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Well. At least Woolsey (SP unsure) has some simblance of "Dignity" by resigning from the transition team to shame the facsist regieme he signed on with. Amazing how the rest of the Tea Party idiots are holding on....... I never in my wildest mind thought that I would put my hopes and dreams in McCain and the closet HGBT guy from South Carolina (Young Lindsay) to keep them in check but; that appears to be all we have been rendered. Any Trump voters ready to recind your votes now? Damage done "DUN"! Send your youngans to war for Russia! Mine ain't a going. And by the way; buy Russian flags and give them to anyone you feel sure voted for him. They will not recognize it. It ain't the Hammer and Sickle no mo..... But the current ones are correct!
Bless their hearts! They will think them Mexican flags..........LOL!
"Plan B" is what former D. Rep, Alan Grayson, described on the House floor a few years back as the Republican two-part healthcare plan:
#1. Don't get sick.
#2. If you get sick, die quickly.
It's all part of their master economic plan to cleanse the excess population of poor people who cant afford healthcare, food, shelter, clothing, or anything else -- because of starvation wages -- without a little help from public assistance, and who probably vote Democratic, anyway. Then the cons will pay less taxes for all that nonsense and have less political opposition to boot. It's a win win!
I feel if a person is that uninformed, or MISinformed, then they aren't playing with a full deck. I'm Tom's age, and I don't have the time or patience to abide such meatheaded ignorance.
The ONLY concrete health care proposal put forth by Republicans was in the 2010 election, where Republican senate candidate Sue Lowden declared her support for "Bringing a chicken to the doctor's office. ...Offer to paint the doctor's house."
No Republican has yet to come up with anything more viable than that. There are not enough chickens to compensate for millions of patients medical bills. And, what's to become of the price of chickens? And too many people needing medical care are not physically capable of painting someone's house. So, Republican "Plan A" is an epic fail. What is "Plan B"?
I noticed where pot is legal the states have more money, less crime and healthier people ... hmmm, in spite of "laws" all pot is medicinal in spirit or health benefit, we're sure Congre$$ i$ addicted to lobbyi$t$ $ugar of $ome kind, eh?
What's proposed is a form of feudal thinking at best, we relive Charles Dickens' era restaged like a good opera in modern guise, Scrooge far too kind against the pall of false-flag popularity acts-of-terror from storyboarded agendas to decimate areas to cause more areas to be decimated as a profit-making methodology.
House of cards ... poof.
We follow the Romans in Philosophy of Conquest, grabbing territory is easy to pay for with spoils from those plundered, when you run out of plunder pools to suck on it costs real money and the Powers go broke fast.
Health care also a basic necessity...not just for individuals but for society as a whole. If care isn't universally available, even for those sleeping under bridges, many people with diseases will not be identified and helped...thus threatening the spread of disease to everyone. That's not to mention the cost to the public for emergency services that would have been prevented if people were properly treated before illnesses became critical...and much more expensive to treat.And, people in low-income areas that may be plagued with lead in water or toxic industrial fumes will be more quickly protected...the causes of illnesses more quickly identified and eliminated.
I live in Canada and we hear so many good things about our system. Most of them are true. But any single payer system that Americans are bound to adopy in the future should do somethings better than ours. First, we do not have a single payer system. we have an individual province wide single payer system. Care varies depending how well the provincial governments fund hte systems. Tory ruled provinces have poorer coverage. Many procedures are not covered. Most procedures have poorer standards than in the US. Whenever we had Tories running the federal government, their effort was to defund coverage as much as they could to enrich their freinds following the lead of the US Republicans - total lack of empathy. They could not do too much damage as the health system is very popular. As a layman, I cannot comment more but I do advise you folks to study our system very well and avoid the many pitfalls that got in due to ongoing Tory financial and policy strangulations.
There are many good things about your system such as the standards of medical investigations, procedures and follow up care; you must preserve them. I can guarantee you that they are better.
I do wish our cousins to the south well. I hope you recover from this Republican setback and do what is good for your people at large rather than your super rich folks.
