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14 years ago @ Big Government - The Individual Mandate... · 0 replies · +3 points

No, you missed the point. They make up bogus numbers for a bigger write off.

They don't need to charge $8. In fact; no one ever pays $8. If you offer to pay your own bill you get offered the cash discount. It's no different from them putting $2000 down for a Tylenol.

They do this to maximise profits / because it is in their best interest. If they were not allowed to then they'd change their strategy. The take away / point is; hospitals don't really loose 23% of their billing when you use honest numbers. This practice inflates the number 100-300%. If you go over their write offs and apply their insurance based rates, 23% would easily become 13% or less.

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Individual Mandate... · 2 replies · +3 points

Those numbers are usually bs. They write up those invoices with the $8 Tylenols and all but then take the 'prenegotiated' insurance rates (sane numbers) when your insurance co pays the bill. When someone doesn't pay, they write off the silly la la land numbers.

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Individual Mandate... · 0 replies · +4 points

If we don't repeal this sucker I think there might be a US market soon for international insurance. Seriously, insurance sold outside the US and not regulated by the US government...

14 years ago @ Big Government - Van Jones Is Creating ... · 0 replies · +2 points

We have GDP estimates of the size of our economy. We can compare that to actual and projected debt / unfunded liabilities. It's simple stuff but leftists can't handle the truth.

We get this nonstop... Obama says we'd be fine by closing some loopholes and making the rich pay their share... then someone crunches the numbers and notices that if took 100% of the upper earner's income….. we'd still be running a deficit....

They just can’t deal with it…

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Individual Mandate... · 0 replies · +2 points

They're right on schedule. Primary care doctors are mostly a huge waste of money. You go to them, they tell you the odds are 99% it is a common cold virus and there is nothing they can do for you (go home, drink lots of water, and you’ll be better in a couple days). If you raise hell they give you an old antibiotic as a placebo (and/or to make you go away). Even if it is not just a cold and you have a serious health problem, they tend to miss it and still tell you that. If you do have a serious issue, you tend to make your own specialist appointment or go to the hospital where it gets figured out correctly...

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Individual Mandate... · 0 replies · +7 points

The mandate may be the lever to try to stop this law but it is not the actual problem.

The healthcare industry was taken over. The government will tell insurance companies what to cover but also what they won't have to... which will increase so they can redistribute the savings to what people vote for. Which usually is stuff like more GPs and prevention programs... for people who are not ill. The sick, well, screw em. Actual care for the ill is expensive.. and more voters are well.

They do this in the name of the poor but that’s just more cultural Marxism. There are other classes besides economic… such as the sick and the ill as described above. This law is evil and cruel… it will prevent you from being able to pay for medical services you want… it will hamstring innovation. It will interfere with what your doctor can tell you. It will twist the arms of hospitals into doing things the government’s way.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Tales of a Failed Stat... · 0 replies · +2 points

Just remember; when I move next door to you that I left california because I agree with you that it is out of control / run by idiots...

14 years ago @ Big Government - DNC Chair Wasserman Sh... · 0 replies · +2 points

Wow; so as the democrats do everything in their power to undermine border enforcement while laying the groundwork with illegal immigrants as future voters with vote buying … with our money via government services... not that any of the proceeding was in any way not obvious... but for the obvious reason that they want to disenfranchise / dilute the votes of their American citizen opponents... and now they are using this line to attack us for trying to stop them in one area of this (actual fraud / pre path to citizenship voting)...

I’m not suggesting this in a Kos Kidd / Weiner / Arrrrgh Dean idiotic loudmouth way… but we really need someone to speak up and call the democrats out on this crap. They just passed a forced equality in healthcare bill taking away your right to make your own healthcare decisions (an outrage), accused us of wreaking the economy (eye roll..), and this.. Someone needs to civilly, intellectually, but forcefully push back with our arguments (i.e., paragraph #1 above)…

15 years ago @ Big Government - Weinergate: Private In... · 0 replies · +4 points

The whole thing smells rope a dopey. After we all yell for an investigation for a couple weeks a staffer will come forward and say he did it as a prank / joke ... We look lame, they say how we keep trying to divert talk from serious stuff...

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Sound Bite For the Day... · 0 replies · 0 points

Man, it never changes. Goldwater had to fight the republican party establishment. Reagan had to fight them too (read his speeches from the 70s).. and then Bush I replaced him and we were back to nonconservative republicans... and here we are again... I've about had it. It is too much to fight the democrats, the left, the MSM (although they seem to be really hurting these days / almost done).... and then when we ‘win’… we have to fight the republican party too...

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