YellowLinesandArmadillos

True and that is why insurance companies justify premiums going up, because those people didn't pay those costs earlier in life when they were healthy and the upcoming baby boomer retirement generation. A lot has to with ratings, but insurance cos always make money... the questions for me include are their ratings out of wack?, are they making too much by collusion, and are their increase in premiums and profits well above most industries? also are they fiscal drain on our economy both individually and as a nation as a whole?

The law doesn't force anything... If the incompetent white wall of doctors was removed, where they cover the backsides at the drop of a hat yet pretend to know everything yet can't figure out how to cure anything... and insurance companies that charge them too much for their premiums like they do health care participants costs could be controlled and then I might support some kind of tort reform. Yet health insurance companies remain one of the most profitable industries in this country before, during and after this last expansion and crash. The jury awards and settlements are just a drop in the bucket of what these companies are making yearly and as much as I think some of these rewards are ridiculous, they are a red herring for not controlling the cost of healthcare. So until there can be some sort of cost structure or competition brought into the market place, such as a competitive government plan as inefficient as it might be, what is the point, there won't be any real change the Republican naysayers and the incompetent Democrats with their pork barrel demands will have blown an opportunity to actually do something constructive that could help alleviate the burden of health costs on all Americans and businesses. Ah piss on them all.... same old crap... different day. Jeez, I am beginning to sound like AD

Please... yuck, yuck, yuck, does all this animosity give you heartburn... or do you not take yourself so seriously and are actually enjoying being on the other end of the stick... Whatever... Your words don't even amount a little bit of shrill intelligence you go girl.

Kinda like the Corporations who pay no Corporate taxes... I forget the number... But all Americans pay sales taxes and percentage paid by low income Americans based on their income has been steadily rising. If they could write off Sales tax on their income statement that would be a great stimulus to the economy!

Dwight may have a point about End of Days... though not quite as he describes, more along the lines of your scenario... I hate to think about the incompetence of Homeland Security and its ramifications for getting anything like this done. I have heard enough stories about their stupidity to question even the need for the agency. We would be better of going back to the incompetence of the FBI, Treasury, CIA etc then to trust these idiots to do anything.

There is one in Alexandria, VA... I believe it is called failure to pay full attention and can result in jail time.

In today's society where you are required to multi-task most of the day!? Not going to happen.... Shoot it is all I can do to sit still and edit photos for an hour at a time. We are being programed to have or be ADD

I agree with everything except "If you mouth off to a copy you deserve to be arrested"... especially because it was in his own home. Somehow this is what people are missing, mouthing off to a cop, which is dubious, the Professor seems to have just been arrogant, not abusive, is not and should not be an arrestable offense and I am tired of hard headed police officers who think it is. We are a system of laws and they are part of the enforcement... to me arresting a man in his own home for nothing is a violation of the American Constitution. We have the freedom of speech in this country and this officer is just asking for a lawsuit...just what is needed right now in our history, more racial tension... Then throw in the after affects of racial tension LWB and the whole thing is a mess. Everything else you said I agree with.

I like the Welcome Back Cotter Debate better, but... Let's get this straight... a treaty is only as good as the motivations and desires of each signatory to abide by its terms or not. So treaties may not be made to be broken, but yes, they are likely to be broken sooner or later depending on changing geopolitical considerations. The UN is a classic example, it can't enforce World Peace but it does at times serve as a buffer to out and out World War and provides an avenue for things to be worked out before war results, though not always successful.

I like to think that I start out reasonably, but then I digress... ADD kicks in, I get mad and well... it all goes to crap because really I know, non of us have the answer, only a partial one maybe and here I go philosophically... but there is no way to tell what part is correct, so throwing crap on a wall sometimes is the only chance there is of getting something to stick, even if it is the wrong thing or just plain stinks..... Oh my head hurts after this last post... back to editing photos.

And that to paraphrase AD is what is wrong with our two party system, because over the last (x#@#@$) years both sides have been doing it, no matter who has been in power. Government isn't all bad, at times it is very good, but there is a lot of waste and I still can't figure our how these congress critters can get away with putting in as many pork barrel projects as they do. I think we do need the line-item veto and to repeat myself, I miss the Clinton - Tom Delay days of balanced budget and limited pork barrel projects.

I wasn't referring solely to the Drudge Report, but Matt himself. He does a lot of writing on the side as well or at least he used to.

He is part of the GOP echo chamber of made up stories, lies and deceit that starts with Matt Drudge. From what I remember, Rush is the first echo, but sometimes it is the Heritage foundation and a couple of others. But by and large it Rush is second on lunatic rw knuckledraggers echo chamber..

Oh common, cheering to drown someone out is not sophomoric???.... please, it is like the protesters a "name the hearing" as they get dragged out of the room. All sides seem to think that this is an effective form getting your voice heard.... please, it makes a good headline for which ever side had some capability of posting on the internet and that is about it. Sorry, I shouldn't have been insulting the sophomores

Voices yes, be known??? When did you start hearing voices? There are drugs for that condition

And what were these idiots doing? A sophomoric prank, cute, but sophomoric.

Actually MSNBC has both sides kinda separated, Scarborough in the morning and the lefties in evening with a smattering of business news and international stuff between. Occasionally they tread on each others turf. So in this case it is true, a surprise, but true. Only CNN makes stuff up. Where is that Wolf Blitzer drinking game when I need it. Wolf, Wolf, Wolf.....

I am talking about young people who don't have health insurance but are healthy and don't use it, but never mind, all should be required to purchase it a pay a premium like crop insurance. If you want any kind of ag payments you are required to carry it, you could easily work out a disincentive program for those who do not participate, but nice non-sequitor.

Wright and Ayers are just as bad... Not sure about Gates... so far I have not heard any radical hate speech out of him, though that doesn't mean he hasn't...

Yes I do, I used to be Fed, although I didn't cover health insurance. I recently have been navigating my way through the system on behalf of one of my sons who has a chronic neuro deal and it is not pleasant dealing with the insurance cos. It sure has limited our choices on where he gets treated, oh but private insurance is suppose to increase choices and options... yeh right... I hate cherry pickers in hockey and in business.... though in hockey at least I can knock them on their rear ends occasionally.

That is an interesting thought, the problem is that we already pay too much for the amount of service we get. I still think the crop insurance model or shared risk pools between private and public support with and cat coverage would limit the overall costs. HSAs are not necessarily a bad idea and I have used them to cover additional expenses for one of my children who has a chronic health issue, but.... the cost of maintenance health cost has gotten too high. I don't know much about the dying part, although since we all will share the burden, if we go down the route that you suggest, then everyone should be required to participate to share the burden. I agree from one of your earlier posts that government is not the full answer, but the current private system is broken and doing nothing should not be an option. Relying on only the private sector to solve this would be like deregulating the equity markets... oh wait we tried that....

Another thing that the insurance cos a fking the medical establishment on. One of those things that needs to be controlled too.

And if you are unemployed and underemployed you can't even afford the high deductible, so what is your point, the current system still sucks, limits choices and denies coverage at the drop of a hat... please... you may have to wait and arrogant doctors may have to deal with government bureaucracy more, but at least you can get served. Our current system is a joke unless you are rich.

And this is a bad thing? The insurance industry makes the government look efficient and that is hard to do.

Glen Beck is a right wing tool... he makes Obermann look almost credible. Please, you actually listen to this knuckle dragger.