Well done, Thom and commenters! I'm a retired physician and life-long proponent of a single payer not-for-profit healthcare system. It is the only fair and efficient, inexpensive healthcare system, as proven all over the world. Shame on anyone working in the "healthcare industry" for a profit! Greeley Miklashek, MD (retired)
Ban all health insurance then no one could afford medical care and the costs would come down.
I propose tax free health savings accounts that you can spend in other countries. You go to Doc in the Box as needed in USA. If something major is required like heart surgury go to India. Annual trips to Panama or other country with good medical for a physical, Dental and eye check up . Spend a few days on the beach and de-stress. Also pick up any required pharmacuticals while out of country. If you live near Canada or Mexico you can do it for very low cost. flights to Cuba are cheap. It is called Medical Tourism. If done enough countries will build a business for it. Quit making USA medical a billionaires profit industry.
"and create a real national single payer health insurance system.". Does that Thom Hartmann quote look familiar? It should. That was the meat of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ......Remember him, Hartmann?
Republicans in Congress will not accept Thom Hartmann's solution because his idea requires the elimination of health insurance companies. The health insurance companies should be made illegal in my view. They only draw money from the system without helping to provide health services. The high earnings of the executives and the profits of the health insurance company stock holders only act as friction in the system. The cost of selling health insurance, managing claims, processing claims, denying claims, adds to the expense of health care. Doctors and hospitals have to hire claim adjusters and coders to submit the claims to get maximum payment from health insurance companies. This is all friction in the system. Eliminate health insurance and offer Medicare for All as Thom Hartmann suggests and you will make a huge improvement in the availability of health services, but the Republicans in Congress will not take that step. They want to keep health insurance companies open with their thousands of employees. They want to keep the executives of health insurance companies pulling in huge earnings. They do not want to make high quality health care available for everyone. They believe a certain number of people should not receive health care.
Seriously - Canada, Mexico, all the major European nations - even Costa Rica - are NOT having this conversation, because in all those places healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Makes me wonder when they create a hullabulloo, what is going on elsewhere while our attention is diverted to the circus? If the citizens have learned one thing, it is that: be suspect of our elected officials. Question everything, and be alert 24/7, because when we are not looking is when they will sell us out.
Donald Trump agreed to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuits by making a $25,000,000 payment to the plaintiffs and the State of New York. When this agreement was announced in December, the media practically ignored it.
I have some questions about this because I’ve been concerned about where the money will come from.
1. Has the payment been made?
2. If so, who wrote the check? Mr. Trump? The Trump Organization? The Trump foundation?
3. Does the public have a right to know this?
My concern is that 25 million dollars is a lot to pay, and even though the Trump organization has a lot of assets, these assets are not very liquid. Because of this, he is subject to offers of financial help from Russian banks and Russian oligarchs, among others. Being indebted to foreign interests would obviously compromise his integrity. Are any news organizations looking into this?
Why does free speech tv keep putting on glenn, greenwald about his claim that Russia didn't hack our elections, if he got the proof then lau it out, if he don't then his reporting is the same as trump running his mouth.... i will pull my monthly donation from free speech tv. .. free speech tv should have a highet standard than this. Question mark.l ? Could gleen greenwald have a vendetta against the Obama.administration? Not that he shouldn't. ....
Sooo ... these goddamn greedy domestic terrorists are only poisoning some of our water in only certain areas. Great! It's a damn good thing you don't have a well close by, huh?
Here's a thought: Why don't we wean ourselves off poison altogether and save the environment and the life it supports at every location? Or, is it that you don't really believe in science, despite having "read the report?"
Go to the I.P.C.C. website; they have lots of reports about anthropogenic climate disruption for you to read.
Depends on the definition one applies to the term "FRIEND". I can be a member of a family with Trumpster Voters and just not enable their political discussions. I can have REP acquaintenances but a FRIEND? Of course not....... once I know someone is mean spirited and dumb.
