Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
The problem that you are going to run into with this particular argument that you are going to attempt here is that you are only going to accept things as fact if they agree with you. Otherwise they are just posting propaganda or talking points which also aren't constructive. It's a nice way to insulate yourself from anything that might be vaguely challenging to your opinions. That's why you feel so comfortable dismissing all liberals so casually.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
The availability and price of oil affects everything, and I mean everything. Here is what happened to the price of oil over time -
Now tell me what do you think the price of the worlds most important feedstock increasing five fold would have on an economy? From inflation, to availability of goods, to industrial action by workers?
You will also note the price peaked just before Reagan took over. There is your Reagan miracle in that singe graph. He got lucky and took over just as the price started to fall again. That there is your supposed Reaganomics miracle. Nothing but a fairy tale that never existed which covers up the real truth.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
You don't even know what I think. I just asked you what you think. We will get you through this liberal struggle though! I am committed to helping you!
Personally, I support HSAs, with government contributions to both the investment and policy of those who cannot afford them. There is no bureaucracy, operating in the realm of financial matters, in the history of mankind, that managed anything better than the private sector could have. It simply cannot exist.
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Because when the smart ones come along, who can articulate their ideas, and are willing to discuss and debate with intellectual honestly, it's sooooo rewarding to discuss it with them. This only happens about once a week though, sadly. And to be fair, I slip in to their ways a lot myself, trolling them and the like.
Mmhmm. I'm not sure that your sentiments are as widely shared by the public as you think. That might be what you've been told by your favorite news outlets, but I'm not getting the impression that you have any personal experience with healthcare. And as I said before, this is obviously a very young first step in what needs to ultimately be a vastly different system than the one we previously employed. Again, change is slow and riddled with resistance and obstructionism.
I mean I've read all of those things in other forum posts and talking point websites but in my personal experience as a practicing physician those statements are more akin to exactly that... talking point propaganda. Not that my personal experience is the independent and unbiased metric by which success is judged, but I've got more experience with it than the average person considering I admit and follow 23 average people in the hospital every day, seven days a week, 30 weeks out of the year.
It really boils down to whether or not you think universal healthcare should exist. If you do and you work in the system, it's easy to see what this 'step' in the process is. And it is a step in said process.
The number of uninsured people that I see in the hospital has statistically decreased, and my group admits all unassigned patients. That's a stand-in metric for what the point of the ACA was, and it succeeded in that first step. After the ACA, there are significantly fewer patients who are uninsured. And yes, part of the necessary other side is that for universal healthcare to exist some people end up paying more. That's just reality. Extending social systems to others for free or for low cost increases the cost to the group as a whole.
I'm not sure where you got the statistic that 80% of the people who obtained coverage under the ACA were previously eligible for medicaid, which just as an aside required them to be disabled (dialysis, HIV, genetic disorders, some others), pregnant, or a child, but I would contest that for the obvious reason that it is nonsense.
I pay significantly more for my health insurance after the ACA than before, and I have an HSA with HDHP. Over $300/month. I'm okay with that. Not because I'm super altruistic, but because I think not recognizing that universal healthcare is the morally correct choice is like staking your claim in a slave owning plantation. Or thinking coal mines are going to re-open and we're back in 1965.
If you don't agree that universal healthcare should exist; well, then I suppose you would think the bill is a total failure. I can say that it is more rare that one of my colleagues feels the ACA has been damaging to healthcare rather than good, but it does require you to step back and see the big picture. The big picture is more The Jetsons than Blazing Saddles. But once again, getting there isn't a singular piece of rapid-acting legislation.
The first cut is the deepest.
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There are in fact many instances of the public sector managing things better than the private sector, but the important distinction here is the 'things' in question. Public goods like, say, utilities are inherently monopolistic and better administered (from a consumer standpoint) by the public sector, whereas private goods like consumer products tend to fare better in a more open market.
This also ignores the fact that private and public are not mutually exclusive (dirigism, for instance) and that there is functionally no difference between a bureaucracy and a corporation, save that the latter's concern is profit generation and the former's being the service being provided.
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