Paul Ryan is the new King GOP Speaker of the House who couldn't wait to blame the old GOP Speaker of the House, John Boehner, for a budget package which has been attacked by conservatives from the standard Fat Bob response from Limbaugh to all of his clones. It doesn't seem to matter to them who they slash when they were professing their deep love of Boehner only months ago.
The budget was just as full of cholesterol as any McDonald's family pack of chicken bits and that was predictable. The compulsively stupid part was when he said he would make up for whatever perceived deficiencies in the budget with yet another fucking assault on the Affordable Care Act next year.
This kind of lobotomized cuckoo clock thinking has become so damn repetitious and tedious.
So ...
We skip right past the stupidity and go to the root of it. Of course the Affordable Care Act sucks but it's not because of Obama but rather the insurance companies which are some of the worst leeches in the country.
The insurance companies represent the consequence of privatizing government functions insofar as they obviate any requirement for a government health system by managing the health system themselves.
The cost of that private management is the straight-up Heavyweight Boxing Championship with the Goldwater Republicans. As to what Paul Ryan thinks, we don't give a fuck. Let him play Monopoly with the kids, we mean to deal with the problem rather than dance with it.
The readily-apparent cost of the insurance companies is shown through their benefit payouts which run quite roughly at about 50% of the income received by the insurance companies in medical insurance premiums.
Therefore, half of every dollar spent on medical care in America is skimmed off the top without any medical benefit of any kind. 'Skimming' is a loaded word but we maintain a 50% cut goes far beyond any simple cost / benefit ratio.
That single matter is the only 'talking point' required for any discussion of health care and we emphasize specifically we will not deal with any but Goldwater Republicans on it because their interest is specifically business rather than climbing statues or painting pictures of themselves, with or without a precious little, obsessively-trimmed beard.
Given that 50% split and we admit it is a rough number, the cost of the insurance companies has easily been in the trillions of dollars since that's been the history of American health care for as far back as the insurance companies have existed.
We see little point in reviewing whether the 50% figure is too high as even cutting it in half is still, from the Socialist Left perspective, an exorbitant cost given insurance companies provide no medical care but rather restrict access to it. Nevertheless, that's the specific point of contention.
Jumping straight to the Bernie Sanders Single Payer concept is premature. There must be agreement as to the actual problem before trying to find a solution because you can't possibly know you're fixing it otherwise. Here at the Rockhouse, we're sure Sanders is clearly aware of it.
The budget was just as full of cholesterol as any McDonald's family pack of chicken bits and that was predictable. The compulsively stupid part was when he said he would make up for whatever perceived deficiencies in the budget with yet another fucking assault on the Affordable Care Act next year.
This kind of lobotomized cuckoo clock thinking has become so damn repetitious and tedious.
So ...
We skip right past the stupidity and go to the root of it. Of course the Affordable Care Act sucks but it's not because of Obama but rather the insurance companies which are some of the worst leeches in the country.
The insurance companies represent the consequence of privatizing government functions insofar as they obviate any requirement for a government health system by managing the health system themselves.
The cost of that private management is the straight-up Heavyweight Boxing Championship with the Goldwater Republicans. As to what Paul Ryan thinks, we don't give a fuck. Let him play Monopoly with the kids, we mean to deal with the problem rather than dance with it.
The readily-apparent cost of the insurance companies is shown through their benefit payouts which run quite roughly at about 50% of the income received by the insurance companies in medical insurance premiums.
Therefore, half of every dollar spent on medical care in America is skimmed off the top without any medical benefit of any kind. 'Skimming' is a loaded word but we maintain a 50% cut goes far beyond any simple cost / benefit ratio.
That single matter is the only 'talking point' required for any discussion of health care and we emphasize specifically we will not deal with any but Goldwater Republicans on it because their interest is specifically business rather than climbing statues or painting pictures of themselves, with or without a precious little, obsessively-trimmed beard.
Given that 50% split and we admit it is a rough number, the cost of the insurance companies has easily been in the trillions of dollars since that's been the history of American health care for as far back as the insurance companies have existed.
We see little point in reviewing whether the 50% figure is too high as even cutting it in half is still, from the Socialist Left perspective, an exorbitant cost given insurance companies provide no medical care but rather restrict access to it. Nevertheless, that's the specific point of contention.
Jumping straight to the Bernie Sanders Single Payer concept is premature. There must be agreement as to the actual problem before trying to find a solution because you can't possibly know you're fixing it otherwise. Here at the Rockhouse, we're sure Sanders is clearly aware of it.
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