That's quite simple: only employees of the company would get the expensive surgeries.
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Why can't they do a simple bill, with some main points everyone can agree on...in about 10 pages of simple language everyone can understand and agree on? Start from there and build on it?
We already have it; unfortunately it hasn't gotten much attention. H.R. 676 would provide single-payer health care to every American resident, and includes information on how it would be funded, in 26 pages.
This information is marked SECRET and NOFORN (i.e. not for export or foreign eyes); simply accessing it without a security clearance may be committing a crime against national security.
Whether or not the US government will end up with a log of IP addresses that have downloaded it is a judgment for the reader.
So you think that this information should be freely available?
As the information is only for use in a court case, it seems perfectly sensible to require a court order to access it.
In that the information should only be stored and accessible when the airbags deploy, yes.
What privacy are you worried about protecting when you're in a crash, anyway, that the EDR would infringe? I'm one of the biggest supporters of the right to privacy, but these EDRs only record 10 to 15 seconds of data and it only becomes available when the airbags deploy, as I understand it.
The fungus immediately bloomed into advertisements, and funeral organizers had difficulty pruning quickly enough to keep up with what they are now calling "deadware".
Toyota sees only loss potentials in making an open access EDR, since more data provided in crashes means more potential liability. Therefore, they encrypt it and make it only available by court order.
Pure business (you know, excluding the human factor as usual).
I was just about to post this. Can we please, please stop with the needless scandalization of otherwise mundane news? This is a change in access policy, nothing more.
You state that a broken arm should cost around $2500, and you think that's reasonable? For a treatment that has been around for decades, possibly centuries?
Most states run programs whereby people who cannot afford housing can get them free or much more cheaply. They also run things called "soup kitchens" (as do various charities) that provide free food to those that need it.
I guess they must operate off the idea that human beings are inherently good and should thus be helped when needed. I believe in that principle, perhaps you do not.
We had a deal that if she got her dream job (which she was in the process of applying for) that I'd move down, and otherwise she would move up. She got the job, I upheld my end of the deal.
It's not too bad, but I am a little scared of getting sick as I'm legally obligated by USCIS not to work (on a K-1 fiance visa), so I'm currently uninsured.
We may move back up later on when and if our situation changes (especially, as I've mentioned, if we have kids). All we knew was that we wanted to be together, and if you've ever been in a long distance relationship separated by a national border, you'll understand.:^)
McCain was a maverick, always was a maverick, and never hesitated to go against the GOP when he thought it was the right thing to do.
I disagree. McCain did a huge turnaround about a year and a half before the election to it the Republican party line, since he knew that otherwise he would not be the candidate of choice. I could quote many policy 180s he's made to be their candidate.
Why don't people have a right to health care? Nobody's sufficiently answered that question to my satisfaction. Clearly we have the technologies today to give healthcare to everyone when they need it, so it's not a problem of scarcity or anything. Is your only argument that you don't want your money to help anyone but yourself?
And I also note the way you stated that, that someone "who works" shouldn't have to pay for other peoples' healthcare. Are you so naive that you believe only the unemployed are uninsured, or that conversely, everyone who works has access to immediate, affordable healthcare that won't drop them upon an expensive illness?
I know the office of the President is most of a bully pulpit than anything with real power (though the presidential veto is pretty powerful), but that's why I said that I would move to implement these policies.
And that can be blamed on the Democratic and Republican parties in concert. Another one of the things that I strongly believe in is that anyone who wants to run for an office, has the commitment to follow through, and has a legitimate platform should be allowed to do so, regardless of their party affiliation (or lack thereof).
Did you know that the presidential debates are currently run by both political parties and that in all of the previous elections since the eighties, third parties have attempted to have their candidate present and were stopped (sometimes forcefully) by those running the debate?
No, I wouldn't allow tourists to use the public program for free. I would likely extend the protection to de facto immigrant visas (like the K class; full disclosure, I'm on a K-1 visa) and allow tourists to buy into the system decently cheaply while they're here (though I'd likely implement restrictions to dissuade coming here strictly for cheap / free care).
