No, I do not, because Medicare and torts are invariably scapegoated for all problems with healthcare
Joel Send a noteboard - 04/03/2013 12:52:37 AM
View original post
I will warn you in advance, I have worked extensively in the insurance and medicare fields for years. You might have political talking points, but I have real life experience.
I will warn you in advance, I have worked extensively in the insurance and medicare fields for years. You might have political talking points, but I have real life experience.
Believe it or not, US healthcare was not the Garden of Eden prior to 1965. But that IS separate from this debate. I believe Aisha is a nurse though (i.e. actually PROVIDES healthcare rather than charging for but forbidding people to get it) if you wish to argue with her.
Honorbound and honored to be Bonded to Mahtaliel Sedai
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Can You Name the Largest US Program to ANNUALLY Collect More Than It Spent for 75 Straight Years?
- 28/02/2013 11:03:18 PM
1547 Views
Medicare? *NM*
- 28/02/2013 11:38:22 PM
660 Views
No, Medicare has only been around about half as long.
- 28/02/2013 11:56:32 PM
1033 Views
Medicare has its own problems, and caused many more. You really do not want to have this debate.
- 03/03/2013 03:03:15 PM
958 Views
No, I do not, because Medicare and torts are invariably scapegoated for all problems with healthcare
- 04/03/2013 12:52:37 AM
1032 Views
I can argue with anyone on this (and have) btut first we need to break out that dictionary
- 04/03/2013 04:45:06 AM
927 Views
I am sure you can and have; ability to form arguments does not automatically grant them validity.
- 11/03/2013 09:56:11 PM
1019 Views
Like I said, short conversation, once everyone uses the same definitions.
- 13/03/2013 03:28:52 PM
1009 Views
From the way you're shitting yourself with glee, I'm going to say Social Security.
- 01/03/2013 12:45:50 AM
1133 Views
Also unlike Ponzis, Social Security was not meant to profit—it just did anyway. For 75 years.
- 01/03/2013 01:55:46 AM
983 Views
It is a "Ponzi" by definition, any argument to the contrary just makes you look ignorant.
- 02/03/2013 12:02:46 PM
1044 Views
Wait: An insurer is saying insurance is a Ponzi scheme? 
- 04/03/2013 12:56:30 AM
1013 Views
- 04/03/2013 12:56:30 AM
1013 Views
You are making even lese sense than usual... Quite an acomplishment. *NM*
- 04/03/2013 03:31:39 AM
598 Views
Maybe, but my math usually checks, and I never have to explain what I omitted.
- 11/03/2013 09:55:50 PM
1116 Views
My math ALWAYS "checks" - it isn't personal, you are just making absolutely no sense, *NM*
- 13/03/2013 03:27:11 PM
534 Views
It's the world's greatest Ponzi scheme, since the government forces us to give money to it.
- 01/03/2013 01:05:05 PM
982 Views
Yes, "government forcing people to give money" defines a Ponzi; speeding tickets are Ponzis. 
- 01/03/2013 03:53:02 PM
1066 Views
- 01/03/2013 03:53:02 PM
1066 Views
Good lord my friend.....
- 02/03/2013 04:19:35 AM
995 Views
I will just link what Isaac said; maybe then you will pay attention to it.
- 02/03/2013 04:56:34 AM
1064 Views
I really think you terribly misread what I said *NM*
- 02/03/2013 06:59:56 AM
541 Views
I really do not think I did.
- 04/03/2013 01:43:02 AM
1093 Views
I'm pretty confident you have
- 04/03/2013 11:49:19 AM
1069 Views
We evidently disagree on what constitutes a Ponzi scheme.
- 11/03/2013 09:56:27 PM
992 Views
No, I agree with a clear definiton, you seem not to want to absorb that
- 11/03/2013 10:24:47 PM
1183 Views
Re: Yes, "government forcing people to give money" defines a Ponzi; speeding tickets are Ponzis.
- 02/03/2013 12:22:34 PM
1064 Views
- 02/03/2013 12:22:34 PM
1064 Views
Fraud="money contributed is NOT invested for the contributor, but instead redistributed to others"?
- 04/03/2013 12:51:30 AM
1012 Views
You can try and misrepresent what I have said all you want, you are still wrong.
- 04/03/2013 03:45:24 AM
1071 Views
Dude, how is QUOTING you misrepresenting you?! And why must I ALWAYS ask that in these threads?
- 11/03/2013 09:56:18 PM
1063 Views
- 11/03/2013 09:56:18 PM
1063 Views
Okay, that's a really weird or naive standard to judge SS by
- 01/03/2013 05:25:11 PM
1009 Views
Great; will you put that on a postcard to Cannoli, A2K, Rick Perry and the rest of your party? 
