Yeah, about affordable healthcare

Simolean

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 7:14 AM PST

2016/11/09 · 07:14

health care — Take a good look. You probably won't be able to afford to see one in person--if Trump gets his way--without hocking your car

As seen on McCarter’s diary

You’re going to let 20 million people lose their health insurance and not do anything to replace it?

Pretty much. And their followers won’t care, until it affects them individually, but then they can always blame someone else. Those who aren’t yet affected can hand-wave away their fellows’ plight: “they were too lazy” or some other victim-blaming excuse.

Many people don’t get what ACA did: no lifetime maxes, no getting dropped for making a claim, no refusal for preexisting conditions, cap on insurance companies’ profits (% of expenses), keeping kids on parents’ plans, etc. All that goes away.

All they care—and are mad about—is they were forced to buy something (many times with subsidies) from the government.

Premiums will go up, just like they always did. ACA wasn’t the sole cause of rising premiums.

Trump might pick the Paul Ryan stupid plan of “allowing intrastate competition” which will do nothing. So those of us who lose our jobs will have a choice of unaffordable COBRA or also-unaffordable individual plans.

The silver lining is we might—might!—just remember what it was like to have ACA and lose it, and use that experience choose better next time, like insisting on single-player.

National Debt Isn't Bad

Simolean

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Wednesday August 19, 2015 · 9:21 AM PDT

2015/08/19 · 09:21

I was indulging in one of my favorite pastimes—watching people film police encounters—when one of the vidiographers mentioned a tired Libertarian canard:

"...when you turn 18, your share of the national debt is $45,000."

Not only is this incorrect (as a citizen, this debt is not yours and neither penalizes nor rewards you), and requiring the Federal Government to carry no debt is entirely missing the point.
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What if we just cut basic services?

Simolean

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Wednesday May 20, 2015 · 1:52 PM PDT

2015/05/20 · 13:52

If Teabaggers and their GOP enablers are SERIOUS about their race to make America into a libertarian paradise like Somalia, they need to privatize local Fire and Police protection.

Why should a few cents (or dollars) of the money we pay in taxes go to the collective well-being?

Because it sounds like Communism!!!

Simolean

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Sunday August 19, 2012 · 1:23 PM PDT

2012/08/19 · 13:23

I want the US Health Insurance industry to DIE IN A FIRE. No, seriously. I want them to go bankrupt with extreme prejudice. I want their officers and board-members to go to PMITA prison for long, long lives*. I want to look out over the carnage and say, "Finally, this gaggle of morally-corrupt douchebags got what they deserved."

Here's my story.

Simolean

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Tuesday November 29, 2011 · 11:22 AM PST

2011/11/29 · 11:22

The following sites are due to be permanently removed from the internet soon:

Disney.com
Sony.com
Viacom.com (Paramount Pictures)
Fox.com
UniversalStudios.com
TimeWarner.com (Warner Bros.)

In addition, a plethora of music company sites will also be terminated.

The law of unintended consequences is about to bite Old People Who Don't Understand Technology in the A double-ES.

Simolean

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 6:10 PM PDT

2011/08/10 · 18:10

What laws would I enact?

Which policies would I enforce?

How would I fix our broken government?

Hmm, let me give it a shot.

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