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Re: How Does Obamacare Help Anyone? No Really – How?

A single mom — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:40:23 -0000

I completely agree with your comments. I live in Michigan and was unemployed for 6 months last year and had to put my son on medicaid. I finally got a decent job paying just under $50,000. My employer insures me but not family, Just try and get a children's policy in MI? Thanks to oboma care, insurance companies no longer offer it. i was told I could apply for mi healthy child, but I get denied because my income is too high. My son has a chronic condition and takes two medications that cost over $800 a month. So I guess I am considered part of the 1% since they think I make too much even though I am making less then I made 3 years ago. What is a middle class income anyway? With medications alone I will have over $10,000 in out of pocket. that puts me at $38,000 and God forbid my son needs to be hospitalized. But I guess when it gets to that, I will have lost my home and have no assetts. So then I will qualify for medicaid again. One way or another we are all going to be impoverished with this administration. BTW: This goes way beyond Oboma. Congress is equally responsible for this. I have lost so much faith in our politicians. They all seem to becone immoral when they get into office. Those who appear to have some testicals going into office get there and lose them. They all seem so center of the isle that they end up quibbling over stupid things to differentiate themsekves to their political party. I would like to throw them all out of office and start over! Is there a political party for that?

Re: How Does Obamacare Help Anyone? No Really – How?

Tyschev — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:32:50 -0000

I really liked your article. Like the two below, I came to it by web search (Yahoo), although for a different reason. I called to check about insurance for our daughter today. The insurance person told me that it was not possible without including one of us parents or an older child on the policy because of new Obamacare rules. Now we have to pay even more of what we have very little of to give. Costs go up because of regulations and this new method guarantees more money in. Folks have to see someday that insurance is not a right, it is a for profit industry. They take $1,000 slowly over time and pay out $800. It is just the name of the game. No matter how many rules are put in place a similar ratio will be used. Our best way to less costs is to let the market run itself. Contracts would get way simpler, people could choose and options would be provided to make customers happy. Now everyone is upset, no one pays attention, and all of us get ripped off.

Re: Dear Ghost Hunters: Ok, Ghosts are Real, but What ARE They?

Albertopizana — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:44:24 -0000

how do ghost peform

Re: How Does Obamacare Help Anyone? No Really – How?

alphaG77 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:18:49 -0000

Like Kiluramt, I came here by googling the same question. But, I've read a bunch and had a few discussions on this matter. The Healthcare Reform Act, really does one thing, it makes transparent the cost of caring for all those who do not currently have insurance. Despite what AARP or grey panther groups might use as scare tactics, nobody really gets refused critical care in this country.

Currently, and for as long as I have been alive (34yrs), if you don't have insurance and you show up at a hospital clinic or emergency room, a doctor or GP will see you and you will get taken care of. The real cost of that care goes largely unaccounted for. Tax dollars are used to subsidize or pay for that cost, but it shows up as cost inflation for medicare/medicaid in state budgets, and in the form of other federal aid given to states. In theory, The HRA, creates a mechanism for removing these distortions...but since it gives states the ability to opt-out of the exchange, it's not clear that even that end will be accomplished.

Re: Is Glenn Beck Nostradamus 2011?

Buddy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:02:09 -0000

Beck's prediction that street protests were coming to America a la Greece have now come true. And his prediction of accompanied violence is starting to take shape.

Re: How Does Obamacare Help Anyone? No Really – How?

Kilurant — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:19:25 -0000

As an disabled retired school teacher without insurance, I've been searching the internet looking for an answer to my question, "What can Obama Care do to help me today." Apparently, not a damn thing. Thanks for the only article I found that answered my question directly. Kilurant

Re: Crime Scented Candles? Big Brother is Watching You Stink.

summertimebluesandgreens — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:43:59 -0000

I just found your article. I can't tell you how glad I am, sorta, that I'm not the only one concerned about this and thinking of the next logical step. Check out the 2011 Safe Cosmetics Act that was submitted 06/24. Now how do we stop this.

Re: Sam Axe Movie Nods to Campbell’s Past Roles – Watch It Here

Stockbridge Truslow — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:02:36 -0000

Cheers! And thanks for taking the time to post something. :)

Re: Sam Axe Movie Nods to Campbell’s Past Roles – Watch It Here

Indigoduchesse — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:02:29 -0000

Thank you so much---I also thought Bruce Campbell and the movie were great fun!
Thanks for sharing!

Re: Quick Hit: Tea Party Extreme Ideas for Extreme Debt?

Balistreri Nick — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:58:25 -0000

What's really EXTREME is the fact the last congress made a deliberate political decision in 2010 that passing a federal budget was OPTIONAL. It's obvious that a decision was made at the highest levels in the federal government, to simply not pass a budget for crass political reasons entirely. Knowing that the democratic party was, most likely, going to lose congress, they intentionally put their own paritsan interests ahead of their country. Thus, creating a budget crisis in 2011 which was completely intentional and a set-up.

