Wash Post Editorial Could Describe WI Voter Suppression
You'd think the GOP here, in Texas, Kansas and elsewhere would have by now given up this reprehensible posture, as the Post explains:
NOTHING FRIGHTENS today’s Republican Party quite like the voters. Before the 2012 elections, GOP lawmakers in statehouses across the country tightened voter identification laws with one goal in common: to suppress turnout on Election Day among likely Democratic voters, especially minorities and the poor. It didn’t work.
Now, harking back to the days of Jim Crow, they are at it again.
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From the Waukesha Freeman on Obama Care:
A review of internal structural diagrams obtained by AP also revealed the complexity of the system. The diagrams show that applicants must submit at least 50 pieces of personal information, including income and immigration status. That data is then connected to at least eight distinct federal computer systems, including the Social Security Administration and the Peace Corps.
And we're worried about voter registration? Hmmm.
although comments from teh Anonymous Borg are worse than useless for the most part, in this case I find myself agreeing.
The ACA is complex, because the insurance industry it interfaces with is needlessly complex.
A drastic simplification is in order. Single payer is the solution to all those problems.
From the web;
Within a week of the new health care law coming into effect, the St. Petersburg Times was reporting that "After hearing about the elaborate network of options...Hugh Mabe had a simple response. 'I don't get it.' For the past week, many Citrus County residents have echoed Mabe's sentiment. Though enrollment began Tuesday, few potential beneficiaries have settled on a plan." Yes, it was confusing because it was so very new and different.
Of course, the computer glitches didn't help: "During the first few days of enrollment, people had trouble logging onto [the] website because of heavy traffic." Because of all the problems, less than a month after its rollout, at least one senator from the president's own party wrote to officials in charge of the website, saying, "I am writing to express my concern with serious problems brought to my attention relating website. [People] have reported that the pricing information of plans listed on the website is inaccurate and misleading...A discrepancy of thousands of dollars is more than just a 'glitch'...This sort of problem could greatly hinder successful implementation of the [new health care law] by undermining consumer confidence in the program."
A Democratic Congressman wrote to the president after a month into the sign-up to complain that "only 500,000 of 40 million eligible [people] have signed up so far. This low participation number is not surprising. After all, the fledgling program has been plagued by mishaps and misinformation." He was also frustrated that Congress was doing nothing to help fix the problems.
Things got so bad that even a governor who supported the law was frustrated that only "700 of the 100,000 applications [from his state] that have been submitted" had even been processed. He also noted that the Department of Health and Human Services promised that the "glitches" were fixed, even if users still had difficulties with the website. Among those glitches were "computer file transfers" that caused people to have to resubmit applications that were processed incorrectly.
Medical professionals were also upset with the program. "It's a nightmare," said one. "It will be a disaster" if the problems are not fixed, said another.
Let's just show the cards here. If you haven't figured it out, this is all about the sign-up period for what was the then-new Medicare prescription drug program, Part D.
So, nonnie, unless you also opposed Medicare Part D, kindly to be not mentioning this again. Until you pick a nym, of course.
Single payer system?
Obama care. Hillary Care. Same difference. Government run by those who want to control the private sector.
The US is not Europe. We left that system of oppression in 1776 and now the left wants to rejoin the bondage of the feudal system?
Move to Europe and renouce your US citizenship if it's so better that what our founding fathers framed.
The US is not Europe.
Obviously. They get better health care, and cheaper. And perhaps you need to revisit the definition of feudal system, since that is not what exists in any part of Europe.
Move to Europe and renouce your US citizenship if it's so better that what our founding fathers framed.
Why should I move, when you are the one who has a problem with laws that are legally passed in America?
remaining anonymous while trying to carry on a conversation is not only unconvincing, but rude. I can understand, though, when all you have is weak Sykesian talking points.
"Obviously. They get better health care, and cheaper."
I you think it's better, move there rather than hosing the next generation. Greedy. Just plain greedy.
Remember, your kids are going to determine the nursing home you'll live in.
"Why should I move, when you are the one who has a problem with laws that are legally passed in America?"
Considering Obamacare is the law and it's going to fall flat on it's face financially, Congress will let the US default rather than bail out this misguided failure. And when the country turns on the Democrats in the next election, the game will be over and the White House is going to be a very lonely place.
How long will we have to wait for Hillary to call Obamacare a failure?
"They get better health care, and cheaper"
It's more expensive and lower quality. The wait for surgery or even basic care is horrific.
Need a hip? Need corrective surgery? Need a transplant? Need reconstructive breast surgery? Need a tumor removed? Need oral surgery?
You are clearly an uninformed individual. American had the best health care system in the world. No more.
t's more expensive and lower quality. The wait for surgery or even basic care is horrific.
Need a hip? Need corrective surgery? Need a transplant? Need reconstructive breast surgery? Need a tumor removed? Need oral surgery?
Of course, exactly none of that is true, but is fear mongering by Republican politicians and Insurance industry shills, who lie to you for personal gain.
Here's the cost comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_health_expenditure_per_capita,_US_Dollars_PPP.png
And those costs, in America, are borne by individuals.
The only way America rates first in health delivery is if you cut out all the uninsured and emergency room patients and judge solely on 'patients served'. Which is a stupid way to look at it, since the health results of uninsured people add to the total health care cost, while dragging down the results.
Considering Obamacare is the law and it's going to fall flat on it's face financially, Congress will let the US default rather than bail out this misguided failure.
Financially, results are already lower than expected on the exchanges, and the Medicaid expansion is so successful that even Kasich could see the benefit and went against his own legislature to act in the interests of he constituents.
As far as a shutdown, Td Cruz smells funny and nobody likes him. Wall street won't let the Republican nutzoids get that far off the reservation again.
Obama care is going to be successful, just like SS and Medicare and Medicaid.
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