How's that Obamacare Repeal Working Out For You?

[Okeefenokee]

Why do you want to kill my Grandmama?

Sorry, Kath.

I think an upfront menu and a checkout counter would do wonders to get costs down.

[Fife]

I think an upfront menu and a checkout counter would do wonders to get costs down.

That would be an improvement for sure. Too bad that 90-95% of Rs, 100% of Ds, and 100% of POTUS are LOLing at that idea. You might as well be asking them to lift the protectionist interstate sales prohibitions.

Principles not Pragmatism. If the ship's going down, I'll go down on principles, not on chickenshit concessions to the Marxists.

Here's a short and sweet on the topic, with some extra stuff on NAFTA, the Fed, Afghanistan, &c, thrown in for free.

[Martin Hash]

I think an upfront menu and a checkout counter would do wonders to get costs down.

Have you ever even been to the hospital?

Fix Detached Retina (You got 24 hrs to decide.)
Menu:
1. Nothing (costs nothing but your sight.)
2. Kind of (thick glasses that don't let you see color or read but they're cheap.)
3. Surgery in our hospital (whatever it costs there.)
4. Surgery in another hospital with a better price (go for it dude, you can get 1/10th the cost by going out of country.)

[Fife]

Alleged "price gouging:" Selling safe drinking water to flood victims for $10 / gallon, with the price negotiated and paid before the water is handed over. IRL, drives up supply and greatly discourages hoarding.

Actual "price gouging:" providing necessary medical treatment to someone with zero information on the market, then making up the bill afterwards. IRL, causes individual bankruptcy, insane premiums, massive bailouts from taxpayers, enriches fatassed insurance companies and their pets in DC.

[jbird4049]

The "i have nothing to say, so I'm gonna be goofy" defense?

Did income inequality bring down the Anasazi too?

Only when an emperor, king, prime minister, president, or a group of reformers succeed in halting, and then reducing the trend are collapses, or unrest, stopped. Or at least the cause of a downfall becomes external, and not internal.

I believe they had the bad luck of a long, long drought which meant they had to migrate.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

The "i have nothing to say, so I'm gonna be goofy" defense?

Did income inequality bring down the Anasazi too?

I believe they had the bad luck of a long, long drought which meant they had to migrate.

So they built all those incredible defensive fortifications to ward off drought--not because of a threat from the south?
The Anasazi migrated into cooking pots.

[Okeefenokee]

Did income inequality bring down the Anasazi too?

I believe they had the bad luck of a long, long drought which meant they had to migrate.

So they built all those incredible defensive fortifications to ward off drought--not because of a threat from the south?
The Anasazi migrated into cooking pots.

Damn spoons strike again.

[jbird4049]

I believe they had the bad luck of a long, long drought which meant they had to migrate.

So they built all those incredible defensive fortifications to ward off drought--not because of a threat from the south?
The Anasazi migrated into cooking pots.

Damn spoons strike again.

Burp!

There is evidence that the Aztecs, or people related to them did move up north. However, conflict can come from food shortages. Large scale cannibalism, aside from religious, or funerary practices tend to come from food shortages.

[clubgop]

Let's not forget about the screams of "death panels" that came up when health reform came up in 2010.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475784/?#sp=show-clips

And lets not forget the response. They said there were no death panels but promptly removed the provision in question. My 2 year old doesnt get away with that you bitches won't either.

The provision to pay doctors for their visits/advice about dealing with dying that magically morphed into the death panels, and soylent green provision?

They removed it for political reasons, not because there was anything to it.

It was par with the "Obama Kenyan Muslin Socialist" accusations.

From what I remember it was an advisory panel with a euphemistic name. Easily demonized, and you caved on it because you knew you were wrong. Like the Cornhusker kickback and Louisiana purchase of 2009.

[clubgop]

Alleged "price gouging:" Selling safe drinking water to flood victims for $10 / gallon, with the price negotiated and paid before the water is handed over. IRL, drives up supply and greatly discourages hoarding.

Actual "price gouging:" providing necessary medical treatment to someone with zero information on the market, then making up the bill afterwards. IRL, causes individual bankruptcy, insane premiums, massive bailouts from taxpayers, enriches fatassed insurance companies and their pets in DC.