Like I would trust S. Scott Johnson, who lets rrb poison his legacy blog with a personal insult because Roger Amick dares to show the real truth, and expose the total fabrications of the Coldhearedtruth.blogspot.com pile of lies.
But with perhaps the one exception Kasich, not one of the current crop of Republican governors, who for the most part, care only about the corporate contributions that Citizens United brought brought forth a disaster in government. By and for the people is no longer in force, because for profit corporations, mostly in this case, the pharmaceutical companies, can buy and sell governorships and state legislators by the hundreds. The law you support, because you worship Trump and want him to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace ObomaCare that was pushed through congress by the Kenyan President. Tossing 20 million off their health insurance and stop the costly "pre-existing conditions" back onto the states, who for the most part, can't or just wont, make mandatory.
Like I would trust S. Scott Johnson, who lets rrb poison his legacy blog with a personal insult because Roger Amick dares to show the real truth, and expose the total fabrications of the Coldhearedtruth.blogspot.com pile of lies. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
heh.
moi poison the legacy blog?
may i remind you -
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Good. In that case, I will want to go back and carefully consider everything he says. Including his statements at the top of this blog.
Blogger Roger Amick said... Jerry Brown, any time. Your governor too. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
hey alky,
how are you asshats coming along with mexifornia single payer?
i see your legislature has passed it in theory but not in practice because they don't have the first fucking clue as to how to pay for it.
heh.
it's tough to run a state on fairy dust, unicorn farts, and wet dreams, eh?
Tossing 20 million off their health insurance and stop the costly "pre-existing conditions" back onto the states, who for the most part, can't or just wont, make mandatory. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
but the idea of single payer resonates with you... as it tosses in excess of 150 MILLION people off the employer sponsored insurance they love, and would cost around $32 TRILLION over 10 years.
this is why i'm convinced that liberalism is a mental disorder.
As a small-government anti-establishment type living in Georgia I can sympathize with CH on his conflicted feelings. The problem is drawing a line between ideology and incompetence.
One of the biggest reasons I could never trust this State government to run health care, or any part of it, now applies to the Federal government. Tom Price. I wouldn't want that guy anywhere involved with my health insurance, or in my health care.
The ironic thing about that is that my health care has already been affected, unknown to me at the time, by Price's influence. I had surgery by the Resurgens Surgery Center in Roswell, of which Price was a general partner (Resurgens recently paid a settlement for Medicare fraud and kickbacks by the way). As an outpatient center it was efficient and inexpensive - relatively speaking - but the collarbone surgery was botched and never healed correctly, breaking again a year later. Returning to the same practice, having to deal with the lack of specific knowledge and hurried corner cutting had me switching to a hospital-based practice in John's Creek, roughly double the cost. Everyone made out pretty well in those episodes except me, the patient.
After the fact, I draw a lot of parallels between their (harmful) practices and Tom Price's policy goals. So it's down to the point that I wouldn't trust the Administration or the State either one, and maybe it's time to let Congress update regulations on health care practice and the insurance industry, allow the Federal Agencies to enforce them, and otherwise stay out of it.
Repeal the Mandate, retain the protections, figure out how to finance the subsidies or an appropriate level of the subsidies, and otherwise stop playing political games with it.
well wp, the ACA was implemented to "fix" that which was not broken in the first place. so here we are. and the experience that you describe is exponentially worse for those on medicaid. they are treated by the poorest performing docs and are regularly seen as a dollar sign and not a patient:
I Was On Medicaid For Years. It’s Horrible And Should Be Cut, Not Expanded
The ACA wasn't any factor in my experience. A practice basing medical decisions on what is more convenient for their revenue, rather than the patient's medical interest, was a factor. Surgeons who are either second-tier or perhaps lower, or so overworked that they become superficial and are more worried about hiding mistakes than correcting them, or whatever the cause was, that was a problem.
This is the inevitable ultimate result of Price's policy goals. He sounds good when he espouses "patient first", but every one of his goals involve getting out of the way of clinics and doctors to allow them to do whatever they want, without regard to patients.
What was "broke", rrb, was tens of millions of Americans without insurance and seeing health care priced out of their ability to pay. It's still "broke" now, and Price and your Republicans want to break even the part that's working.
RRB, Tom Price was a partner in Resurgens. He didn't have a financial stake, he wasn't practicing, but he was a partner and what he brings to the table in that situation is influence. Resurgens was run according to Price's influence.
The Medicare Fraud practices of Price's Resurgens Center had null intersection with my surgery; you're barking up the wrong tree there. That had to do with anesthesiologists charging medicare for a center fee for their pain management patients, and Resurgens doctors signing off on the fraudulent paperwork in return for a kickback. It was prior to Price's involvement as well. Even so it is an illustration of Price's ideas in action, letting such centers police themselves without regulation, but nothing to do with my experience with them.
The ACA wasn't any factor in my experience. A practice basing medical decisions on what is more convenient for their revenue, rather than the patient's medical interest, was a factor
Those two statements run in complete contrast.
What is, and always will be, at issue with revenue is the ability for the patient to ultimately pay for the services. What clinics, doctors, Hospitals, and medical professionals understand is that they receive higher payments from those who have traditional private health insurance (mostly from employee based insurance).
