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Yeah, but how good are they at returning shots down the line?

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The fact that you have to either win the sperm lottery or take out half a million in non-dischargeable debt to even make it to the "intern" stage of a medical career is completely orthogonal to the supply of doctors. Why do you ask?

Also unrelated: Convincing half of America that the modern synthesis of biology is a insidious lie promulgated mainly by instruments of Satan.

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"the bottom" as in "of the check", I believe.

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When I hear "selling insurance across state lines" I think "pick the worst damn state in the union with respect to health insurance, and then watch every insurance policy originate from that state".

I mean, that's how we have the fabulous credit card system we have today.

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It's almost as if they have no plan whatsoever other than to vote to repeal Obamacare every day. Weird!

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I feel like my dog would also do a superior job.

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<i>"..all those rules that are coming down and frankly driving doctors out of the system"</i>

The number of doctors in the U.S. has gone up every year since Obamacare passed. Forbes whines that there is a doctor shortage. But that is mostly because of the millions of new people getting coverage. Meeting that previously unmet demand is a feature of Obamacare, not a bug. <a href="http://www.statista.com/sta..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.statista.com/statistics/186260/total-d...">http://www.statista.com/sta... <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2013/06/10...">http://www.forbes.com/sites...

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ARE doctors actually being driven out? ARE tens of thousands of newly-hired people working? ARE Republicans actually working on an alternative to Obamacare?

Don't be ridiculous. Those are fact-based questions, so Boehner and McTurtle will never answer them.

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Trust your feelings Luke

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The big, big, big catch is that states regulate insurance. They don't necessarily allow out-of-state companies to come in without meeting their in-state requirements. Apparently King Boehner and Emperor McConnell are willing to pass a law to override state authority,

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"Helping those at the bottom I think we’re all for it"

The people at the bottom don't want the kind of help these guys want to give them.

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In a world where the government keeps trying to get between the revered doctor-patient relationship, there's one physician who <i>refuses</i> to play by the rules . . .

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