As long as we allow politicians to get away these blatant abuses of their power, then we will always be nothing but pawns in their games.

I am therefore calling for a congressional ETHICS investigation into the obvious and blatant abuse of power in the last congress. I demand they the leadership of the last congress be called to testify as to EXACTLY why they couldn't find the time to fund the federal government, or pass even ONE single appropriation bill out of the house.

I ask anyone reading this to research the actions of the last congress and ask how it was possible for an entire year of congressional session to be held and yet, not ONE of the 13 appropriations bills were ever brought to the floor of either house?

We all know the answer already, the real question is..

Why do allow these abuses of ower to go UNPUNISHED..

balistreri.nick@gmail.com

Re: Is It Racist to Call a Certain Group Racist?

Stockbridge Truslow — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:12:37 -0000

Exactly. ;)

Actually, I couldn't really find any good example of racist tea party signs at all except for a few that had been proven to be people that they also have pictures of at liberal events, too. So that link was sort of my "Here is the most liberal, tea party hating site in the world claiming racism - but there really isn't a very good example of it" post. :)

It doesn't really matter if there are racists in the Tea Party - I'm certain that there are. What matters, and the point of all this is that you can't judge a group by their least common denominator.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Is It Racist to Call a Certain Group Racist?

Liz — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:16:29 -0000

The Tea Pary signs on the HuffPo are not racist. You might want to look at them again.

Re: The New Moral Compass – What the Founding Fathers Overlooked

seobro — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:41:13 -0000

Schools teach and preach evolution science. That we all came from some hairy apes. Well, now some students are acting like one.

Re: What You Don’t Get About The Union Thing

Stockbridge Truslow — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:41:15 -0000

Great stuff, Tim. I purposely kept a lot of facts and figures out of this post because they tend to make casual readers slam the back button in their browsers with swift and sudden force. Your article with supporting numbers definitely compliments my post and takes it a step further for the folks who come in here and want to see the data - so thanks!

I'll pop over to your blog in a minute to leave a comment that might tie our two articles together even better. :) (So everyone head over to Tim's link when you're done here if you want to witness my clever observational skills!!! ) Thanks again!

Re: What You Don’t Get About The Union Thing

Tim Weiss — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:25:14 -0000

In support of your article, I will mention some statistics from the 2008 elections. With respect to federal/state political support funding, the largest was the NEA (National Education Association - the largest labor union in the US) followed in 6th place by the SEIU (Service Employees International Union). Their contributions ($91,000,000) were split with approximately $81,000,000 in support of Democrats and/or the Democratic Party.

It's the above that prompted me to write "Walker - Leadoff Hitter for Republicans" (sortedrandomness.com/?p=27).

Before leaving, I would like to compliment you on making sure to separate the laborers from the unions.

Nice article!

Re: Pro-Choice: Could You Please Pass The Salt?

Stockbridge Truslow — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:29:17 -0000

Cheers, Greg!

Re: Pro-Choice: Could You Please Pass The Salt?

Greg Morrical — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:16:22 -0000

While I sit smoking atop my bacon wrapped dead baby, I find myself reminiscing. I always knew that you were a smart person, but you wrapped that debate up with logic that most people would think obvious only after it was shown to them.

Re: The Real History of: The 3/5ths Compromise

Stockbridge Truslow — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:33:18 -0000

We'll never agree on 90% of all the things that come down to opinion, Steve. And that's good. You and your side of the argument keeps me and my side of the argument in check, and vice versa. That, really, is the rare strength of this country.

Re: The Real History of: The 3/5ths Compromise

STEVE Z — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:20:01 -0000

although i dissagree with some of your arguments here..this is very good work..you are doing a great job .,.nice blog dude!!

Re: You Can See No Reasons Because There Are No Reasons (Tell Me Why)

Stockbridge Truslow — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:37:48 -0000

I am really just starting up this blog now and am using the "Moderate Everything" option. So, to be honest, I'm not quite sure. I do plan on trying a few things to see what works and doesn't, and I'm sure it'll end up being some sort of post here eventually too. I'm having huge amounts of trouble right now on a site I have for Second Life with a forum on it. They seem to be bots (since they are posting in the forums in HTML not BBCode and so their links are showing up properly and they are managing to bypass e-mail validation and re-captcha (it's a Joomla based site). One of my other Second Life sites requires that you log into SL and click a scripted terminal to validate and that has eliminated spam completely - the bots come in and register, but they can't get validated to post. :)

Stay tuned and hopefully we'll have some posts about battling spam in the coming weeks. Thanks for the comment.