Posts made by aadam101

@Frederick:

@brianboru72:

They said the same about the House bill and it still came back and passed. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope they give up on the so-called "Better" Care Reconciliation Act and start fresh. Hopefully without being so MEAN to poor people.  :blink:

I applaud the Senators who didn't crumble to pressure and stood their ground on principle.

Something you said caught my eye…  you are saying that the Republican's plan is "MEAN" to poor people. 
How's this for being mean?  Obamacare REQUIRES everybody to purchase health insurance.  The premise is that the people who don't need or use the insurance will subsidize those that do.  Is that fair?  Seems to me.. requiring people making minimum wage to purchase health insurance is mean.

There you go disrespecting our President again. Trump said it was mean. I was only agreeing with him.

@Frederick:

@brianboru72:

@Frederick:

@brianboru72:

They said the same about the House bill and it still came back and passed. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope they give up on the so-called "Better" Care Reconciliation Act and start fresh. Hopefully without being so MEAN to poor people.  :blink:

I applaud the Senators who didn't crumble to pressure and stood their ground on principle.

Something you said caught my eye…  you are saying that the Republican's plan is "MEAN" to poor people. 
How's this for being mean?  Obamacare REQUIRES everybody to purchase health insurance.  The premise is that the people who don't need or use the insurance will subsidize those that do.  Is that fair?  Seems to me.. requiring people making minimum wage to purchase health insurance is mean.

You raise a good point. But what is the alternative? From what I have read and know about how insurance works- you need a large pool of both healthy and unwell people to buy into it for the system to work. Yes, the healthy subsidize the unhealthy- but that's how insurance companies can afford to keep everyone covered. And while it MAY SEEM UNFAIR to the healthy- the logic behind the whole system is that EVENTUALLY the healthy will wind up being sick so they will reap the benefits of the system in turn.

If only the sick got insurance the whole system would just collapse. It's like paying it forward- yes you are healthy today and you're paying for some sick guy- but eventually it will all come around and benefit you when it's you or a loved one who is suddenly struck down by an illness.

Yes.. but plenty of people buy insurance when they are healthy - just in case they do get sick.  People should not be forced to piss their money away on health insurance they don't want or need.  On the other hand… why should health insurance be guaranteed to people who are high risk?  If someone smokes 3 packs of unfiltered cigarettes per day, drinks a liter of whiskey per day, shoots heroin every night, eats nothing but  hot dogs and candy.. and uses a motorcycle without wearing a helmet... don't put me in the same insurance plan as them!

People are "high risk" for all sorts of reasons. People get lung cancer who have never smoked. It sounds like you are advocating for a system where the government decides who gets to live and who dies based on some sort of lifestyle or moral test. I believe it's what Republicans call a death panel. The truth is that we had death panels pre-Obamacare. We had a system where the "free market" denied access to care for anyone who wasn't healthy. They were selling a product that was meant to help sick people but they refused to sell it to anyone who was sick.

No Republican voted for ObamaCare.
No Republican voted to repeal ObamaCare.

What the heck do they do all day?

@flozen:

"With no other witness or note-taker of the sort normally present on the American side, there's no guarantee that Trump or Putin's words were translated correctly

I feel like there should be a law against this….even for the President.  For all we know that translator could be a Hillary Clinton operative looking to take Trump down.

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

So you think that him doing nothing on ObamaCare is an accomplishment? How many times did he promise to repeal it IMMEDIATELY?

Anyone can do nothing. I'm doing it right now.

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The issue of Obamacare is not under the control of Trump.  That is under the control of Congress.  The only thing Trump can do is veto what Congress comes up with.

Once again you are disrespecting our President.  Trump made a promise to the American people.  He would never make a promise he couldn't keep!

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

Trump didn't claim that the meeting didn't happen. He is claiming that he media knew about the meeting when it happened. How on earth would a huge piece of information like that be kept a secret for so long? Does that make any sense to you at all?

I am really tired of all this Russia crap.  It's interesting that Russia is one of the few countries in the world that the USA has never had a war with.  I sure would prefer to have Russia as an ally then those monstrous Chinese bas****s.  (can't say tard).

