It's the anti-tax voters who are telling people to curl up and die.
The problem is that Medicare and Social Security are billed as "insurance" plans when the reality is that they are Ponzi schemes.
The first people into the system were paid with the next generations moneys without having paid in themselves. Private insurance is for (a) people currently paying into the system, and (b) the funds have to be invested by the insuring company to cover outlays.
The money that the government was supposed to be holding for my generation was spent on my parents generation. Any private "insurance company" that tried that would have found their corporate officers on trial for fraud.
My point is that it is easy to lie with statistics -- or to misapply them.
In Las Vegas during the 80's, Sunrise Hospital had the highest mortality rate for heart patients -- and if you had heart problems, you wanted to go to Sunrise. They took the difficult cases that others knew they couldn't handle.
Our obstetrician showed us the C-section rate for the doctors with privileges at the local hospital. One doctor had a whopping 95% C-section rate -- and if you did not want a C-section, you went to him. Most of his patients were home births, but if there was a doubt, he went with mom to the hospital (and his *hospital* C-section rate was through the roof as a result).
So, are Americans engaged in higher risk behavior (fertility drugs)? What about illegal aliens skewing the results? No, I don't have time nor inclination to look up your websites, but I'm willing to bet you can skew the numbers however you want.
Medicare is 'rationed' but is also more popular than any other private insurance program in the US and is one of the most popular government programs.
McDonald's is the most popular restaurant too, so what's your point?
What is the cost to the end-user for Medicare? Do they have a choice? If they do, can I get them to stop taxing me now for it? Please don't say something stupid like "all taxes are voluntary, just stop working."
I find it interesting that people who oppose Microsoft's monopoly (which they can avoid) are proponents of a government monopoly that they cannot avoid.
By the way, I'm pretty sure even the NHS allows patients to go elsewhere for a second opinion.
Luckily it was stillborn, but one of the features of Hilliarycare was that doctors receiving federal funds would be prevented from receiving either private insurance or people paying out of pocket. The doctor was either 100% working for the feds or 100% not working for the feds.
And what's the abortion rate in other countries -- not just partial birth, but all abortions (especially if medically motivated)?
If you break the stats out for other factors, how do they measure up? How many 40 year olds on fertility drugs who give birth to premies that otherwise would [should] have been aborted? How many multiple births were abortion selection could [should] have been performed end in more premies? What's the immigrant premie rate? Drug user?...
Looking just as premie stats by themselves doesn't tell you anything useful.
If you have large numbers of premature infants, then there's something wrong with the health care system.
Yes. Because it is financially better to perform a partial birth abortion. This lowers the costly treatment associated with premies and has the added benefit of lowering your infant mortality rate.
At one point, Sunrise hospital in Las Vegas has a vastly higher mortality rate for heart patients than any other hospital in the area -- and it's where you want to go with heart problems. They specialized in treating heart conditions that others wouldn't touch.
Our obstetrician showed us the hospital C-section rate for every doctor that had privileges at the hospital. One doctor had a whopping 95% C-section rate -- and if you didn't want a C-section, he was the one to go to. He mainly did home births, but if there was a chance a C-section was needed, he went with mom to the hospital.
So there's a possibility that she was sent home because there was nothing they could do but prolong the agony.
In this case, no. It was some form of simple bypass surgery.
I find it interesting in the states that there was an outcry when private insurance was denying treatment. The same people are now defending denial of treatment by government run healthcare.
A co-worker who is a British expat was royally pissed off when his ageing mother was told to go home and die when she had heart ailments in England when she was nearing 70.
But don't despair, we're going to fix that in the U.S. We're going to tell our seniors to curl up and die as well.
I'm just saying that it seems rather narrow-minded to assume that the only emotion anyone anywhere will ever feel is greed.
Nice false strawman -- you should patent that. I don't believe anyone said "the only emotion anyone anywhere." Unless of course you have a separate account and post it (akin to your voting for Palin in the primary).
Nearly everyone does things that they would rather not do out of a sense of "greed." Getting up, getting dressed, and heading to work Monday morning tops my list. If they stop paying me, I'll stop showing up at 8:00am.
I work day-in and day-out with government workers. They really do fall into three distinct categories: the zealots with an agenda to push (power), the incompetent who would be fired in private practice, and the ordinary who just want a paycheck.
The decisions makers, the ones that make it to the top, tend to be the zealots -- they're more motivated. I don't want them in control of content.
The 6 year old -- who probably has no assets beyond the two+ year old tricycle -- should hope for a speedy trial, multi-million dollar judgement, and then immediately file for bankruptcy.