- 01/03/2013 07:39:44 PM
1055 Views
- 01/03/2013 07:39:44 PM
1055 Views
I don't think I'd be telling them anything they don't already know... I mostly agree with them
- 02/03/2013 05:38:56 AM
1217 Views
Means testing is flat out WRONG, and the contribution limit is a sticky debate
- 02/03/2013 12:43:09 PM
989 Views
Tell that to him not me, I didn't express an opinion and my implied one obviously doesn't favor it
- 02/03/2013 05:28:14 PM
1100 Views
I was, I just hit the repy under the wrong post. He was the first to bering the two topics up. *NM*
- 03/03/2013 04:09:34 AM
542 Views
It is insurance against old age poverty, not a longevity lottery.
- 04/03/2013 02:00:24 AM
1094 Views
It is not insurance, it is a pension plan, that also contains an overpriced LT disability insurance.
- 04/03/2013 04:00:42 AM
1094 Views
Social Security Insurance; says so right on the label.
- 11/03/2013 09:53:33 PM
1232 Views
You can call it BedroomWindowVitamins but it does not change what it acutally IS.
- 13/03/2013 04:34:42 PM
987 Views
"Sustainable"=/="profitable;" bankruptcy was not always a given, as your fellows claim..
- 04/03/2013 01:35:04 AM
986 Views
Sustainable often means profitable, they are not universally synonmous but both at once is ideal
- 04/03/2013 12:25:45 PM
990 Views
That is the IDEAL, but NOT point: Sustainability needs no profit, yet profit ensures sustainability.
- 11/03/2013 09:56:48 PM
1455 Views
Your attacks on republican ideals would have more credit if you understood them
- 02/03/2013 04:27:34 AM
1043 Views
An ironic charge, since their defenses of those ideals typically suffer from the same defect.
- 02/03/2013 04:51:32 AM
1001 Views
- 02/03/2013 04:51:32 AM
1001 Views
I'm rubber you're glue, whatever you say bounces of me and sticks to you. nyah, nyah, nyah
- 02/03/2013 12:58:10 PM
938 Views
"Unsustainable"=/="meeting monthly obligations for 75 YEARS and still having $2.5 trillion left."
- 04/03/2013 01:03:09 AM
1075 Views
Please look up the definition of sustainable. Hint: "its worked so far" isn't it.
- 04/03/2013 04:25:19 AM
1062 Views
"As it is currently constructed/funded" is one HELL of a qualifier.
- 04/03/2013 04:41:30 AM
1108 Views
You just don't get it, or apparently are so in love with your political ideology you won't.
- 04/03/2013 04:58:15 AM
914 Views
I believe if you check civilizations record you will find the human population has steadily risen.
- 04/03/2013 05:08:38 AM
968 Views
*sigh*
- 04/03/2013 12:15:22 PM
971 Views
Birth RATES have fallen; POPULATION steadily rose in every period except the Black Deaths peak.
- 11/03/2013 09:56:36 PM
1279 Views
Ironic that you would make my point while arguing against
- 04/03/2013 06:12:29 PM
912 Views
?
- 11/03/2013 09:56:59 PM
1089 Views
you mistate his posistion and then rationalize that you know what he really meant
- 13/03/2013 12:06:44 PM
923 Views
aH yes the great liberal investmetn/retirement plan that offers me a NEGATIGVE rate of return...
- 02/03/2013 11:51:50 AM
970 Views
Do you sincerely believe people earning $14,560/year can afford investing 4% of it?
- 04/03/2013 12:53:30 AM
1127 Views
*sigh*
- 04/03/2013 03:43:08 AM
954 Views
I tried it with compound interest; $44.80/month at 4% for 50 years still does not get to $1.25 mill.
- 04/03/2013 04:24:51 AM
997 Views
Here are some clues.
- 04/03/2013 04:37:39 AM
879 Views
It is math, not the Riddle of the Sphinx: EIther it adds up or does not.
- 04/03/2013 05:02:39 AM
1014 Views
Math is simple - Either you know how to calculate it or you don't
- 04/03/2013 11:55:24 AM
1139 Views
SS is supposed to supplement a proper pension, not provide your sole income after retirement
- 05/03/2013 03:53:03 AM
901 Views
Did you bother to actually read anything?
- 05/03/2013 02:32:16 PM
973 Views
do *YOU* know what "living in poverty" means?
- 05/03/2013 05:49:14 PM
1067 Views
Re: do *YOU* know what "living in poverty" means? --- yeah, I've BEEN there.
- 05/03/2013 08:01:33 PM
984 Views
how about respond to a post with logic and civility instead of being a troll for once?
- 05/03/2013 11:03:00 PM
1114 Views
All I have used is civility and logic, or least as much civility as was warrented.
- 06/03/2013 04:28:04 AM
1051 Views
yeah, it's my fault for stooping to your level....
- 08/03/2013 07:22:24 PM
1096 Views
Re: yeah, it's my fault for stooping to your level....
- 10/03/2013 01:42:26 PM
969 Views
i'm not going to keep going in circles so i will finish with this....
- 11/03/2013 10:08:53 PM
1273 Views
"Rah! Rah! Rah!" Can we please cut out all this blather and bile?
- 05/03/2013 11:53:41 PM
981 Views