my platform as presidential candidate - what's yours?
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I deviated from my two main platform elements to discuss healthcare because it came up.
But my two main platform elements are:
1) that we don't blow ourselves up
2) that we don't burn ourselves up.
There are MANY people in government who think a nuclear war is winnable. And so they won't shy away from endlessly escalating foreign conflicts with nuclear powers.
Our new Bolt-on replacement is also one such person.
Questioning “mutual assured destruction,” Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict “in large part a physics problem.”
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/nuclear-war-with-russia-winna
ble-said-trump-s-incoming-national-security-advisor-r5dmxsC1Q0mXaGI1M0L1Xg/
Do you like cesium in your coffee?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I deviated from my two main platform elements to discuss healthcare because it came up.
But my two main platform elements are:
1) that we don't blow ourselves up
2) that we don't burn ourselves up.
There are MANY people in government who think a nuclear war is winnable. And so they won't shy away from endlessly escalating foreign conflicts with nuclear powers.
Our new Bolt-on replacement is also one such person.
Questioning “mutual assured destruction,” Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict “in large part a physics problem.”
Define winnable. Losing "only" 20 million instead of 150 million people doesn't sound winnable to me. And then what?
He does sound like a bit of a nut though - not sure he meant what he said as in "I think we should try it." Just looking at it from a purely logic puzzle pov. It was almost 40 years ago as well.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-tulsi-gabbard-wipe-floor-wel
l-known-war-hawk
Watch Tulsi Gabbard Wipe The Floor With A Well-Known War Hawk
“Look Neil, I’m a soldier,” Gabbard began after Cavuto went on the offensive. “And I took an oath as a soldier as well as a member of Congress to support and defend our Constitution of the United States, to serve the American people.”
“And it’s a huge disgrace to hear our commander-in-chief basically put us in a position —the American people, our men and women in uniform, our military assets — in a position where we are servants of the Saudi kingdom. Standing by and awaiting their orders on how we should proceed.”
Indeed Gabbard remains a rare voice: as a veteran seeking to dismantle American Empire and its regime change wars abroad, akin to a "Ron Paul of the Left".
This is why it appears the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep her out of the debates, despite her consistently polling higher than some of those who do make it to the stage.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
cross posted here
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62903&p=5
Who Is Running In 2020?
and here
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61974&p=2
Where has SIG and 1kiki's outrage about anyone allying with Saudia (sic) Araba(sic) gone ?
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Basically, the article says that since
Quote:those services are seen as lucrative cash cows, worth a heavy debt as the price to pay for buying them out. And that the need to both pay down that debt as well as generate a profit are the reasons why third parties whose only connection is financial, are levying high extra charges on medical bills.
Emergency medical services are a perfect buyout target because demand is inelastic, that is it does not decline when prices go up
Aside from the very specific failure of the for-profit health system to provide good care at a reasonable price, this is an interesting example of how 'market forces' in general fail in the case of inelastic demand.
Private equity has inflated US medical bills
https://www.ft.com/content/ab153670-e824-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55
The Surge In "Surprise" Medical Bills Bankrupting Americans Can Be Blamed On Private Equity
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/surge-surprise-medical-bills-bankr
upting-americans-can-be-blamed-private-equity
Surging "surprise" medical bills in the U.S. are private equity's fault, a new FT opinion piece claims.
And a recent Stanford study shows that these "surprise" bills continue to become more ubiquitous. They are up from about 33% of visits in 2010 to almost 43% in 2016. For inpatient stays, the number is even more alarming: the jump goes from 26% to 42%, with the average cost per patient rising from $804 to $2,040. It's an issue that only adds to the overwhelming debt bubble we have again created in the U.S.
These "surprise" medical bills continue to be a major talking point in the U.S. and are likely to be a key issue during the upcoming 2020 Presidential race. The term refers to invoices that are generated after a patient is admitted to the hospital and treated, without their knowledge, by someone not in their insurance plan.
The deals that physician service groups work out with hospitals are rarely transparent to the public. And this is probably for good reason:
But a study by Yale University of the billing practices of EmCare, Envision’s physician staffing arm, showed that when it took over the management of emergency rooms, it nearly doubled patient charges compared with those levied by previous physician organisations.
Which raises the question why hospitals go along with these arrangements. Well, some have struck joint-venture deals with physician companies, splitting the extra revenues these entities stick on patients. But for many, they don’t have the resources or the industry clout to combat surprise billing on their own.
“It was kind of mind blowing to realize that the country 50 miles away from where I live — that people could go to the doctor whenever they wanted and not have to take out their wallet.” B. Sanders And at half the per capita cost as the US.
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Waste in the US Health Care SystemEstimated Costs and Potential for Savings
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2752664
To the tune of almost a trillion dollrs every year, equal to the entire Pentagon budget.
Quote:The largest component of waste is "administrative complexity" followed by "pricing failure". Fraud and abuse is small in comparison.
