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Imagine if you will the field of Agincourt. The French knights are defeated. Mitch, the Duc of Bourbon, lies, fallen from his horse, in a pool of muck and blood, held in the arms of his pages. "Shame, shame; nothing but eternal shame..." he says.
And then the incredible. King "Harry" -- his bifocals hanging on the tip of his nose, calls for a retreat and marches the English back to the Channel.
Herald, played by the New York Slimes, stands spotless and shinning amid corpses and gore and trumpets,
And then the incredible. King "Harry" -- his bifocals hanging on the tip of his nose, calls for a retreat and marches the English back to the Channel.
Herald, played by the New York Slimes, stands spotless and shinning amid corpses and gore and trumpets,
Consensus Is Health Law Can Be Fixed. Now the Hard Part.
By REED ABELSON, ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE THOMAS
Stabilizing the market, lowering drug prices and expanding access to coverage would go a long way to easing millions of Americans’ concerns.
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WTF.
Responding to calls for a bi-partisan fix, McConnell said he doubted any Republicans would support “bailing out insurance companies with no thought of any kind of reform”.
Repugnant creepy-crawly mutant that he is, McConnell is right: Obambicare is an insurance company bailout. In other words, it is yet another corporate, capitalist scam in what passes for Murka's pathetic excuse for a veneer of social democracy.
It bears repeating. Obambicare is nothing but an insurance company bailout.
This "trivia" from the L.A. Times: "the federal government sends about $600 million a month to insurance companies to help cover the cost of insuring low income people"
600 million a month.
"Basically, the government tells insurers that they need to hold down the insurance deductibles and co-payments that they charge low-income people. That costs the insurers money. To make the insurers whole, the government is supposed to reimburse them." (L.A. Times.)
To make the insurers whole? Really? Is that the point of the "health care" exercise? Are Murkans congenitally stupid? Are the Niebelungen of Forty Second Street drooling morons or evil, malign, peddlers of poisoned news?
Die Gift-Presse.
Chipsters have said it before; and will say it yet again: insurance is not the right vehicle for providing health care. It makes no business sense to insure against something you know will happen; and everyone will get sick. Older people will get sicker more often. People with pre-existing conditions are like drivers with bad records.
I mean DUH. When you buy insurance you are betting against your good luck. If the risks are low, the insurance company can charge low premiums and still make money. If the risks are high, it can only make money by charging higher premiums or refusing to insure altogether. Insurance companies are in the business of making money NOT providing health care. DUH.
(We pointed this out to the Slime's niebelungen, but they refused to print the comment. Supposedly it was not sufficiently, informed, considered, sober, right-minded, poison.)
Insurance companies are very good at "shifting" and "defeasing" costs. The entire industry is one huge, multi-dimensional Ponzi Scheme. But the bottom line is that they cannot make money if they only charge premiums people can afford and if they provide health coverage to people who need it (i.e. people who are sick or at risk of getting sick.)
So.... The Scam, that goes by the name of "U.S. Government," makes up for business losses, by directly paying "lost profits" to insurance companies from taxpayer paid funds. From your pocket to theirs.
Are you being suckered? Big time. Are you stupid? If you put up with it, yes. Stupid beyond belief.
But do continue reading the New York Slime. Fool yourselves into thinking that "stabilizing the market" is somehow, something (you don't quite know how) different than "from your pocket to theirs."
And so, the average "well informed" middle class jackass reads about "expanding access to coverage" (i.e. expanding government bailouts to insurance companies) and thinks in his or her stupefied way, "Oh yeah.. that would be a good thing. We must get the Repuglicans to work with Demorats to get that done....
How can anyone be so fucking dumb? Well... the psychological term is "fetish" and in particular the Fetish of the Commodity. Murkans are convinced that "the market" is the solution to everything. It was even behind the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are as much convinced of this as as a boot-licker is convinced that dragging his tongue over a dirty boot is both joyful and necessary. Fetishes create their own appearance of demanding objective reality. That's the whole point of having one.
Are the whores who run Demorat Party really that deranged or have I just answered my question? If Mitch McConnell understands that what's at issue is "bailing out" insurance companies, is it reasonable to think that Senawhore Wall Street does not?
Of course they do. In fact, they are more despicable than their Republican colleagues, because they peddle false hopes and false nostrums that convince people that corporate boot licking is good, natural and necessary.
The latest Demorat Manifesto -- A Better Squeal -- is silent on single payer. Says Peelousy, “the comfort level with a broader base of the American people is not there yet,” She encouraged state initiatives instead.
What a stinking douchebag. Pelosi knows perfectly well that states lack the financial muscle power to enact "local" single payer systems. Even California's recent bill (procedurally shit-canned by the state Demorats) was critically dependent on federal funding.
Of the 247 Demorats in the House, 110 (less than half) back the Conyers bill for single payer. The silence in the Senate is damning. Hillary Replacement Icon, Kamela Harris along with Elizabeth Warren and Kristin Gillibrand say they support the "concept" of single payer. Weasles. As for the male Senawhores .... zip.
As Conyers has stated, "We will never get universal care built on a foundation of private, for-profit insurers." But the Demorats can only manage tepid endorsement of a "concept" when they ought to be on the barricades pushing their advantage forward over the bloodied bodies of the Repugs. But they won't.
