26%, Vision, Dental, Mental

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Sunday August 23, 2009 · 11:22 AM PDT

2009/08/23 · 11:22

I'm so tired of the evasive bullshit on the MSM. No one will follow up, no one will hammer the real issues:

Single payer with vision, dental and mental health (I feel strongly that teeth, eyes, and the brain are part of the body), and family planning.

EDIT: I am told that other national plans cover dental. More the sorrow. Family planning is for population control. See Gooserock below.

The difference between Medicare's 96% payout and private insurers' 70% payout to actual care providers would easily pay for the extension of decent care (not emergency rooms, an extremely expensive and stupid care mode) to everyone who presented at the doctor.

You don't need a thousand pages to say this:

Full Medicare for all

Insurers bring no value to health care, and they bring denial of care, also known as rationing. Why aren't our advocates saying these things?

O Democracy!

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 3:41 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 15:41

It has long been my suspicion that insufficient attention is being paid to the actual behavior of citizens in democracies. The "rule of the mob" feared by some of our founders, and partially buffered by the makeup and rules of the Senate, and the electoral college, and representative and deliberative form of our government is now being explored scientifically:

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Tuesday August 04, 2009 · 10:46 AM PDT

2009/08/04 · 10:46

I totally disagree that in the new formation of the racial landscape of our country, "white" will become a minority. To define minority on basis of skin pigmentation is to presume that the solution against racism is to become homogenized into one collective pool of skin tone that does not necessarily look Aryan, Asiatic or Negroid. But rather a mixture of all the above, depending on the trace most preferred. Most Jewish in America when they are asked about their race will likely answer white. Yet during the Third Reich they were looked down on as an inferior race.

The term minority to my understanding implies that you have to be in a less-represented political, educational, and economical sphere of sociological influence: To be a minority you have to have a cultural experience that is not the dominant one.

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Saturday August 01, 2009 · 7:47 PM PDT

2009/08/01 · 19:47

A few ruminations on getting what you wish for. Of course, we have many examples to draw from, of other nations somewhat like us, who for various reasons decided to accept the "dictates of our nature" and make health a right, to the extent skill and will would allow.

But the United States, as it exists in the minds of its citizens, is a most peculiar creature, Chosen, Superior, and yet fat and sickly, relying on a Charity that doesn't exist.

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Are you still for it?

33 votes Vote Now!

Are you still for it?

Yes, wholeheartedly, I'm phoning critters.

29 votes

Wellll, now that you mention it, maybe.

1 vote

It's socialism, bad for our character.

3 votes

I worship Robert Strauss.

0 votes

Finally, MSM gets Gates right

CallieDog71

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Monday July 27, 2009 · 11:49 AM PDT

2009/07/27 · 11:49

No, not the opinion piece, but the first three comments.

For a week I've been watching it be about race, when it was really about police technique and tactics. Everyone seemed obsessed with Gates' race, ignoring the skill level and experience of the investigating officer.

After a year of police fatalities, we should realize that going into an unknown house on a report of forced entry by two suspects, and being confronted by an agitated single person of obvious high educational level would FORCE removal of the person from possible danger from a lurking burglar.

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Thursday July 23, 2009 · 9:19 AM PDT

2009/07/23 · 09:19

THE GREAT WHY HOPE

Religion is the concretion in social terms of those questions asked which rose from the need to plan for survival.

Evolutionary characteristics are the results of successful questions of the environmental niches, and responses which increase survival rates.

The most common unanswered question is "who caused this?" or agency.

We tend to settle for the first answer which appears to work, which may not be the best answer, but is the most efficient use of the resources that questions use up so quickly.

Search is tiring. The result is the gratification of the need to settle a question.

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Saturday June 27, 2009 · 10:28 PM PDT

2009/06/27 · 22:28

The internet can be used by smart bad guys, too. Think of this as you pour your heart out politically and psychologically and sociologically and economically:

The power of technology from a government's perspective is to have the subjects of your suspicion (citizenry) freely and enthusiastically enter all their beliefs (micro/macro blogging), the topology of their personal relations (social networking sites), and their personal communications (gmail) into the databases of private corporations for the easy mining of the data by the keepers of all the keys (NSA, MI5, and others).