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Well. At least Woolsey (SP unsure) has some simblance of "Dignity" by resigning from the transition team to shame the facsist regieme he signed on with. Amazing how the rest of the Tea Party idiots are holding on....... I never in my wildest mind thought that I would put my hopes and dreams in McCain and the closet HGBT guy from South Carolina (Young Lindsay) to keep them in check but; that appears to be all we have been rendered. Any Trump voters ready to recind your votes now? Damage done "DUN"! Send your youngans to war for Russia! Mine ain't a going. And by the way; buy Russian flags and give them to anyone you feel sure voted for him. They will not recognize it. It ain't the Hammer and Sickle no mo..... But the current ones are correct!
Bless their hearts! They will think them Mexican flags..........LOL!
gmiklashek950 - Well said! I will never be able to understand the fear and paranoia about this idea since it is so simple, human and loving
"Plan B" is what former D. Rep, Alan Grayson, described on the House floor a few years back as the Republican two-part healthcare plan:
#1. Don't get sick.
#2. If you get sick, die quickly.
It's all part of their master economic plan to cleanse the excess population of poor people who cant afford healthcare, food, shelter, clothing, or anything else -- because of starvation wages -- without a little help from public assistance, and who probably vote Democratic, anyway. Then the cons will pay less taxes for all that nonsense and have less political opposition to boot. It's a win win!
I feel if a person is that uninformed, or MISinformed, then they aren't playing with a full deck. I'm Tom's age, and I don't have the time or patience to abide such meatheaded ignorance.
The ONLY concrete health care proposal put forth by Republicans was in the 2010 election, where Republican senate candidate Sue Lowden declared her support for "Bringing a chicken to the doctor's office. ...Offer to paint the doctor's house."
No Republican has yet to come up with anything more viable than that. There are not enough chickens to compensate for millions of patients medical bills. And, what's to become of the price of chickens? And too many people needing medical care are not physically capable of painting someone's house. So, Republican "Plan A" is an epic fail. What is "Plan B"?
I noticed where pot is legal the states have more money, less crime and healthier people ... hmmm, in spite of "laws" all pot is medicinal in spirit or health benefit, we're sure Congre$$ i$ addicted to lobbyi$t$ $ugar of $ome kind, eh?
What's proposed is a form of feudal thinking at best, we relive Charles Dickens' era restaged like a good opera in modern guise, Scrooge far too kind against the pall of false-flag popularity acts-of-terror from storyboarded agendas to decimate areas to cause more areas to be decimated as a profit-making methodology.
House of cards ... poof.
We follow the Romans in Philosophy of Conquest, grabbing territory is easy to pay for with spoils from those plundered, when you run out of plunder pools to suck on it costs real money and the Powers go broke fast.
You can smell the corruption from here ...
Health care also a basic necessity...not just for individuals but for society as a whole. If care isn't universally available, even for those sleeping under bridges, many people with diseases will not be identified and helped...thus threatening the spread of disease to everyone. That's not to mention the cost to the public for emergency services that would have been prevented if people were properly treated before illnesses became critical...and much more expensive to treat.And, people in low-income areas that may be plagued with lead in water or toxic industrial fumes will be more quickly protected...the causes of illnesses more quickly identified and eliminated.
In Asia they say that "money is life".
US repubs say it their own way:
"more cost effective to die".
ct
I live in Canada and we hear so many good things about our system. Most of them are true. But any single payer system that Americans are bound to adopy in the future should do somethings better than ours. First, we do not have a single payer system. we have an individual province wide single payer system. Care varies depending how well the provincial governments fund hte systems. Tory ruled provinces have poorer coverage. Many procedures are not covered. Most procedures have poorer standards than in the US. Whenever we had Tories running the federal government, their effort was to defund coverage as much as they could to enrich their freinds following the lead of the US Republicans - total lack of empathy. They could not do too much damage as the health system is very popular. As a layman, I cannot comment more but I do advise you folks to study our system very well and avoid the many pitfalls that got in due to ongoing Tory financial and policy strangulations.
There are many good things about your system such as the standards of medical investigations, procedures and follow up care; you must preserve them. I can guarantee you that they are better.