The issue is not just health care. Health care is simply the symbolic flag ship for "concepts" of social responsibility and civic cohesion -- you know, the outmoded idea that all citizens are entitled to a basic and secure standard of living which enables them to live in dignity as human beings and participate in political and economic life as contributing citizens.
Instead of seizing the initiative, the corporate-trained monkeys in the Demorat party cede the field of glory, after helping the enemy to their feet. What does one do with such contemptible bootlicks other than sweep them into compost of history.
©2017.
... ...
WTF.
Responding to calls for a bi-partisan fix, McConnell said he doubted any Republicans would support “bailing out insurance companies with no thought of any kind of reform”.
Repugnant creepy-crawly mutant that he is, McConnell is right: Obambicare is an insurance company bailout. In other words, it is yet another corporate, capitalist scam in what passes for Murka's pathetic excuse for a veneer of social democracy.
It bears repeating. Obambicare is nothing but an insurance company bailout.
This "trivia" from the L.A. Times: "the federal government sends about $600 million a month to insurance companies to help cover the cost of insuring low income people"
600 million a month.
"Basically, the government tells insurers that they need to hold down the insurance deductibles and co-payments that they charge low-income people. That costs the insurers money. To make the insurers whole, the government is supposed to reimburse them." (L.A. Times.)
To make the insurers whole? Really? Is that the point of the "health care" exercise? Are Murkans congenitally stupid? Are the Niebelungen of Forty Second Street drooling morons or evil, malign, peddlers of poisoned news?
Die Gift-Presse.
Chipsters have said it before; and will say it yet again: insurance is not the right vehicle for providing health care. It makes no business sense to insure against something you know will happen; and everyone will get sick. Older people will get sicker more often. People with pre-existing conditions are like drivers with bad records.
I mean DUH. When you buy insurance you are betting against your good luck. If the risks are low, the insurance company can charge low premiums and still make money. If the risks are high, it can only make money by charging higher premiums or refusing to insure altogether. Insurance companies are in the business of making money NOT providing health care. DUH.
(We pointed this out to the Slime's niebelungen, but they refused to print the comment. Supposedly it was not sufficiently, informed, considered, sober, right-minded, poison.)
Insurance companies are very good at "shifting" and "defeasing" costs. The entire industry is one huge, multi-dimensional Ponzi Scheme. But the bottom line is that they cannot make money if they only charge premiums people can afford and if they provide health coverage to people who need it (i.e. people who are sick or at risk of getting sick.)
So.... The Scam, that goes by the name of "U.S. Government," makes up for business losses, by directly paying "lost profits" to insurance companies from taxpayer paid funds. From your pocket to theirs.
Are you being suckered? Big time. Are you stupid? If you put up with it, yes. Stupid beyond belief.
But do continue reading the New York Slime. Fool yourselves into thinking that "stabilizing the market" is somehow, something (you don't quite know how) different than "from your pocket to theirs."
And so, the average "well informed" middle class jackass reads about "expanding access to coverage" (i.e. expanding government bailouts to insurance companies) and thinks in his or her stupefied way, "Oh yeah.. that would be a good thing. We must get the Repuglicans to work with Demorats to get that done....
How can anyone be so fucking dumb? Well... the psychological term is "fetish" and in particular the Fetish of the Commodity. Murkans are convinced that "the market" is the solution to everything. It was even behind the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are as much convinced of this as as a boot-licker is convinced that dragging his tongue over a dirty boot is both joyful and necessary. Fetishes create their own appearance of demanding objective reality. That's the whole point of having one.
Are the whores who run Demorat Party really that deranged or have I just answered my question? If Mitch McConnell understands that what's at issue is "bailing out" insurance companies, is it reasonable to think that Senawhore Wall Street does not?
Of course they do. In fact, they are more despicable than their Republican colleagues, because they peddle false hopes and false nostrums that convince people that corporate boot licking is good, natural and necessary.
The latest Demorat Manifesto -- A Better Squeal -- is silent on single payer. Says Peelousy, “the comfort level with a broader base of the American people is not there yet,” She encouraged state initiatives instead.
What a stinking douchebag. Pelosi knows perfectly well that states lack the financial muscle power to enact "local" single payer systems. Even California's recent bill (procedurally shit-canned by the state Demorats) was critically dependent on federal funding.
Of the 247 Demorats in the House, 110 (less than half) back the Conyers bill for single payer. The silence in the Senate is damning. Hillary Replacement Icon, Kamela Harris along with Elizabeth Warren and Kristin Gillibrand say they support the "concept" of single payer. Weasles. As for the male Senawhores .... zip.
As Conyers has stated, "We will never get universal care built on a foundation of private, for-profit insurers." But the Demorats can only manage tepid endorsement of a "concept" when they ought to be on the barricades pushing their advantage forward over the bloodied bodies of the Repugs. But they won't.
The issue is not just health care. Health care is simply the symbolic flag ship for "concepts" of social responsibility and civic cohesion -- you know, the outmoded idea that all citizens are entitled to a basic and secure standard of living which enables them to live in dignity as human beings and participate in political and economic life as contributing citizens.
Instead of seizing the initiative, the corporate-trained monkeys in the Demorat party cede the field of glory, after helping the enemy to their feet. What does one do with such contemptible bootlicks other than sweep them into compost of history.
©2017.
