I think I would be mainstream, if the mainstream candidates actually did the shit they say to get elected. Typical GOP rhetoric generally sounds like good ideas to me- it’s just, that’s all it is…rhetoric.
How is Obamacare unconstitutional? Like what part of it is unconstitutional?
K: Fiorina big deal was she was CEO of a company, I want to say HP,
and she totally and completely fucked over HP. She was voted worst
CEO in America 3 years in a row and the day she was fired, yep, fired,
the stock of the company went up over 100% because she was gone.
I live north of silicon valley and have friends who work in the business
and she and Whitman were two of the worst CEO’s in the tech business.
U: You’ve got a pre-written paragraph just like that for everybody running or who theoretically could run as a Republican, so what do I care?
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K: by all means, don’t let facts get in the way of an opinion. Facts have a well known liberal bias
and for conservatives, facts are really just optional anyway. So party on.
Kropotkin
Obamacare premiums and coverage is ridiculously expensive and worthless. I would have to spend 12,000$ per year on medical bills before I am sort of covered for certain things. Why the hell would I pay premiums for crap? I signed up, that is what they said to do. But president on down never said pay premiums or keep it up. Sign up was all they said. F**k them.
OK … am I right to understand that most Trump supporters don’t care about his track record of not being conservative, nor the morally/ethically questionable things he’s been saying or doing? Because “winning” is all that matters?
Even if that’s the case, I have objections to Trump becoming our nominee. I don’t think Trump can win the general, considering how much he is disliked among Democrats and Independents.
Not only we won’t get Independents votes (and possibly some blue-dog Dems), but also his nomination will galvanize them to vote against us. Do you really think the GOP can win without Independents’ votes?
Not to mention we have to say “adios” to Latino votes as well …
Here’s the article about his favorability or unfavorability rather …
Trump’s Image Among Democrats, Independents Most Negative of Any GOP Candidate
gallup.com/opinion/polling-m … idate.aspx
K: and I have private insurance through my work and I must pay $ 5000 before I get covered,
but I had 3 surgeries (same issue) a couple of years ago and the total was
over $ 350,000. Which basically means we would have lost our house without
insurance, so the question becomes, is paying $5000, worth not losing your house?
I think it is. You have to see the whole picture, the big picture.
Kropotkin
Politicians use rhetoric by and large because that is the only way to placate the extremists on either end of the political spectrum. The folks who see the world almost entirely in terms of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong, True and False. The moral and political objectivists.
Tell them what they want to hear. And this is done more or less cynically.
Trump [like Sanders on the left] is construed to be “outside” the “system” because the ruling class is not entirely certain that he can be contained within the policy parameters that both political parties are expected to pursue once elected. In particular in regards to Wall Street and to American foreign policy.
Look at Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Classic examples of those that some voters actually did imagine were going to “change the system”!
When [of course] they are both Bilderberg material down to the bone.
As is Hillary Clinton.
12,000$ a year, plus premiums. There are other financial options. I clear 35,000$ a year. My husband maybe 20,000$ . It is not that much considering the size and basic expenses of our household. I work 7 days a week. 12,000 a year would kill us and insurance would be useless. It would break us. Insurance is supposed to keep you from harm. My job would have to take a third of my pay to insure me and my family. It is not protecting it is highway robbery.
The 2016 American voting population can’t figure out that they’re beating a dead horse…too funny. 
Yeah obviously in that situation it is beneficial but it kinda feels like it’s only beneficial if you have a major health problem. I have a minor health issue that barely breaks the deductible and the premiums are still hard to deal with so all in all, I’m definitely losing money on the deal. Insurance is supposed to be a scam for most people in order to work but health costs are so stupid high that it starts to be a burden. There are definite benefits to Obamacare and I like to focus on them when I’m getting ripped off, but I think it could be better.
The simplest way is is to cap lawsuits , cap premiums on malpractice insurance premiums, and to federally and state pay for medical education. Education for becoming a doctor is horrifically expensive.
So what, make it harder to sue when doctors fuck up a surgery? I don’t know. I still kinda wish I sued the guy who fucked up my hand surgery.
I agree they need to make more doctors. The entire US higher education system needs to be fixed though.
Also I want them to try to make hospitals and doctors compete with more places also, maybe digitally. It’s bullshit that they can charge whatever they want for things like hospital gowns and ambulance rides.
I said cap lawsuits. That means you and your lawyers won’t get 5 or 10 million for your hand. You would get a reasonable settlement. Ever talk to a Dr. about what they pay in malpractice premiums or how much they pay in loans for their education. It is no wonder costs are so high. Insurance companies take in trillions, pay out billions. We get screwed.
Fair enough. That is the nature of insurance though. Even if you wiggle the numbers around they will still need to make a profit by holding onto more money than they pay out. No matter what you do most people need to lose out on the deal to keep the company floating. It’s the same thing for single payer. You’re never going to get all of the value of the money you put in unless you really want to hurt yourself, or destroy your vehicle, or kill yourself real young, depending on the type of insurance.
There is profit then there is highway robbery. We are forced by law to have insurance. A market cornered by a small group. There is no law telling them what to cover and how much. It is a one sided law. It is pretty bad when insurance on property is better than insurance on life and health. If a mechanic or construction company charged as much as a hospital or a doctor does we would all pitch fits. But some how the commercial products of life get accepted at a ridiculous cost. It is blackmail, extortion and totally legal and enforced by law. All costs from medical education to practice to coverage needs to be protested. If Walmart by law became the only store you were allowed by law to buy from, people would rise up. We have been hypnotized into accepting medical blackmail and extortion as acceptable. Just as we accept that government employees(our employees) get to decide their own pay and benefits. Congress and Senate. Really??? Can you go to your boss and tell them you are now to get paid a ridiculous amount and then actually get it? Or would your boss die laughing and then fire you.
Hospitals are a money making scheme designed by greedy assholes to anally rape consumers.
A CT scanner costs at most 300g, at minium 80g, yet they charge 3 g for a single scan, so after only 100 patients the thing pays for itself. What a bunch of ripoff conartists.They are no different than bank robbers, in exchange for letting you live, you are required to pay a fee.
A doctor gets paid 50g for an hours worth of work…for this women deem him a good person and he gets unending love from them…if you can’t see how fucking insane society is, you are fucking insane
Next time I do CPR I am going to charge them their house and family…telling them “you should have bought trixie insurance earlier…I saved your life…what are you complaining about?”
50g for an hour??? Where the hell do you live??? The worst for me was a 500$ bill for a doctor to come in and 10 minutes later tell me that since I am uninsured he could not help me. I sent the bill back to his office with fuck you written on it and $30
During surgeries.
I would leave that neck of the woods.
I live in America, so I don’t know if that’s got anything to do with it.