I do wish our cousins to the south well. I hope you recover from this Republican setback and do what is good for your people at large rather than your super rich folks.
Well done, Thom and commenters! I'm a retired physician and life-long proponent of a single payer not-for-profit healthcare system. It is the only fair and efficient, inexpensive healthcare system, as proven all over the world. Shame on anyone working in the "healthcare industry" for a profit! Greeley Miklashek, MD (retired)
Ban all health insurance then no one could afford medical care and the costs would come down.
I propose tax free health savings accounts that you can spend in other countries. You go to Doc in the Box as needed in USA. If something major is required like heart surgury go to India. Annual trips to Panama or other country with good medical for a physical, Dental and eye check up . Spend a few days on the beach and de-stress. Also pick up any required pharmacuticals while out of country. If you live near Canada or Mexico you can do it for very low cost. flights to Cuba are cheap. It is called Medical Tourism. If done enough countries will build a business for it. Quit making USA medical a billionaires profit industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism
"and create a real national single payer health insurance system.". Does that Thom Hartmann quote look familiar? It should. That was the meat of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ......Remember him, Hartmann?
Republicans in Congress will not accept Thom Hartmann's solution because his idea requires the elimination of health insurance companies. The health insurance companies should be made illegal in my view. They only draw money from the system without helping to provide health services. The high earnings of the executives and the profits of the health insurance company stock holders only act as friction in the system. The cost of selling health insurance, managing claims, processing claims, denying claims, adds to the expense of health care. Doctors and hospitals have to hire claim adjusters and coders to submit the claims to get maximum payment from health insurance companies. This is all friction in the system. Eliminate health insurance and offer Medicare for All as Thom Hartmann suggests and you will make a huge improvement in the availability of health services, but the Republicans in Congress will not take that step. They want to keep health insurance companies open with their thousands of employees. They want to keep the executives of health insurance companies pulling in huge earnings. They do not want to make high quality health care available for everyone. They believe a certain number of people should not receive health care.
Did you read what Tom just wrote?
Seriously - Canada, Mexico, all the major European nations - even Costa Rica - are NOT having this conversation, because in all those places healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Even MEXICO has a better health care than we do!
Makes me wonder when they create a hullabulloo, what is going on elsewhere while our attention is diverted to the circus? If the citizens have learned one thing, it is that: be suspect of our elected officials. Question everything, and be alert 24/7, because when we are not looking is when they will sell us out.
Donald Trump agreed to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuits by making a $25,000,000 payment to the plaintiffs and the State of New York. When this agreement was announced in December, the media practically ignored it.
I have some questions about this because I’ve been concerned about where the money will come from.
1. Has the payment been made?
2. If so, who wrote the check? Mr. Trump? The Trump Organization? The Trump foundation?
3. Does the public have a right to know this?
My concern is that 25 million dollars is a lot to pay, and even though the Trump organization has a lot of assets, these assets are not very liquid. Because of this, he is subject to offers of financial help from Russian banks and Russian oligarchs, among others. Being indebted to foreign interests would obviously compromise his integrity. Are any news organizations looking into this?
Why does free speech tv keep putting on glenn, greenwald about his claim that Russia didn't hack our elections, if he got the proof then lau it out, if he don't then his reporting is the same as trump running his mouth.... i will pull my monthly donation from free speech tv. .. free speech tv should have a highet standard than this. Question mark.l ? Could gleen greenwald have a vendetta against the Obama.administration? Not that he shouldn't. ....
Sooo ... these goddamn greedy domestic terrorists are only poisoning some of our water in only certain areas. Great! It's a damn good thing you don't have a well close by, huh?
Here's a thought: Why don't we wean ourselves off poison altogether and save the environment and the life it supports at every location? Or, is it that you don't really believe in science, despite having "read the report?"
Go to the I.P.C.C. website; they have lots of reports about anthropogenic climate disruption for you to read.
Depends on the definition one applies to the term "FRIEND". I can be a member of a family with Trumpster Voters and just not enable their political discussions. I can have REP acquaintenances but a FRIEND? Of course not....... once I know someone is mean spirited and dumb.