In 7 years (age 13 or 14), the bankruptcy will be off her record and she can go on with her life.
However since there are more letters in 'office' than 'libre' they may still fall foul of the Quebec language police for being more english than french
That's easy to take care of, spell it LibreOfice.
Personally, I'm waiting for the LibreOfice Language packages: LOL English, LOL French, LOL...
Ooohh Share Cropping. That's what I want my kids to do. Are you F'ing nuts?!?
By your own admission the company that set up the plant is the best choice the people have and you want to knock the company for that? WTF!
You sound like my idiot brother who was whining that my dad was trying to "bribe" him to take out the trash. That's the type of attitude that should be unemployed.
So CNN being wrong is just journalistic sensationalism (everybody does it), but Foxnews being wrong is because they are Foxnews?
My point was just the bias of claiming sloppy reporting on Foxnews (perceived as conservative) when CNN (perceived as progressive) does the same thing.
Yeh and Lee are far from the first people, or even the first students, to send balloons into near-space to take pictures.
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When the balloon had traveled about 17 miles up, air pressure would cause it to pop, and a parachute dangling from the side of the cooler would lower the contraption back to Earth.
So it would seem that with CNN "Scientific accuracy is not their priority" either.
How does someone buying a joint and smoking it in their house hurt you?
Not at all -- but we need to make all smoking in any public place illegal. Just because you want to smoke a joint doesn't mean that I want to.
I'm getting really tired of having to leave the park (or other outdoor activities) becomes some shit-for-brains wants to light up next to me or the kids.
Yeah, and he thinks that losing "only" 36,000 jobs in one day is good
I don't see how his outlook on that would have changed anything.
No. It says that he is hideously insensitive to those out of work: "Life is good. Everyone else lost their job, but I kept mine."
Nevada used to have a "none of the above" option -- if it got the plurality of the votes, the position went unfilled until the next election. I used that option often.
Both major parties want to invade your personal life:
Democrats want you to smoke weed, but not tobacco (flip for Republicans)
Democrats want to censure you from saying "hurtful" words, but want flag burning (flip for Repubs)
Democrats want to control what you eat, no more fast food for you (I'm sure Repubs don't want you to eat something)
Democrats don't want you to drink soda, but alcohol is a-okay (flip for Repubs).
Democrats want you to speak out against the government [unless they're in power] (same for the Repubs)
The list can go on. Thinking that the Democrats are for personal freedom is outdated thinking. Both major parties are led by totalitarian control freaks.
Thanks for the suggestions -- over the last couple of months I have taken to leaving the door open and it seems to help a little. Unfortunately there's a trick to leaving the door open and opening/closing the laundry room door (they both want to occupy the same space).
Training the other people in the house seems to be a challenge.
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The problem is that Medicare and Social Security are billed as "insurance" plans when the reality is that they are Ponzi schemes.
The first people into the system were paid with the next generations moneys without having paid in themselves. Private insurance is for (a) people currently paying into the system, and (b) the funds have to be invested by the insuring company to cover outlays.
The money that the government was supposed to be holding for my generation was spent on my parents generation. Any private "insurance company" that tried that would have found their corporate officers on trial for fraud.
My point is that it is easy to lie with statistics -- or to misapply them.
In Las Vegas during the 80's, Sunrise Hospital had the highest mortality rate for heart patients -- and if you had heart problems, you wanted to go to Sunrise. They took the difficult cases that others knew they couldn't handle.
Our obstetrician showed us the C-section rate for the doctors with privileges at the local hospital. One doctor had a whopping 95% C-section rate -- and if you did not want a C-section, you went to him. Most of his patients were home births, but if there was a doubt, he went with mom to the hospital (and his *hospital* C-section rate was through the roof as a result).
So, are Americans engaged in higher risk behavior (fertility drugs)? What about illegal aliens skewing the results? No, I don't have time nor inclination to look up your websites, but I'm willing to bet you can skew the numbers however you want.
McDonald's is the most popular restaurant too, so what's your point?
What is the cost to the end-user for Medicare? Do they have a choice? If they do, can I get them to stop taxing me now for it? Please don't say something stupid like "all taxes are voluntary, just stop working."
I find it interesting that people who oppose Microsoft's monopoly (which they can avoid) are proponents of a government monopoly that they cannot avoid.
Luckily it was stillborn, but one of the features of Hilliarycare was that doctors receiving federal funds would be prevented from receiving either private insurance or people paying out of pocket. The doctor was either 100% working for the feds or 100% not working for the feds.