They know that insurance will pay the bulk, and that those who have said insurance are generally good for the difference, often times just having the funds to pay it off in one chunk. For those patients, they are not going to "cut corners" or provide "cheaper options". They will provide the best services knowing that they are going to be reimbursed.
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For the last three years of college I worked as a credit adviser (bill collector) for our local Hospital (just prior to it being bought out by Mayo). I almost never ran into issues with people who had BCBS or other staple insurances. If I ever had to call someone like that, it was generally because of some questions or issues with what insurance was or wasn't covering.
But we were always "writing off" huge chunks of our services for people who had medicaid or medicare. There was never any expectation that you would get full payment.
Generally we probably did just as well (if not better than medicare or medicaid) with people who had catastrophic or even no insurance. We could set up monthly payment plans for people (who always were quite grateful that you were not demanding payment in full) and eventually get paid (or paid close enough to write off a chunk).
It's always the same thing. Liberals believe everyone is out to screw then. They have no confidence in their ability to protect their own interest. They believe that the "federal government" can "protect" them from all the mean and evil people in the world.
So they vote for less freedoms and more regulations. Because they apparently believe that the dysfunction that represents our Federal Government is better than what they can do for themselves.
Sort of a sad case of self-doubt in a lot of ways.
What is, and always will be, at issue with revenue is the ability for the patient to ultimately pay for the services. What clinics, doctors, Hospitals, and medical professionals understand is that they receive higher payments from those who have traditional private health insurance (mostly from employee based insurance). ... For those patients, they are not going to "cut corners" or provide "cheaper options".
I have very good insurance, provided through my employer, which paid promptly and without question. I paid my deductible after every visit, and in fact the maximum out of pocket was met during that time. There was absolutely no concern whatsoever on the ability of the patient to pay for the services.
Like RRB, you are barking up the wrong tree, 100% wrong in that post - and it's because you are substituting your ideology for the specific facts.
The fact is, the concerns you bring up have little or nothing to do with how Resurgens operated in my case, nor for any Orthopedic patient as far as I know. It's just their Tom Price style of doing business, get away with whatever you can, as quickly as possible.
It's always the same thing. Liberals believe everyone is out to screw then.
Hardly. After firing Resurgens and taking my business to a John's Creek hospital it was satisfactory.
You aren't following very well. I was the one who qualified the Resurgen Orthopedists specific knowledge of conservative treatment vs ORIF and found them lacking. And it was a highly qualified surgeon in another practice who determined how screwed up the original surgery was - AND the post-op care. There was no "believe" involved here.
Again you're letting your ideology cover for your ignorance of the specific facts. If you had some suspicion that it was some "liberal" politics involved, you should have asked for details, and you wouldn't be so embarrassed by what actually happened.
So they vote for less freedoms and more regulations. Because they apparently believe that the dysfunction that represents our Federal Government is better than what they can do for themselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
indeed.
and what they consistently fail to notice is that right after our lawmakers pass a law like the ACA, the very next thing they do is exempt themselves from it.
one has to be delusional to the point of hallucinations to believe that if we ever did end up with medicaid for all/single payer in this country, bernie sanders would subject himself and his family to it.
It's just their Tom Price style of doing business, get away with whatever you can, as quickly as possible.
So you see this as a "Tom Price Style" issue, huh... and you are suggesting that "I" am the one politicizing this by ideology?
Well WP... I am going on what I know, based on my personal experience of dealing with hundreds (if not thousands) of medical bills, insurance claims, etc... The doctors at our Hospital were professionals who were looking to help people.
But assuming what you say is true, and that doctors will cut corners and put the patient behind their own financial interests...
Then I am sure that you would have to agree that it would be better if we had more patients on private health insurance that pays the large bulk of the cost of these procedures...
Rather than pushing people "off" these private health insurance plans and onto either medicaid (which pays much less) or plans with much, much higher deductibles and literally pays nothing on many major medical issues (which has become the staple of your basic Obamacare plans).
What was "broke", rrb, was tens of millions of Americans without insurance and seeing health care priced out of their ability to pay. It's still "broke" now, and Price and your Republicans want to break even the part that's working. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well wp, the left should've thought of that back during FDR's administration. the whole reason we even have employer sponsored insurance is because liberals tried to screw with the free market by demanding wage controls.
so every subsequent attempt at improving it has made it exponentially worse.
ideally i'd like the feds to get out of it, return the power to the states and allow 50 different experiments to be conducted to see which one generates the best result.
the only restriction being that if you fuck it up, as is sure to occur in NY & CA, you don't get bailed out.
You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
It would seem to me that your issues are with how the doctors performed their services... rather than whether or not your insurance covered birth control, conformed to one of three basic models, or whether or not we expanded medicaid?
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan joined dozens of NFL football players in a silent demonstration during the national anthem on Sunday.
Khan, who donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, linked arms with players Marcedes Lewis and Telvin Smith at Wembley Stadium in London as an estimated 27 others took a knee on the field.
The stance came in response to Trump saying the NFL should fire players who, in protest of social injustices, kneel during the playing of the national anthem. He also encouraged fans to boycott the league over the protests.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, you’d say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired,’” Trump said during a rally on Friday in Alabama.
He echoed that sentiment on Twitter on Saturday and again on Sunday.
