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It's called competition and cost controls. Everyone, including the Republicans wanted something done to control costs. A large part of the bill is cost controls and performance measures for doctors and hospitals. If your insurance company re-negotiates with your doctor and your doctor does not like the deal, then they are free to pursue a different deal with a different company or branch out on their own. That is actually called CAPITALISM. I have had 3 doctors drop the insurance company that I was with in the past 18 years I have been in the USA and paying for health insurance. This is far from a post-ACA problem, but of course, you will attempt to turn it into one. M current doctor still complains every day about the insurance companies and how they screw him every day. He does it today post-ACA and he did it 5 years ago, pre-Obama. It is no different than certain body shops working with certain car insurance companies and not with others. old news.

Fucking puh-lease...... you are saying that the Democrats won the White House TWICE because of fudged unemployment numbers? And nothing to do with bat-shit crazy right-wingers on the other side? wow, a new low and a new stretch. Well I guess then we better keep fudging those numbers so we keep winning and you can keep standing there with your jaw on the floor wondering what happened and blaming it on unemployment numbers.....got it. We used to wonder why the right wing seemingly did not 'get it'. You have just confirmed why the right-wing does not get it.

http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/veterans-and-military/wounded-warrior-project-in-jacksonville-fl-3806 Thumbs up from the BBB as well. Lots of charities are very very large organizations. That takes manpower. A recent Wounded Warrior Project Golf tournament was probably the largest demo we ever jumped into, tens of thousands of people at a golf tournament at a ritzy place in Tampa. Golf tournaments are often high-dollar events, with rich people. If you want to rub elbows with those rich people to get them interested in your charity, then arguably you need to be part of that 'class' to access them. 84% of their collections going to their programs sounds pretty reasonable to me looking at the worst charities below.... Your choice whether or not they are worth it. If you don't like it then don't donate - that simple. there are far worse charities out there and simple searches can help you discern. http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/

Industry Destruction, plain and simple.

We price the wear and tear on a tandem rig at $25-$30/jump. did some analysis on that 12 or so years ago, do not have that in front of me but it was $20-$25 then, I expect $25-$30 today.

While his situation is sad, the headline is complete bullshit. He will likely get less help from people because of bullshit headlines like that. Why not just tell the story? The VA does not cover everything that he had done. He needs help with medical bills. He's a vet in need, etc. Add the 'Obama part' and I for one, simply turn it off. And I think many others will as well. The reasons behind his bills are probably wide and varied. Let's hear them.

1. you already admitted it gets morte expensive every year. moot point then if it gets expensive THIS year. What you are saying is that the bill is a failure because YOUR bill did nto go down. 2. no more making shit up than you are. The 15,000,000 number comes from a REPUBLICAN paper, at mathematically that is 5% of the population. i am not making that up. 15/311 = 0.048 - approx 5% 3. we can fix the deficit in many ways. deciding that we want Medicare, and then setting a tax base to pay for it is one of the ways of doing that. I have no problem with that system. 4. I don't care about 2016 - yet. 5. again YOUR opinions of are equally low value. You cannot comment objectively on the outcome of something until it has actually 'come out'. The ACA is in its early stages of implementation.

And that has nothing to do with the ACA, it implementation or otherwise. It has to do with the high cost of healthcare. No one said it was cheap. That's righ - we raised the standards and we opened mor markets for exchanges (if states chose to). he popular number of people having polices cancelled is 15,00,000 - you said it yourself. that us 5% of the population. Many will find better policies for less or the same money, which means I came up with a 2-3% of people really affected as an educated guess. Ask me in a year or two. Just like Medicare, everyone was afraid of it, lobbied against it - it was the 'end of times'. the ultimate loss of freedoms, communism, un-American. Now we cannot and will not do without it. So if my opinion is not worth shit to you - well, i will not be losing a bunch of sleep over that. Take a close look at the elections yesterday and let me know how you think 2016 is going to turn out. The country is going to single payer health care. It is going to happen. It will happen in the next 10-20 years. This is a step in that direction and I could give a shit how it turns out for you really, but I do give a shit how it turns out for the country. And as far as how it is going to turn out, you have no more idea that I do - so your opinions are not worth shit either. They are just opinions, not an 'impartial assessment', or certainly one that has not got enough evidence to be impartial, given that the ACA is hardly implemented yet. Huckabee? Yep, that's where I go for educated opinions on things..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfSN4fnXwKM

I, and many many others could give a shit about the 'lie'. Everything is a 'scandal' from Solyndra to Rev wassissname to the ACA, to .... People are pretty tired of calling wolf. The larger picture goals will likely be achieved. Most people will have insurance - that will be success. No one will have pre-existing conditions stopping them from getting a plan. More poor people will be on a plan, or Medicare, instead of walking into ER's and driving up your (and my) rates). Hospitals will have to deliver better care for less money or get penalized. Elderly people will be able to see a doctor 'just because' for preventative help instead of just going when they are sick. I dunno - duh, sounds like success. If you are going to call it failure because 2-3% might end up with a rate increase, then that is your problem. Just like Bush lied about the war in Iraq, if larger clearer goals would have been achieved, then I doubt anyone would have cared. But they were not. And the Democrats will probably move into a majority next election cycle. Look at yesterdays results. People have had it with the Tea Party ideals, and the Republican party is still hijacked by them. I really doubt the right wing can fix themselves before 2016.

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In Gander, where I grew up, our house was 1.5 miles off the end of the runway. All day every day, 500-700' traffic, 747's, C5's, DC-10's, Giant Antinov's, you name it, all day, every day. You actually got used the the windows and dishes rattling. It was so normal, it bothered nobody. And I certainly do not remember anyone every making complaints about it. You can decide you are OK with it, or you can decide you are not OK with it. Either way, you are right.

Yes they do. It's called the 'corporation', and something the right wing business types like to promote as solid foundations of America. But a large part of the reason corporations were created in the first place was so the owners COULD in fact absolve themselves of personal responsibility. and so in that model of American Capitalism, 'someone else' does get stuck with the clean-up. It is working exactly as it was designed to work. [sarcasm]

they surveyed 18 hospitals? That's not really a sample..... Hospitals do not 'opt out of the ACA', they decide which insurance companies they will accept. And given that so many hospitals sub-contract they surgeons, doctors, nurses and such out to other companies, I doubt that this means anything really. Reads like a pretty skewed article to me with not much substance. They don't provide the names of doctors and hospitals? So, you cannot call the insurance company to find that out if you wanted to? again, cherry picked selective information with an intent to skew the reality.

http://www.wwaytv3.com/2011/10/19/wilmington-soldier-injured-iraq-honored-purple-heart wrong again, no paper cut. sounds a little more serious than that....

hardly the biggest lie. I think Lance Armstrong has him beat. But whatever floats your boat.

If a paramedic comes across a patient with arterial bleeding, reducing said bleeding by 50% over time is not what we call an ideal solution. Nice analogy but does not say what I said. What I said in essence was - decide on what programs we want and then adjust the tax base to pay for them. When people get the tax bills to pay for what they are getting, they will quickly decide on what they really want or need. The only thing that is dragging down the 'problem' is that somehow may people think that the country can be run on nothing, that every government entity is out to get you, and that every govt entity must operate at 110% efficiency, and on top of that, we should not have to pay anything for it. I do not mind paying taxes when I am getting something for it.

One of the ways to decrease the deficit/debt is to actually raise taxes to pay for the programs we spend money on. The other is to control spending to a level where the taxes actually cover it. A normal approach would be a combination of both. We are doing neither. And we have not been for decades.

Given the FAA interventions already, I would expect this to be summarily dismissed in the first couple of hearings.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/24/49-stories-that-the-medias-focus-on-aca-glitche/196587

leave the scuba gear at home. maybe just mask and fins if you have the bring something. it is too much trouble to lug that shit around and you can rent. take advantage of the free champagne at every chance you can get. Get used to having them wait on you hand and foot. "Garcon. Another couple poofy rum drinks over here please." Nap a lot. bring a book. forget internet service, you are supposed to anyway. Balcony rooms very nice - you get to see the sunrise/set, and an ocean breeze. Interior rooms if you are on a tight budget.

They will still have health benefits. Like everyone, they will have to buy their own, under the same rules that you and I have to follow. I do not see the NRA buying guns for everyone, do you?

Sarah Pail - on death panels. (lie) "The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." Michele Bachmann on vaccines - " "I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter." –Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the HPV vaccine, Fox News interview, Sept. 12, 2011" ...and there are SO MANY MORE for her Allen 'Who? West - On the Constitution - "“WE ALSO SHOULD BE CENSORING THE AMERICAN NEWS AGENCIES”: In response to the whistleblower website Wikileaks releasing thousands of pages of diplomatic cables, West declared: “And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled [Julian Assange] to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts.” West later claimed he only called for “censuring” the media. Either way, it would be a First Amendment violation." Sean Hannity - over-dramatizes the effect of the ACA on families and gets fact-checked (lies in other words) - http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_the_fox_news_lie_machine_i_fact_checked_sean_hannity_on_obamacare/ Bill O'Reilly - (lie), claimed that Tesla was losing money when it was actually in the black substantially. There are so many for Bill, but at least he admits/realizes he is in showbiz and acts accordingly. And he wrote a book that rewrote history to his version "Killing Jesus" Rand Paul - states that the Civil Rights Act should never have been passed (bat-shit-crazy) - http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/vp/37244354#37244354 Ted Cruz - openly lobbies to shut down the govt, then complains that services got shut down. (also bat shit crazy) Koch Brothers. Funds organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars to make people believe that their way is better. Even if they got everything they wanted, their savings would be on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, which they would have saved by not spending the money in the first place. Todd Akin - legitimate rape. an old white male telling women about rape. got it. your turn

I'll spend some time and line up the 'bat-shit-crazy' lies from my list. See if you can do the same with your list. $10 says you cannot.

Oh yeah, I forgot the latest, the 'tech expert' to analyze Obamacare: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/gop-asked-tech-founder-ex-fugitive-mcafee-diagnose-obamacare-8C11432390 welcome to the world of crazy. And they respond by getting crazier. nice....

And the right wing's most important things seem to be abortion, gay marriage and undermining the President. Both of which are CERTAIN to fix the economy