ferky123's Comments (21)

“Your mother sure needed those things to have you or did your father just go through binary fission?”

“What Palin fails to understand is that there already are Death Panels at the HMOs as in a bureaucrat who is more interested in the bottom line than in helping someone out who denies a claim or cancels a policy because of some small problem that the patient isn't even aware of.

Off topic but I love the people who say that people should be able to buy their insurance across state lines. This is a bad idea as it will create a race to the bottom as some state out there has the lowest insurance costs but doesn't cover anything at all. This will really implode the health care industry since people will have to pay twice once for the insurance company and once for the procedure. There's a reason why some states have higher insurance costs, because they mandate in their laws that the insurance companies have to cover diagnostic testing and other things.

One other thing for people who say that we can't afford to pay for healthcare reform. We as a nation spend around $650,000,000,000 a year on defense costs. Health care reform is expected to cost at least one sixth of that amount.”

“Actually you would be helped by insurance reform as you wouldn't be discriminated against by the insurance companies for a pre-existing condition also the surgery that you could choose to have would be a whole lot cheaper for everyone with those diseases. I remember an episode on Becker where a man came in and was trying to get insurance for his brother who was a construction worker who has Parkinson's and was laid off of his job and couldn't find insurance because he now had a preexisting condition.

Or one that the President used about a woman who had been in a car accident when she was four and the insurance wouldn't cover any of her internal organs, so she just had some really expensive insurance that just covered her skin.”

“Actually all of the big breakthroughs in medicine have come from the universities. The drug companies then buy the patent and market the drug exclusively for x number of years and get to reap their profits from publicly funded research. if the drug companies can't make money off of it in some way then the research just sits on the shelf and goes nowhere. I remember reading an article a while back in some science related publication that female rats seemed to get better faster from brain injuries because of the either estrogen or progesterone in their systems and the scientist had to go through a secondary publication to get the word out because it used commonly available hormones to do the function.

One thing that I am peeved about by the drug manufacturers is that they're allowed to patent genes from your body if they discover them. You should get the patent since you made the genes first not some scientist in the lab. They should get the patent for the test not the genes because they didn't make them only discover what the genes do. It would be like if one of the researchers who discovered HIV had patented the virus and kept competition out.”

“I love how he says that he'll help the woman with her case against the health care industry and then in the next couple of sentences that government isn't the solution to the health care crisis. Talk about cognitive disonance.”

“Actually during the Bush Administration all of the people at his town halls were prescreened so that only loyal Bushies were at the town halls. I remember watching about a news program where a man had a shirt that was critical of Bush was put in a choke hold and escorted out of the town hall.
So no the previous administration wanted us to be good little sheep and just do as we were told as they systematically stripped us of our rights with the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, naming people as terrorists (even Americans), torturing people to get false information, moving the alert level up before elections so that the population would feel fear and vote for them, etc.”

“When your guy was in power people who questioned him were labeled as UnAmerican. If you want to be ruled by mob rule just ask France what the period after they overthrew the king was like.
We don't mind you asking questions but when the other side is shouting down the other side and their own side and sending death threats to our elected officials and joking about lynching lawmakers then I actually worry about our country as we seem to be slipping into barbarism.”

“Christ please save me from your followers.”

“There is a great article out there where Paul Krugman says that the health care plan going through Congress could have been paid for by the Bush tax cuts. If anyone asks how we can pay for health care ask them how we could pay for the $3 trillion Iraq war when we cut taxes and kept the costs off the books.”

“Do you not choose not to use the roads to go to your doctor's office? Then you must be tired hungry and broke making all of your own roads and maintaining them.

If your house gets broken into then I hope you have the wherewithal to investigate the crime and bring the criminal to justice.

If your house catches on fire then I hope that you have all of the firefighting apparatus to fight the fire by yourself.”

“Okay why don't we get rid of the police, fire department, libraries, roads, water, post office, highways, airports, space program, national endowment for the arts, social security, medicare, the military, military health care, the VA system (which Bill Kristol had to admit was the best health care system in the US), the public schools, etc...”

“Just fyi he's a Representative.”

“If you want to know more about what he saw then I would recommend that you check out the YouTube links for an interview that he did with Bill Moyers about his time as a health care executive and the kinds of practices that abound in the industry. the last one is to the Sicko entry in Wikipedia that tells about how other countries are surpassing us on health care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-M10jDkmm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1FwOCNoZ8&NR=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko”

“If waterboarding isn't torture then why did we try the Japanese who used it on American personel during WWII? Why is there a waterboard on display in the genocide museum in Cambodia? Why else would we decry the torture of prisoners during Korea when the waterboard was used? and why did we prosecute aArmy personel who used it during Vietnam for war crimes?

The answer is that it is torture going back as far as the Spanish Inquisition.”

“That means that Arnold's parents would have to have been US citizens for Arnold to be a US citizen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger”

“It does seem that he will allow them to make statements as he is letting them right now.”

“The small buisness section is nou in the urban planning section http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy_agenda/”

“The article is partly misleading in that McCain would give individuals a $2500 deduction and families anf couples a $5000 Deduction.”

“Just breaking. It has been confirmed that Bristol, Sarah Palin's oldest daughter, is pregnant and is going to keep the child and have a shotgun wedding.”

“That is probably what the Obama campaign is hoping for. They figure that Biden will be the attack dog so that Obama can manage to stay above the fray.”

“Joe Biden has already said that he wouldn't vote for the McCain of today.”