Dr.Sack

i take every season one game at a time.

They are trading assets for the future.

Trump's senior policy adviser Stephen Miller is affiliated with white nationalist and protest planner Richard Spencer. They went to Duke University and were involved in some shenanigans while on campus. The key ideology of the Alt-right is white men are victims. The Confederate statue being taken down was a symbol of their victimhood. The irony is while they chant how they are 'true Americans' they are holding the seditious flag of the Confederacy. The irony is palpable.

This whole shin dig was brought to you by Alt right founder Richard Spencer. College buddies at Duke with Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller. These guys are truly pieces of schnit.

Oh lookie here, employer healthcare costs expected to rise 5% next year. http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/12/news/economy/health-care-workers/index.html

Imagine Trump's condemnation if ISIS had crashed that car into the Anti-fa protestors.

We negotiate fair prices and invest in the next generation of healthcare, in terms of education and R&D. The American system has costs that other single-payer nations don't have. Hospitals & doctor offices here have 4x the billing staff due to complex insurance coding. Insurance companies operate on a 20-30% overhead (profit), this money doesn't go into care. Medicare's overhead is in the single digits. So there are cost savings due to the government being able to negotiate prices with Pharma & directly with hospitals & physicians. It works in Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea & the U.K.. Another reason costs come down is the risk pool expands to the entire country. If we had one insurance company and mandated everyone pay into it, and that insurer had monopoly control of the market it would work in a similar way in terms of price negotiation with doctors and Pharma. I'm not advocating for a single-payer / private for profit insurer system just saying in theory it would function similar in terms of price discovery. As far as expanding our national investment into healthcare I think we should do that. Make healthcare a much bigger priority. Make public college free including up to doctorate level. Dramatically invest in the next generation of doctors and nurses, and biologists. That leads to the next generation of doctors and innovation.

Doc Brown, I'm curious your thoughts on trade and banking. In particular the role of financial institutions in our economy being that they compromise 30% of our GDP by most estimates. Also monopolies. Where are you on them? Teddy Roosevelt 'trust buster' or 'free market' extraordinare. Last Bail Outs. Where do you stand on this issue. Suppose we incur another financial collapse. Do you believe in the B word?

I swear the average IQ on here.....yessshhh

OMFG. When you have lost the debate. You sound like Lil Marco. You gotta do better than that if you want to stay on the debate stage with the big boys Lil Marco. At least whip out a Venezuela or Zimbabwe reference like Lyin Ted would.

Medicare and private insurance acceptance are virtually the same. Moving to a universal system, would mean that all payments would come from the Medicare system. In most countries private for profit hospitals do not exist. The system is designed to serve the people, not enrich healthcare administrators and bureaucrats. The more important point is lowering costs. Medicare would negotiate prices directly and as the single insurer would end the grotesque price inflation in our healthcare system. Also right now Medicare is not allowed to negotiate drug prices. That would come to an end. The key is lowering costs and covering everyone.

47,000 people per year qualifies. What we need to do is regulate the supply and distribution of opioids much more firmly. Congress could pass a law today to do just that. Somehow I doubt that will happen. The pharmaceutical lobby is too powerful. Many corrupt doctors who are incentivized by pharma in our healthcare system don't care either.

Come on Tom. Be a man. Engage in some real debate. Throw some figures on here with links and case studies, showing us how a Libertarian free market approach would be so much better than universal healthcare. And while your at it, show me the country that has implemented this healthcare system.

We spend $9,000 per capita on healthcare, and rank #27 in healthcare. We far outspend any other country by any measure when it comes to healthcare. We still have 28,000,000 uncovered, and Trumpcare could have expanded that to 52,000,000. We have to spend so much on military to "protect" our citizens, but when it comes to healthcare which I'd argue is more important, we just can't find the political will? Something is messed up in our nation.

You are an idiot because you have one line of attack. That means you are an idiot. Physicians accept 93% of Medicare patients, 94% of private insurance. Did you click the link?

Hubris is the last phase before the fall of all empires. We are witnessing the arrogance, extravagance of an empire waiting to implode. No one sees it coming. Cheers.

Seems like a long time 1999.

Perhaps we could reallocate some of this defense spending?

Most doctors accept Medicare. 93% to be precise. Apparently 7% of doctors can afford to be more selective in their clientele. I would assume that would continue after implementation of a universal healthcare system. http://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/primary-care-physicians-accepting-medicare-a-snapshot/

D.C. Tom, resorting to name calling instead of debating on the merits of facts since 1996. But I'll ask that DC Tom two questions. Question 1, do you use "socialist" programs Social Security & Medicare? If yes, why? Question 2, name one country where a free market Healthcare system exists?

Hoping the planes pilots get plenty of flight sim practice due to flying 10 games per year.

Every worker in the U.S. pays 1.45% into Medicare. Medicare polls at 78% positive favorability. Over 60% of Americans now support Medicare For All. The median American household income is $56,516. That's $820 a year already to Medicare. That same household is paying $450 a month in employer sponsor insurance, or $5,400 a year while their employer pays the other half. These costs are before prescription drugs, doctor visits, copays, or deductibles. That's $5,850 before additional medical expenses. Healthcare Savings Accounts, are you F'ing kidding the average Joe The Plumber? If we went to Medicare For All at 5% that family would pay $2,750 with no other expenses. And their employers would save on the the cost of administering & paying for the other half of their employee healthcare. This is a no brainer and would make American business more competitive with the rest of the industrialized world. Don't fall into the tired socialist cliches. Medicare For All is the answer.

Watch New England's offense and realize it is predicated on short throws and winning one on one matchups. I think some on here think that every QB needs to be making Aaron Rodgers level throws into space, and there are only 3-5 guys who can do that in the league with consistency & Tom Brady ain't one of them, and yet he wins.

Wilfork could have played longer. He could have made it to 40. Bianca gets him 5 years early.

Cutler has no mobility. Surprised they didn't go after a guy with more mobility, who could run the read option like Tannehill could. Oh well, their loss is our gain.