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Posted 08/28/08 at 11:58am
ZippyDSMlee: to license more doctors,dentists and such so there would be a drop in price.
ZippyDSMlee: to license more doctors,dentists and such so there would be a drop in price.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:58am
ZippyDSMlee: Government should get into nationalized medicine make generics for the people it would make as much money as it would lose, health care itself (paying doctors and insurance and such) really needs to have its own market, it would also not hurt for them to
ZippyDSMlee: Government should get into nationalized medicine make generics for the people it would make as much money as it would lose, health care itself (paying doctors and insurance and such) really needs to have its own market, it would also not hurt for them to
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:54am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:people and then why not make it a full blown free market with no rules.... you have to force the market to do something to deal with the complete spectrum in a reasonable manner.
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:people and then why not make it a full blown free market with no rules.... you have to force the market to do something to deal with the complete spectrum in a reasonable manner.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:53am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: number 3 being millions with no healthcare leaving he fed and states dealing with losses due to healthcare concerns raising the prices of local hospitals and ect even more to off set the burden, unless you want hospitals to not take peop
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: number 3 being millions with no healthcare leaving he fed and states dealing with losses due to healthcare concerns raising the prices of local hospitals and ect even more to off set the burden, unless you want hospitals to not take peop
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:48am
E. Zachary Knight: Personally, I think that healthcare should not be a for profit business. It needs to be not for profit. No more share holders ic
E. Zachary Knight: Personally, I think that healthcare should not be a for profit business. It needs to be not for profit. No more share holders ic
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:46am
Dark Sovereign: I never said a "complete open market" for health insurance. I said people should be able to pick their insurer and pay privately
Dark Sovereign: I never said a "complete open market" for health insurance. I said people should be able to pick their insurer and pay privately
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am
E. Zachary Knight: I personally hate the idea of socialized healthcare. there are other ways better ways to improve national health.
E. Zachary Knight: I personally hate the idea of socialized healthcare. there are other ways better ways to improve national health.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am
Dark Sovereign: The market sets prices based on: 1) What people CAN pay. 2) What people WILL pay.
Dark Sovereign: The market sets prices based on: 1) What people CAN pay. 2) What people WILL pay.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:44am
E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark, sorry, I was not saying anything about socialized healthcare. i was just saying that both parties will be raising taxes.
E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark, sorry, I was not saying anything about socialized healthcare. i was just saying that both parties will be raising taxes.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:43am
Dark Sovereign: We've never had privatized health insurance. The market was never allowed to take over.
Dark Sovereign: We've never had privatized health insurance. The market was never allowed to take over.
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:43am
E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark
E. Zachary Knight: @ Dark
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:33am
Arad: I think the ShoutBox is getting too serious. New Subject: Will Portal's cake-centric gameplay be blamed for America's obesity?
Arad: I think the ShoutBox is getting too serious. New Subject: Will Portal's cake-centric gameplay be blamed for America's obesity?
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:23am
Neeneko: DS - purely private health care is very short sighted. fewer people covered = more disease vectors and lower GDP. n
Neeneko: DS - purely private health care is very short sighted. fewer people covered = more disease vectors and lower GDP. n
Posted 08/28/08 at 11:21am
SticKboy: Just like to add that "unfettered greed" is a sentiment that could be applied to pirates as well as corporations
SticKboy: Just like to add that "unfettered greed" is a sentiment that could be applied to pirates as well as corporations
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:57am
ZippyDSMlee: DS-forces the industry as a whole to band together to make a efficient cheap system or lose all their government licenses.
ZippyDSMlee: DS-forces the industry as a whole to band together to make a efficient cheap system or lose all their government licenses.
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:56am
ZippyDSMlee: DS-Then you can add taxes to those in the 80k+ bracket who use it they get less returns, the government stays in money, the industry is able to do what it wants as long as the low end is covered, also by forcing them to save money out to subsidize it forc
ZippyDSMlee: DS-Then you can add taxes to those in the 80k+ bracket who use it they get less returns, the government stays in money, the industry is able to do what it wants as long as the low end is covered, also by forcing them to save money out to subsidize it forc
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:50am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:as they do not cover much), you can gain profit AND ensure your brothers are taken care of at the same time, unfettered greed is too corrosive for any society to properly mitigate it.
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:as they do not cover much), you can gain profit AND ensure your brothers are taken care of at the same time, unfettered greed is too corrosive for any society to properly mitigate it.
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:49am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:it by forcing them to allocate X amount of profit and use that to subsidize the low end plans(ensuring all citizens under the 150K bracket can get them easily, they will of coarse get the better plans as they would not want the basic plans
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:it by forcing them to allocate X amount of profit and use that to subsidize the low end plans(ensuring all citizens under the 150K bracket can get them easily, they will of coarse get the better plans as they would not want the basic plans
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:48am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: a complete open market for health care and insurance dose not work it leaves to many people without thus tax payers pick up the bill at X2-10 the price because they can tripple charge people for being a complicated emergency.... regulate
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: a complete open market for health care and insurance dose not work it leaves to many people without thus tax payers pick up the bill at X2-10 the price because they can tripple charge people for being a complicated emergency.... regulate
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:47am
scribe999: I'll also remind you, while Clinton had many faults, the govt ran a SURPLUS under him...a Democrat.
scribe999: I'll also remind you, while Clinton had many faults, the govt ran a SURPLUS under him...a Democrat.
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Unable to determine a causal link between violent video games and actual physical violence, members of Parliament are now suggesting that violent video games inherently possess an attractive force, similar to magnetism, that seems to attract physical violence.
When questioned, expert violent video game's experts, Jack Thompson and MP Keith Vaz, stated that they knew the attractive force always existed. Thompson and Vaz quoted one Dr. Leroy Jenkins of MIT, "get out of my office or I'll have you arrested" as the determining factor in their study. "The doctor didn't explicity state that violent video games can attract physical violence, but I believe he made his point" Thompson remarked after burning a "war bouquet" that video gamers around the world sent him. "Those flower were sent to harass me" Thompson glibbly remarked before skipping down the streets and holding hands with Vaz.
Not everyone agrees though, experts around the world have remarked that the claims made by Vaz and Thompson are dubious. Frequent GP poster Majestic_12_x stated "how the **** do you blame violent video games when it was the ****ing victim that owned the game"? Many others remain skeptical and simply blame this on PM Gordon Brown trying to brown nose his way in order to gain "public sympathy" despite the fact that the violent video game was an absolute non-factor in the crime.
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