Baltimore Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb were among those defying the president by taking a knee on the field on Sunday in London, The Associated Press reported.
Participating Jaguars players included linebacker Dante Fowler, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
In a statement, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti voiced support for the athletes’ decision to demonstrate, calling it “democracy in its highest form.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaguars-owner-locks-arms-with-players_us_59c7bad1e4b0cdc77331dd3c
Sorry losers, the ratings will not go down, they will probably improve. The seats in the games on television here, are filled to the last seat. Where are the Trumpismm infested protesters? Oh yeah, people like the "Genius" and the racist radical bastard are sucking down six packs of PBR because it's shitty beer, and they have no taste.
Want to meet me at the gym rrb? I would love to kick your sorry ass.
Sorry Mr President, the American people are ignoring your racist rants.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend! 3:44 AM - Sep 24, 2017
wp as usual, puts hits it right on. Ideology by CH has completely blinded him from his former analytical abilities. He was always conservative, but it's far more ideological than analytical, #sad
Like RRB, you are barking up the wrong tree, 100% wrong in that post - and it's because you are substituting your ideology for the specific facts.
His previous post that attempted to compare the beliefs of himself and rrb, who has obviously infected his grey matter, with his hate filled diatribes. "Let the bodies rot to act as a warning to keep the beaners from crossing the border" rrb. on "The Wall"
I think any black player who wants to should kneel during the National Anthem, but with hands over heart, as a way of saying, I love this nation and its ideal of a government of, by, and for the people, but I have no respect for the white supremacist who has currently lied his way into the White House.
Larry O'Connor ✔ @LarryOConnor The @NFL should be less concerned with @realDonaldTrump and more concerned by how many millions of Americans (NFL fans) agree with him. 2:51 PM - Sep 23, 2017 · North Bethesda, MD
Last year i got family medical through the exchange. It cost $1300/ month for a crappy high deductible plan. I paid it because I can afford it. Most cannot. And premiums keep rising. So stop telling us how wonderful the aca is.
And im not watching nfl today. I have no interest in being force fed the politics.
And of course I don't say I'm a troll, so it is childish and immature to say I say that, just as it is childish to say I say the filthy things attributed to me.
"I am deeply disappointed by the tone of the comments made by the president on Friday," Robert Kraft said. "I am proud to be associated with so many players who make such tremendous contributions in positively impacting our communities. Their efforts, both on and off the field, help bring people together and make our community stronger. ...There is no greater unifier in this country than sports, and unfortunately, nothing more divisive than politics. I THINK OUR POLITICAL LEADERS COULD LEARN A LOT FROM THE LESSONS OF TEAMWORK AND THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER TOWARD A COMMON GOAL. Our players are intelligent, thoughtful, and care deeply about our community and I support their right to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful."
A good common goal to work together toward, as John McCain and other sensible Republicans and Democrats know, is a better healthcare system for us all. All.
You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
I raised this same issue eight years ago, and haven't changed my opinion since, so your backing me up on it - finally - is not something I need to "admit". Furthermore, you'll recall that my position is that ACA was at best a first step before the more urgently needed reform in health care itself. Does that seem at odds with any of my writings on this blog post? How so?
In fact, you may recall further that I was fairly strongly opposed to Obama's spending his political capital on health care insurance in the first place when infrastructure, economic stimulation, and financial system reforms were all more urgent priorities.
So CH, will you at least admit now that I was right about all of the above?
NFL players are making controversial public political protests on their employer's dime, and they don't have any more "right" to do so than any of the rest of us. Other than the fact that their employers allow it.
Any other professional in the private sector would get fired over that because it violates the corporate policies which we've agreed to as terms of our employment. I would have no sympathy at all should any or all of these NFL players face the same consequences.
Trump happens to be on the right side of this issue.
A pair of new polls brought bad news for both President Trump and his party early Sunday morning.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Trump's approval rating sitting at 39 percent, the lowest approval rating for a president after eight months in office in 70 years. A CNN poll showed just 29 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest since CNN began asking the question in polls in 1992
The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 59 percent of Americans believe Trump has not brought any meaningful change to the country, as opposed to 39 percent that believe he has brought some change. In addition, two-thirds of Americans believe Trump is dividing the country as opposed to 28 percent who believe he's uniting Americans.
The same poll shows nearly two-thirds — 62 percent — don't trust Trump to responsibly handle the North Korean crisis, which a record amount — 84 percent — now see as a threat.
However, 72 percent of the country trusts U.S. military leaders to do so.
In the CNN poll, the Republican Party is now lower than it was in October 2013, when the federal government shut down over an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and in December 1998 when the Republican-controlled House passed two articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
At those two low points, Americans had a 30 percent favorable rating of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is lining up behind Trump during his first year in office, with 79 percent of Republicans believing Trump is moving the party in the right direction. In contrast, 53 percent of Republicans believe party leaders in Congress are doing the same.
The poll also points to a possible issue for Republicans in 2018 — 24 percent of Democrats report being "extremely enthusiastic" for the mid-term elections and 20 percent feel "very enthusiastic." Fourteen percent of Republican voters reported feeling "extremely enthusiastic" about 2018 and 20 percent reported feeling "very enthusiastic."
wp,Trump made it political, so it's more than just what the employers, can and can't do. He should have shut his mouth on this, and just let it play out, but his impulsive behavior makes his judgement questionable. Most Americans do not trust his judgement on everything, let alone sports.
