Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I blame our government schools.
The tech just allows people who can't do math to run a cash register, speeds up the check out process, and limits mistakes.
Maybe a conservative can explain, the Repiblicans are going to "repeal" the ACA,
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I blame our government schools.
The tech just allows people who can't do math to run a cash register, speeds up the check out process, and limits mistakes.
Fuck you and your bullshit attempted diversion.
Yeah, taxes, dumbshit. Do you really think what one person pays in taxes completely pays for the roads they drive on, the teachers that their kids are taught by, the value of police, fire, and the criminal justice system? The food, drugs and cosmetics that they buy? Clean water? Public health?
If you do, you're a delusional and naive moron.
" The number of companies insuring their employees went up. " Wm #99
That's the problem.
- Earth's economies are globalizing.
- Products produced in Kentucky compete with products produced in Bavaria.
BUT !!
An SUV built in a nation w/ single-payer healthcare costs $Thousands $less than a comparable SUV built in the U.S.
Why?
Because in the U.S. we have to tack on $thousands more to cover the health care costs of those that build it.
“The business of America is business,” President Coolidge
We succeed as a nation and People when we compete in the marketplace and win.
Employer provided health care put US at a disadvantage.
Obama / ACA tried to fix that. But Republicans prefer US to be at a disadvantage in the globalized market.
That's the problem.
- Earth's economies are globalizing.
- Products produced in Kentucky compete with products produced in Bavaria.
BUT !!
An SUV built in a nation w/ single-payer healthcare costs $Thousands $less than a comparable SUV built in the U.S.
Why?
Because in the U.S. we have to tack on $thousands more to cover the health care costs of those that build it.
“The business of America is business,” President Coolidge
We succeed as a nation and People when we compete in the marketplace and win.
Employer provided health care put US at a disadvantage.
Obama / ACA tried to fix that. But Republicans prefer US to be at a disadvantage in the globalized market.
As I said, go ahead and drive on that 2" of road you paid for.
Yeah, you personally fund all of it.
WillReadmore
Verified User
Nonsense. You were NOT targeted for having a good plan.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
The roads are for everyone to use. The U.S. military is for everyone's protection.
What socialists democrats like to do is carve out special robber baron give aways for "special" people. Not everyone. Typically the dollars are funneled into their favorite corps like Walmart and Giant grocers, as well as landlords, and also used to buy votes.
"What socialists democrats like to do is carve out special robber baron give aways for "special" people. Not everyone." Bd #107
It's President Elect Trump that's the crony capitalist. Weeks before the inauguration and he's already made special exception for reportedly fewer than 1,000 workers.
It's President Elect Trump that's the crony capitalist. Weeks before the inauguration and he's already made special exception for reportedly fewer than 1,000 workers.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Althea
Althea told me...
You're kidding, right? Advertising targets the dumbest among us. If the govt really wanted a healthier society, they'd have public service messages about the ills of consuming many of the things we see on the t.v daily.
Look at how people fought to let their kids eat shitty school lunches.
Althea
Althea told me...
Ironically, those who think they support the repeal of the ACA overwhelmingly like the line by line items in the law. So what they want in reality, is Obama's name gone from the law.
Funny how they offer Romneycare as an alternative, not knowing a thing about either one
Althea
Althea told me...
Repeal was just a talking point. They cannot simply dump ACA. Once they set out to find a way to craft their own special plan, they'll find that it isn't possible without many of the aspects of the ACA being kept
Althea
Althea told me...
It starts in the home. Any kid who cannot do simple math in their head, didn't have parents who cared enough to make sure they could. Sure...many can do it on paper. Running a register requires one to do it in their head, and do it quickly.
It's not hard to teach.
Althea
Althea told me...
Yes, but employer provided health insurance was a plot to keep wages down. Now that insurance costs so much, it's equal to quite a bump in pay. Removing that would be replaced by higher salary, so it's almost a wash w/respect to cost of providing goods/services.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I have plenty of experience running old timey registers, so I know exactly what you're saying. And if the electricity went out, you popped a crank handle in the side and kept ringing up customers ... and you could still accept credit cards with the old paper form, slide machines when the power went out. Unlike today where business comes to a dead halt.
I've also tutored math to jr. high students and at college. I blame the teachers. Unlike parents, they acutally get paid by taxpayer to teach the kids. Teachers are the professionals. And parents not being able to help their kids with the "new math" (or any math) is so prevalent, it has become a staple in many sitcom skits.
Teachers LET, what seems like 90% of kids, graduate HS without ever having memorized their multiplication tables.
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Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Employers avoid paying a lot of payroll taxes by offering insurance benefits as part of a pay package. And many people won't leave a BAD job for fear of losing their health insurance, so it's also a way for employers to "trap" workers in a job.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
some day you may also be a taxpayer, son.......then you can take credit for all of it too.......
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
yes.....and your point is?....
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
This has nothing to do with my comment. You said Americans overwhelmingly want to keep the ACA, I doubt that because I know too many people who have been hurt by it. You posted an article about signups. People signing up for something which is mandatory is not in any way an indicator of popularity.
Brand new has nothing to do with it. I know the risk corridor scheme was sold as being temporary but it can't be. The problems you named aren't going to change or go away and as you pointed out Medicare has been doing it for decades...because they have to. The key difference here is the federal government has the ability to do things insurance companies can't do as far as negotiating lower costs. It would have been a lot cheaper to just put the uninsured on Medicare and that wouldn't have negatively impacted 300 million other Americans.
It is a horrible law. It increased demand without increasing supply, among other things but that right there makes it a bad law. This whole thing has been political from the very beginning, all of it.
Many on the right, and the left, are economically illiterate. I don't blame Trump for being vague on this, I'm sure he wasn't positive about how the GOP Congress would want to handle this. The argument I always hear on this is increased competition. I don't agree with them, The ACA focuses on cooperation not competition and the insurance industry doesn't operate the same way other industries operate anyway. An alternative method of funding outside of the insurance industry would lower premiums or break the ACA, one of the two but that isn't happening as long as we have the mandate.
I don't think that would lower premium costs at all either.
