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   big G 3469 said, 2 months ago

   Good one!

   A trash truck to dispose of the “DingDong WingNUT Trash”!!

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   farren said, 2 months ago

   Yes, good one, Derf. The best possible answer to my question of whether or not you’re okay.

   To MigNOLA, to finish off the comments from yesterday: yes, that comic does say “right wing blogosphere”, and all of the panels have to do with the right wing. It says nothing at all to indicate that the left wing doesn’t do this sort of stuff. In fact, it says nothing about the left wing at all. You can’t morph “doesn’t talk about the left wing” into “the left wing is good, the right wing is bad” no matter how hard you’d like to.

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   pschearer said, 2 months ago

   The notion that the current free-market healthcare system is in crisis is a bald-faced lie on two big counts.

   First, the system has not been free-market at least since Medicare and Medicaid came crashing down and warped the entire market. (My favorite example: the virtual disappearance of open hospital wards after Medicare announced it would only pay for semi-private rooms.) And this doesn’t even include the pervasive influences of the FDA, insurance regulation, and tax policy on healthcare.

   Second, to the extent that there still is freedom in healthcare, that is the source of all the progress in the field. It’s the same pattern as all the socialist countries that allowed private enterprise to develop their industries and resources just so the government could eventually take them over. That has been the Left’s dream for healthcare for generations now.

   Try this little test: When someone says healthcare is a right and they think that means someone else should pay for theirs, just translate that in your mind to “food is a right” and see if it still makes sense to you. If you think it does, then you are a true Leftist; if not, then you probably still retain some belief in freedom.

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   Lewreader said, 2 months ago

   I guess I don’t have to work any more. I got my rights!

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   ENG8INE said, 2 months ago

   And yet free universal education supported by taxpayers even those with no kids and those who opt for private schools is not seen as socialism. Why is that?

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   Chikuku said, 2 months ago

   Libraries, schools, highways, fire departments, and all those tax-supported services are SOCIALISM! Medicare is socialism!

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   PossumPete said, 2 months ago

   Test Results:

   So, if healthcare is not a right then it must be a privilege. If you think healthcare is a privilege then you probably can afford it.

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   Khard12 said, 2 months ago

   Bring out your dead!

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   harleyquinn said, 2 months ago

   80% of American I am not dead yet. A whole 11 million. Yes you are and we need it from you! Can’t do it our self so you are going to do it and the government is going to make you.
   Chikuke there is a big difference with schools and libraries and the like. They are local and state run! Not the federal Government. They run on the capacity that will the local will allow and can maintain. You are trying to compare that to a over blow lefty wish list of pay off and power grabs is just plain stupid.

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    itisme said, 2 months ago

    Let’s do true health care reform and cap what doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies can charge.
    When some one (the health care industry) tells you you’re going to pay what they want you to pay or you will die, that’s not free-marker capitalism, that’s extortion!

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    NebulousRikulau said, 2 months ago

    Hear, hear! Well spoken itisme!!

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    Ron said, 2 months ago

    This is a perfect description of the proposed government system of health care!

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    MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

    Farren, the inference is there whether you choose to see it or not.

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    MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

    Itisme, sort of like the government saying “you can’t charge what your services are worth, you have to take what we’ll pay you or get nothing” a la medicare/medicaid?

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    Khard12 said, 2 months ago

    MisngNOLA said,
    Itisme, sort of like the government saying “you can’t charge what your services are worth, you have to take what we’ll pay you or get nothing” a la medicare/medicaid?

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    Resulting in healthcare providers charging more for their services to non-medicare/aid patients to make up the difference.

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    donaldo said, 2 months ago

    The American health care system is just plain stupid. It’s inhuman as well as being the most expensive in the world while boasting being ‘free’ . If your idea of freedom is multinational pharmaceutical companies profiting on your need for medicine, because they can afford better lobbyists than you can, then by all means continue the nasty McCarthy-fear-of-communists-like smear campaign of the only decent US president for decades. If they can do it all over Europe why is it so hard for Americans? Answer: primitive fear-based right wing propaganda and lack of real information.

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    rricchhterr said, 2 months ago

    @pschearer,

    depends, on the food… are we talking NY strip,
    or pasta?

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    MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

    Ok. here’s a question. What are Medicare and Medicaid for? And for what reason is there talk about keeping both of them under the proposed healthcare bill? How will cost reduction be achieved if a new bureaucracy is to be built in addition to the one already in place that supposedly provides health care for poor, indigent, and senior citizens? No “right wing propaganda”, just real questions about a plan which so far has a “lack of real information.”

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    LLeRay said, 2 months ago

    Bring out yer dead!

    Thump!

    Bring out yer dead!

    Thump!

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    Daviddeer said, 2 months ago

    Kill grandma and grandpa!! They’re old! How much longer will they live anyway?!