Just now I heard coverage on the Houston vs New England game, that almost all the owners want him to shut the hell up. In theory, he's right, but the fact that he made it what it is, he fucked it up, big time.
Any other professional in the private sector would get fired over that because it violates the corporate policies
True WP except for those companies supporting PACs that encourage employees to donate money which to me is more egregious than the verbal protests and not standing for a flag ceremony....We.once had Jeb Busch at our plant who fielded questions from the group. A young female engineer eviscerated Jebby on his stand on women's rights. She didn't get fired, but sure got a standing ovation!!! LOL
What is increasingly clear. The host has lost his mind. rrbism @therealdonaldtrummp has taken away his mind. Even his legacy blog, has been kidnapped by the blog racist. Go figure. #Sad.
I was and am far better looking than she could have ever hoped to attract. Besides, I treasure my wife, because she's one of the smartest people I have ever met. My first wife, is also very intelligent. I want my women to think for themselves, not like Ms Alzheimer's who only says what rrb and senseless and even the stupid neighbor Kansan, what to think. And repeat, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and again, pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky
Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.
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“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.”
Aides who have exchanged emails with Kushner on his private account since President Donald Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel, according to emails described to or shown to POLITICO. In some cases, those White House officials have emailed Kushner’s account first, said people familiar with the messages.
The decision to set up new, private accounts as Kushner was preparing to enter the White House came in the wake of a bitter election campaign in which Trump routinely excoriated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle government business when she was secretary of state.
CH. You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
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Perhaps, but they decided that they wouldn't have gotten a majority of Democrats to go all in on a single payer system. Instead they used the Massachusetts model, by Romney.
part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well alky, fortunately that precedent has been set.
good fucking luck trying to nail ANY government official on this charge going forward. and you can refer to that as one of the unintended consequences of allowing felonia von pantsuit to get away with it.
President Trump called into Alabama radio hosts “Rick and Bubba” this morning and warned that “Ray” Moore would open the state’s U.S. Senate seat to Democrats, the Birmingham News reports.
Said Trump: “Luther Strange is going to be a great Senator. He loves Alabama, he loves the state and he loves the country. He will absolutely win against the Democrat. Ray will have a hard time. If Luther wins, the Democrats will hardly fight. If Ray wins (Democrats) will pour in $30 million.”
When host Rick Burgess clarified that Moore’s first name was Roy and not Ray, Trump came back with, "it’s not a good sign” when the president doesn’t know your name. _______________ No, it not a good sign when we have a president that stupid.
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Like I would trust S. Scott Johnson, who lets rrb poison his legacy blog with a personal insult because Roger Amick dares to show the real truth, and expose the total fabrications of the Coldhearedtruth.blogspot.com pile of lies.
Jerry Brown, any time. Your governor too.
But with perhaps the one exception Kasich, not one of the current crop of Republican governors, who for the most part, care only about the corporate contributions that Citizens United brought brought forth a disaster in government. By and for the people is no longer in force, because for profit corporations, mostly in this case, the pharmaceutical companies, can buy and sell governorships and state legislators by the hundreds. The law you support, because you worship Trump and want him to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace ObomaCare that was pushed through congress by the Kenyan President. Tossing 20 million off their health insurance and stop the costly "pre-existing conditions" back onto the states, who for the most part, can't or just wont, make mandatory.
"Like I would trust S. Scott Johnson, who lets rrb poison his legacy blog with a personal insult because Roger Amick"
LMAO!!!!
Alzheimer's disease
Broken down, emotionally unhinged drunk, lol.
Does da baby need CH to change his poopy diaper?
Yep. HB So sad.
President Trump called the NFL "soft" , so has
Eric Dirkerson
Ronnie Lott
Mike Dickson
Darron Cherry
Mr. Lynch
And many more.
Alky, a pom pom owning nancy boy bottom, 45 is not attempting to hurt NFL Ratings, the No Fun League already did it!!!
Trump 1, NFL 0.
The rules that took away big hits to receivers and quarterms backs suck, he'll if you block too hard you can be pentalized.
"Soft" is an understatement.
BLM the real racist.
Roger's meds have kicked in early
Roger you should feel free to post on another blog.
Otherwise STFU.
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Like I would trust S. Scott Johnson, who lets rrb poison his legacy blog with a personal insult because Roger Amick dares to show the real truth, and expose the total fabrications of the Coldhearedtruth.blogspot.com pile of lies.
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heh.
moi poison the legacy blog?
may i remind you -
Editor's Note:
The views of Roger Amick are in no way endorsed or supported by me, and should not be considered representative of either the historical or current Coldheartedtruth blog.
C.H. Truth
The views of Roger Amick are in no way endorsed or supported by me, and should not be considered representative of either the historical or current Coldheartedtruth thread.
--C.H. Truth
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Good. In that case, I will want to go back and carefully consider everything he says. Including his statements at the top of this blog.
correction: at the top of this thread.
I'm a troll.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Jerry Brown, any time. Your governor too.
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hey alky,
how are you asshats coming along with mexifornia single payer?
i see your legislature has passed it in theory but not in practice because they don't have the first fucking clue as to how to pay for it.
heh.
it's tough to run a state on fairy dust, unicorn farts, and wet dreams, eh?