Then is is a simple matter to assemble an n-dimensional database of relationships into a large net. Then they need only to pull a single knot (a person) of this net and see all others strings and knots which are pulled also.

With this tool the government can intercept and neutralize any waxing movement, meme, or influential person.

A little present from the police scanner analogue...

Green or Growth. Bad choice.

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 11:10 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 11:10

Jeff Schweitzer, former science advisor to Clinton, writes in Huffington Post that we can have Green AND Growth.

Not so. We can't have growth at all. We CAN have, quite easily, improvements in world standard of living, especially for the lower classes who support the rich nations with their sweat and tears.

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 11:21 AM PDT

2009/06/16 · 11:21

NYTimes David Brooks today:

There is the liberal way, in which the government takes over the health care system and decides who gets what. And then there is the conservative way, in which cost-conscious consumers make choices in the context of a competitive marketplace.

This is the big lie, that we don't now have faceless bureaucrats denying care. When you hear this lie, speak up!

Write letters to the editor, sign on to blogs other than this one, newspaper commentaries, personal conversations! This lie will be the new Harry and Louise.

The answer is: With single payer, the doctors make the decisions, the government pays with taxes from everyone, since everyone is covered.

The savings come from removing the care deniers from the process. Use the term "care deniers." It has great pejorative connotations.

Pre-existing Conditions: The REAL deal-breaker.

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Thursday June 11, 2009 · 1:57 PM PDT

2009/06/11 · 13:57

If you boil it down, and I've been UP AGAINST insurance companies for more than 25 years and a couple hundred thousand dollars, the bottom line is this: If Obama gets "all pre-existing conditions" then in five years, he gets single payer. Why?

Because with electronic medical records (a done deal) everyone knows everything about everybody. THEN it comes down to who can be the most efficient, called competition, which is necessary.

IF what the Single Payer advocates say is true, then it is the most efficient system, but it requires NO cherry-picking (removal of sicker people) in order to work. Every player in the insurance competition MUST insure EVERY applicant.

Of course, there will be chicanery, secret techniques for maximizing profit, but there is also the possibility that some major insurers will go broke, and in the process of rescuing them (they are too big to fail) the conditions of rescue will force compliance with single payer theory.

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25 votes Show Results

Is this essentially accurate?

25 votes Vote Now!

Is this essentially accurate?

Yes. It might fake out the Republicans.

10 votes

Maybe. It's very complicated.

9 votes

No, health care is not a commodity.

6 votes

SADC Talkin' "Blues"

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 6:40 PM PDT

2009/06/09 · 18:40

Saw an paragraph on Forbes.com the other day, thought it might be interesting to some of the multitude of people who stop by here every day, although not all of them, but since this is, according to the FAQ, a blog dedicated to the election of Democrats, I thought I'd put it up and maybe learn something from the semi-pro political analysts here.

True, it was from a Newsmax story, but it wasn't the usual blatantly biased fantasy, rather a report of Bill Clinton's current "reaching out" to the hard right wing financiers and media backers. I wondered what the motives and effects of such contacts might be, or whether the report was true.

Instead, I received a blast of negativity and presumption of spying and trolling for my curiosity, along with paranoid fantasies that my questions on other subject were in truth expression of covert racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.

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Sunday June 07, 2009 · 11:05 AM PDT

2009/06/07 · 11:05

From an article in Forbes.com:

Newsmax scored a golden scoop by making Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin its September 2008 cover story days before she became McCain's running mate.

It also delivered surprisingly dispassionate cover stories on Bill Richardson and Bill Clinton. Talk about strange bedfellows--Ruddy, Scaife and Clinton have become occasional lunch chums. "Clinton is a moderating force in the Democratic party," says Ruddy.

Is the Great Triangulator just working behind the lines and gathering info from the "moderates" of their philosophy of government?

Gathering support for Obama? Or for the inevitable Hillary run in 2012?

Past history indicates it's never too early for a circular Democratic firing squad.

Unload your speculations here...

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Green or Growth. Bad choice.

"CARE DENIERS"

Pre-existing Conditions: The REAL deal-breaker.

SADC Talkin' "Blues"

Bill Clinton and Newsmax