Joe Ferguson forever

I remember and admire the thumbs down https://time.com/5379164/mccain-health-care-legacy-aca/

It would never have passed without big insurance getting what they paid for its political donations.. sigh, that's not likely to change.

Obama wanted to do it. He said too many people would be unemployed in the insurance industry. Yhat's true bur short term pain is better than long term. lots of suits sucking the test. Oh, and he needed John McCaine to pass it from his deathbed. morbid but true.

What time is it? carpe diem. Good advice for everyone, old, young or somewhere in between.

takes one to know one.

Fine. So long as they treat her as well as the convicted sex offender.

Where is that exactly? Somewhere in the male perineum? I mean what a bunch of ball sacks...

Death and taxes...everybody's got their dues in life to pay.

Of course there's cost shifting. It's the basis of our current system. It needn't be. Medicare for all could be collecting those outrageous commercial premiums at a lower cost while paying better. and providing better care. No middle man. very efficient administration costs (much lower than private payers). everyone wins except the commercial insurers who are no longer necessary. Atlas laughed. Everybody's got to pay their dues....

the bills hasn't gone into effect. But, yes, I know people who lost Medicaid. Penalty for getting a raise. so what about my response to your earlier question regarding taxes?

Medicare has a pretty thin margin for profit. Medicaid does not. Some is better than none. The best payors are commercial but they cost shift thru deductibles which are sometimes difficult to get patients tp pony up. The best patients for making a living are affluent with private insurance. They're also the ones that can afford concierge care which largely takes insurance out of the equation. less and healthier patients,. as much or more money. I don't blame anyone for doing it. I hoped b man would share his insight.

The medicare "Advantage" plans have some pretty big holes. Traditional Medicalre is great, for now. Imagine if everyone could buy in.

i'm on traditional medicare (per my insurance agent, "best insurance you can't buy" and a supplement I buy. Nothing has happened to my coverage except that it has improved this year when I qualified. Much better than the commercial insurance I had thru work. No response to my answer to your question?

50% pay no fed income tax...so yep, everyone who does pay with progressive taxation as incomes rise. Maybe, limit any major or any increases to the top 10%. Simultaneously, spending must be cut. Lot's of less destructive places to cut than Medicaid

It really wasn't a sell. Many who will be affected are uninformed or hold B man's twisted logic. I think of the guy who just cut brush for me. Small biz, 3 kids. Don't know if he's on Medicaid but if not he's likely buying it through the exchange which is going to become unaffordable. There will be 10 million other examples. And more because of the ripple effect on exchange plans.

I don't want it at all. What specific parts do you disagree with? She quoted rural hospital execs. Do you not believe that more will close than if the bill didn't pass? Do you not believe it will be more difficult to recruit top talent? Do you not agree that more departments like obstetrics will now close? And that hospital employees will lose their jobs and then their insurance? Do you not believe that more people will use the ER for unreimbursed care shifting costs to private insurers and ultimately the companies who buy it and their employees? Who championed the bill? but you blame the author...

A nice summary of the expected fallout from Medicaid cuts.. B'man, do you agree? https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-07-21/rural-hospitals-brace-for-fallout-from-medicaid-cuts Analysts say the cuts will further strain the financial stability of rural hospitals and clinics that have already been operating on thin margins. Alan Morgan, chief executive officer of the National Rural Health Association, says 45% of the nation’s rural hospitals are already operating at a loss. “More than 300 are at risk of closure already. So you've got thin margins, in many cases negative margins. So obviously, when you remove $155 billion over the next 10 years, it's going to have an impact,” he says. Rasmussen says that hospitals are now seeing “a very dim light at the end of the tunnel” as they evaluate how to adjust for the loss in funding. “Some will choose to make adjustments very quickly, some will wait it out and hope that maybe the next Congress will rescind some of these cuts,” he says. “But I think you're going to see more communities step up and say, ‘We're just going to bite the bullet on this one and we're going to shut down obstetrics,’ ‘We're going to shut down physical therapy,’ or, ‘We're going to close the following clinics to make sure that we are making our debt payments to our local banks and we're holding on to as many employment opportunities for the people in our small town.’” “This will affect all of us as the cost of this uncompensated care leads hospitals and care providers to charge paying customers more to cover their costs. Some hospitals and providers, especially those in rural and underserved areas, will be unable to make up for these unreimbursed costs and will be financially threatened by these changes.” We're starting to see this even in a relatively afffluent rural community: Rasmussen notes that hospitals tend to be the employers that provide some of the highest compensation in rural communities. “In order to be able to appropriately recruit a physician or a nurse or a pharmacist, you have to pay market rates because you're competing with urban communities. When you lose that talent, it is extremely difficult to get them to come back,” he says.

I would too if we weren't facing a deficit and interest on the debt crisis. In the meantime, Len wants me to personally lessen those.

It's aq good thing he's getting a bigly tax break.

one of your fav far right propagandists stole my "up" clip. I'm suing! Meanwhile, Johnson shut down congress for 2.5 months. At least they won't be able to pass more bills that screw the working class for a while.

A friend told me he'd seen this video and wondered whether this why Colbert was sent packing. Pretty slimy move by whomever did it. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-karoline-leavitt-didnt-215700238.html

same bottom dwelling 30 something percent. https://americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

Glade I have plenty in the freezer https://apnews.com/article/beef-prices-record-high-cattle-steak-cows-e9fc33bbaec6a76fb243e277bbbb7c0e

"We" are the progressives on the board. I'll let you know right now that I'm against human trafficking of any kind. Do you have sympathy for E Jean Carrol? I'm guessing you've experienced some humiliation from women. Which side of the 80/20 rule are you on?