Defunding Obamacare - Can it happen?

[houghtam]

I suppose we could always ask epicnyukllama why he/she/it got into the "nursing" field.



Except I know several nurses, and I already know the answer wasn't $$$.

[Irish Stout]

I won't lie, I am a huge supporter of universal healthcare. Its the absolute most liberal-socialist thing about me. Had a friend in college with cancer and no insurance when he was diagnosed. Basically destroyed his family.

I truly believe that if we are to be the greatest country in the world we need to treat our dregs with as much respect and dignity as is afforded to those who can. And I believe whole heartedly that we can and should be able to afford healthcare for one and all.

That being said, I hate social security, and if we don't have a system whereby everyone can get healthcare with government assistance, we shouldn't allow anyone to get healthcare by government assistance. So I am fine with not raising the debt ceiling, but lets can medicare and social security. I'm sure all the old people, especially the old poorer right leaning folks, would love that. It meets the same needs and claims the GOP is calling for right now. Defund it all I say.

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Tragedy of the Commons does not apply. Medical treatment is not a limited resource. Use a graduated, progressive single payer system combined with a strong, health care education system. Like I said, there can be no perfect system. Disease happens. People die.

Virtually every resource is a limited resource. Especially one bound by as much regulation as Healthcare.

And single payer systems all have a budget. That is a limited resource.

Patient A receiving an cutting-edge surgery to try to add a year or two to his life might cost as much as insulin for a few hundred Patient B diabetics over the same timeframe.

Give Patient A unfettered access to the "commons" (the single payer budget) and he'll take whatever he needs. All those Patient B's would get to fight over whatever's left.

For that reason, all single payer systems feature a gatekeeper to the "commons" Employing spreadsheets and formulas (or even who's who lists) to determine what Patient A is really worth compared to Patients B.

Well Funded Patient C gets to laugh at all of them and see his own provider who doesn't dink around with Patients A, B or their gatekeeper.

[Taco John]

Originally Posted by Irish Stout

I won't lie, I am a huge supporter of universal healthcare. Its the absolute most liberal-socialist thing about me. Had a friend in college with cancer and no insurance when he was diagnosed. Basically destroyed his family.

I truly believe that if we are to be the greatest country in the world we need to treat our dregs with as much respect and dignity as is afforded to those who can. And I believe whole heartedly that we can and should be able to afford healthcare for one and all.

That being said, I hate social security, and if we don't have a system whereby everyone can get healthcare with government assistance, we shouldn't allow anyone to get healthcare by government assistance. So I am fine with not raising the debt ceiling, but lets can medicare and social security. I'm sure all the old people, especially the old poorer right leaning folks, would love that. It meets the same needs and claims the GOP is calling for right now. Defund it all I say.

Personally, I think this is a much better idea than what we're doing now.

[houghtam]

I still say defund the military. It's so corrupt and broken. I mean, what a bunch of freeloaders, amirite?

Mind you, I don't have any plan to replace it, but I figure with all the guns out there, we shouldn't have any problems.

Besides, everyone can just fend for themselves, and when you can't, welp! That's just your lot in life. Blame your parents, kids!

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Yep. The massive amount of profit being gouged from the American people by the American health care industry does not go to doctors. It goes to insurance companies.

Keep livin' that fantasy, man.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...stry_stil.html

Insurance's main contribution to this problem is that it makes you not care whether you pay $100 or $1,000 for that CT. Single payer doesn't make you care either. It makes everyone not care. Except the gatekeeper. He gets to care for you. Which is kind of ironic, considering all the talk about not wanting government to come between (Half of) people and their doctors.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

Keep livin' that fantasy, man.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...stry_stil.html

Insurance's main contribution to this problem is that it makes you not care whether you pay $100 or $1,000 for that CT. Single payer doesn't make you care either. It makes everyone not care. Except the gatekeeper. He gets to care for you. Which is kind of ironic, considering all the talk about not wanting government to come between (Half of) people and their doctors.

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...6&postcount=68

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...8&postcount=54

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...6&postcount=62

typical Ezra bull****

Ezra Klein? I smell bull**** already.

Yes, the genius of Ezra Klein is truly beyond most of us. Maybe all of us. He's an economic idiot savant. Or at least the first part.

Good to know you are back to using arguments that suit you.

Now go eat a bag of *****.



Oh wait, almost forgot...

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by houghtam

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...6&postcount=68

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...8&postcount=54

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showpos...6&postcount=62







Good to know you are back to using arguments that suit you.

Now go eat a bag of *****.



Oh wait, almost forgot...

I used Ezra intentionally, Dumbass. The more you can get people arguing with their own Preachers, the better.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

I used Ezra intentionally, Dumbass. The more you can get people arguing with their own Preachers, the better.