Tossing 20 million off their health insurance and stop the costly "pre-existing conditions" back onto the states, who for the most part, can't or just wont, make mandatory.
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but the idea of single payer resonates with you... as it tosses in excess of 150 MILLION people off the employer sponsored insurance they love, and would cost around $32 TRILLION over 10 years.
this is why i'm convinced that liberalism is a mental disorder.
I no more said I'm a troll
than I said many of the other
things childishly or viciously
attributed to me here.
As a small-government anti-establishment type living in Georgia I can sympathize with CH on his conflicted feelings. The problem is drawing a line between ideology and incompetence.
One of the biggest reasons I could never trust this State government to run health care, or any part of it, now applies to the Federal government. Tom Price. I wouldn't want that guy anywhere involved with my health insurance, or in my health care.
The ironic thing about that is that my health care has already been affected, unknown to me at the time, by Price's influence. I had surgery by the Resurgens Surgery Center in Roswell, of which Price was a general partner (Resurgens recently paid a settlement for Medicare fraud and kickbacks by the way). As an outpatient center it was efficient and inexpensive - relatively speaking - but the collarbone surgery was botched and never healed correctly, breaking again a year later. Returning to the same practice, having to deal with the lack of specific knowledge and hurried corner cutting had me switching to a hospital-based practice in John's Creek, roughly double the cost. Everyone made out pretty well in those episodes except me, the patient.
After the fact, I draw a lot of parallels between their (harmful) practices and Tom Price's policy goals. So it's down to the point that I wouldn't trust the Administration or the State either one, and maybe it's time to let Congress update regulations on health care practice and the insurance industry, allow the Federal Agencies to enforce them, and otherwise stay out of it.
Repeal the Mandate, retain the protections, figure out how to finance the subsidies or an appropriate level of the subsidies, and otherwise stop playing political games with it.
well wp, the ACA was implemented to "fix" that which was not broken in the first place. so here we are. and the experience that you describe is exponentially worse for those on medicaid. they are treated by the poorest performing docs and are regularly seen as a dollar sign and not a patient:
I Was On Medicaid For Years. It’s Horrible And Should Be Cut, Not Expanded
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/22/medicaid-years-horrible-cut-not-expanded/
The ACA wasn't any factor in my experience. A practice basing medical decisions on what is more convenient for their revenue, rather than the patient's medical interest, was a factor. Surgeons who are either second-tier or perhaps lower, or so overworked that they become superficial and are more worried about hiding mistakes than correcting them, or whatever the cause was, that was a problem.
This is the inevitable ultimate result of Price's policy goals. He sounds good when he espouses "patient first", but every one of his goals involve getting out of the way of clinics and doctors to allow them to do whatever they want, without regard to patients.
What was "broke", rrb, was tens of millions of Americans without insurance and seeing health care priced out of their ability to pay. It's still "broke" now, and Price and your Republicans want to break even the part that's working.
RRB, Tom Price was a partner in Resurgens. He didn't have a financial stake, he wasn't practicing, but he was a partner and what he brings to the table in that situation is influence. Resurgens was run according to Price's influence.
The Medicare Fraud practices of Price's Resurgens Center had null intersection with my surgery; you're barking up the wrong tree there. That had to do with anesthesiologists charging medicare for a center fee for their pain management patients, and Resurgens doctors signing off on the fraudulent paperwork in return for a kickback. It was prior to Price's involvement as well. Even so it is an illustration of Price's ideas in action, letting such centers police themselves without regulation, but nothing to do with my experience with them.
The ACA wasn't any factor in my experience. A practice basing medical decisions on what is more convenient for their revenue, rather than the patient's medical interest, was a factor
Those two statements run in complete contrast.
What is, and always will be, at issue with revenue is the ability for the patient to ultimately pay for the services. What clinics, doctors, Hospitals, and medical professionals understand is that they receive higher payments from those who have traditional private health insurance (mostly from employee based insurance).
They know that insurance will pay the bulk, and that those who have said insurance are generally good for the difference, often times just having the funds to pay it off in one chunk. For those patients, they are not going to "cut corners" or provide "cheaper options". They will provide the best services knowing that they are going to be reimbursed.
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For the last three years of college I worked as a credit adviser (bill collector) for our local Hospital (just prior to it being bought out by Mayo). I almost never ran into issues with people who had BCBS or other staple insurances. If I ever had to call someone like that, it was generally because of some questions or issues with what insurance was or wasn't covering.
But we were always "writing off" huge chunks of our services for people who had medicaid or medicare. There was never any expectation that you would get full payment.
Generally we probably did just as well (if not better than medicare or medicaid) with people who had catastrophic or even no insurance. We could set up monthly payment plans for people (who always were quite grateful that you were not demanding payment in full) and eventually get paid (or paid close enough to write off a chunk).
At the end of the day, WP...
It's always the same thing. Liberals believe everyone is out to screw then. They have no confidence in their ability to protect their own interest. They believe that the "federal government" can "protect" them from all the mean and evil people in the world.
So they vote for less freedoms and more regulations. Because they apparently believe that the dysfunction that represents our Federal Government is better than what they can do for themselves.
Sort of a sad case of self-doubt in a lot of ways.
