Please, do share - what is YOUR solution for the poor who can't afford health insurance or medical care?
You have said you don't like:
(1) Them being able to access the ERs (2) Government supplementation
So what is your proposal?
If you think people who can't afford health insurance or medical care should be turned away to suffer and die on their own without access to a doctor, come right out and say it.
And don't do what the slime-ball political parasites like Congressman Cantor did when confronted with this question and replied "rely on charities and churches" because there is not enough charity to cover the tens of millions of Americans who have no access to healthcare.
Jean, this scam to pay in cash is nt unique to SD. You mention NYC, it's not any better there from my experience, they prefer cash regardless of what city you are in.
I consider it just common sense to ask if they take cards before getting in. Maybe it's because SD is not a big "cab own" but I always ask if planning to pay by non-cash methods.
Even if you are one of those people who thinks poor people should not be allowed to go to the doctor or the hospital if they can't pay out of pocket and can't afford insurance and should die in the street if they become sick and have the cost of removing their body billed to their family (muckapoo? Jean? this your vision of healthcare for the poor??) I would think you would at least be smart enough to realize that having a healthy, productive working poor actually benefits the rich.
I know you think economics only "trickles down", but if a wealthy industrialist has a healthy, productive workforce then that puts money into his or her pocket.
JeanMarc: 'All of the values this country was founded on are eroding."
So trying to build a safety net for the less fortunate is against America's values?
Telling insurance companies they can't refuse to cover someone who has cancer is against our values?
Ensuring higher productivity by making sure those who do the physically laborious lower-paying jobs in our country take fewer sick days and are healthier and more productive because they actually have access to preventive care is against our values?????
These things may be against your personal values, but they are certainly NOT against the values of America.
Personally I feel a single-payer system would make much more sense, but healthcare opponents who want to keep the status quo are kicking and screaming about just going this far.
I see the usual posters alarmed that the sky is falling as they usually are whenever anything in our country changes.
Being the only developed country on the planet who doesn't have universal healthcare, it's safe to assume that America would not be able to sustain our hegemony by having tens of millions of a segment we call "the working poor" without access to basic medical care.
Is see posters like muckapoo complaining about the status quo (emergency room's being used as primary doctors) and then complaining about reform to relieve this issue.
Complain, complain about the way it is now and the way it will be when Obamacare is 100% implemented.
Of course, nowhere in the flurry of complaining is there any semblance of a suggestion of what we SHOULD do.
Have you thought of running for Congress, muckapoo? Congressman Poo? Sounds like you would fit right in with your fellow obstructionists in Washington. Say no to any and all attempts to improve healthcare in our country, but come up with no solutions yourself.
More specifically to this article, it's only 1/2 good.
They voted to still not allow gay adults to have anything to do with the Boy Scouts.
In other words, a gay youth can be part of the Scouts until he turns 18, then he can't have anything to do with them.
There is still work to do as the boy scouts still discriminates.
These ridiculous thoughts that gay men would somehow have sex with the boys is simply outdated fear-monger-based nonsense along the lines of what some of the posters on here are spewing.
First off, a scout leader would need to be a FATHER of a scout. So it's not as if random people would be allowed to sign up, i.e. gay or STRAIGHT pedophiles.
Second, look at the girl scouts. FATHERS of girls scouts are allowed to serve as scout leaders, yes that's adult men being around young girls, and it hasn't turned into a pedophile scenario like the kooks claim. Same thing if gay FATHERS of the scouts were allowed to be scout leaders, nothing would happen and all the nutjob bigots would be disproved,
JeanMarc: "Why don't we treat other sexually deviant behavior the same way? Why don't we all accept bestiality, pedophilia, homosexuality, etc. and try to conform to all people who were born with these abnormal desires?"
It's pretty amazing that there are still people who lump being gay with pedophilia, bestiality, etc., but not surprising coming from a poster who sounds like 50's era J. McCarthy accusing everyone who doesn't agree with him as being a "Communist".
Society decides issues of morality and sexuality, and society has decided bestiality and pedophellia are morally wrong (not to mention ILLEGAL) due to consent issues.
Do you not understand the concept of CONSENT?
Gays in the boy scouts debate aside, I can guarantee you the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that there is a clear distinction between two adults of the same sex who mutually agree to be with each other and someone who has sex with a child or animal.
Your lumping these all together simply proves how fringe and far removed from the mainstream you actually are.
Not only do your very fringe, draconian opinions contradict American society, they also contradict American Law as well as the American Psychiatric Association.
Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? Have you ever engaged in oral sex? Have you ever had sex within marriage but not for the purpose of procreation? If so, there are fringe loonies out there who would liken YOU to pedophiles and animal abusers in the same ignorant fashion with which you are doing to gay people. I'm sure you would cast aside such accusations as fringe nonsense, and you would be right - fringe nonsense just like your comments.
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Calif. Health Exchange Plans, Rates Announced
Mr. Poo,
You failed to answer my question to you.
Please, do share - what is YOUR solution for the poor who can't afford health insurance or medical care?
You have said you don't like:
(1) Them being able to access the ERs
(2) Government supplementation
So what is your proposal?
If you think people who can't afford health insurance or medical care should be turned away to suffer and die on their own without access to a doctor, come right out and say it.
And don't do what the slime-ball political parasites like Congressman Cantor did when confronted with this question and replied "rely on charities and churches" because there is not enough charity to cover the tens of millions of Americans who have no access to healthcare.
May 24, 2013 at 11:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Boy Scouts Vote To Admit Openly Gay Members
Interesting that you, Jean, are harping about Afghan society. Your views on homosexuality seem pretty in-line with Sharia.
