Trump's Winning Streak

[wvkeeper(HN)]

The ACA was intentionally designed to fail so that single-payer would be politically viable.

 

[wvkeeper(HN)]

 

[Chevy1]

Neither party has a monopoly on crazy....

https://www.glamour.com/story/chris...ats-unable-return-home-kavanaugh-confirmation

 

[Chevy1]

Exactly. That’s why the actions to back stop illiquid banks, pump liquidity back into the markets actually started before Bush left office (Paulson/Bernanke) continued under Obama and was ultimately created and controlled by the federal reserve bank and not so much by the executive branch

If you wanted to be honest you would also admit that financial policies which fueled the economic meltdown (reduced mortgage underwriting standards with Govt backed guarantees via Fannie&Freddie) began prior to Bush taking office. Some also choose to ignore the Dot Com implosion of 2000 as Clinton was leaving office was an enormous drag on the early years of Bush’s economy.

100% agree. many policies were put into motion before Bush - like dumping Glass Steagall. And I took a significant hit during the dot com bubble....it was a nasty time to be sure.

However, the Bush administration was responsible for monitoring the markets and insuring checks and balances were maintained. It appeared no one was watching the store as Wall Street ran amok selling shitty assets as blue chip properties. Either Wall Street scheming had out-paced Govt ability to effectively monitor it or the republican abhorrence with respect to regulations simply gave them a pass. My guess is it's probably both.

I voted for W twice (and damned near every other republican presidential candidate before then). Still believe he's a decent enough guy. He by himself couldn't have stopped what happened....but perhaps, if his administration would have maintained a bit more skepticism of what was happening on Wall Street, some of it could have been avoided. However, nonetheless, the buck stops with the President.

 

[WV-FAN]

Neither party has a monopoly on crazy....

https://www.glamour.com/story/chris...ats-unable-return-home-kavanaugh-confirmation

she's still not living at home? can't understand why not, she had that extra door in the front installed, you know, so she could have an extra way out. i'm certain it had nothing to do with the idea of renting that side of the house out, or opening up a home office, or nothing like that.

as convincing as she was during her testimony, that bitch is a cold calculating liar. the little girl voice from a 50-something year old professional individual with a doctorate in the psych field? to paraphrase cvntryroads89 . . . you're gullible! LOL! LMFAO! GTFO! she had way too many holes in her stories. while she deserves an academy for her performance, it was an act. she lied about multiple circumstances, was caught in those lies, and decided she better leave it alone and not pursue this any farther, because, like was said in another thread, funny thing about crying for an FBI investigation is it uncovers lots of lies.

bitch just needs to stfu and go away. why even put it out there she can't go home yet? to attract more attention. what other reason could there be?

 

[MStap]

You want to provide more care at a lower cost? Make it damn near impossible to sue a doctor or hospital without a super clear case of gross negligence that must first be reviewed and signed off on as such by an independent review board before going to trial. I had an anesthesiologist client who made $3 million a year. That's some good money, but unfortunately his malpractice insurance was $1.5 million a year and he had never had a claim against him that the insurance company had to pay out on.

People wonder why drugs cost so much more in the U.S., it's for two reasons, one, we can afford to pay more (we subsidize poor countries) and two, litigation expense. You will never make health care better without Tort reform.

You don't honestly believe this do you? Litigation expenses only account for a couple of percentage points of the total costs of healthcare. Your client might be the biggest sucker on the planet. Go look at average malpractice rates for an anesthesiologist. Why do you feel the healthcare industry should get a free pass on severely injuring, or even killing, people when they are careless and it was preventable?