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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 10:44:39 AM »
Quote from: YouOnlyLiveTwice on July 19, 2017, 10:39:37 AM
Insurance companies are very happy not having to deal with competition across state lines.

And we know why.  We need to get them out of their comfort zone, and make them compete.

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 10:13:50 AM »
My major complaint is with his choice of words, and style in which he communicated it.  I would never say I didn't own it, if I were the President.  What happened to "The Buck Stops Here"?

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Spin Zone / Re: Blonde Lives Matter
« on: July 19, 2017, 10:04:49 AM »
Quote from: Jim Logajan on July 19, 2017, 09:23:42 AM
Nonsense. His background was published on every MSM I saw as soon as it became known. The Minneapolis authorities are being slow to release information.


The initial articles I read, except for Fox News did not mention his background, however, I see now they are. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 10:00:31 AM »
Trump has made some mistakes, obviously.  Lately, he has said a few things in which I disagree.  WRT Obamacare:  "Let it Fail".  The optics are bad on this.  It makes it seem he is OK with putting people at risk for healthcare coverage.  I know he doesn't mean that, but it can be spun as such.  The second is, "I don't own Obamacare".  Well, yes you do.  You agreed to that when you took the oath of office.  You own it more, if you fail to repeal, and/or replace it. 

This is basic communication, and he needs to sharpen it up.  NOW.

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 08:21:52 AM »
Quote from: gerhardt on July 19, 2017, 07:54:23 AM
In fairytale land maybe.  They've never chosen to do so...because they don't have to and there's no incentive for them to do so.  Hence, why this thread exists.  I'm thinking many people here don't even think a problem exists.

One of my clients is a major, regional healthcare system.  They spend huge dollars advertising, and are also going through a capital improvement initiative to modernize various facilities, and equipment to remain competitive with other healthcare systems in order to attract more patients.  Fairytale Land?  What would happen if some or all the Obamacare restrictions went away? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 07:38:10 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on July 19, 2017, 07:35:24 AM
Why not just let the free market work, just like any other free market?

While I do agree that healthcare is a different "commodity" than others I do think market competition can work.  Why do you think hospitals, and healthcare systems advertise?  Artificial, government, price controls do not work.  The market can limit costs, and create an equilibrium between service, and cost through NATIONAL competition.   

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 07:00:19 AM »
The Democrats may smarten up, and run a moderate, populist that can be embraced by union types, and blue collar, middle America workers.  Naaaaa.  They are still eating brie cheese, drinking Chardonnay, and ridiculing FLY OVER AMERICA. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Blonde Lives Matter
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:58:03 AM »
This doesn't fit the media's narrative.  It will be forgotten by tomorrow. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Can you imagine if Trump were a Democrat
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:41:24 AM »
The Republicans are in total disarray, and eating their own.  It is an embarrassment.  Maybe it is time for a third party to emerge.  Swamp Drainers?  Tea Totallers? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Blonde Lives Matter
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:38:52 AM »
This is getting national attention, however, the MSM fails to mention it is a Somali Muslim that committed the murder.

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Pilot Zone / Re: Geared turbofan P&W engine
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:11:23 AM »
This has GOT to be complex as hell.  I can't imagine. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Government Can't Fix Healthcare
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:10:39 AM »
The problem is that if the Republicans don't show progress on some things we will get another Democrat in 2020.  However, I don't think a lot of the establishment Republicans in the House, and Senate care that much.  As long as they keep their seats, and committee positions in order to line their own pockets, and retain power, they are happy.  Go along to get along, and be a part of the gravy train.  That's all they care about.  The establishment Republicans are worse hypocrites than the Democrats. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Anyone Believe A Single Word the Media is Broadcasting About Trump Jr.?
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:06:33 AM »
Quote from: YouOnlyLiveTwice on July 19, 2017, 05:59:27 AM
How come we never hear of "Knife Crime" or Fist Crime" or "Baseball Bat Crime"?

Because the powers that be fear legally armed citizens that can resist oppression, and tyranny.  Look at all the vehicle deaths each year, some carried out purposely.  You don't hear "car crime".

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Spin Zone / Re: Anyone Believe A Single Word the Media is Broadcasting About Trump Jr.?
« on: July 19, 2017, 05:57:04 AM »
Quote from: azure on July 19, 2017, 05:19:55 AM
100% agree! In fact, I said that a few replies back. "Gun crime" is just shorthand for violence perpetrated using a gun.

Yes, the media and the Dems like to blame the gun while guns by themselves are harmless.  It takes a person to use one for it to be dangerous. 

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Meaning what exactly? Do you think the people who live here in VT are different in some fundamental way from those who live in DC?

Yes, I do for the most part.  I think the vast majority of people in VT are very different from inner city, poor minorities.  Just like the people where I live in the outer burbs of Philly are very different from the inner city poor of that city.  It is about values, and responsibility, not skin color. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Get A Job.....
« on: July 19, 2017, 05:52:46 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on July 19, 2017, 05:47:40 AM
Welfare was never intended to be a career goal.  Yet we now have second and third generations that have known nothing but welfare.

That was the intent of LBJ, and his Great Society/War on Poverty.  He and the Democrats wanted to keep the inner city poor as huge voting blocks.  In order to do this he had to keep them DEPENDENT.  Now we see the results.  ALL urban centers, and most metro areas surrounding them are Democrat.  They are also locked into a cycle of poverty.  There is no easy escape, nor easy solution.  Anya work requirements, or transition programs get trashed by the Dems, and Media as heartless Republican initiatives to starve the poor.

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