MrJoyboy's Comments (449)

“Dumbarse, remember this happened at a non-U.S. airport! Our DHS (which is not international) played no role.”

“The medical profession has to shoulder much of the blame. Doctors order tests to head off malpractice suits, to throw a few referrals to cohorts(with possible kickbacks), and to pay off equipment they own and make a huge profit. Check the statistics on where the most expensive health care is, in areas where the doctors' groups own the medical equipment..... Superior hospitals like May have the lowest average costs because they encourage doctors working with the patients and are paid accordingly. Note the brouhaha over the mammogram study........”

“HAH !”

“Yikes! If I am not mistaken the red badge of courage meant you had aa bullet wound.”

“Robert Byrd was not a teabagger. Senators William Fulbright and Albert Gore Sr. were both rasicst who voted down the CRB, but they were not teabaggers either.

You must be a teabagger since you are preoccupied by the term. How do those orchids taste?”

“He's already better than Reagan.”

“Back to the days of Bill and Hillary eh?”

“MrJoyBoy
"administered by a nonprofit entity. Problem solved" YOUR LAST SEVEN WORDS SAID IT ALL.

THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BE MADE NOT FOR PROFIT.
FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON

“Health care ins. companies are different fom an economics point of view

1. Demand for health care is INELASTIC meaning you will pay any price to get it particularly when your life is at stake, therefore the law of supply and demand CANNOT work.

That is why pricing is regulated in civilized countries and profiting from basic care is outlawed.”

2. Competition apparently does not work for private health care insurance companies in the same way that it does for others marketing other goods and services. Health care spending is mostly non-discretional and therefore the law of supply and demand in the marketplace really does not function.

3. If the insurance is paid for by the employer but used by the employee, that also changes things.

4. Finally the insurance company has financial incentive of denying claims thus marketing an inferior product.

5. If the rule is that private enterprise results in the marketing of better goods and services for the public than the government could provide, private health care companies are the exception that proves the rule.””””

“Hear! Hear! Well phrased!! I couldn't agree more!!”

“The insurance lobby and campaign contributions to politicians? Dare I ask?”

“That's called single payer. Yes, it's the solution.”

“Exactly.

It's pathetic the way many grown men and women idolize athletes for being supreme at such meaningless tasks.”

“If you could turn your eyes to a family who needs a kidney transplant, but has no insurance, you might realize that insurance for 30 Million Americans / getting rid of "preexisting conditions" is a big deal, and worth you getting off your behind to support!”