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  1. #301
    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    Yes, because that's what people bitched about.

    "I can't afford the bill, make someone else pay for it!" was totally the argument.

    In reality, it was more like "I can't afford the bill, these costs are outrageous. Do something!"

    but Obama care is going to do the opposite it is just going to drive up insurgence cost like how i described in my above post and who are the one who are going to get hit the worse? the average middle class family. the poor will get their insurance for free and the rich the cost wont matter

    from my post above

    paying the penalty (tax) is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper then it will be to buy insurance so a lot will decide to just pay the penalty. then they become ill lets say they get cancer so then they go out and buy insurance to cover the cost of the cancer treatments the insurance companies can not deny them insurance because of it being a preexisting condition. they get the cancer treatment they get cured then they drop the insurance and go back paying the penalty

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    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Which is a whole nother level of bullshit. I can't take a black shirt and call it white and have it magically be white. If a company is non-profit, then it should be non-fucking-profit
    Im going to be as blunt as possible. The legal precedent for turning profit in a non-profit is extra-ordinanry. Once a non-profit has demonstrated a trend of growth, they are no longer non-profit. The point of the matter is growth.

    In other terms, if you were going to compete with me in business as a non-profit, I would not be all that concerned. The profit in non-profit is essentially just a good year. However, its FAR from being capable of expanding. Therefore the goal was not business but the service. I on the other-hand, priced my services to with a 3 year mark for growth. I am clearly in it for the development and not the singleton service.

    Essentially, a non-profit is termed as such for the money variable. As, well, money in a real business is not seen as a green piece of paper that buys stuff. Rather, it is counted as what it actually is. The medium for exchange of services. The more money coming in, the more you can service, the larger you get as an organization. Non-profits do not grow larger. They remain static. There have been many cases of non-profits becoming for profit as their growth started to occur and were forced to make the change (happens in tech and food services often enough).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magpai View Post
    As opposed to one where government effectively confiscates the resources and efforts of private citizens by forcing them into providing a service under the government's terms? Absolutely.
    Magpai, that doesn't exist. Your entire ideological beliefs are predicated on a complete fantasy. There is no free market, in the early 20th century people did die on the streets, infant mortality was skyhigh, and life expectancy was low, hence the reason people voted people in GOVERNMENT to do something about it. You live in a society, you have no absolute freedom.
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    There is a problem, but I know just banning guns will fix the problem.

  4. #304
    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    Civil Rights Act, 1964.
    I said prior to the reverends without churches ;p
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  5. #305
    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Again, there are other confounding factors like lifestyle.

    Moreover, I would like to assert that US consumers carry a majority of the cost of healthcare R&D.

    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Which is a whole nother level of bullshit. I can't take a black shirt and call it white and have it magically be white. If a company is non-profit, then it should be non-fucking-profit
    You realize that there's a difference between your definition and the legal definition of non-profit right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    Democrats were always the working mans party. They used to be full of racists. Then the moderate Democrats and Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act, and Nixon said "hey racists, Republicans are cooler". And off they went.

    It's a lot more complex than that, but history lessons usually bore people.
    Nixon's southern strategy wasn't as effective as people beleive.

  7. #307
    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    The original House version:
    Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
    Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
    Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
    Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)
    The Senate version:
    Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
    Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
    Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
    Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

    It was the non-racists that voted for the Civil Rights Act.
    I recall it was a higher percentage of Republicans that voted for it than democrats. That chart seems to try and hide that or I'm wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    What socialized medicine system? Are you saying there's a clause in the bill that says the government will thusly own all hospitals and doctors will become government employees?

    Cause that's socialized medicine.
    The "affordable" health care act is 2200 pages long or so.

    You go look for that part ;p
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    Quote Originally Posted by yurano View Post
    Again, there are other confounding factors like lifestyle.

    Moreover, I would like to assert that US consumers carry a majority of the cost of healthcare R&D.



    You realize that there's a difference between your definition and the legal definition of non-profit right?
    Why does the US pay more? because companies can charge the US more and they know we'll pay because our system is bullshit

    You asked for by %GDP, you got %GDP. Just because you don't like the data, doesn't make it wrong or irrelevant
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    Theron/Bloodwatcher 2013!

    Quote Originally Posted by Alsompr View Post
    Teasing, misdirection. It's the opposite of a spoiler. People expect one thing? BAM! Another thing happens.

    I'm like M. Night fucking Shamylan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloodninja View Post
    Relative to US past and other parts of the world, our taxes are by no means "high".
    Taxes being lower when compared to past times and a nearly bankrupt Europe justifies raising them to be inconvenient for our population.

    More at 11.

  10. #310
    I current;y pay 130$ per month to my employer for healthcare. Or roughly 1600 bucks a year. Thats cheaper than the fines. I have no dental or vision and everything else about my health insurance is weak, but my employer sucks. So the law for me is a good thing ill be getting more value for my money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Why does the US pay more? because companies can charge the US more and they know we'll pay because our system is bullshit
    I think our medical workers just make more too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fadinglight View Post
    You do know that until Clinton the democrats were hard pressed on oppressing african americans right? It wasn't until Clinton that they realized they'd need the african american vote to have any power and that's when they promoted black rights. Republicans weren't the people behind slavery, it was the opposite during that time. It has nothing to do with being a white nation.
    Try LBJ/Kennedy.

  13. #313
    Dont blame Obamacare for the failures of for profit GREED medicine system a la USA. True public healthcare and you pay like 30 dollars co pay for a hospital stay that would cost you 5000 dollars in the USA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosse88 View Post
    Im going to be as blunt as possible. The legal precedent for turning profit in a non-profit is extra-ordinanry. Once a non-profit has demonstrated a trend of growth, they are no longer non-profit. The point of the matter is growth.

    In other terms, if you were going to compete with me in business as a non-profit, I would not be all that concerned. The profit in non-profit is essentially just a good year. However, its FAR from being capable of expanding. Therefore the goal was not business but the service. I on the other-hand, priced my services to with a 3 year mark for growth. I am clearly in it for the development and not the singleton service.

    Essentially, a non-profit is termed as such for the money variable. As, well, money in a real business is not seen as a green piece of paper that buys stuff. Rather, it is counted as what it actually is. The medium for exchange of services. The more money coming in, the more you can service, the larger you get as an organization. Non-profits do not grow larger. They remain static. There have been many cases of non-profits becoming for profit as their growth started to occur and were forced to make the change (happens in tech and food services often enough).
    then the poster using a non-profit insurance company as proof that insurance companies don't make big profits is being intellectually dishonest since the biggest companies (i believe) are the for profit ones
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alsompr View Post
    Teasing, misdirection. It's the opposite of a spoiler. People expect one thing? BAM! Another thing happens.

    I'm like M. Night fucking Shamylan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigzoman20 View Post
    Try LBJ/Kennedy.
    Maybe you should go ahead and read the southern strategy again.
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  16. #316
    Quote Originally Posted by oblivionx View Post
    I think our medical workers just make more too.
    That's true, but at the current rate our medical system will end up like sweden's, Garbagemen will be making 70% of what doctors make give or take a few percent. We're on that socialist path right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magpai View Post
    As opposed to one where government effectively confiscates the resources and efforts of private citizens by forcing them into providing a service under the government's terms? Absolutely.
    Guess that's why our left turned around the whole public healthcare system, so it is actually a public healthcare system, but doesn't look like it. Stupid people think it is a private healthcare system, and the right got punched so hard in the face when it was introduced and they didn't even realized it. So smart. We should teach the US sometimes how to properly troll conservative people on public healthcare.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fadinglight View Post
    That's true, but at the current rate our medical system will end up like sweden's, Garbagemen will be making 70% of what doctors make give or take a few percent. We're on that socialist path right now.
    What's so problematic about that? Garbagemen have a heavy influence on public health, ask Italy! (I don't understand that focus on doctors, they are not the only part of healthcare, atleast here they soak up too much money while other parts of the system don't get enough. Yes I'm underpaid imho *rant*)
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  18. #318
    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Why does the US pay more? because companies can charge the US more and they know we'll pay because our system is bullshit
    US NIH is the leader in NIH grants for health research. NIH grants are for US organizations. When researchers come off of NIH grants, they're going to start their company in the US, go figure.

    On top of that, the FDA is very strict. Pushing a drug through FDA approval takes some 10 to 15 years and costs a billion dollars (roughly). The majority of these costs are paid by US consumers.

    Being a bioengineer, I've learned about how FDA approval is a pain in the ass. Instead of going for FDA approval first using a bunch of research subjects (read: human lab rats), companies are releasing their drugs in the more 'lax' EU, letting EU consumers 'beta test' the drug (akin to what Blizzard does with their games).

    You can argue how the system is stupid all you want, but it there are cases where the FDA's strict nature have been beneficial. Couple that with the fact that US citizens flip a shit whenever something bad manages to pass through the FDA, you can see why FDA administrators (read: elected or appointed by elected officials) make FDA's policies so stringent.

    Quote Originally Posted by yurano View Post
    Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Emelie is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living.

    Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in 2009.

    ...

    In total, the GSK shot was given to more than 30 million people in 47 countries during the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Because it contains an adjuvant, or booster, it was not used in the United States because drug regulators there are wary of adjuvanted vaccines.

    ...
    The FDA is frequently criticized for being too strict but it seems like American kids dodged a bullet this time.
    Last edited by yurano; 2013-02-01 at 07:18 AM.

  19. #319
    Regarding the black vote in America thing.

    http://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/bla...ocratic-party/

    So it was during FDR-Truman.

    I'd love to see a longer timeline but anything I search is obama spammed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chonogo View Post
    No thanks, because I'd bet $20 it isn't in there. It's tin-foil hat material.
    So if there is a provision for socializing medicine in some way you're wearing the tinfoil hat?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    That you apparently rate the continued accumulation of luxuries as a "right" that would surpass giving aid to someone in need is what I find disgusting about your argument.
    If you have accumulated any luxuries at all (and sitting on your ass browsing a forum is a luxury), then you are no less disgusting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by araine View Post
    Dont blame Obamacare for the failures of for profit GREED medicine system a la USA. True public healthcare and you pay like 30 dollars co pay for a hospital stay that would cost you 5000 dollars in the USA
    And someone else picks up the difference. A combination of other taxpayers and the lesser paid healthcare workers.

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