The review yielded 71 estimates from 54 unique peer-reviewed publications, government-based reports, and reports from the gray literature. Computations yielded the following estimated ranges of total annual cost of waste: failure of care delivery, $102.4 billion to $165.7 billion; failure of care coordination, $27.2 billion to $78.2 billion; overtreatment or low-value care, $75.7 billion to $101.2 billion; pricing failure, $230.7 billion to $240.5 billion; fraud and abuse, $58.5 billion to $83.9 billion; and administrative complexity, $265.6 billion. The estimated annual savings from measures to eliminate waste were as follows: failure of care delivery, $44.4 billion to $93.3 billion; failure of care coordination, $29.6 billion to $38.2 billion; overtreatment or low-value care, $12.8 billion to $28.6 billion; pricing failure, $81.4 billion to $91.2 billion; and fraud and abuse, $22.8 billion to $30.8 billion. No studies were identified that focused on interventions targeting administrative complexity. The estimated total annual costs of waste were $760 billion to $935 billion and savings from interventions that address waste were $191 billion to $282 billion.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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US Healthcare Costs Are Exploding: Here's Why
What is the reason for this divergence: one word - deductible. ... the annual deductible across all health insurance plans has tripled since 2006.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/us-healthcare-costs-are-exp
loding-heres-why
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Poll: Just 1 in 4 Americans want Biden or Trump to run again in 2024
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/poll-no-trump-or-biden-in-2024
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This poll is from August. Given how effortlessly Americans pivot from one POV to another ("guided" by the M$M) it's probably irrelevant now.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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BRINGING JO753's PLATFORM UP TO DATE
Quote:And yet, you thoughtBiden*- that formerly corrupt, influence-peddling, money-grubbing, and currently emptied suit- was a better choice?
Originally posted by rue:
I've copied most of it here:
KaN YQ KoWNT, SUKRZ?
(click on Cyrus's quote to see & hear it)
If you're keeping count, you know the present is certainly not ours.
The wealthy are hogging up all the money. Uncle Scam is a basket case that can't even run an honest election.
The entire economy is set up like a giant cattle ranch with us as the cows. The stupid bad guys are running free, murdering us with bullets and drugs. The smart bad guys are running companies, selling us bullets and drugs.
We The People are working overtime, yet still picking which bills to not pay every month.
I'm writing this in January 2017, a week before Trump's inauguration, feeling like we are about to reboot the first decade of this millenium. Reboot as in the bigger bolder faster turbocharged 4K HD on steroids with a sparkling drop of retzin version! (in case you aren't getting it - that means bad. VERY bad.)
Quote:You mean, the Democlican Party? Or the Republicrat?
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that money in the electoral system is the problem.
It's bad enuf with giant corporations doing everything they can to squeeze us dry while ruining the planet, but when money starts writing the rules we live by, eventually we wont be able to live at all.
Money has been the lifeblood of politics from the beginning, but generally speaking, it's been kept at a level.
Now that the party-of-the-rich
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has nearly complete control and the president himself is a desperate wannabe-billionaire, job #1 for them will be to lock in the next and all future elections. Then we're totally, completely and permanently screwed.
Do not make the mistake of thinking America can't possibly become an official oligarchy rather than just the virtual oligarchy it is now. Those rich suckers can count. And they are counting on your apathy and inattention to let their congressmen, senators, governors and [Presidents] tweek the levers just a little bit more without any pesky watchdogs interfering.
Trust me, it'll be GREAT! You wont believe how unbelievable it will be, believe me! FANTASTIC trust me.
I, for one, do not trust them. I can count, and can see what this adds up to: they win, we lose.
My name is JO 753. I am running for President of The United States of America because I believe that We The People still have a chance to own the future and I can help make it happen.
A VISIoN FoR THe FUTURe
It's not enuf to talk about how bad the current administration is and say I can do better. It's too tempting to pick up the weapons of party politics that forget the wisdom of together we stand, especially when you can claim 'they started it'. No. 'Better than the other guy' is just an excuse to set a low bar. There has to be a promise based on actual ideas, positive ideals, real goals.
We must set our sights with optimism on the best we can imagine, not the minimum we can settle for.
Any fool can think up ways it can go wrong. Real leaders think up ways to make it happen.
If you've looked me up on the web, you may have gotten the impression that I am some sort of starry eyed idealistic idiot-genius who doesn't know human nature so can't understand why his plans will never fly in the real world. Or you may have a strong sense of true conservatism and feel that I'm a threat to those values.
I don't have any money. I don't have any contact at all with the wealthy or any political heavy weights. And clearly, I don't know how to knot a tie. But if voters continue to judge candidates by their wealth and past political experience, the oligarchs of the world will be able to pick who you can vote for, ensuring a win for themselves no matter who wins the election. Liberal or conservative, they donNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME