November 22, 2009
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If 1 out of 4 don't wear seatbelts, shouldn't we be able to calculate the number of deaths in St. Joseph due to not wearing a seatbelt? NO???? Maybe it is because this all rises out of "nanny' mentality, wherein a bunch of do-gooders want to control other peoples' choices and thoughts and behaviors instead of sweeping off their own doorsteps! I strongly suspect that the number of people killed in carcrashes is pretty steady and hasn't changed much since before there even WERE seatbelts. Leave it to a hiway patrol man to give a ticket if you survive and weren't wearing one or give the seatbelt the credit if you were. And what kind of statistic is that?? Concocted, of course.
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As a diabetic, I sure do hope Breadeux comes up with an ultra-thin crust. The bread part of a pizza has the most carbs and for those of us who count carbs, we can eat almost twice as much thin crust at a meal as we can the regular or traditional pizza. And only a part of a slice of the really thick-crusted pizza. Stone-baked crust almost sounds like it is bound to be crispy and the thinner, the better !~)
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The idea that people who go to church are somehow socially or morally higher than those who don't is patently absurd, especially when it comes from someone who actually GOES to church and sees the hypocracy all around them. Churches are hospitals for sinners and they serve a purpose, but they are far from havens for purity and goodness. A simple glance at the above posts clearly demonstrates that churches are full of elitists, prejudices, judgmentalism, and various other human frailties. Pedophiliacs? Perfect place for them!!!
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"Home schooling" is often merely aiding and abetting "hookey" and the parent has no intention of providing any schooling whatsoever and is just avoiding the calls from the school, etc. It is too bad that getting pregnant doesn't require any evidence of maturity on the part of the parent(s)-to-be. Maybe supporting abortions wouldn't be such a bad idea as a part of public health care...
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LiburtyOrDeth-If you think for a minute that insurance companies won't continue to conspire to keep healthcare under their control, you need to follow your own advice and read up. They operate completely free of anti-trust law (the only institution with that privilege, not counting professional baseball) and that is the reason there has never been any choice to speak of. Letting them peddle their expensive and exclusive product across state lines won't create competition because they have legal control and will divide the pie as they see fit. Get rid of the anti-trust exception for insurance companies and they will drop like flies. Fail to do that and they will maintain their chokehold on the market as long as they possibly can.
On Little hope for House bill in Senate
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Insurance companies are powerful, when it comes to lobbying and collecting (and raising) premiums. They are powerful when it comes to keeping their anti-trust exclusions so they can stifle competition from new or other insurance companies and divide up the pie among themselves without violating anti-trust laws. Unfortunately, they have almost NO power when it comes to controlling medical overcharges from hospitals and doctors and clinics and labratories, etc. They cannot negotiate fees for services and they cannot keep doctors and hospitals from practicing defensively to avoid lawyers and malpractice and etc. All they can do is sign the checks and raise the rates accordingly. It is absurd to think that insurance companies can do ANYTHING to reduce medical expenses or contain costs, other than to interfere with services delivery, dodge pre-existing conditions, limit amounts paid out for high-end, unhealthy customers, etc.
Now, it IS true that they took advantage of their exclusive and safe position in the health care industry to gouge out huge profits and executive salaries, but it is ludicrous to imagine that they would ever be in any position to contain costs or control expenditure at the doctor and hospital and drug company level. That is where the problems are and that is also where the insurance companies are POWERLESS.
On Little hope for House bill in Senate
Now the REAL work begins. There will have to be amendments to get the new legislation to start sooner than 2012, for starts. There is nothing final, or even viable, in the House version at this juncture. The Senate will produce whatever they produce and then THAT bill will be parsed and altered and amended and, eventually, the public will get a chance to see how things are proposed to be. Then there will be a series of 'reality checks' and more legislation ostensibly to 'fine-tune' the Health Care Reform Act (or whatever they end up calling it. Hopefully there won't be as much 'pork' as most legislation has ended up carrying along. If I am not mistaken, the limiting of such 'pork' and the streamlining and transparancy issues are part and parcel to the CHANGES that were promised in Obama's campaign. Now we will finally get to see if he can make good on those promises. All the rest of what has happened in the meantime has little or nothing to do with the planks of the campaign platform, dispite all of the lame opinions offered by the GOP and many of the 'contributors' to this and other columns.....
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CORRECTION: America cannot afford the status quo, no matter how much that bites into the Congressional Gravy Train sponsered by the Health and Drug Industries. In fact, America probably cannot afford Sam Graves and his cronies who are stuck in the mud of GOP muck-raking and stalling and nae-saying to anything Obama is trying to accomplish for the non-rich public, the 95% who are encompassed by the 5% who are privileged to be filthy (in all senses) rich.
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It would seem that all of you ex-military types have forgotten your chain-of-command. The President is the Commander-in-Chief and has a perfect right to salute and to be saluted. "W" did the same thing several times, although one could posit that his 'alleged' time in the Reserves would give him better 'creds', if skipping meetings counts.
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EIGHT YEARS!! It took a really long time for the public to realize what a disaster the GOP Congress and President set up for us and it will take even longer to undo what was done and, more importantly, what didn't get done. So far 10 months have passed and there are 38 to go, so all of the apologists and rightwing nuts and second-guessers and 'birthers' and 'teabaggers' and polemicists and nay-sayers probably ought to settle down and ride it out. If you are a fat-cat (or got to be one recently), get out your checkbooks and start paying up for the GOP largesse. Complain all you want about the free ride being over. It won't be back for a LONG TIME. The chances for another 48 months after that are looking pretty good from my perspective, one shared by a continuing majority, according to the polls.....
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