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Actually, the issue for them isn't just political, and you can absolutely reasonably draw parallels between both the ACA and VA. So, what's the issue with the VA, other than the deception from the administrators? In a nut shell, there are too many patients and not enough medical providers to care for them. Hence the ridiculous wait times. The ACA exchange plans headed by the HSA made a concerted effort with the carriers participating on the exchanges to keep the premiums as low as possible. One of the ways that the carriers could attempt to contain premiums was by reducing the medical reimbursement rates. In other words, for example lets just say that a pre ACA carrier use to pay out to a primary care physician $65 for a routine Dr. visit. With the law, the carriers now say, we are only going to $45 for an office visit, in order to contain premiums. What happens is that you have many medical providers that decide to drop working with that particular plan from that carrier because they don't want to operate with such a low reimbursement rate. However, obviously some do, but what happens is that you have fewer medical providers then what there were accepting these plans. Many of the ACA plans, specially in the higher population zones are already encountering issues with considerably longer wait periods between the time that the scheduled office visit was placed to the time of the actual visit. And it's going to get much worse. Reason being is simple, the way the law is designed you will see many businesses, specially small businesses decide to drop coverage, replace the coverage with fixed payout to the employee and therefore they will end up going on to the exchange. If they don't increase the medical reimbursement rates, you won't see a marked increase with the medical providers participating along with the carriers from the exchange plans. Which means longer wait time periods. If you are someone who finds these delayed wait times with the VA as unacceptable, then you certainly won't be a fan of the ACA exchange plans, much less a single-payer system. You are going to need a "life-changing" event to qualify for special enrollment.

Of course Rand Paul doesn't have an answer at this time, he knows that if he is going to get any of those donor dollars he has to act like a grown up rather than pander to the youth like his father did. The question is how can he get those donor dollars by being a little more serious on matters of defense without alienating his father's base?

Oh Wow! You are right. http://www.dailymail...-bad-worse.html You mean like this game? I just found this about his injury status.

Cahill so far gets the goal of the tournament. Brilliant! And Holland is looking lackluster to say the least.

It's difficult to know, it really boils down to the character of the leaders of the team. Some teams come out on determined to execute their game plan, others fold like the Iraqi army after such a humiliating defeat. My guess is that they'll play a good game, even though Chile is world renowned for it's tough defense. I'm thinking 2-1 Spain. Netherlands I'm guessing will dominate. 3-0

So when someone is from "the other side" which I'm assuming you are, and you give a grade of a "C" from a president that is from your side, on a sliding scale, I guess that puts him at around D - I think that's pretty close to about right.

I swallowed it hook, line and sinker??? Maybe if you had the reading comprehension skills of at least a 10 year old, you wouldn't have made this post. This is what I said about that article: Try again And what's pathetic are the trolls that chime in and go out of their way to show their disdain for the sport. But hey, the rest of the world are a bunch of banana-throwing Europeans and 3rd worlder's, so you got them there. Are you pretending to be dense or did you not read the rest of what I wrote?

You don't see it? Of course not. Sure, the rest of the world are a bunch of 3rd worlder's and "banana-throwing" Europeans. Yeah, that isn't disparaging at all.

What a phenomenally ignorant view. Pretty much validates that your post is complete and utter garbage.

Ochoa definitely was the man of the match.

I'm pretty much with you on this one. CONCACAF Represent!

And tools will always be tools.

Yep, and it's not akin FIFA, the Olympics is another 4 year even that make the very same lunacy. See Greece.

I read this article today, and it encapsulated the errr discussions we are having on this topic. http://www.washingto...f9f1_story.html

In other words, what you wanted him to do was list in detail on his website how he would solve each one of these issues. Great, now that you have clearly laid that as your marker, I fully expect ( no, I really don't) For you to hold the same standards for Liberals. So let's see, how about we start off with the leader of house for the Democrats. I mean after all, she has had soooo much more time and resources $$ to list on her website and to "Man UP!" and detail how she would as you say : "Fiscal responsibility - man up and present a budget that balances revenues and expenditures - and recognize that your simply not going to be able to get legislation passed that dramatically changes SS and MC/MA." I'm assuming you are holding the leader of the Liberal party accountable to do the same, and that anything less would be hypocritical, right? So lets see what she has to say about this topic: http://pelosi.house....rement-security So her plan is what exactly? Oh, I know, to punt the looming problem, the status quo. What detail, and a profile in courage. You are grasping for straws, you desperately were looking to find something "extreme" and neither of you could find something. So now, you had to go to what in your mind was the next best line of attack which basically was "Hey, this guy needs to show us his detailed plans, or else I won't take him seriously" At least you attempted to come up with something on your own, rather than post a link so that Mother Jones could do speculating for you.

