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> On 7/23/12 12:07 PM, Eddie Haskell wrote:
>> "deadrat" <
a...@b.com> wrote in message
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>>> Do
>>> you suppose that the US got docked because the largest cause of
>>> bankruptcy
>>> here is medical bills?
>>
>> Gee, how the hell can that be with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the
>> myriad
>> of other government programs and free medical malls dotting the
>> landscape?
>
> Free medical malls?
Groan..
>> Are all your programs utter fucking failures?
>
> No, these programs are fairly successful in delivering medical care. The
> costs are rising faster than inflation and thus aren't sustainable, but
> that's a different problem.
No it isn't. The way these programs have been set up to run has been the
major contributor to raising costs.
>> Could it be that these
>> programs are mostly responsible for the skyrocketing costs?
>
> I doubt it, but I could be convinced by evidence. Do you have any?
There is no incentive for anyone to shop price. Ever notice how procedures
not covered by any form of insurance like lasik surgery gets cheaper, better
and more available?
>> And what will
>> Husseincare do about costs? Answer: Nothing but higher premiums, less
>> access
>> rationing and death panels.
>
> No one really knows what will happen,
Oh, yes the hell we do. Just because you don't doesn't mean that the rest of
us are as stupid.
> but we've already got higher premiums every year.
They'll be even higher thanks to all the new mandates.
> Except in Massachusetts, which has Romneycare and which just announced its
> second annual drop in premiums.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v30n1/cpr30n1-1.html
> And we already have access rationing. The latter is just done by
> insurance company bureaucrats.
Medicare denies more coverage than any private insurance company, and with
private insurance their is legal recourse. After full implementation of
Husseincare there will be none and you will be completely at the mercy of
government.
> "Death panels" are just part of your fever dreams. The ACA was written
> specifically so that no government agency makes medical decisions.
April 13, 2011 - The deficit-reduction plan unveiled by President Barack
Obama today strengthens a cost-control tool in healthcare reform that
organized medicine fears.
The savings mechanism is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the IPAB will advise Congress on ways
to curb the per capita growth of Medicare spending if it exceeds growth-rate
targets set by the law.
If it does not implement IPAB recommendations, Congress must enact policies
that save just as much, or else let the Department of Health and Human
Services make the cuts.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740830
Krugman explains:
"About that advisory board: We have to do something about health care costs,
which means that we have to find a way to start saying no. "
http://blogs.forbes.com/davidwhelan/2011/04/22/paul-krugman-reveals-his-hierarchy-of-medicine-patients-doctors-washington/
Hussein explains that Husseincare's cost cutting remedy is to deny seniors
vital procedures when deemed too old or unworthy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo
>> Let's try it this way, shit-fer-brains. What would happen to price of
>> food
>> if instead of food stamps we merely had the grocer send the bill on to
>> the
>> government?
>
> Oh, look! An ignoramus calls me names. Can't argue with logic like
> yours.
>
> Let's not try it that way, since such a hypothetical bears no relationship
> to the current health insurance reforms. Didja make that one up yourself,
> or was it something someone told you and you just didn't bother to think
> it through?
Can't answer the question, can you shit-fer-brains? Try again. What would
happen to the price of food if we handled doling it out to the poor the same
way we do healthcare?
Hint: It would skyrocket.
Why? No one would shop price.
>> He won't get it, folks. He's a democrat and therefore too stupid. Not one
>> clue how economics works.
>
> Oh, look! An ignoramus think I don't understand how health insurance
> works.
You don't understand how insurance or the economy works.
>>> Remember that Somalia should be first on the list -- no government
>>> regulations, no government taxes, no government. The rightard paradise.
>>
>> Somalia is a shit hole for the same reason all Negro nations, towns and
>> cities are bombed out shit holes. Stupid backward and immoral. That's why
>> they vote 90% democrat.
>
> Well, Sparky, the Democratic Party doesn't operate in Somalia, but I can't
> understand why you think it's a shit hole. It's the rightard economic
> paradise, isn't it? No pesky government to get in the way.
DNC tactic #24. When cornered, claim that conservatives are for no
government.
>> Thanks for your fuckwitted DNC talking point though.
>
> The DNC isn't really concerned with Somalia, the inevitable paradise of
> rightard economics: the less government, the better. Right?
The problem with Somalia is not lack of government, but the fact that it's
full of third-world morons like Hussein and his supporters, and if we stay
on the path they have put us on we will become Somalia. That's a fact.
Hussein is destroying our economy, the rule of law, and our civil society in
the exact same way tin horn dictators the world over come to power.
Appealing to base envy, class warfare and promises of wealth distribution.
Then of course, the people starve.
-Eddie Haskell