Um…...they had a cold war. It lasted for 50 years or something......

Once again, Donald Trump has been defeated.  His plan to gut the EPA is dead.  He wanted to cut it by 32%.  Congress is only allowing a 6.5% cut. SAD!

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/07/trumps-big-plan-for-a-tiny-epa-is-already-dead/

ObamaCare gave states the option of creating their own exchanges. More than half the states (mostly in the south) decided to let the Federal government run it instead.  These people claim to not want big government but their actions speak louder than words.

One of the problems with healthcare costs is the fee for service system. Most industries are ruled by the law of supply and demand. The more supply you have of something the cheaper it is. Not true in healthcare. Miami Dade County in Florida has the highest number of doctors per capita in the country. As a result they have the highest Medicare costs in the country because those doctors have to see more patients and order more tests than doctors in other areas.  We have to fix that.

ObamaCare created a new type of payment methodology known as Accountable Care Organizations. Basically payments are made based on a persons health, not by how many times they visit a doctor. Obviously there are problems with that but it's still way too early to know whether or not this will save any money.

This is one of the reasons you can't simply repeal ObamaCare. I used to work for a different ObamaCare cost savings program that has been up and running since 2013. You can't just repeal these things. Not only will it kill people (and yes people would absolutely die if that program simply disappeared) but it would also increase healthcare costs for these sub groups of patients.

Breitbart is the voice of reason. It's a world gone mad.

Exactly. We need all three. We do need single payer. I'm glad we agree on something.

So you think that him doing nothing on ObamaCare is an accomplishment? How many times did he promise to repeal it IMMEDIATELY?

Anyone can do nothing. I'm doing it right now.

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Trump didn't claim that the meeting didn't happen. He is claiming that he media knew about the meeting when it happened. How on earth would a huge piece of information like that be kept a secret for so long? Does that make any sense to you at all?

So you think that the entire International media knew about this meeting and they all colluded with one another to keep this information from the public until now?

Wheres Kellyanne when you need her?  I'm gonna ask her to make me some of those flash cards.

So who else did Trump meet with?

WOAH! He is guilty as fuck on this one!  Trump just announced that John Huntsman will be his nomination for Russian Ambassador.  He is trying to distract from the story about his secret meeting!

There will be no women nominated to the Supreme Court as long as Trump is in charge…..well not unless her family runs Amway or something.

I really don't know why they don't encourage more Medicaid waivers.  My state has had one since the Clinton administration (and renewed it just before Obama left office until 2020).  This gives power to the states which they claim to want even though only a handful of them created their own ACA exchanges.  It gives states more flexibility to design healthcare plans that they can feel all warm and fuzzy about.

Pence got a waiver too and they did something a little different in his state in regards to the Medicaid expansion population.  I personally don't like it but at least they did something.  It's still better than nothing.

I just don't see anyone defending him.  Even Frederick is constantly insinuating that Trump is a big fat liar.

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

I'm so glad those two love birds got a whole hour to "talk" all by themselves with no other American present.  Not Rex Tillerson. Not Melania. Not Ivanka. No Aides. No one. (Well there was a Russian translator)

I wonder why they would have a meeting like this?

On a serious note…is this common?  Does the President of the Unites States EVER take a meeting with a foreign leader (or anyone else) ALL BY HIMSELF?  It seems strange to me.

I doubt anything nefarious was happening. I imagine most of the meeting was just Trump talking about the millions of people at his inauguration and the fact that Americans love him so much.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342589-ian-bremmer-trump-and-putin-held-second-informal-meeting-during-g-20

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

@Frederick:

Once again, Facebook has permanently DISABLED the account I was using.  \

So you have multiple Facebook accounts?  Interesting…....

I have to bozo… when they disable one, I have to create another.  Sometimes I have been able to get facebook accounts back, but not lately.  Some accounts are those of other people, who are admins of my secret group.

By the way.. you were supposed to be BOYCOTTING my posts.  Why don't you do what you said you were going to do?

You don't expect Trump to do what he was he is going to do. Why do you expect me to?