Tourists can prove that they're here legally by providing a copy of their I-94 Arrival / Departure record (ideally this would all be online and they could use the serial number). I'd probably only allow it for people who went through ESTA to get their visitor / work visa ahead of time; that way only people who have been pre-cleared by USCBP would be allowed in the program. There would have to be some way for Canadians to get into the program and we'd work on that (since Canadians aren't usually issued I-94s).
Physicians and hospitals would of course be legally bound to help people requiring emergency assistance regardless of insurance, as it is (or should be) now. The insurance question would be settled once they were in good health and there was no longer an emergency.
Personally, I'd like to think that I wouldn't be corrupted by high office (and this is purely speculation anyway; I'm not a native-born US Citizen). Who knows though?
I'm sorry, who has to work 15 extra hours in a single-payer system again? I certainly don't remember working extra hours strictly for John Everyman's benefit. I remember being taxed, but I'm pretty sure you do too, and I certainly didn't mind my taxes going to the general welfare of the people of my country. (I'm Canadian, if that isn't already clear.)
Unfortunately you have a point. Were I president, I would move to solve that problem with ethics rules (enforced ones, not that ones that Obama put forward and then didn't follow) that prevented anyone from getting a bigger share of the government's ear than the common man. At the same time, I would move to implement single-payer health care by means of a slightly changed H.R. 676 (mostly making it more clear that it applies only to citizens, lawful permanent residents, and refugees / asylees).
I'm Canadian and very biased, so I'll just say that up front.
Move to Canada.
Canada is capitalist. Canada has universal health care. Canada's not going to take too much out of you through taxes; if they did, we wouldn't have the economy we do. Canada's tax code is fairly similar to the US, and probably fairly less complicated (and there are many, many deductions available to businesses). And you know that Canada has a stable government and isn't going to be embroiled in conflict any time soon.
Of course, you'll have to go through the immigration process to do so, though if you're running a fairly successful business you should have no trouble (I believe there's a business owner class for immigration).
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Yeah, I really didn't know where to go with that one.
That's quite simple: only employees of the company would get the expensive surgeries.
Why can't they do a simple bill, with some main points everyone can agree on...in about 10 pages of simple language everyone can understand and agree on? Start from there and build on it?
We already have it; unfortunately it hasn't gotten much attention. H.R. 676 would provide single-payer health care to every American resident, and includes information on how it would be funded, in 26 pages.
Granted, it's not 10, but it's much closer.
This information is marked SECRET and NOFORN (i.e. not for export or foreign eyes); simply accessing it without a security clearance may be committing a crime against national security.
Whether or not the US government will end up with a log of IP addresses that have downloaded it is a judgment for the reader.
So you think that this information should be freely available?
As the information is only for use in a court case, it seems perfectly sensible to require a court order to access it.
In that the information should only be stored and accessible when the airbags deploy, yes.
What privacy are you worried about protecting when you're in a crash, anyway, that the EDR would infringe? I'm one of the biggest supporters of the right to privacy, but these EDRs only record 10 to 15 seconds of data and it only becomes available when the airbags deploy, as I understand it.
The fungus immediately bloomed into advertisements, and funeral organizers had difficulty pruning quickly enough to keep up with what they are now calling "deadware".
Toyota sees only loss potentials in making an open access EDR, since more data provided in crashes means more potential liability. Therefore, they encrypt it and make it only available by court order.
Pure business (you know, excluding the human factor as usual).
I was just about to post this. Can we please, please stop with the needless scandalization of otherwise mundane news? This is a change in access policy, nothing more.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait.
You state that a broken arm should cost around $2500, and you think that's reasonable? For a treatment that has been around for decades, possibly centuries?
What the hell are you smoking?
Politicians hear the words "for the good of the children" and their brains turn off.
Most states run programs whereby people who cannot afford housing can get them free or much more cheaply. They also run things called "soup kitchens" (as do various charities) that provide free food to those that need it.
I guess they must operate off the idea that human beings are inherently good and should thus be helped when needed. I believe in that principle, perhaps you do not.
We had a deal that if she got her dream job (which she was in the process of applying for) that I'd move down, and otherwise she would move up. She got the job, I upheld my end of the deal.
It's not too bad, but I am a little scared of getting sick as I'm legally obligated by USCIS not to work (on a K-1 fiance visa), so I'm currently uninsured.