What is, and always will be, at issue with revenue is the ability for the patient to ultimately pay for the services. What clinics, doctors, Hospitals, and medical professionals understand is that they receive higher payments from those who have traditional private health insurance (mostly from employee based insurance). ... For those patients, they are not going to "cut corners" or provide "cheaper options".
I have very good insurance, provided through my employer, which paid promptly and without question. I paid my deductible after every visit, and in fact the maximum out of pocket was met during that time. There was absolutely no concern whatsoever on the ability of the patient to pay for the services.
Like RRB, you are barking up the wrong tree, 100% wrong in that post - and it's because you are substituting your ideology for the specific facts.
The fact is, the concerns you bring up have little or nothing to do with how Resurgens operated in my case, nor for any Orthopedic patient as far as I know. It's just their Tom Price style of doing business, get away with whatever you can, as quickly as possible.
At the end of the day, WP...
It's always the same thing. Liberals believe everyone is out to screw then.
Hardly. After firing Resurgens and taking my business to a John's Creek hospital it was satisfactory.
You aren't following very well. I was the one who qualified the Resurgen Orthopedists specific knowledge of conservative treatment vs ORIF and found them lacking. And it was a highly qualified surgeon in another practice who determined how screwed up the original surgery was - AND the post-op care. There was no "believe" involved here.
Again you're letting your ideology cover for your ignorance of the specific facts. If you had some suspicion that it was some "liberal" politics involved, you should have asked for details, and you wouldn't be so embarrassed by what actually happened.
So they vote for less freedoms and more regulations. Because they apparently believe that the dysfunction that represents our Federal Government is better than what they can do for themselves.
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indeed.
and what they consistently fail to notice is that right after our lawmakers pass a law like the ACA, the very next thing they do is exempt themselves from it.
one has to be delusional to the point of hallucinations to believe that if we ever did end up with medicaid for all/single payer in this country, bernie sanders would subject himself and his family to it.
It's just their Tom Price style of doing business, get away with whatever you can, as quickly as possible.
So you see this as a "Tom Price Style" issue, huh... and you are suggesting that "I" am the one politicizing this by ideology?
Well WP... I am going on what I know, based on my personal experience of dealing with hundreds (if not thousands) of medical bills, insurance claims, etc... The doctors at our Hospital were professionals who were looking to help people.
But assuming what you say is true, and that doctors will cut corners and put the patient behind their own financial interests...
Then I am sure that you would have to agree that it would be better if we had more patients on private health insurance that pays the large bulk of the cost of these procedures...
Rather than pushing people "off" these private health insurance plans and onto either medicaid (which pays much less) or plans with much, much higher deductibles and literally pays nothing on many major medical issues (which has become the staple of your basic Obamacare plans).
What was "broke", rrb, was tens of millions of Americans without insurance and seeing health care priced out of their ability to pay. It's still "broke" now, and Price and your Republicans want to break even the part that's working.
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well wp, the left should've thought of that back during FDR's administration. the whole reason we even have employer sponsored insurance is because liberals tried to screw with the free market by demanding wage controls.
so every subsequent attempt at improving it has made it exponentially worse.
ideally i'd like the feds to get out of it, return the power to the states and allow 50 different experiments to be conducted to see which one generates the best result.
the only restriction being that if you fuck it up, as is sure to occur in NY & CA, you don't get bailed out.
At the very least, WP...
You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
It would seem to me that your issues are with how the doctors performed their services... rather than whether or not your insurance covered birth control, conformed to one of three basic models, or whether or not we expanded medicaid?
at the end of the day the ACA amounted to what liberal legislation generally always amounts to -
a failed attempt at the social engineering of an outcome: the equal distribution of misery.
Perfect tly put CHT.
The left needs Goverment to provide for their basic living neefs.
Take that away and they fail.
Unfunded ACA, it only adds trillions in debt to the national debt. Stole 100 of billions from Medicare.
Since FDR, the free shit spree is directly in line with the decline in standard of living in the US.
Again. I want to give due praise to the that won the obumblecare law of the land debate. So here are the wiiners.
HB
JAMES
OPIE
INDY
WP
Do that victory dance.
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan joined dozens of NFL football players in a silent demonstration during the national anthem on Sunday.
Khan, who donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, linked arms with players Marcedes Lewis and Telvin Smith at Wembley Stadium in London as an estimated 27 others took a knee on the field.
The stance came in response to Trump saying the NFL should fire players who, in protest of social injustices, kneel during the playing of the national anthem. He also encouraged fans to boycott the league over the protests.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, you’d say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired,’” Trump said during a rally on Friday in Alabama.
He echoed that sentiment on Twitter on Saturday and again on Sunday.
Baltimore Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb were among those defying the president by taking a knee on the field on Sunday in London, The Associated Press reported.
Participating Jaguars players included linebacker Dante Fowler, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
In a statement, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti voiced support for the athletes’ decision to demonstrate, calling it “democracy in its highest form.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaguars-owner-locks-arms-with-players_us_59c7bad1e4b0cdc77331dd3c
Sorry losers, the ratings will not go down, they will probably improve. The seats in the games on television here, are filled to the last seat. Where are the Trumpismm infested protesters? Oh yeah, people like the "Genius" and the racist radical bastard are sucking down six packs of PBR because it's shitty beer, and they have no taste.
