Synoia's Comments (1459)

“It's not an Afgan problem. There is no "Afgan" solution.

It's using the military, not agronomists. Food not bombs.
It's about ending fedualism, which requires industry.
It's about the seething resentment Muslims have about the treatment of Palistinians.

Afganistan, is about root cause and treating root causes. Success will not come from salves on symptoms.”

“This will end badly”

“We already have at least one of those black holes. It's in DC. Along with many other forms of holes, that mostly start with A.

Do we have a monetary black hole in NY? We used to think that NY was a ma$$ive Green Giant, now we are not so sure. The debris from the (super) nova has yet to clear for us to view the stellar remnants.”

“Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The management commit a crime.

The shareholders pay the fine.”

“Actually I believe we can afford to buy back our own representatives. They sell themselves cheap.”

“And the baby has a pre-existing Medical condition - birth.”

“The insurance campanies will raise rates with or without health care reform. Without reform the emergency rooms will raise their rates to cover the uninsured, etc, etc.

Health Insurance: A Loose/Loose proposition.”

“You are correct. It's all Obama's fault. After all, he''s been in charge for the last 30 years, correct?”

“The left's idea of torture is a long flight in the back, in a middle seat, of a full 747.

Exerbated in my case with a pleasant airline employee one side and a really good looking girl on the other.

The torture was the good looking girl was an non-english, Afrikaans and French speaking, nun.”

“The 4 hour erection is a feature, not a flaw.”

“Yes, Tamiflu's not effective against H1N1 Swine Flu. Got its' jeans on backwards, or something.”

“Subject? Don't you mean object?”

“Good numbers:

24.4% of their sales revenue on promotion, versus just 13.4% for research and development.

In 2000, every $1 pharmaceutical companies spent on DTC advertising yielded an additional $4.20 in sales.

24.4% x $4.20/$1.0­0 = 102.48% of revenues are then based on advertising. ???

I don't think so. A Large percentage of revenue is based on DTC advertising. It's not that large.”

“Dowd would be able to tell who's non human. She's an expert on reptilian behaviour.”

“What do mean "Could"? Don't you mean "is"?

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/roberts-bio.htm

Lord Roberts of Kandahar.”

“The naiveté of this comment is staggering:

"They worry that the public option, which has somehow come to seem -- wrongly, in my view -- as the only meaningful measure of significant reform"

If there is no "Public Option" and the Insurance companies are forced to stop their denials, both of coverage and payments, they will find new ways to grow revenues and profits.

What will these be? The starting point appears to be Insurance Companies lobbying to increase what they don't pay from 25% to 35%. The insurance companies have then managed to cut 10% off their costs, the consumer is stuck with the "savings".

OK, so they get more money for "Individual mandates". What happens after that boost in earnings? Their cost are cut by 10% (see above), but after this boost, their only way to grow is to increase prices.

What then? Their earnings will fall, as prices rise and people don't pay. Then what? More increases more non-payers and a death spiral to the last?

Truly stupid, truly stupid thesis.”

“Let’s explore the consequences of 1, 2 and 3

1. Medicare will go broke, as the Republicans wish, and Medical Insurance Premiums will double in 5 years, leading to 150 million uninsured, and the old geezer teabaggers will meet the real Death Panels, Republican YOYO.

2. Force poor Republican and Democratic people to pay money for no health care coverage from the Insurance companies. The Insurance Companies will continue to invent new and improved ways (like only paying 65% a claims) not to pay for procedures. As Republicans want, the Mandate makes the IRS and the Federal Government the true enemies of the poor. The Mandates will result in widespread civil disobedience, 150 million FICO scores of 500 or less, punitive interest rates, and the rich will continue to extract regressive rents from the poor. The Military will have to suppress the riots and insurrections with violence, but who cares, they are only the poor.

3. Provide the "Public Option." Obama will have to stare down the Health Care corporate interests, and the Health Parasites are just the first of the corporate interests to confront. If Appeaser Obama had really taken on the finance bandits (Oh, I’m so scared of being the angry Black Man), he’d not have to stare down this industry. To cut health care costs Obama will have to stare down Big Food & Ag, to clean up fast food, cheap fats and expensive veg.”

“To an uneducated moron, myself, the choices are clear:

1. Continue with the present system.

2. Impose a Mandate to Pay our Insurance Overlords, and raise premiums by insisting they spend more money actually treating us.

3. Provide a meaningful Public Option to compete with insurance companies, and if its successful break the Insurance Companies, stop Big Pharma from stealing taxpayer funded research for obscene profits, Break Hospital holding companies, reduce Doctors’ incomes and break Big Education by outsourcing Doctors’ education to Cuba. Cuba, who can graduate Doctor’s for 1% of the US costs.”

“Buy the medication from Canada.
Or Mexico.”

“Who do you believe Rahm works for?”

“That's not analysis, that's just words, here's savings:

Elimination of Insurance Company overead, and change from fee-for-servie to a capiitation payment:

http://www.synoia.com/Single_Payer/Universal_Health_care.htm

Use a spreadsheet and numbers. Or shut up.”

“Two parts to the Helath Industry Support Bill?

And they are:

1. Screw You 1 - Health Insurance Mandate and only 65% Coveage of Bills
2. Screw You 2 - Co-ops proving more expnsive health care than Screw You 1”

“A huge number of American rely on government run roads, governmet run water, government run police, government run fire depst, government run military, government run airports, government run airways, governemnt run flood control, government run flood insurance, and government ag subsidies.

Of courcse, these are all inconsiquential, and trivial functions and a small part of the economy.”

“Drop in the bucket compard with Defense.

Fix fee-for-service and this problem, and costs goes away.”

“That's true. The Liberals passed the irresponsible Social Security, Medicare, Environmental Laws, and Labor laws. So true. How clever of you to have hit he nail on the head.”