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Vaclav

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So much to understanding reality? Do you expect politicians to have 60+ yearsof education?

And of course that would have zero experience...
 
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A361J820140407

The percentage of Americans without health insurance dipped to its lowest in nearly six years due in part to U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, commonly known as Obamacare, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.

Some 15.6 percent of Americans lacked health insurance in the first three months of 2014, down from a high of 18 percent in late 2013, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey.
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An additional 3 million signed up for Medicaid, government-provided health insurance for low-income people, the administration said Friday, bringing the total number of sign-ups to over 10 million.
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fanaskin

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it's also basically the same amount of people insured as the day obama took office.
 
Vaclav

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Citation? Quotes I've seen aren't remotely similar.


Or qoutes as you would spell it.
 
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Screamfeeder

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You do realize that is % of UNinsured right? UN-insured. Meaning more people are now insured. And with the dip your graph is taking...things looking up.

Remember he still has 3 years to go before he is that total failure you want so badly.
 
Kreugen

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That's just the tax cuts finally paying off. The massive surge of new high paying jobs with benefits just took time to show up on the stats.
 
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Kreugen

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And the rest of the doctors can't afford to eat on what medicare gives them.

The report warns that the figures are misleading but isn't that still like $300k for a single fucking procedure? And that's the massively discounted "my kids are starving" medicare reimbursement rate.


EDIT: Also, a raging cynic would ask why they would ever *cure* cancer when holy shit the money
 
Vaclav

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What's funny is if you read the AP article they used in fanaskin's link they talk about the average doctor getting $78k or so just from Medicare alone. (USA Today had the full piece)

Rather defrays the whole "Medicare doesn't pay shit" argument considering they make up under 25% of patients yet pay for over 35% of the average doctor's total income.

Also note a few of the big ticket guys made the majority on macular degeneration shots that run around $2000, and Medicare only covers $200 of. So the patients were paying ten times what Medicare was!
 
Kreugen

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Spends all year raising hell about people losing their insurance.

Passes budget that would cause an even larger number of people to lose insurance.

Tide goes in, tide goes out etc.
 
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No. This country was founded on small and limited government. But we continue to hand them more power because it's so much easier to live on your knees.
 
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mxcmead_sl said:
No. This country was founded on small and limited government. But we continue to hand them more power because it's so much easier to live on your knees.
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Please define what the fuck small and limited means.
 
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