Want to meet me at the gym rrb? I would love to kick your sorry ass.
Sorry Mr President, the American people are ignoring your racist rants.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!
3:44 AM - Sep 24, 2017
wp as usual, puts hits it right on. Ideology by CH has completely blinded him from his former analytical abilities. He was always conservative, but it's far more ideological than analytical, #sad
Like RRB, you are barking up the wrong tree, 100% wrong in that post - and it's because you are substituting your ideology for the specific facts.
His previous post that attempted to compare the beliefs of himself and rrb, who has obviously infected his grey matter, with his hate filled diatribes. "Let the bodies rot to act as a warning to keep the beaners from crossing the border" rrb. on "The Wall"
Sorry losers, the ratings will not go down, they will probably improve.
Nope, check out the latest Rasmussen poll.
34% said they are inclined not watch the NFL because of the disrespect the players and owners have shown.
The funny thing is that they stood for God Save the Queen. The anthem of the country that put the Atlantic slave trade on steroids.
HB. you're oNE of the socialized health insurance debate winners, congrates.
So next are you advocating for Sen warren/sanders plan?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKfQfpRU8AEiLun.jpg
James, you too won the obamacare debate.
Do you now support the Warren/sanders plan?
Including a new payroll tax?
I do.
I think any black player who wants to should kneel during the National Anthem,
but with hands over heart, as a way of saying, I love this nation and its ideal
of a government of, by, and for the people, but I have no respect for the white
supremacist who has currently lied his way into the White House.
I am a troll.
Sounds like Trump gets more than supermajority support on this one, which brings us to words of wisdom from Mr. Larry O’Connor:
Larry O'Connor ✔ @LarryOConnor
The @NFL should be less concerned with @realDonaldTrump and more concerned by how many millions of Americans (NFL fans) agree with him.
2:51 PM - Sep 23, 2017 · North Bethesda, MD
The thing I really support in the Sanders/Warren plan is this.
Employers pay a new 7.5 % tax
Employee 4 % new tsx
Last year i got family medical through the exchange. It cost $1300/ month for a crappy high deductible plan. I paid it because I can afford it. Most cannot. And premiums keep rising. So stop telling us how wonderful the aca is.
And im not watching nfl today. I have no interest in being force fed the politics.
And of course I don't say I'm a troll, so it is childish and immature to say I say that, just as it is childish to say I say the filthy things attributed to me.
"I am deeply disappointed by the tone of the comments made by the president on Friday," Robert Kraft said. "I am proud to be associated with so many players who make such tremendous contributions in positively impacting our communities. Their efforts, both on and off the field, help bring people together and make our community stronger. ...There is no greater unifier in this country than sports, and unfortunately, nothing more divisive than politics. I THINK OUR POLITICAL LEADERS COULD LEARN A LOT FROM THE LESSONS OF TEAMWORK AND THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER TOWARD A COMMON GOAL. Our players are intelligent, thoughtful, and care deeply about our community and I support their right to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful."
A good common goal to work together toward, as John McCain and other sensible Republicans and Democrats know, is a better healthcare system for us all.
All.
I am a fucking troll.
You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
I raised this same issue eight years ago, and haven't changed my opinion since, so your backing me up on it - finally - is not something I need to "admit". Furthermore, you'll recall that my position is that ACA was at best a first step before the more urgently needed reform in health care itself. Does that seem at odds with any of my writings on this blog post? How so?
In fact, you may recall further that I was fairly strongly opposed to Obama's spending his political capital on health care insurance in the first place when infrastructure, economic stimulation, and financial system reforms were all more urgent priorities.
So CH, will you at least admit now that I was right about all of the above?
Rasmussen = Republican Polling
NFL players are making controversial public political protests on their employer's dime, and they don't have any more "right" to do so than any of the rest of us. Other than the fact that their employers allow it.
Any other professional in the private sector would get fired over that because it violates the corporate policies which we've agreed to as terms of our employment. I would have no sympathy at all should any or all of these NFL players face the same consequences.
Trump happens to be on the right side of this issue.
A pair of new polls brought bad news for both President Trump and his party early Sunday morning.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Trump's approval rating sitting at 39 percent, the lowest approval rating for a president after eight months in office in 70 years. A CNN poll showed just 29 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest since CNN began asking the question in polls in 1992
The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 59 percent of Americans believe Trump has not brought any meaningful change to the country, as opposed to 39 percent that believe he has brought some change. In addition, two-thirds of Americans believe Trump is dividing the country as opposed to 28 percent who believe he's uniting Americans.
The same poll shows nearly two-thirds — 62 percent — don't trust Trump to responsibly handle the North Korean crisis, which a record amount — 84 percent — now see as a threat.
However, 72 percent of the country trusts U.S. military leaders to do so.
In the CNN poll, the Republican Party is now lower than it was in October 2013, when the federal government shut down over an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and in December 1998 when the Republican-controlled House passed two articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
At those two low points, Americans had a 30 percent favorable rating of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is lining up behind Trump during his first year in office, with 79 percent of Republicans believing Trump is moving the party in the right direction. In contrast, 53 percent of Republicans believe party leaders in Congress are doing the same.