May 24, 2013 at 11:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City Considers Taxi Industry Overhaul Amid Reports Of Low Wages And Unsafe Cabs
SusandD, great points.
I don't take cabs often in SD because I have a car, but the times I have the drivers have always been polite and friendly.
My biggest complaint is thy don't seem to know the streets well and I have to give them directions, but that's. different story.
May 24, 2013 at 1:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City Considers Taxi Industry Overhaul Amid Reports Of Low Wages And Unsafe Cabs
Jean, this scam to pay in cash is nt unique to SD. You mention NYC, it's not any better there from my experience, they prefer cash regardless of what city you are in.
I consider it just common sense to ask if they take cards before getting in. Maybe it's because SD is not a big "cab own" but I always ask if planning to pay by non-cash methods.
May 24, 2013 at 1:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Calif. Health Exchange Plans, Rates Announced
Even if you are one of those people who thinks poor people should not be allowed to go to the doctor or the hospital if they can't pay out of pocket and can't afford insurance and should die in the street if they become sick and have the cost of removing their body billed to their family (muckapoo? Jean? this your vision of healthcare for the poor??) I would think you would at least be smart enough to realize that having a healthy, productive working poor actually benefits the rich.
I know you think economics only "trickles down", but if a wealthy industrialist has a healthy, productive workforce then that puts money into his or her pocket.
Yes, it does "trickle up" sometimes.
May 24, 2013 at 12:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Calif. Health Exchange Plans, Rates Announced
JeanMarc: 'All of the values this country was founded on are eroding."
So trying to build a safety net for the less fortunate is against America's values?
Telling insurance companies they can't refuse to cover someone who has cancer is against our values?
Ensuring higher productivity by making sure those who do the physically laborious lower-paying jobs in our country take fewer sick days and are healthier and more productive because they actually have access to preventive care is against our values?????
These things may be against your personal values, but they are certainly NOT against the values of America.
May 24, 2013 at 12:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Calif. Health Exchange Plans, Rates Announced
While not perfect, this will be an improvement.
Personally I feel a single-payer system would make much more sense, but healthcare opponents who want to keep the status quo are kicking and screaming about just going this far.
I see the usual posters alarmed that the sky is falling as they usually are whenever anything in our country changes.
Being the only developed country on the planet who doesn't have universal healthcare, it's safe to assume that America would not be able to sustain our hegemony by having tens of millions of a segment we call "the working poor" without access to basic medical care.
Is see posters like muckapoo complaining about the status quo (emergency room's being used as primary doctors) and then complaining about reform to relieve this issue.
Complain, complain about the way it is now and the way it will be when Obamacare is 100% implemented.
Of course, nowhere in the flurry of complaining is there any semblance of a suggestion of what we SHOULD do.
Have you thought of running for Congress, muckapoo? Congressman Poo? Sounds like you would fit right in with your fellow obstructionists in Washington. Say no to any and all attempts to improve healthcare in our country, but come up with no solutions yourself.
May 24, 2013 at 12:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Boy Scouts Vote To Admit Openly Gay Members
More specifically to this article, it's only 1/2 good.
They voted to still not allow gay adults to have anything to do with the Boy Scouts.
In other words, a gay youth can be part of the Scouts until he turns 18, then he can't have anything to do with them.
There is still work to do as the boy scouts still discriminates.
These ridiculous thoughts that gay men would somehow have sex with the boys is simply outdated fear-monger-based nonsense along the lines of what some of the posters on here are spewing.
First off, a scout leader would need to be a FATHER of a scout. So it's not as if random people would be allowed to sign up, i.e. gay or STRAIGHT pedophiles.
Second, look at the girl scouts. FATHERS of girls scouts are allowed to serve as scout leaders, yes that's adult men being around young girls, and it hasn't turned into a pedophile scenario like the kooks claim. Same thing if gay FATHERS of the scouts were allowed to be scout leaders, nothing would happen and all the nutjob bigots would be disproved,
May 24, 2013 at 11:35 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Boy Scouts Vote To Admit Openly Gay Members
JeanMarc: "Why don't we treat other sexually deviant behavior the same way? Why don't we all accept bestiality, pedophilia, homosexuality, etc. and try to conform to all people who were born with these abnormal desires?"
It's pretty amazing that there are still people who lump being gay with pedophilia, bestiality, etc., but not surprising coming from a poster who sounds like 50's era J. McCarthy accusing everyone who doesn't agree with him as being a "Communist".
Society decides issues of morality and sexuality, and society has decided bestiality and pedophellia are morally wrong (not to mention ILLEGAL) due to consent issues.
Do you not understand the concept of CONSENT?
Gays in the boy scouts debate aside, I can guarantee you the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that there is a clear distinction between two adults of the same sex who mutually agree to be with each other and someone who has sex with a child or animal.
Your lumping these all together simply proves how fringe and far removed from the mainstream you actually are.
Not only do your very fringe, draconian opinions contradict American society, they also contradict American Law as well as the American Psychiatric Association.
Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? Have you ever engaged in oral sex? Have you ever had sex within marriage but not for the purpose of procreation? If so, there are fringe loonies out there who would liken YOU to pedophiles and animal abusers in the same ignorant fashion with which you are doing to gay people. I'm sure you would cast aside such accusations as fringe nonsense, and you would be right - fringe nonsense just like your comments.
May 24, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Obama Urges San Diegans To 'Call Out' Rep. Duncan Hunter On Climate Change Denial
That quote from Mr. Hunter is almost as rich as Bush when he declared his belief that "Man and fish can coexist".
May 21, 2013 at 2:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )