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Title: Obama and the Democrats Just Raised the Price and Lowered the Quality of Your Health Insurance. Give Them the Proper Thanks.
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WSJ
URL Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100 ... 3775504575135881813148208.html
Published: Mar 22, 2010
Author: WSJ
Post Date: 2010-03-22 13:11:53 by dont eat that
Keywords: None
Views: 919
Comments: 22
While the subsidies don't start until 2014, many of the new taxes and insurance mandates will take effect within six months. The first result will be turmoil in the insurance industry, as small insurers in particular find it impossible to make money under the new rules. A wave of consolidation is likely, and so are higher premiums as insurers absorb the cost of new benefits and the mandate to take all comers. Liberals will try to blame insurers once again, but the public shouldn't be fooled. WellPoint, Aetna and the rest are from now on going to be public utilities, essentially creatures of Congress and the Health and Human Services Department. When prices rise and quality and choice suffer, the fault will lie with ObamaCare.
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#1. To: dont eat that (#0)
Anyone who doesn't see this as the just the first step to single-payer isn't paying attention. In one of his few honest moments, barry has said as much
Obammy sez it Thats one of many adverse effects of this insanity that are going to become apparent.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
The adverse effects are apparent now. The question is - have we reached the point where more people subsist on the gov't teat than pay into it? If we're not there yet, Obama is doing his damnedest to get us there.
Obammy sez it They are to the five to ten percent that pay attention.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Just so you know.....those 5-10 percent are missing out on what the Khardasian girls are up to, Lady Gaga's latest tweets, important spring training games, Tiger Woods cheap diner etiquette lessons, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars educational sessions, Alan Iverson's problems.......you know. All the stuff that forms the future.....
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. And the latest Eisteinian revelation from LF's resident Barack poodleboy......."Yeah, and Oswald was a right winger, too. He was... war posted on 2010-03-22 20:12:36
To Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid You break it, you BOUGHT it!!!
You break it, you BOUGHT it!!! In the Three Stooges case, you've got it backwards. As far as the country is concerned, first they bought it. Now they're fixin' to break it.
Obammy sez it I certainly hope so.
Sad, but true in the year 2010.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
I certainly hope so. At least you're honest about it. Let me pose the same questions to you that I posed to go65: At what point does cradle-to-grave socialism become unsustainable?, and, what happens then?
Obammy sez it Exactly. This is like debating with a 16 year old with their first checking account that you are co signed on. You get a notification the account is overdrawn and confront the teenager with it. Their response? "I can't be overdrawn, I still have blank checks!'
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Have you been talking with my kids? :0
Obammy sez it Is that a trick question? (chuckle) Liberals are children that refuse to grow up and face reality.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
what happens then? I don't know. I've been waiting for Europe's economic demise for decades now.
I don't know. I've been waiting for Europe's economic demise for decades now. Here's some facts for you: The USA's military expenditures are 4.06 percent of its GDP France's 2.60 percent; UK 2.4 percent; Norway 1.9 percent; Italy 1.8 percent; Netherlands 1.6 percent; Germany 1.5 percent; Denmark 1.3 percent; Spain 1.2 percent; Iceland 0.0 percent. Link So I'll tell you what: If you and your fellow socialists come up with a plan to slash the USA's military budgets to European levels (i.e. 2 percent of GDP or less) so we can use the money for socialized medicine, I'll come on board. And I'll bet a lot of others would, too. If we're going to have this bullshit, let's at least pay for it.
Obammy sez it That's not the way we do things here. Not for wars and not for social spending. We just spend the money now and pass the costs on to the future. It's been that way a looooooooong time now, but it's only recently that the term "socialism" has been applied to it. I'm sure once the Republicans are back in power, all this "socialism" talk will just evaporate.
"I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica!" -Rush Limbaugh
54% of our total expenditures are related to the military and BOTS tell us we aren't safe. We account for 47% of the global total for defense spending and BITS tell us we aren't safe. Take health care spending for the elderly out of the equation and we spend shit on health care. You folks are just absolutely clueless.
Day 30 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 28 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
We just spend the money now and pass the costs on to the future. It's been that way a looooooooong time now, What was that program called? The second word was Security. The first began with S. Soc - Social. Yeah, that's it. SOCIAL You have nothing to fear from republicans. About the only purpose they serve is to provide fodder for democrat fund raising letters* *see Sarah Palin
Obammy sez it Uh.... that's before it was used mainly for those with disabilities and evidently for those from other countries who put in a claim. The SS admin in 2006 used to brag on their website and when they put you on hold that they were servicing 400 million recipients.
Expanding its scope and growing beyond maintainability? Isn't that one of the criticisms that **gasp** "right wingnuts" generally lodge against government programs? You're not becoming a **gasp** right wingnut, are you?
Obammy sez it Isn't that one of the criticisms that **gasp** "right wingnuts" generally lodge against government programs? You're not becoming a **gasp** right wingnut, are you? I was not in favor of the plan that just passed. I was in favor of it being discussed..... something you and the posters you troll with seem to have a problem with.
Obammy sez it
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#2. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#1)
#3. To: Badeye (#2)
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#4. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#3)
#5. To: Badeye (#4)
They are to the five to ten percent that pay attention.
#6. To: dont eat that (#0)
Oh what a DUFFLE-HEAD that Barack Obama is !!! Duffle-Head (As used in a Felix the Cat cartoon) A wicked person of limited intelegence but with pretenses of intelectual grandeur. Their only successful endevors are usually the invention of self punishment machines.
#7. To: Coral Snake (#6)
To Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#8. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#1)
Anyone who doesn't see this as the just the first step to single-payer isn't paying attention.
#9. To: e_type_jag (#5)
#10. To: lucysmom (#8)
Anyone who doesn't see this as the just the first step to single-payer isn't paying attention.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#11. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#10)
#12. To: Badeye (#11)
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#13. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#12)
#14. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#10)
At what point does cradle-to-grave socialism become unsustainable?, and,
#15. To: lucysmom (#14)
At what point does cradle-to-grave socialism become unsustainable?, and what happens then?
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#16. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#15)
If we're going to have this bullshit, let's at least pay for it.
#17. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#15)
The USA's military expenditures are 4.06 percent of its GDP
#18. To: Skip Intro (#16)
That's not the way we do things here. Not for wars and not for social spending.
The day of reckoning may be fast approaching. but it's only recently that the term "socialism" has been applied to it.
Hmmmmmmmm. . . help me out here. There was a program (for retirees, I believe) that was started by FDR back in, oh, about 1936. It started out small, and it was flush with money because way more was paid into it than was taken out of it. But it changed drastically over the decades. Now, way more is taken out of it than is paid into it. And it covers a lot of things that have nothing to do with retirement. Last I checked, it was almost bankrupt. I'm sure once the Republicans are back in power, all this "socialism" talk will just evaporate.
The republicans won't do squat. They never have, and they never will.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#19. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#18)
Hmmmmmmmm. . . help me out here. There was a program (for retirees, I believe) that was started by FDR back in, oh, about 1936. It started out small, and it was flush with money because way more was paid into it than was taken out of it. But it changed drastically over the decades. Now, way more is taken out of it than is paid into it. And it covers a lot of things that have nothing to do with retirement. Last I checked, it was almost bankrupt. What was that program called? The second word was Security. The first began with S. Soc - Social. Yeah, that's it. SOCIAL
#20. To: mininggold (#19)
Uh.... that's before it was used mainly for those with disabilities and evidently for those from other countries who put in a claim.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#21. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#20)
Expanding its scope and growing beyond maintainability?
#22. To: mininggold (#21)
I was not in favor of the plan that just passed.
Why not? But too bad, I suppose. You're going to have to suffer under it just like the rest of us. I was in favor of it being discussed.....
Okay. But it's been "being discussed" for over a year now. What was there about it that you think you needed more discussion on? something you and the posters you troll with seem to have a problem with.
Awwwwwww, there you go again. And we were getting along so well, too.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
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