drnykterstein

Ok well it's absurd on two points... First off, reading your contract does not help at all. There are full time employees with incentive programs to find loopholes in your coverage and deny you because of the loopholes. Everybody is not a lawyer, and even if they did see the loophole, there is not a lot of choice sometimes. You go with the insurer that your employer picks. Secondly, the end result... how long you live, the average life expectancy... Canadians live two years longer than US Citizens. Third, nothing on the docket for current US reform even resembles the Canadian system (even though I wish it did). Fourth, You have the option to pay for private care if you want. No one is stopping you. You can even get private insurance to pay for the private care. It's out there.

Yes well. This post is so absurd that I'm going to assume you are just arguing for the sake of argument and not because you believe what you are saying.

???? This actually happens to people. If someone is stabbing you and you are yelling out "this guy is stabbing me", should I accuse you of spreading fear?

Well personally my biggest problem is the fear that if I get cancer or something my company will refuse to pay for treatment. They'll find some small quirk in small print or something and deny me coverage. They do this frequently. And then I'll be dead. Lack of payment is only an issue between me and my insurance company. What is the point of insurance if they don't insure anything?

Tom Brady is not a great QB though

It says we have better Doctors. We also have better Olympic athletes, and better universities, and better movie studios. That kind of thing happens when you have a larger population. This has nothing to do with a ****ty health insurance industry. No one has named a country where socialized healthcare turned out badly yet.

There are like two countries that have taxes that high. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm..._By_Country.svg !@#$ if you want lower taxes, maybe we should bring Korea in so they can give us a few pointers? Maybe give Somalia a call? What is your measure? Going by GDP we win, going by dollar value, we lose. Is this your definition of failure/success? Is there some other criteria you like. And in unrelated news, I think their slow growth is wholly due to them using the metric system. The centimeter is holding Germany back. They should totally convert to the Kings Measurement. It would totally fix their GDP. No dude. Dante is implying their healthcare system is the cause of a country failing. There is zero data to support such a preposterous claim.

Name one country where socialized healthcare turned out badly. You have plenty of examples to pick from. Name one.

Ah. So now the CBO is a Democrat front group? If you numskulls are able understand this DOC FIX and the concepts behind it, then you bet your sweep bippy that the CBO understands what is going on. This is like DC Tom saying that he knows more about scrutinizing a climatologists research that the climatologists themselves. Lol. The PPP mantra: "PEOPLE THAT ARE SMARTER THAN ME ARE STUPID BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND 1/50th OF THEIR RESEARCH"

CBO estimated that the the bill does not add to the debt. I'll trust them on that.

They are going on the assumption that once the bill is implemented people will actually like the effect it has on their lives. They are going on the assumption that all the Republicans have been doing over the past year is spreading unfounded fears. The "pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" line is addressing the fact that 1/3 of Americans only know what Fox News tells them.

They came back from the dead in 2003. GWB had them all killed again.

As far as I know. But I will say something funny.. If these guys I know are indicative of anything, Armenians do not use deodorant. Also, no one ever wants to say anything to them about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

I know a few Armenians.

!@#$ yeah! About time someone called Ralph out on this.

http://www.slate.com/id/2246905/

Freudian slip? Yeah that game weighs heavy on us all

No problem

Try hitting Ctrl+F5 while on that page to clear your local browser cache

No defensive tackles or LB's?

Lol.. says the guy who thinks he knows more than mankind's most distinguished climatologists.

Oh that's right, everything I say is wrong. Even when I'm not saying anything at all and being completely neutral, and asknig questions - I'm wrong. Of course.

Lol. I don't know what about that post made you think I was trusting or not trusting them. I've never even heard of AFRICOM before.. so how can I know what they did or didn't do?

I'm curious, can you pick out just one of their stories that you think is false? One incorrect story on their part would be sufficient to strongly discredit them.