No, your views would be mainstream in Venezuela. Again, post what you find to be "extreme" and explain why, rather than having an extremist leftist political website tell you what to think. And yes, let's discuss the issues. WTF do you think I've been trying to do with you?

I did. How about we do this, why don't you paste the "extreme" statements that he made, and tell us why you believe it was "extreme", rather than have Mother Jones Spoon feed to you their interpretations.

Maybe because it's the World Cup? Maybe that doesn't mean much to you, but for the rest of the world it means everything in the world of sports. Just think if the Superbowl was held only once every four years, and multiply that by 10. That's the World Cup. It makes it a wee bit more special in the eyes of the vast majority of the world than any other sport. For these men, this was their ultimate dream, to make it to the world cup. Starting at the age of 4-5, travelling as kids to games across the state and country, training trying to be the best of the best day in day out, just to have an opportunity to be selected for a tryout with the national team. I remember what an awesome achievement that it was for me being selected 2nd team all state in soccer. I traveled across the state, even had to travel an hour to go to practices three times a week. The sacrifice made by my parents and by me was all worth it to be selected to the All State team.. So for these men, magnify that by 10. Even then, once your name is called to the national team, the qualification phase to get into the World Cup is a two year process. Not only do you have to perform at a high level during the practices or games that you play in the qualification phase, but there is tremendous pressure for you to perform well and not get benched for the professional team you play for. Because every game you play for your professional team, you are still being evaluated. And if you get benched for an extended period of time, guess what? The coach most likely won't select you for the next phase of the qualifications. Because in their view, you aren't as fit as you need to be and that your game skills aren't being tested. It's a grueling process, and to be selected to the team means that you were selected over the best your country has to offer, and for 2/3 of our World Cup team, it is the FIRST time they ever made it to the biggest show in all of sports on this planet. That alone is a huge achievement in itself. So now that you finally make the team, you not only dream of making it, but scoring that goal with time running out to win the game. That's the dream. That's what you been playing for all of your life, to have that opportunity arise, and to actually achieve what was the wildest of improbable fantasies, and you call this pinnacle moment, not just for this young man, but a DRAMATIC moment that helps lift this team in the World Cup, which puts the US in a great position to possibly advance in the "Group of Death", a team that has knocked us out of the previous two World Cup's, that gives a lot of pride to many American's, and in your view his celebration was "embarrassing". No, what's embarrassing is your penchant to act like a tool. Ya'know, I was actually feeling kinda bad for you yesterday because of how you were being beat up by everyone, grant it, you were in the wrong, but still. But rather than just obsessively continue to let your public disdain for Futbol go, what do you do? You double down on being dense. And no, his teammates weren't thinking that, only you and the rest of the people who dislike Futbol were thinking that.

What an amazing goal!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a marvelous goal by Dempsey! World Class! The defense looks solid, but we are unable to maintain possession to get the counter attack going with any consistency. But make no mistake, there are openings to be had.

This is the only quote from paragraph 2 That's extreme? Only in the mind of a bankrupting socialist would they consider that to be extreme. In paragraph 3, there is no quote. And in paragraph 4 well, there is no paragraph 4, because Mother Jones issued a correction. Keep searching, you still haven't found anything.

I think one of the encouraging signs is that league is looking to establish an official Division two league, which obviously would help develop players. Ultimately, what they will need to do is have each professional team set up their academies so that they can recruit these 13-17 year old kids, provide schooling and training much like they do in Europe and South America. That has to be the goal, and I'm sure we'll get there. In my view, within a decade of forming something along this lines, will propel us to a perennial top 8 team, year in and year out.

Wow! I knew Essien was coming back from an injury but Boateng is a surprising. He is an important part of that team and Essien at one time was considered to be one of the premier Central midfielders in the game.