- Weekend day 1 = Fix brick stair and clean up dirt, install tie rods on truck, split wood, build wood box … I am beat, and twice that tom. #
- RT @PJA64X We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop (LOL!) #
- If heaven is filled with half the self righteous jackasses who insist they'll be there, I'll be first in line to punch my ticket to hell. #
- I happen to be quite pleased with Pence's (R-IN) delivery in his speech http://abv8.me/1s0, but where has the fiscal cons. been for 9 years? #
- RT @YouQuotedQuotes A heart that loves is always young. ~ Greek Proverb #Quotes #
- Leaving work to go to my second job — it's called "The Weekend" #
- … ubuntu.com down ??? #
- What problem with the brain causes me to type "raight" instead of "rate" lol #
- Ok fine, Obama wasted time pleaing to the Olympic committee, but is it a *good thing* that the US won't get to host the Olympics? #
- RT @factcheckdotorg http://bit.ly/3I1fxM – Grayson’s Iffy Claims #
- @silverclassics Open Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type "sudo apt-get install mplayer" (without quotes). #
- RT @PJA64X If I love you, what business is it of yours? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #
- RT @GStephanopoulos Obama-McChrystal Surprise Meeting on Air Force One http://bit.ly/4eVV2 #
- The pessimist: Humans are just like the squirrel crossing the road in primal search of a nut, and our efforts equally as meaningless. #
- The optimist: Humans are just like the squirrel crossing the road in primal search of a nut, and our efforts equally as meaningful. #
- I just a squirrel crossing the road on a power line with an acorn in its mouth and an 8" leaf, complete with leaves, still attached. lol #
- Good job Robert D. Raiford on inflicting reason onto the unreasonable. #
- RT @PJA64X The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness. — Lao Tzu #
- RT @TheOnion [audio] Thousands Of Unemployed Manufacturing Robots Join Military http://ow.ly/15SnGX #
- RT @PJA64X By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. — August Strindberg #
- It is the fire and brimstone conjecturer who believes he is right and everyone who disagrees is wrong, and who is, therefore, always wrong. #
- Entertainment journalism: the "temptress detour" of an information deprived populous. #
- I want to applaud Sue Myrick's (R-NC) calm, objective assessment of the current Congressional environment this morning on The Big Show JB&B #
- I got a BSOD and no left hand! #
- RT @KarlRove New Polling News & Notes: Unemployment, GDP Growth Show Little Predictive Value for Midterm Results http://bit.ly/V2YM7 #
- RT @thewordoftheday 30/9 – tenebrific (/ˌtɛnəˈbrɪfɪk/) – adj: producing darkness. #
- Think you have smart, informed opinions on Obama? Present them like this, or you're just another idiot:
http://abv8.me/1oQ @GeorgeFWill # - Why is it anymore that personal opinion, emotion, morals, bleach away people's quest for logic? #
- @wceberly I like your history and your quotes, but why do you insist on incorporating your politics! #
- RT @YouQuotedQuotes Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco #
- Microsoft … marketing sex, the human race would have ended … no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool http://abv8.me/1op #
- Sometimes a really good whole body stretch is as great as a 2 hour massage. #
- @silverclassics Don't forget: curtains, mail check for ticket, price shentel pages graphic ad. #
- RT @factlets 100 years ago Paris had 437 km of pneumatic tubes to deliver mail across the city in minutes. http://tw2t.com/aZl #
- RT @thewordoftheday 29/9 – piscivorous (/pɪˈsɪvərəs/) – adj: fish-eating. (from @palimpsests) #
- I'd have Al Jolson sing "I'm sitting on top of the world" #
- agh I suck at #chess lol #
- lol Watch out what surveys you fill out on Facebook! http://abv8.me/1o2 #
- RT @wceberly 943 yrs today, Sept 28, 1066, William the Conqueror invades England http://bit.ly/5m8CX #
- For those of you caught up in the Obama czar nonsense: http://abv8.me/1nX #
- RT @PJA64X The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. — Muhammad Ali #
- RT @TheOnion Sports: NFL Scientists Postulate Theoretical Down Before First Down http://ow.ly/15RAmp #
- RT @PJA64X We do not attract what we want, but what we are. — James Allen #
- Extremely compelling evidence that there is hope for this country (the US) under our current President: http://abv8.me/1ns #
- Biased, yes, but read and learn a little: http://abv8.me/1nr (Search out other sources, as usual, of course) #
- I'm on my way from misery to happiness today … uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh #TheProclaimers #
- Happy birthday Goog11e !!! http://www.google.com/ #
- Grah … Dolphins … get a freaking defense. #
- Pontification from Clinton on the political environment of today: http://abv8.me/1nk #
- More info to digest when formulating opinions or conclusions on health care: http://abv8.me/1nj #
- Proof that this bickering has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with partisanship: http://abv8.me/1ne #
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Reaction: ABC’s John Stossel Destroys/Pulverizes/Crushes Obama’s anti-American ‘Health Care’ Plan (YouTube)
You know I’m really not for meddling with the system at all, but basically that video says “America can’t do it because England and Canada did it, and it doesn’t work, and there’s no way we could do it better.”
It also, in lieu of building a socialized medical system, justifies charging patients $5 for an aspirin because they need that money for innovations to improve trauma technology availability, cancer treatments, MRIs, etc.
So basically, the costs of all those innovations get distributed among everyone, even people not using it.
How is that not already a socialized system? So can’t America, the land of great innovation do it better? If not … well that’s a sad forecast.
I mean would a single payer system with incentives not solve the problem too? The title of this video is hardly accurate …
The video talks about how Obama purportedly is building a single payer system (this is purely conjecture), then it goes on to conclude that such a single payer system couldn’t work because Canada and England can’t make it work. It “destroys/pulverizes/crushes” a theoretical Obama “‘health care’ plan” that doesn’t even exist on the grounds that there’s no way America could implement a system better than Canada or England …
Beautiful.
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