The poll also points to a possible issue for Republicans in 2018 — 24 percent of Democrats report being "extremely enthusiastic" for the mid-term elections and 20 percent feel "very enthusiastic." Fourteen percent of Republican voters reported feeling "extremely enthusiastic" about 2018 and 20 percent reported feeling "very enthusiastic."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-polls-send-bad-news-to-trump-gop/article/2635408
wp,Trump made it political, so it's more than just what the employers, can and can't do. He should have shut his mouth on this, and just let it play out, but his impulsive behavior makes his judgement questionable. Most Americans do not trust his judgement on everything, let alone sports.
Just now I heard coverage on the Houston vs New England game, that almost all the owners want him to shut the hell up. In theory, he's right, but the fact that he made it what it is, he fucked it up, big time.
wp,Trump made it political, so it's more than just what the employers, can and can't do. He should have shut his mouth on this
Really? Trump is playing the media like a violin. Two names you haven't heard in the headlines today.
Robert Mueller and Paul Manafort.
Plus Trump is baiting the players and owners into even more anti-American displays to their own detriment.
For supposedly smart people, these are the dumbest people to ever run a sports league.
Loretta said...
Broken down, emotionally unhinged drunk, lol.
Does da baby need CH to change his poopy diaper?
I see Loretta's quality of posts has certainly hit new lows. Oh well, like trump, all she does is show her immaturity....LOLOLOL
Two names you haven't heard in the headlines today.
Robert Mueller and Paul Manafort.
Wait for tomorrow....LOLOLOL. Yep, he's a pro at lying and changing the subject....the best traits of the mentally challenged.....LOL
Yep.
Now about those new taxes on employer and employee.
Only 11.5 % more combined out of the pockets of the Job Creator and Job holder gets us to single payer.
Any other professional in the private sector would get fired over that because it violates the corporate policies
True WP except for those companies supporting PACs that encourage employees to donate money which to me is more egregious than the verbal protests and not standing for a flag ceremony....We.once had Jeb Busch at our plant who fielded questions from the group. A young female engineer eviscerated Jebby on his stand on women's rights. She didn't get fired, but sure got a standing ovation!!! LOL
Is it now racist to not watch the nfl?
Given 70 % of the players are negros
Given 70 % of the players are negros
And most whites are worthless racist wimps like you......LOL
11.5 % combined for job creators and job holders on top of the current tax for SS AND Medicare/caid.
SS = 12.4% combined for employee/employer
MEDICADE/CARE = 2.9 combined
What is increasingly clear. The host has lost his mind. rrbism @therealdonaldtrummp has taken away his mind. Even his legacy blog, has been kidnapped by the blog racist. Go figure. #Sad.
ETTE, YOU BROKE OPIE, Can you fix it?
This is just for Loretta. She will love it. LOLOL
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This is a double down. LOLOL
I was and am far better looking than she could have ever hoped to attract. Besides, I treasure my wife, because she's one of the smartest people I have ever met. My first wife, is also very intelligent. I want my women to think for themselves, not like Ms Alzheimer's who only says what rrb and senseless and even the stupid neighbor Kansan, what to think. And repeat, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and again, pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky pedophile and alky
Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.
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“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.”
Aides who have exchanged emails with Kushner on his private account since President Donald Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel, according to emails described to or shown to POLITICO. In some cases, those White House officials have emailed Kushner’s account first, said people familiar with the messages.
The decision to set up new, private accounts as Kushner was preparing to enter the White House came in the wake of a bitter election campaign in which Trump routinely excoriated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle government business when she was secretary of state.
stump broken kd the loser postulated....
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ETTE, YOU BROKE OPIE, Can you fix it?
And your excuse for being an idiot is what....your good genes....LOLOLOL
CH.
You should admit that spending all of the political capital that Obama and the Democrats did on a healthcare overhaul that was 99% tied up into "insurance overhaul" rather than overhauling the actual way our medical industry does business...
was a mistake?
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Perhaps, but they decided that they wouldn't have gotten a majority of Democrats to go all in on a single payer system. Instead they used the Massachusetts model, by Romney.
My knee surgeries probably built the original Resurgens wing at St Joe. LOL
One of the leftist here was really upset by this phrase.
ALL LIVES MATTER.
WHY?
frío dura verdad es duarte
Mi Español no esta bueno.
HB, your first wife is brillant, she divorced you drunk stupid financially retarded ass.
part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
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well alky, fortunately that precedent has been set.
good fucking luck trying to nail ANY government official on this charge going forward. and you can refer to that as one of the unintended consequences of allowing felonia von pantsuit to get away with it.
No entiendo duarte. Que quires decir?
Hablo espanol tambien.
Trump Stumps Against ‘Ray’ Moore
President Trump called into Alabama radio hosts “Rick and Bubba” this morning and warned that “Ray” Moore would open the state’s U.S. Senate seat to Democrats, the Birmingham News reports.
Said Trump: “Luther Strange is going to be a great Senator. He loves Alabama, he loves the state and he loves the country. He will absolutely win against the Democrat. Ray will have a hard time. If Luther wins, the Democrats will hardly fight. If Ray wins (Democrats) will pour in $30 million.”
When host Rick Burgess clarified that Moore’s first name was Roy and not Ray, Trump came back with, "it’s not a good sign” when the president doesn’t know your name.
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No, it not a good sign when we have a president that stupid.
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