestrating a tightly-coordinated campaign to undermine and delegitimize the current presidential administration. As an extension of the decades-long campaign to wrestle the narrative away from conservatives, independents and centrists, they’re smearing right-leaning commentators with anything they can find. In the take-down of Bill O’Reilly and Monica Crowley and attempted hit on Sean Hannity, for example, it’ ...

"Death to No One" slogans, arrest of activists, and supreme leader's threat to "punch them iin the mouth." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/iran-braced-for-protests Iranian regime facing splits over hardline crackdown on protests. Splits in security forces eventually brought down Shah's regime. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7205978/Iranian-regime-facing-splits-over-hardline-crackdown-on-protests.html ...

From the Washington Post: "Republican opposition to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as the next secretary of state began to crack Sunday as Sen. John McCain said she was “not the problem” in the White House’s handling of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya and suggested he could be persuaded to swing behind her possible nomination." “I think she deserves the ability and the opportunity to explain herself and her position,” McCain, R-Ariz., told “Fox News Sunday.” ...

Society. Think about before the knee jerk reaction. Think about the opportunities for your children and your grandchildren to become great...inventors, doctors, scientists. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income-harvard-commencement-speech-facebook-president-bid-a7757781.html ...

I know Obamacare needs some fixes--at least it was a step in the right direction. I am still doing reports where people are in the acute care hospital setting because they did not take their maintenance medications for hypertension and diabetes, etc. I do not know why they let their Medicaid lapse, but they are in crisis. How much does a prescription for BP meds cost versus the hospital stay + rehab for stoke patients? How much does insulin and blood testing cost versus blindness, ampu ...

income — monthly cash payments from the government to every individual, working or not, with no strings attached — is gaining traction, thanks in part to endorsements from Silicon Valley celebs. Some see it as a way to compensate for the traditional jobs with benefits that will be wiped out by robotics, artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles, globalization and the gig economy. Others see it as a way to reduce income inequality or to create a more efficient, less stigmatizing saf ...

An NBC Universal executive, Joe Waz, is hosting a fundraiser today for Hillary Clinton. "Clinton has arrived at her first fundraiser of the day. NBC Universal executive Joe Waz, and his wife Cynthia Telles, are hosting the event," Dan Merica of CNN reports on Twitter. NBC Universal, which is owned by Comcast, operates NBC and MSNBC, among other television networks. weeklystandard.com ...

I see people cringe when Sanders says he will raise taxes so he can get his healthcare system in place. I would welcome a tax increase if it means we do not have to pay insane insurance premiums. I look at it this way, if my family has to pay $1,000 or even $3,000 more in taxes but then we get our healthcare free of charge. We just saved $3,500 to $4,000 over all. I will take 3 grand more in taxes if it means I do not have to spend 7 grand that same year in insurance and medical costs. People ne ...

Political watchdogs and supporters of the public health care option are accusing Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman of hypocrisy for announcing he plans to filibuster the Senate health care reform bill after years of voicing support for health care reform. Since Lieberman's announcement on Tuesday that he would not stop a Republican filibuster of health reform if that health reform included a public option, bloggers have been scrambling to post videos of Lieberman advocating health care ref ...

Republicans vote to reaffirm party's opposition to gay marriage Adoption of hardline stance is seen as a slap in the face for the RNC leadership, which has been trying to soften party position Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 April 2013 17.37 EDT RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been trying to steer the party towards a softer, more centrist position. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Social conservatives have staged a counter-offen ...

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 ...

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 ...

The opposition to Universal Healthcare

It failed because they don't know what else to tax to pay for it, - since it will cost the entire state budget.

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