Sure.

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by houghtam

Sure.

What, you don't think I could've cited Cato or Heritage saying worse?

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

What, you don't think I could've cited Cato or Heritage saying worse?

Yeah but either way it's ARGUMENT BY HYPERLINK!

[BroncoBeavis]

Anyway, the real problem with health care is it's neccessity, combined with how removed consumers are from cost. And I guess add in a sprinkle of how complex (difficult to comprehend for the consumer) the product offering is.

I'm kinda sorta paraphrasing something I read somewhere before, but imagine if you went car shopping knowing you were only going to pay for 10% (out of pocket) of whatever car it is you chose to buy.

Most of us would make some pretty extravagant decisions that would never occur to us if we were writing a check for the whole bill. Also imagine that the car salesman already knows you're only paying 10% of the cost. Do you think he's going to show us the $6,000 well-maintained 2004 Civic in the back that is maybe really all we need?

No, he's taking us to the factory-new car lot. And only selling top of the line. And we'll buy it.

[Al Wilson 4 Mayor]

I work for a small privately owned company. I can't afford $800-$1000 a month for health insurance. Someone tell me how this healthcare plan is suppose to help the common person?

Oh that's right, that's not what it's intention is. It may have started that way, but when Obama made a closed door deal with the insurance lobbyists to get the legislation passed everything changed. No goverment healthcare offered, just buy insurance on "the free market" or else.....

Nice..

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

Anyway, the real problem with health care is it's neccessity, combined with how removed consumers are from cost. And I guess add in a sprinkle of how complex (difficult to comprehend for the consumer) the product offering is.

I'm kinda sorta paraphrasing something I read somewhere before, but imagine if you went car shopping knowing you were only going to pay for 10% (out of pocket) of whatever car it is you chose to buy.

Most of us would make some pretty extravagant decisions that would never occur to us if we were writing a check for the whole bill. Also imagine that the car salesman already knows you're only paying 10% of the cost. Do you think he's going to show us the $6,000 well-maintained 2004 Civic in the back that is maybe really all we need?

No, he's taking us to the factory-new car lot. And only selling top of the line. And we'll buy it.

And yet if you attempt to address those issues you get idiots from Alaska calling it a death panel.

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by houghtam

And yet if you attempt to address those issues you get idiots from Alaska calling it a death panel.

And idiots from California saying we need a federal panel to decide what Cars should cost.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

And idiots from California saying we need a federal panel to decide what Cars should cost.

No different from big business auto makers blocking legislation which would allow straight to consumer auto sales instead of having to go through a dealership.

[frerottenextelway]

Hope not. My best friend has to choose between bankruptcy and treatment right now, this could save her life or house.

[Blart]

The idea of defunding Obamacare is a joke played on the GOP, by the GOP.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by Blart

The idea of defunding Obamacare is a joke played on the GOP, by the GOP.

Yep, it's to the point where people inside the party are opining only half-jokingly that Cruz is a Democratic plant placed there to destroy the party from within. If only the Dems were that smart.

Can't happen, and more importantly, won't happen.

We're stuck with it until we go single payer, and not a second before.

Join or die.

[Rigs11]

Lol. what a joke the GOP has become

Peter King: Ted Cruz 'is a fraud'

Washington (CNN) - The government shutdown showdown is getting ugly.

Republican Rep. Peter King said Friday that his Republican colleague in the Senate, Ted Cruz, "is a fraud" who will "no longer have any influence in the Republican Party" after the House votes on a measure that could potentially lead to a government shutdown.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...aud/?hpt=hp_t1

[Rigs11]

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by houghtam

No different from big business auto makers blocking legislation which would allow straight to consumer auto sales instead of having to go through a dealership.

Manufacturer-restricted sales channels are the same as federal price controls.

Got it. ?

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

Manufacturer-restricted sales channels are the same as federal price controls.

Got it. ?

It equates to the same thing: price fixing. And if you don't think manufacturers are using laws to stack the deck in their favor, think again.

[BroncoBeavis]

Originally Posted by houghtam

It equates to the same thing: price fixing. And if you don't think manufacturers are using laws to stack the deck in their favor, think again.

I'm sure they are. But that's not really price fixing. Doesn't mean it's good for consumers. But forcing both Toyota and GM to have dealership networks isn't anything like price fixing.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by BBII

I'm sure they are. But that's not really price fixing. Doesn't mean it's good for consumers. But forcing both Toyota and GM to have dealership networks isn't anything like price fixing.

Excuse me...price increasing.

Call it what you want.

One side is in favor of legislation which effectively lowers prices, the other has already passed legislation that has long since raised prices.

Here's some light reading for you:

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm

(WARNING: ARGUMENT BY HYPERLINK)