mrshoward

The solution is much stricter requirements. All you need to do is watch the documentary "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia." All of them are "disabled" and get their check.

It's really pretty simple... Do not allow others to dictate your behavior and never post anything that you would not say to someone face to face.

Our total dependence on modern technology and delivery systems makes our society very vulnerable to calamity and chaos should those systems fail. Not as far - fetched as you wish to believe. http://www.amazon.com/X-Events-Complexity-Overload-Collapse-Everything/dp/0062088297/ref=sr_1_29?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381179587&sr=1-29&keywords=events

I love the irony of a thread that laments name calling descending into name calling.

What is insane about being prepared for an emergency ? ? ?

Touche'

Do you have a frog in your pocket ? ? ?

^ ^ ^ This post kinda says it all.

By opting out of the Medicaid expansion, Governor Deal is saving the TAXPAYERS of Georgia from an estimated $4.5 BILLION DOLLARS ! ! ! Have you even looked at the Georgia's projected Medicaid budget ? ? ? It has increased from $26 million to $100 million in ONE YEAR. http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/08/28/obamacare-to-hit-georgia-medicaid.html?page=all

I'm no budget expert, but $4.5 BILLION is not small potatoes when you consider the total state budget. That would require a massive tax increase. A sin tax would not cover that amount.

The frequency with which America has previously reached this point betrays another inconvenient truth: the willingness to shut down the federal Leviathan is by no means limited to the advocates of small government. As my colleague Andrew Stiles notes today, during the supposedly bipartisan wonder years of Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill — which are typically rolled out by revisionists to demonstrate what can happen if we all just “work together” — the government shut down no fewer than eight times, mostly at O’Neill’s insistence. Likewise, during Bill Clinton’s eight years in office, w

I'm sorry, that number came from an info graphic that I browsed briefly yesterday morning. I assumed it was the price of expansion. From what I now understand, Georgia's Medicaid spending will increase by $583 million under Obamacare even without expansion. The cost of a state Medicaid expansion is estimated to be $4.5 billion over the next decade.

"How do we help the poor make better healthcare decisions that possibly keep them out of the hospitals." Silly me... here I thought you actually wanted to discuss solutions for helping the poor make better healthcare decisions. I posted an idea that has some merit. A proposal for reform that gives poor people a real incentive to take responsibility for their health and make better healthcare decisions. I see from your response that it was simply a rhetorical question.

The estimate for Georgia's Medicaid expansion was $583 million dollars.

Meet Chad Henderson: http://www.mediaite.com/online/chad-henderson-signed-up-for-obamacare-and-every-single-media-outlet-is-on-it/ This would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Your question was addressed yesterday in the "direct pay doctor" thread: http://paulding.com/forum/index.php/topic/304720-direct-pay-doctors/page__pid__3845375?do=findComment&comment=3845375

"Here’s my solution. When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record and a health savings account [HSA], to which money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when you’re 85 years old and you’ve got 6 diseases, you’re not trying to spend up everything. You’re happy to pass it on and nobody is talking about death panels. For the people who are indigent, who don’t have any money, we can make contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this

Game That Receives NO Federal Funds Shut Down For Obama Optics: http://minx.cc/?post=343859

^^^ Refuses to support his spurious claim.

You're full of crap... Where exactly are "conservatives turning a blind eye to children dying of inadequate health care ?" :rolleyes:

Direct fee for service is the most efficient system. (Endorsed by Dr. Benjamin Carson...)

Did you know that 82% of the federal government is up and running as usual ? ? ? (Just 18% of federal government staff are directly impacted by this "shutdown.") Obama has had five years...the first two with a democrat house.

This law is causing full time jobs to be replaced with part time jobs. That is the issue.

Per Jamie Dupree from DC for WSB / Channel 2 News... they were erecting even more barricades this morning, the MLK monument looks like a "crime scene", and they have closed a biking / jogging trail in his neighborhood. All of these closures come directly from the Office of Management & Budget... also known as the White House OMB.

Silly me... I thought they wanted jobs.