Sad day for America

The reality is while DCC politicians pander, screw up, take bribes... while China is not a democracy, they have more integrity and honor on how they run their country. Less debt too.

Autos. China now makes and out sells the US in autos. Get over it. It is already a happening.

Liberal leftist losers want winners and producers to pay for it. Will they be disappointed at this bill.

It will seperate health care for upper-middle class up, and the rest can get rationed sub standard Obama care. Hell, a goo doctor making say $200/hr isn't going to go to Obama Care for $30/hr, no way. Obama Care will bring in under qualified from India and Africa. Will be a two teir system.

Hmmm - not sure I accept that at face value. Remember reading about melamine being put into exported pet foods? Then, several babies in China died from melamine being put into baby formula to raise the readings on nutritional tests (protein content I think it was) that get done on the product!

Their head of their equivalent of our Food and Drug Administration was executed - yes executed - at some point throughout that whole fiasco.

Now, occasionally, we still hear of toys being exported to the U.S. being recalled due to high levels of lead. That sounds like a *really* mixed bag to me. I mean - yeah - they seem to take drastic (to say the least) action, but the crap keeps happening, which indicates ongoing high levels of corruption.

Hmm - executing government officials that screw up. Hmmm . . .

Oops - hit 'send' too soon.

Yeah that's pretty extreme. Can't be justified. Impeachment or prosecution in certain cases, but execution - no justification for that.

Damn, did I hit a nerve?

Of course you are ignoring the money Medicare is paying into the plan on your behalf.

Wikipedia has a good article on Medicare that includes a discussion of Medicare Advantage Plans. It is a good read, give it a look (

). "The Government Accountability Office reported that in 2006, the plans earned profits of 6.6 percent, had overhead (sales, etc.) of 10.1 percent, and provided 83.3 percent of the revenue dollar in medical benefits. These administrative costs are far higher than traditional fee-for-service Medicare."

Ed

Obviously, with enough imagination you could connect that analogy to almost anything. You are proof of that.

Keep thinking about it - it will come to you. The concepts are pretty simple and obvious. I typed it real slow, but I don't know if that helped you or not. Like I say, if you can't grasp it, wait a few years, and the meaning will be obvious to you. I have trouble believing you are as slow as I think you are pretending to be.

In either case (i.e., (1) you really are that dumb, or (2) are just pretending to be), it's not worth my time explaining further. Somehow I think you get it. Bye.

No, I'm talking about Pelosi. She's the dictator. Obama is the REAL "speaker", he gives nice speeches, while SHE dictates and takes away freedoms and further destroys the Constitution.

They had you fooled, huh? You thought she was the speaker and he was the President?

You don't have to be insured. Why not quit. Federal taxes on the other hand are mandatory. Or you go to jail.

He's the speaker, as long as the teleprompter is working.

Medicare Advantage can continue, but the government needs to equalize the amount they pay to the same amount as what they pay for fee-for-service Medicare. Alas, most seniors won't understand the sweet deal they've been getting under Medicare Advantage until the plans are no longer are subsidized at such a high level. Medicare Advantage was a sweet deal for the private insurance companies also. That's the problem here, everyone expects the government to pay for their extra benefits.

In message , lil abner

Exactly. Essentially Mike Hunters is attacking Government mandated health care reform while he was getting a sweet deal on health care paid for mostly with Government dollars. He is perfectly willing to deny millions of US citizens government funded health care, while he is enjoying government funded health care. He doesn't see how unfair this is. He has convinced himself that he deserves the Government benefits while trying to deny them to others. I'd say he was greedy, but probably he is just confused because he listens to the wackos on AM radio too much. He is confusing what is right with what is entertaining.

Ed

In message , Bill Putney writes

Death panels are where exactly?

In message , Canuck57 writes

What an unpleasant lot you foreigners are.

Your are correct I should have said Venezuela

What you are reefing to is "End of Life Counseling," the cost of which is currently reimbursable under by Medicare

Not Really the Pennsylvania AG is one more of the states Attorneys General joining the litigation.