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  1. Having to pay back $100s of thousands in school loans while having your earning potential curtailed by government care is going to have an impact on smart kids who have options on what career they get into when they’re in college. You’re deluding yourself if you think the mundane paper-pushing would reduce with Berniecare. I do appreciate the whole “passion to be doctors”, deny yourself and take up the cross of having your earning potential neutered bit on Maundy Thursday
  2. The private health care system we have is the foundation on which a place like the Medical Center could exist. The agglomeration of universities, health care producers, drug companies plus all the great private hospitals and doctors. It has drawn doctors from all over the world. Compare that to the Canada and the UK which do not have the quality hospitals, med schools, talent and cutting edge procedures that we do. That’s why my Dad came here and he didn’t go to the U.K. or Canada. Being a doctor is a pain in the ass as it is but one of the upsides is that you can potentially make high 6 figures or millions if you’re good. Do you think you’ll have the same quality of people going into medicine when doctors will be making a government level salary.
  3. It seems Trump's lawyers were right to have him respond only in writing which he should thank his lucky stars for. Since there was no collusion (a point oddly downplayed in this article), the only thing Mueller's team could get Trump on would be either obstruction of justice (despite the lack of an actual crime being investigated) or perjury. Obstruction being a hard reach, given the President's Constitutional authority to hire and fire Executive branch employees, despite Mueller's team's assertions discussed here, the team opted to make innuendos but then not attempt to make a definitive case. As far as that goes, since when does innocence need to be proven? By limiting his responses and letting his lawyers vet them before sending them to Mueller, they avoided the perjury trap and didn't let Mueller twist the meaning of some response by Trump to indicate intent to obstruct. This is a lesson to anyone who is ever compelled to testify in the cross hairs of some prosecutor or even just interviewed by the authorities.
  4. Bullfuckingshit and you know it. Any President would be pissed even if completely innocent because it would take the wind out of the sails of the momentum and mandate that a Presidential winner naturally has at the beginning of their term. No President would shrug it off and not think there would be a major drag and cloud on their Presidency. Trump is an impetuous moron and that is the best “evidence” that they can show. Like when a wife ignores grumpy husband rantings, thankfully so have the President’s staff have ignored his bs. They have their eye on the ball of what the true goals are: halting illegal immigration, rebuilding America’s manufacturing base, not coddling terrorist mullahs in Tehran, etc. I’m looking forward to a Republican President with tact and discipline that induces less hostility by his style than the current guy. I always be grateful for him killing off the free trade at all costs and don’t give a shit about hordes of illegals and neocon Bill Kristol and Bush war criminal wings of the Party.
  5. Indicting a President without evidence of him colluding with the Russkies for just being the impulsive hothead moron that he can be in trying to attack his enemies and without conclusive evidence that he was lying and otherwise obstructing justice is good for the country. Beat him in 2020 or impeach. Those are the only options. Thank you AG Barr and Mueller. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying dickheads like Nadler, Schumer and Pelosi grasping at straws.
  6. If AOC is smart, she would retract that statement about cutting off aid to Israel. That’s a redline Jewish voters in her district won’t put up with. Israel’s importance to this country is manifold and we’ll never give up our bulwark in a hostile region.
  7. Why were you given a timeout futureman?
  8. Not everyone who wants to come here can.
  9. Why would Domino’s give you points to use by taking pictures of any pizza. Even frozen. They’ve had some weird commercials
  10. They’re not aggy if they don’t boycott.
  11. Yes the US is the greatest country in the world. Get a little perspective like those of us whose parents immigrated legally from shitholes like Iran. Live overseas in a country like that for a few months. You’re tune would change.
  12. It’s no coincidence that the best doctors all over the world, including my own father who was world renowned in his field have come to practice in the US. Are there issues with private health insurance? Yes. Obamacare has killed the middle class with its premium costs and and deductibles. We would have been better off having the government give tax credits to subsidize buying private insurance instead of a host moronic things we have done like subsidizing people buying Teslas to the tune of $7,500. People that think that doctors in this country are just going to take a massive pay cut which no doubt will happen with single payer are stupid. My shrink doesn’t even deal with insurance. I have to pay up right there with cash or check. That’s the future if M4A happens. Those at the top of the food chain like me can afford getting seen by the best. The rest have to wait and get seen by chumps. That’s much worse for the majority on employer based plans
  13. Not cool. You should be given a timeout for threatening to doxx someone
  14. Copying this post of mine from the Bernie thread Great counter to the supposed greatness of Canadian style Berniecare. His draft legislation compels everyone to government care destroying my private health insurance along with hundreds of millions of others. Our system of private insurance needs a new generation of Republican Gen-Xers like myself to come up with a way to keep private insurance and help subsidize basic, no frills care for the non-Medicaid qualifying lower class. Republicans need to get on the ball and counter with reform to the private health insurance model. We need to hammer away at the awful wait times for appointments and procedures in Canada and the U.K. and how in the U.K. the doctors in the NHS are mostly 3rd world foreigners with real British doctors available for pricey concierge care. Note that that even that wasn’t good enough for Mick Jagger and other wealthy Brits who come here to get the best medical care in the world. https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-alternative-to-medicare-for-all-11555457596 Not so fast. The experience of Canada, which follows the Sanders model, shows that single payer is not the best way to achieve the goal of access to timely care. Its single-payer program is universal, funded by taxpayers without deductibles or copayments, and excludes premiums for most users. Objective measures of performance show it’s a comparatively expensive system whose results are mediocre—and sometimes very poor. A Fraser Institute study published in November examined 28 universal health-care systems across 45 indicators of performance. After adjusting for differences in the proportion of seniors, Canada ranked among the top spenders—fourth-highest as a percentage of gross domestic product and 10th-highest per capita. Yet it had less medical resources available for patients and painfully long wait times for specialists. Canada ranked 26th out of 28 for number of physicians, 22nd out of 27 for MRI units, and 25th out of 26 for hospital beds. Overall, Canada performs worse than other universal-coverage countries, particularly Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany. Why? Unlike Canada’s single-payer system, the Swiss, Dutch and German systems rely on private insurers, whether nonprofit or for-profit. Government helps the needy make premium payments. German enrollees can use a public system composed of 145 competing independent nonprofit “sickness funds” or buy insurance from 43 companies or nonprofits. In the Netherlands and Switzerland, residents must select a standard insurance package from private insurers, of which both countries have dozens.  Unlike the U.S., with Medicare and its massive trillion-dollar unfunded liabilities, these countries cannot pass unreimbursed current expenses onto future generations. If the expenses of private insurers exceed their revenues, they face bankruptcy.
