Who among you supposed — nay, dreamed — way back in 2008 that Karl Rove, having completed his task of gifting George W. Bush to America, would take his balls and go home and stop messing around with democracy? Well, we hate to be the bearers of bad news, but not only does he have a $200,000,000 SuperPac
"Karl Rove has been stricken by a rare neurological disorder that's debilitating, excruciatingly painful, and causes constant vomiting and diarrhea. It's incurable, though not fatal. Ironically, his medical insurance doesn't cover the condition, so after exhausting his life's savings, he'll spend the rest of life in some dank back alley drooling and shitting himself in lonely agony."
<blockquote>describing Paul Ryan as a &ldquo;certifiable right-wing ideologue&rdquo; whose views are &ldquo;extreme&rdquo; and &ldquo;radical.&rdquo;</blockquote>
The guy who wants the concept of &quot;personhood&quot; codified so that ectopic pregnancies are protected, and IUD users would be murderesses - extreme and radical ? Posh. Only a Democrat atheist lemming would find fault with that view.
<blockquote>The reasoning is based on a reliable truth: Competition will lower costs by using market forces to spur innovation and improvement.</blockquote>
...as the entire modern history of HMO and pharmaceutical pricing demonstrates.
Flesh-eating bacteria has more humanity than this traitorious glob of pus.
So... can I be the first to suggest that us on the left turn &quot;Premium Support&quot; to &quot;You pay a premium to get support&quot;? &#039;cause that&#039;s pretty much what it is, no?
Rove and Ryan and Romney and the Repubicans think the cost of Medicare is awful. But one reason Medicare costs a lot is because people live longer. (Not as long as under socialism, but let&#039;s ignore that little fact.) Isn&#039;t longer life a good thing? Doesn&#039;t the R-Team at least want to preserve innocent, <i>older</i> human life?
Medicare is funded by a 2.9% payroll tax on all wage. By statue it&#039;s split between employee and employer. Maybe that rate needs to be 3.4%. Another half a percent tax increase that goes directly to keeping retirees alive. Call it the &quot;Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother Surtax&quot; so the bible thumpers will (have to) go along.
If competition is going to drive down health care costs, insurance companies are going to have to answer questions like &quot;How much should I expect to pay for this procedure?&quot; and &quot;Is there another provider who can perform this service at lower cost to me?&quot; I have tried asking similar questions of my insurance company, and have never received a reasonable answer. What I do know is that I get charged much more if an X-ray is done in a hospital rather than an imaging center, and I suspect the same is true for many other procedures.
My sister has multiple myeloma. Her medicine costs $17,000 a month. How exactly will the Ryan/Romney plan for &quot;saving&quot; Medicare work for her?
Here&#039;s how Medicare currently works: everybody who works pays in. Some don&#039;t live long enough to get any benefit, and their payments are used to provide medical care for people who need expensive treatments. Soshecurity, life insurance, annuities, private pensions and many other programs work this way. The people who twiddle the dials to make it work are called actuaries. What will kill it any of these is making the pool of contributors and beneficiaries smaller, as the Republicans want to do. This is not good.
More utter horseshit from GWB2s fluffer bitch. These nimrods have one agenda and that is to fuck the middle class and line the pockets of the insurance companies with gold. I will again remind turdbasket that I have been paying into Social Security and Medicare for over 38 years at a tax rate almost twice of what Shit Romney has ever paid.
I&#039;m also for a U.S. version of the French Revolution involving bankers.
&quot;Karl Rove has been stricken by a rare neurological disorder that&#039;s debilitating, excruciatingly painful, and causes constant vomiting and diarrhea. It&#039;s incurable, though not fatal. Ironically, his medical insurance doesn&#039;t cover the condition, so after exhausting his life&#039;s savings, he&#039;ll spend the rest of life in some dank back alley drooling and shitting himself in lonely agony.&quot;
Hey, I can dream, can&#039;t I?
That&#039;ll teach those jocks in a long-ago Texas high school for being mean to him.
&quot;Burn it down. Burn it <i>all</i> down.&quot;
<blockquote>describing Paul Ryan as a &ldquo;certifiable right-wing ideologue&rdquo; whose views are &ldquo;extreme&rdquo; and &ldquo;radical.&rdquo;</blockquote>
The guy who wants the concept of &quot;personhood&quot; codified so that ectopic pregnancies are protected, and IUD users would be murderesses - extreme and radical ? Posh. Only a Democrat atheist lemming would find fault with that view.
<blockquote>The reasoning is based on a reliable truth: Competition will lower costs by using market forces to spur innovation and improvement.</blockquote>
...as the entire modern history of HMO and pharmaceutical pricing demonstrates.
Flesh-eating bacteria has more humanity than this traitorious glob of pus.
She&#039;s doing fine, thanks to Medicare and the magic meds. Your good wishes are appreciated.
So... can I be the first to suggest that us on the left turn &quot;Premium Support&quot; to &quot;You pay a premium to get support&quot;? &#039;cause that&#039;s pretty much what it is, no?
Rove and Ryan and Romney and the Repubicans think the cost of Medicare is awful. But one reason Medicare costs a lot is because people live longer. (Not as long as under socialism, but let&#039;s ignore that little fact.) Isn&#039;t longer life a good thing? Doesn&#039;t the R-Team at least want to preserve innocent, <i>older</i> human life?
Medicare is funded by a 2.9% payroll tax on all wage. By statue it&#039;s split between employee and employer. Maybe that rate needs to be 3.4%. Another half a percent tax increase that goes directly to keeping retirees alive. Call it the &quot;Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother Surtax&quot; so the bible thumpers will (have to) go along.
Remember when Karl Rove was rapping? He now sucks even more. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo">http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Pitchforks and hoverounds!
This must be one of those private sector solutions that is always better than government &ldquo;rammed down our throats&rdquo; solutions.
And about the system.
Laughter is the best medicine. Maniacal laughter&hellip;. Not so much.
If competition is going to drive down health care costs, insurance companies are going to have to answer questions like &quot;How much should I expect to pay for this procedure?&quot; and &quot;Is there another provider who can perform this service at lower cost to me?&quot; I have tried asking similar questions of my insurance company, and have never received a reasonable answer. What I do know is that I get charged much more if an X-ray is done in a hospital rather than an imaging center, and I suspect the same is true for many other procedures.
My sister has multiple myeloma. Her medicine costs $17,000 a month. How exactly will the Ryan/Romney plan for &quot;saving&quot; Medicare work for her?
Here&#039;s how Medicare currently works: everybody who works pays in. Some don&#039;t live long enough to get any benefit, and their payments are used to provide medical care for people who need expensive treatments. Soshecurity, life insurance, annuities, private pensions and many other programs work this way. The people who twiddle the dials to make it work are called actuaries. What will kill it any of these is making the pool of contributors and beneficiaries smaller, as the Republicans want to do. This is not good.
More utter horseshit from GWB2s fluffer bitch. These nimrods have one agenda and that is to fuck the middle class and line the pockets of the insurance companies with gold. I will again remind turdbasket that I have been paying into Social Security and Medicare for over 38 years at a tax rate almost twice of what Shit Romney has ever paid.
I&#039;m also for a U.S. version of the French Revolution involving bankers.
I heard instead &quot;Vanilla-K&quot;, Obama mispronounced Rove&#039;s rapper name as &quot;fucking asshole&quot;. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo">http://www.youtube.com/watc... [WARNING! NSFH ... Not Safe For Humans]