Off topic but related to bold: When I did hospice home health care, a patient, his wife and I were talking, the wife said "Does a bear shit in the woods?", I asked "Is the pope catholic?" the patient, who had taken medications recently that kinda messed with his thinking "Does the pope shit on catholics?"
*there was a pause*
*the pause lengthens*
Me "Yes. Yes he does."
My sense is that Senate Republicans would really like for this whole thing to go away. They are at an impasse and there are no good options. The best option is to see whether or not they can do a deal with Democrats but that's not really good for them either. Their choices range all the way from primary opponents to tough elections next year if they can get through the primaries.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
And if anyone wants proof, the WaPo put up a list of 54 times they voted to repeal or amend Obamacare when they knew Obama would shoot it down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.6610d23d9294
Kek to the max.
What part was it good? 'Keeping pre-existing condition is pointless if you undermine the entire god dam thing
Cross state insurance? ACA has it already but insurance companies don't bother with it because to much effort
Keeping you're doctor? Well millions of people would disagree since they will get kicked off
If you're argument is that it wasn't garbage please provide the part that was good because the CBO score speaks for itself, the fact that they couldn't pass their own bill in a proper fashion (both house and senate) speaks for itself.
Moron Trump again exposes himself as been totally clueless on healthcare.
In an interview to the NYT, his discussion of healthcare was completely unintelligible and bonkers. He just idiotically make shit up.
WTF is he trying to say?!Trump doesn’t seem to know what health insurance is
Health care policy is very complicated, but most Americans have at least some passing familiarity with how health insurance works because most of us have health insurance.
Trump himself, meanwhile, has spent years as a top executive at a business that provides health insurance to its employees. So you would think that even if he were completely ignorant of every single topic of public policy, he would at least be aware that to provide a person with health insurance is expensive. It is, after all, an expense that his businesses incur:
BAKER: He [Obama] lost that election [the 2010 midterms].
TRUMP: Nothing changes. Nothing changes. Once you get something for pre-existing conditions, etc., etc. Once you get something, it’s awfully tough to take it away.
HABERMAN: That’s been the thing for four years. When you win an entitlement, you can’t take it back.
TRUMP: But what it does, Maggie, it means it gets tougher and tougher. As they get something, it gets tougher. Because politically, you can’t give it away. So pre-existing conditions are a tough deal. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan. Here’s something where you walk up and say, “I want my insurance.” It’s a very tough deal, but it is something that we’re doing a good job of.
As Sarah Kliff notes, the idea that health insurance costs $12 a year is laughable.
For a sanity check, consider that if health insurance cost $12 a year, then for the government to provide insurance to all 330 million Americans would cost about $4 billion a year, or 0.22 percent of GDP. There would be nothing to argue about.
But even more remarkably, Trump doesn’t even seem to know what health insurance is. The idea of paying a small annual premium up until a given age, at which point you have the insurance policy free and clear, roughly corresponds to how a limited payment life insurance plan works. These plans are useful tax avoidance devices for extremely wealthy individuals, which is perhaps why Trump has them at top of mind, but it has nothing to do with health insurance.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2017/7/20/160032...view-ignorance
Last edited by paralleluniverse; 2017-07-20 at 05:01 PM.
He doesn't know what health insurance is. It's more proof that trump is a liar and charlatan that got elected because people are gullible idiots.
Being wealthy and employed by daddy and then having his own team of accountants means he has never even had to consider what insurance actually is, and how one pays for it.
In short, trump, yet again, has no idea what he's talking about, and his supporters just gobble it up.