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Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Crabtownboy, Oct 21, 2013.

  1. Bro. Curtis

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    In one post he says it's too early to tell if it's a good law or a disaster. Here he says opposing the law is opposing health care for the many.

    Bothsidesofthemouthitis.
     
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    Donahue in typical liberal fashion wants to control the message and does not want any criticism. As he said he just wants Cruz to sit down and shut up.

    Just another example of this typical controlling of the message, Bob Beckle said yesterday on the 5 that Obama should delay the individual mandate for a year because of all the troubles in getting it started. He then said this morning that soon after the show he received a phone call from the white house telling him to shut up.

    Donahue is not being honest. He is controlling the message.
     
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    There you go, confused again. I said Cruz seems to oppose healthcare for the many as he proposed nothing constructive. He simply, or so it appears, wants to kill healthcare.

    I still say it is far too soon to know if ACA is good or bad. There are some worrisome aspects. Whether they will be real or not only time will tell.

    It is not too early to say Cruz offers nothing constructive.

    Understand yet?
     
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    You say this with the certainty of the uninformed. A simple check of Cruz's election platform would have told you where he stands on healthcare, but you didn't bother to check it out before you posted this nonsense. Cruz supports free-market insurance for healthcare, the very system the ACA is designed to systematically destroy. Cruz, like many Tea Party Republicans, supports tax credits for the purchase of health insurance, and tax-free health savings accounts -- another medical preparation protection the ACA targets for destruction by taxing these entities out of existence.

    "Free-market" insurance means insurance that responds to the pressures of the marketplace. It is ludicrous to force insurance providers to accept clients with pre-existing conditions without allowing them to charge extra for that service. Those clients are known to have health problems, and insurance is designed to help cover healthcare costs for those clients because they can't afford to pay those costs themselves.

    But if the insurer knows in advance they will have to pay out medical expenses for those clients, they need to be able to protect the rest of their insureds from bearing the burden of those known costs, and therefore charge those with pre-existing conditions the extra premium expenses up front to cover those costs. Otherwise, all their insureds pay for that one client's expenses by having to pay across-the-board higher premiums because the insurer isn't allowed to charge the client with the pre-existing condition those higher premiums.

    Re-read what I just said. That alone is one reason the ACA is bad. It removes the free-market controls that exist for the overall good of all the insured.

    I think it is us who understand that it is you who have nothing constructive to offer, since I've just shown that your statement was inaccurate from the beginning, and why? Because you didn't even bother to check and see if it was true.
     
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    You keep saying he has nothing to offer when that has been demonstrated untrue. Stopping zero-care is enough. He need not offer anything else. I reject your argument as being untrue.
     
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    Give me some examples of his proposals on improving healthcare ... and I do not mean by killing ACA ... but improving ACA or some other healthcare program for all. Thanks in advance. If he offers nothing else and had not offered anything else he has not shown leadership. A leader knows what they are against and can articulate what is needed to make improvements for all.
     
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    If you aren't going to accept anything but "some other healthcare program for all," then you limit the argument to pre-conditioned failure. A universal healthcare program is unworkable. The best and only response is that which (as I said earlier and you utterly ignored) is a free-market insurance plan, healthcare savings accounts, and tax credits for insurance purchase. Nothing else will work. Government is not good at providing services best left in the hands of professionals.
     
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    He tried to stop zero-care. That is enough for me. Donations are coming in. Good for him.

    As it turns out, Cruz, Limbaugh, Palin, Lee, Hannity, Coulter, Levin, and a whole slew of other people you HATE SO MUCH YOU WILL MISREPRESENT THEM, are 100% right about zero-care. That's probably why you are deflecting so much anger.
     
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    So, you have no answer. He has suggested nothing that he feels would improve Obamacare. No positive suggestions. No leadership.

    Oh, I don't hate them. Hatred is a waste of time and emotion. I just do not believe they have the best interest of the average American at heart. I figure most of the are laughing all the way to their banks.

    And they have suggested nothing I know of that would improve our flawed healthcare system. Have they?
     
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    And therein may well be the failure of the system.
     
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    If you want to improve obamacare you have to begin with getting rid of the individual mandate. Then what happens is the whole thing falls apart. So there is no way to improve obamacare. Hence we need to just get rid of it.
     
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    You really can't be as stupid as you portray yourself to be. My answer is, and will always be, you flush turds. You don't work to improve them.



    Baloney you don't hate them, and baloney they haven't suggested anything. Even someone with your reading level can see they have suggested at least two things, and democrats refuse to negotiate on both. TORT reform, and inter-state insurance plan bans. You even acknowledge this. So stop with the deliberate misrepresenting of people, just because you hate them.

    Again you are being intentionally dishonest, parroting the same line that gets disproved every time.
     
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    I gave you several chances today but you never took advantage of them. I just wanted to see if you knew anything or if you were diligent enough to learn anything on your own. Your continued repetition of nonsense, same-old-same-old answers gives us the reply.

    Actually, friend, Cruz has made some suggestions ... some of which I support. I purposely gave you ammunition to nail me to the wall betting myself you were not smart enough to do so. I won my bet. You are fun to play with intellectually as are a few others ... and I am not really an expert when it comes to that game.

    No, I won't tell you what he proposed that I support. You can find what he suggested on your own if you know how.





    Please do not judge my by your own emotions. Thanks.

    ps, like I said hatred and anger is a waste of time and emotions. Only stupid people allow hatred, as well as anger, into their thinking. I learned that years ago, probably about the time you were born.
     
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    Actually, what you did was say he made no suggestions, and had no leadership. Now you are admitting he has made suggestions. And you think you won the argument ? :laugh::laugh::laugh:

    I don't really care whatever you are talking about, here, for the hundredth time, he showed plenty of leadership when he stood up to stop this insanity. That is enough, for me, right now.
     
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    We had the greatest healthcare system in the history of the world before the Democrats started yelling about insurance. We fund 90% of the research and development into new medicines. No one went without medical treatment.

    The Democrats wanted everyone to have an insurance policy but they did not want everyone to have a policy from a private insurance company.

    I concede that Obama is the greatest Democrat President ever, but Harry Reid is a mean-spirited Mormon cultist a la Brigham Young or Joseph Smith and Nancy Pelosi is super-rich abortion on demand advocate who has been denied communion worldwide by the Vatican--so the Democrat congressional leadership is way out of the mainstream.

    The Democrats are attacking the Tea Party because the Democrats have no answers to the Tea Party critique of the Democrats' squandering of trillions of dollars under Obama. The Democrats have hated the Tea Party so much that they have used the IRS in an illegal, criminal manner to attack the Tea Party and deny them the Constitutional rights due all Americans. Now Jay Sekulow has filed a large law suit against the IRS for denying human rights to the Tea Party.

    It is the Democrats who seem out of the mainstream attacking middle-class people dressed as 1776 patriots and carrying the American flag.

    As for folks like John McCain and Graham, the Democrats should invite them to cross the aisle and be seated with the Democrats where they belong.

    CTB, you have to admit that Dingy Harry Reid, the mean-spirited, false accuser Mormon cultist, is no Mike Mansfield.
     
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    Crabby: "I gave you several chances today but you never took advantage of them. I just wanted to see if you knew anything or if you were diligent enough to learn anything on your own. Your continued repetition of nonsense, same-old-same-old answers gives us the reply."

    :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

    Give Crabby credit for quick thinking, if nothing else!!!!
     
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    Cruz is clever, fill the coffers while acting like you care for the country but actually do nothing.

    Democrats think they know better then the rest of us

    Republicans talk big but aren't willing to live up to their rhetoric

    Tea Party folks are a strange mixture of both
     
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    He was fighting a battle already lost and he know it. He was simply making political hay with his mindless followers.


    That, my friend, was you test. You failed. I am finding your prattling boring. I also find your vulgarity unbecoming of a Christian. So, let's make a deal, I will ignore you and you ignore me.
     
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    "Quick thinking"?? Deciding it was better to act as though you've been playing devil's advocate all along when in fact you were losing the argument from the beginning? I think it probably took him all day to come up with that one.
     
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    It looks to me like CTBoy is admitting he lied.
     
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