Your employer is not obligated to offer you health care coverage so that "overhead" can be gotten rid of anytime--UNLESS Nanny Sammy or THE STATE MANDATES IT, RIGHT???
So's WHOSE FAULT is THAT????

It's offered as an INCENTIVE for you to chose to sell your commodity of Labor to THEM instead of somebody who DOESN'T offer it. It's part of your SALARY!!!

Where'd you study economics, girl. Karl Marx U?

You want costs DOWN you INCREASE competition (didn't read Ann's LAST--first--column on this did you?) NOT MONOPOLIZE which is what YOU are advocating a GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY!!!
I LIKE my coverage, I like my health care--don't want to go to Canada, think Europe is a bunch of Redfags!
You want COSTS of CARE...

went to doing things ONLINE?
Try doing Baby Delivery that way.

Trot out all the anecdotal evidence ya got, smrat, it balances out, a push. And if you think GOVERNMENT administration is more efficient and less costly than private--WHO administered the paperwork on all those golden toilet seats???
Ain't nobody gonna buy the idea Private is less efficient and more expensive than a Government Employee who can't be fired, smrat--no way.
I'm reminded of my colleagues working for the City of Richmond Dept. of Sewer Maintenance 1970's "This heah's a city job, and nobody sweats on a city job!"

At bottom, smrat, the wad up your panties is the fact the fair exchange of goods and services produces a PROFIT! How horrible!...

rorschach blot test.

What is the differene between Granny deciding she wants to be covered for a hip-replacement at 90 and paying for it in advance with her premiums---and Der Schwarzen Fuehrer President Red Barry Madoff or his representative deciding Granny can't have it cause Pookie in the Hood spends his premium bucks on crack?

Between "I'll pay for that because I want it" and "NOBODY CAN get it because EVERYBODY CAN'T pay for it."

You DO see a DIFFERENCE, right, Smrat? Right? a DIFFERENCE? Smrat?...

mick

Smrat, are you seriously telling us, and expecting us to believe, that you are UNAWARE of the Statistics demonstrating that Health Care dollars spent thru Medicare/caid are LESS EFFICIENT by dozens of percentage points?
They've been posted on TH and in the Media often enough. I would have though everybody had got clued in to that by now. Sort of genetic "race memory" kind of thing most of your ordinary people types know instinctively The Gipper was bang on when he said "Government is the Problem."

But if you LIKE the DMV by all means....

mick

Re. Teddy Voting from the Grave. Why not? Ain't the Kennedy's the closet thing America's Got to Divine Emperors?

mick

so your poster child for "ObamaCure-The Final Solution" is Medicare/Medicaid that is going broke and bankrupting the States?????

And you think this is a POSITIVE argument???

Smrat, your tactical sense needs some work.

mick

or better yet, form a Big Hun Circle around the beltloop and slay every living creature inside it.
Then start over.

mick

d'accord
my "Brutal Funeral Oration" may be found at the
7:57 and 8:02 hours on this tread.

mick

The PENTAGON and Defense Dept APPROVED those items. Your BUREAUCRAPS, much beloved of your commieqrs. Which was Ann's POINT! Further, did I miss something? did the Repubes have control of Congress during Reagan? Fore ya go throwing up in glass houses, there, smrat, you might want to consider Freddy and Fanny, Welfare Fraud, and Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security going broke.

It's the COMMIEQRS who stuff the sticky bills in their refrigerator. You want FLEECED, try "Chocolate Town" doing FEMA after Katrina or the New Yorkers after 911.

Entrepreneurs give fair value for purchase, smrat, it's how they stay in business. It's your Welfare Thieves who think they are OWED the "entitlement" to STEAL.
mick

doodoo reminds me of Inago Montoya talking to Vasini in “Princess Bride” “You keep using that word [‘fading rapidly’] I do not think it means what you think it means.” Ann’s gonna “fade rapidly” about the end of the century when she’s 20 years older than Teddy made it to before they hastened him on in an attempt to rescue “Obamacure-The Final Solution”. Nothing like grieving a Dead Kennedy to push Socialism on America.
On the other hand, doodoo, speaking of “fading”, YOU are going to make up “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” (I’m channeling my undergraduate year of Shakespeare--Julius Caesar, McBeth, what’s next, Hamlet, Richard the Third? Henry the Fourth?) and the day after and you will still be dumber, uglier, less read,...