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White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report
bonch writes "The Interior Department inspector general has released a report stating that the White House edited a drilling safety report by reordering paragraphs to make it appear as though a seven-member panel of independent experts supported the six-month ban on offshore drilling. The IG report states, 'The White House edit of the original DOI draft executive summary led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by the experts,' but the panel had only reviewed a draft of safety recommendations and not a drilling ban. The White House has issued a statement saying that there was 'no intentional misrepresentation of their views.' This follows complaints from scientists and environmentalists that the administration has not been holding to its promise of policy guided by science and not ideology."
If we had a fiscally conservative, socially liberal third party to turn to, I'd turn to it, but if you're offering up the Tea Party ("more or less") as your alternative to the two parties we have, no thanks. Godwin's law beckons.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
That's why individuals can buy insurance. :)
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Oh, look, someone has time-travelled in from the early 90s and is proud about this newfangled thing he calls "morphing". What a really new and creative idea.
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Just as you claim their example is a strawman so is yours. I am of the opinion that if you can have car payments on a recent model car, a cell phone bill beyond the simple pay as you go, cable, or high speed internet, then you should have paid for health care insurance first or contributed like.
I am all for catastrophic health insurance. Even as a libertarian I can see the benefit. However I see no justice is taking the work of others and giving it to those who selfishly refuse to help themselves. Sorry, but if your shiny new car, smart phone, or 100 channels of televised shit, are more important to you than contributing to your health care insurance then your not important enough to society.
Preference, a yearly expense cap based on your income. As in, if your below the poverty line you pick up the first $250 or $500 (we can figure out what can be fair, but its amazing the number of people below the poverty line you will find with cell phones). Then we work from there and go up. This does not cover any optional (read : luxury health care items) stuff.
What pisses me off most about all this selfish behavior is that the DNC has made it out to be a rich versus poor thing. Well guess who got whacked already by the changes, doctors. My own doctor sold his practice because he cannot afford to go it alone. That meant three independent doctors and five nurses now are part of a conglomerate. From his stories its pretty much happening all over .
Worse, the government is leaning towards reducing what they will pay to serve all these new free loaders. Don't go off on me of that term, the common thread among many of his new patients are attempts to get free meds (amazingly the patients know exactly which ones they need to fix them - as in narcotics) or those looking for comp. Instead of being able to spend the time he used to spend with each patient he is now an assembly line. If the pay from the government gets lower he will probably just leave the trade. See, the dirty little secret is that they are reducing payments for the services on our behalf but not reducing the costs of delivering the services.
Your free health care is going to come on the backs of those delivering it. I don't seem to recall in the Constitution the right to the labor of another. If we continue down this path we won't have good health care at all. That or we will end up with two tiers, till the government regulates it out, where premium care is available to those who pay in cash and the government paid go to wards (say hello to UK style - private insurance gets better service)
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Do you realise that if there was no government regulation then the USA would be in the same situation as China?
So, doing very well economically, shame about the conditions of the serfs? I think they know and think it sounds great. Just sucks if you don't happen to be one of the ruling elite.
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Once you see the power that incentives have on our behavior, you'll understand why "it sucks to be poor" creates efficient societies.
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