Who knows what's in Obamacare.
And what's the abortion rate in other countries -- not just partial birth, but all abortions (especially if medically motivated)?
If you break the stats out for other factors, how do they measure up? How many 40 year olds on fertility drugs who give birth to premies that otherwise would [should] have been aborted? How many multiple births were abortion selection could [should] have been performed end in more premies? What's the immigrant premie rate? Drug user? ...
Looking just as premie stats by themselves doesn't tell you anything useful.
Yes. Because it is financially better to perform a partial birth abortion. This lowers the costly treatment associated with premies and has the added benefit of lowering your infant mortality rate.
At one point, Sunrise hospital in Las Vegas has a vastly higher mortality rate for heart patients than any other hospital in the area -- and it's where you want to go with heart problems. They specialized in treating heart conditions that others wouldn't touch.
Our obstetrician showed us the hospital C-section rate for every doctor that had privileges at the hospital. One doctor had a whopping 95% C-section rate -- and if you didn't want a C-section, he was the one to go to. He mainly did home births, but if there was a chance a C-section was needed, he went with mom to the hospital.
In this case, no. It was some form of simple bypass surgery.
I find it interesting in the states that there was an outcry when private insurance was denying treatment. The same people are now defending denial of treatment by government run healthcare.
A co-worker who is a British expat was royally pissed off when his ageing mother was told to go home and die when she had heart ailments in England when she was nearing 70.
But don't despair, we're going to fix that in the U.S. We're going to tell our seniors to curl up and die as well.
Would that make this the Immaculate Misconception?
Nice false strawman -- you should patent that. I don't believe anyone said "the only emotion anyone anywhere." Unless of course you have a separate account and post it (akin to your voting for Palin in the primary).
Nearly everyone does things that they would rather not do out of a sense of "greed." Getting up, getting dressed, and heading to work Monday morning tops my list. If they stop paying me, I'll stop showing up at 8:00am.
I work day-in and day-out with government workers. They really do fall into three distinct categories: the zealots with an agenda to push (power), the incompetent who would be fired in private practice, and the ordinary who just want a paycheck.
The decisions makers, the ones that make it to the top, tend to be the zealots -- they're more motivated. I don't want them in control of content.
The 6 year old -- who probably has no assets beyond the two+ year old tricycle -- should hope for a speedy trial, multi-million dollar judgement, and then immediately file for bankruptcy.
In 7 years (age 13 or 14), the bankruptcy will be off her record and she can go on with her life.
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Are you talking about the 4 year olds or the 87 year olds?
I sit corrected.
Obviously the next book I read will have to be on WWI and not on WWII.
That would be WWI -- and Germany.
That's easy to take care of, spell it LibreOfice.
Personally, I'm waiting for the LibreOfice Language packages: LOL English, LOL French, LOL ...
Ooohh Share Cropping. That's what I want my kids to do. Are you F'ing nuts?!?
By your own admission the company that set up the plant is the best choice the people have and you want to knock the company for that? WTF!
You sound like my idiot brother who was whining that my dad was trying to "bribe" him to take out the trash. That's the type of attitude that should be unemployed.
Yeah, I think that's the point. 8^)
So CNN being wrong is just journalistic sensationalism (everybody does it), but Foxnews being wrong is because they are Foxnews?
My point was just the bias of claiming sloppy reporting on Foxnews (perceived as conservative) when CNN (perceived as progressive) does the same thing.
FWIW, I don't watch either of 'em.
Regarding Felix Baumgartner, from CNN:
The "Camera in Space" was even worse for CNN:
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So it would seem that with CNN "Scientific accuracy is not their priority" either.
Not at all -- but we need to make all smoking in any public place illegal. Just because you want to smoke a joint doesn't mean that I want to.
I'm getting really tired of having to leave the park (or other outdoor activities) becomes some shit-for-brains wants to light up next to me or the kids.
No. It says that he is hideously insensitive to those out of work: "Life is good. Everyone else lost their job, but I kept mine."
Nevada used to have a "none of the above" option -- if it got the plurality of the votes, the position went unfilled until the next election. I used that option often.
Hard to measure before you hire the person; afterwards, I agree with you.
The list can go on. Thinking that the Democrats are for personal freedom is outdated thinking. Both major parties are led by totalitarian control freaks.
Thanks for the suggestions -- over the last couple of months I have taken to leaving the door open and it seems to help a little. Unfortunately there's a trick to leaving the door open and opening/closing the laundry room door (they both want to occupy the same space).
Training the other people in the house seems to be a challenge.