We may move back up later on when and if our situation changes (especially, as I've mentioned, if we have kids). All we knew was that we wanted to be together, and if you've ever been in a long distance relationship separated by a national border, you'll understand. :^)
McCain was a maverick, always was a maverick, and never hesitated to go against the GOP when he thought it was the right thing to do.
I disagree. McCain did a huge turnaround about a year and a half before the election to it the Republican party line, since he knew that otherwise he would not be the candidate of choice. I could quote many policy 180s he's made to be their candidate.
To be fair, I never made such an argument. Do you have a response for my post?
We call the concept Liberty [wikipedia.org], the freedom of the individual from outside compulsion or coercion.
Ah. So you're one of those people who believes you should never have to pay taxes at all, right? Since otherwise you're a hypocrite and all...
Why don't people have a right to health care? Nobody's sufficiently answered that question to my satisfaction. Clearly we have the technologies today to give healthcare to everyone when they need it, so it's not a problem of scarcity or anything. Is your only argument that you don't want your money to help anyone but yourself?
And I also note the way you stated that, that someone "who works" shouldn't have to pay for other peoples' healthcare. Are you so naive that you believe only the unemployed are uninsured, or that conversely, everyone who works has access to immediate, affordable healthcare that won't drop them upon an expensive illness?
I know the office of the President is most of a bully pulpit than anything with real power (though the presidential veto is pretty powerful), but that's why I said that I would move to implement these policies.
The reason for all of this can be summarized as "so it's easier to deny your claim."
And that can be blamed on the Democratic and Republican parties in concert. Another one of the things that I strongly believe in is that anyone who wants to run for an office, has the commitment to follow through, and has a legitimate platform should be allowed to do so, regardless of their party affiliation (or lack thereof).
Did you know that the presidential debates are currently run by both political parties and that in all of the previous elections since the eighties, third parties have attempted to have their candidate present and were stopped (sometimes forcefully) by those running the debate?
Love.
No, I wouldn't allow tourists to use the public program for free. I would likely extend the protection to de facto immigrant visas (like the K class; full disclosure, I'm on a K-1 visa) and allow tourists to buy into the system decently cheaply while they're here (though I'd likely implement restrictions to dissuade coming here strictly for cheap / free care).
Tourists can prove that they're here legally by providing a copy of their I-94 Arrival / Departure record (ideally this would all be online and they could use the serial number). I'd probably only allow it for people who went through ESTA to get their visitor / work visa ahead of time; that way only people who have been pre-cleared by USCBP would be allowed in the program. There would have to be some way for Canadians to get into the program and we'd work on that (since Canadians aren't usually issued I-94s).
Physicians and hospitals would of course be legally bound to help people requiring emergency assistance regardless of insurance, as it is (or should be) now. The insurance question would be settled once they were in good health and there was no longer an emergency.
Personally, I'd like to think that I wouldn't be corrupted by high office (and this is purely speculation anyway; I'm not a native-born US Citizen). Who knows though?
I'm sorry, who has to work 15 extra hours in a single-payer system again? I certainly don't remember working extra hours strictly for John Everyman's benefit. I remember being taxed, but I'm pretty sure you do too, and I certainly didn't mind my taxes going to the general welfare of the people of my country. (I'm Canadian, if that isn't already clear.)
Unfortunately you have a point. Were I president, I would move to solve that problem with ethics rules (enforced ones, not that ones that Obama put forward and then didn't follow) that prevented anyone from getting a bigger share of the government's ear than the common man. At the same time, I would move to implement single-payer health care by means of a slightly changed H.R. 676 (mostly making it more clear that it applies only to citizens, lawful permanent residents, and refugees / asylees).
But maybe I'm just too idealistic.
I'm Canadian and very biased, so I'll just say that up front.
Move to Canada.
Canada is capitalist. Canada has universal health care. Canada's not going to take too much out of you through taxes; if they did, we wouldn't have the economy we do. Canada's tax code is fairly similar to the US, and probably fairly less complicated (and there are many, many deductions available to businesses). And you know that Canada has a stable government and isn't going to be embroiled in conflict any time soon.
Of course, you'll have to go through the immigration process to do so, though if you're running a fairly successful business you should have no trouble (I believe there's a business owner class for immigration).