  15. M4A as proposed by the Bern would be a disaster. His legislation denies us Americans freedom of contract by banning private insurance and doctor provided plans. People like myself will fight tooth and nail to keep the devil we know in our private insurance plans with direct access to specialists with a PPO versus government gatekeeper care. If the Dems were going to actually do something to halt illegal immigration, I’d actually be worried about M4A becoming a reality. Think how much illegal immigration pisses off people. Add the tax burden of illegals and their anchor babies health care costs. The base will never put up with lowering their standard of health care to raise the health care access of an illegal and her kid. That’s what community health care centers, Ben Taub and charities for.
  16. Wow stop the presses. I actually agree with brisket here.
  17. Great counter to the supposed greatness of Canadian style Berniecare. His draft legislation compels everyone to government care destroying my private health insurance along with hundreds of millions of others. Our system of private insurance needs a new generation of Republican Gen-Xers like myself to come up with a way to keep private insurance and help subsidize basic, no frills care for the non-Medicaid qualifying lower class. Republicans need to get on the ball and counter with reform to the private health insurance model. We need to hammer away at the awful wait times for appointments and procedures in Canada and the U.K. and how in the U.K. the doctors in the NHS are mostly 3rd world foreigners with real British doctors available for pricey concierge care. Note that that even that wasn’t good enough for Mick Jagger and other wealthy Brits who come here to get the best medical care in the world. https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-alternative-to-medicare-for-all-11555457596 Not so fast. The experience of Canada, which follows the Sanders model, shows that single payer is not the best way to achieve the goal of access to timely care. Its single-payer program is universal, funded by taxpayers without deductibles or copayments, and excludes premiums for most users. Objective measures of performance show it’s a comparatively expensive system whose results are mediocre—and sometimes very poor. A Fraser Institute study published in November examined 28 universal health-care systems across 45 indicators of performance. After adjusting for differences in the proportion of seniors, Canada ranked among the top spenders—fourth-highest as a percentage of gross domestic product and 10th-highest per capita. Yet it had less medical resources available for patients and painfully long wait times for specialists. Canada ranked 26th out of 28 for number of physicians, 22nd out of 27 for MRI units, and 25th out of 26 for hospital beds. Overall, Canada performs worse than other universal-coverage countries, particularly Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany. Why? Unlike Canada’s single-payer system, the Swiss, Dutch and German systems rely on private insurers, whether nonprofit or for-profit. Government helps the needy make premium payments. German enrollees can use a public system composed of 145 competing independent nonprofit “sickness funds” or buy insurance from 43 companies or nonprofits. In the Netherlands and Switzerland, residents must select a standard insurance package from private insurers, of which both countries have dozens. Unlike the U.S., with Medicare and its massive trillion-dollar unfunded liabilities, these countries cannot pass unreimbursed current expenses onto future generations. If the expenses of private insurers exceed their revenues, they face bankruptcy.
  18. Nice to see the entire lineup getting great contact.
  19. The Democratic donor and party elites are besides themselves about him winning the nomination. They want to take down the Bern a 2nd time. Bernie being the nominee worries me as a die hard Republican. I’m hoping for the usual Democrat circular firing squad and division. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html
  20. Triple post
  21. Double post
  22. Lots of us are enjoying Trump’s tax cuts. My real estate investments and equities are doing great. Smart ones like us aren’t wearing MAGA hats, talking about him on Facebook or attending Trump rallies. We keep our support quiet in polite company. You’d never suspect who we are.
  23. Lots of are enjoying Trump’s tax cuts. My real estate investments and equities are doing great. Smart ones like us aren’t wearing MAGA hats, supporting him on Facebook or attending Trump rallies. We keep our support quiet in polite company. You’d never suspect who we are.
  24. In my opinion, Omar in her speech about 9/11 with “some people did some things” was trying to minimize 9/11 and the Muslim perpetrators who caused it. Was she trying to imply that 9/11 was an inside job and invoke conspiracy theories that are rife in her community so as to not further sully the bloody reputation of her religion. That’s my guess. Notice how she never takes ownership of the garbage that comes out of her mouth, we’re either misinterpreting, taking things out of context, etc. She knowingly employs dog whistle tactics and rather than own it like Trump does she likes to play the victim and hold herself as being persecuted by mean old Republicans because she is a Muslim POC. Fuck her. There are too many of us with a vested interest in opposing her for her to get away with it. We couldn’t have designed a better foil in a laboratory. She is going to help pave the way for Trump 2020.
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