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Obamacare to increase premiums by 304 percent???

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My reasoning has an ideological basis rooting some of my arguments. I don't care to deny the truth others can share on specifics. The comments above by One Brow and ElRoacho appear to have some extensive personal experience and observation behind them. I certainly hope that by incorporating better technology and even more efficient recordkeeping we can do a lot better. The ideologist in me says a private organization could to the same, but my experience with private enterprise compels the admission that many "private" decision-makers would not do so. The ideologist in me comes up once again saying "fine. . . . let them perish for their obstinate pigheadedness".

My whole argument goes to the point that I fear the obstinate pigheads will be running the ACA. Anyone in the system that can rise above that is a credit to humanity, and the hope of the world.
 
VINYLONE said:
Are babe and one brow the same person?
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I hope OB doesn't consider that too much of an insult to merit some proofs in denial. OB and I have done a lot of jousting and he's been told by some of his friends that's he'sj picked up a troll in JazzFanzz.

I tend to view OB as a dedicated ideologue on the side of the merit of reason and fact, if not an asset of some internet progressive dominance program. He insists that he is a part-time school teacher and otherwise employed in the IT sectory, possibly as he states above, with some experience in the health care industry. I can vouch for his positions on Quantum Mechanics being different from mine, as well as his political proclivities. I watch Dr. Who episodes on Netflix with my kids, and we all hoot at the hokey sci-fi and the very idea of time travel, which I insist is a modern mysticism with false scientific professions. OB also believes in professionalism in the medical care industry and the authority of government to accredit caregivers. I think the government is incompetent in everything it does for precisely the reasons that we haven't done a good job in our national finances or education, or environment, or any number of other things the government has undertaken to do for us. I still insist that the only thing progressive governance can effectively do for us better than actual caring humans in our neighborhoods is slaughter us in useless foreign wars.

I tolerate and even enjoy the effort it is to try to reason with people who are actually different from me. It makes for a better me.
 
ElRoach0 said:
Certain parts of Metro St. Louis can very much be considered ghetto.
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The ghetto I lived in for years has been somewhat gentrified in the past twenty years. Back then, on my street in SLC, there were wh******s doing business two houses away, and druggies next door. We made the news with some killings on the street as well, and some folks went missing under questionable circumstances. There are a lot of ghetto streets in SLC, with a few old houses remaining enmeshed in industrial or small business enterprises. . . . .

My family. . . . should I say my "former family" which consists of executives in corporate Military-Industrial Complex interests, research scientists, and college and university professors, and a lawyer and tax accountant, and a researcher for the Naval Weopons Laboratory interested in cold fusion, and a nuclear physicist employed in Washington state. . .. as well as three devout mormon sisters who are too crazy with their piety to be involved in my life beyond calling me the black sheep of the family. . . . . well, they just don't come around much because the neighborhood scares them.

I don't have pitbulls, but I do have dogs that would defend me to the death. At least, the wh******s and drugpushers thought so.

I love my liberty. And my independence.

And then I do have a ranch, as well. . . . a literal refugem for the outcasts of Metroplitia, where I find more interesting people than I do in the city.
 
One Brow said:
You mean, like the 80th block of State street in East St. Louis, or Bond Avenue in Centreville?
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I've driven through St. Louis twice, without stopping even for gas. There's a nice farm town twenty miles into Illinois with some nice country girls serving the food at the McD's. And a gas station that can get me down the road another 400 miles.

I've never seen a ghetto in the US that could compare with an isolated smuggler port in the Philippines.

If I'm the issue here, lets go to the LTE, okay?
 
babe said:
I've driven through St. Louis twice, without stopping even for gas. There's a nice farm town twenty miles into Illinois with some nice country girls serving the food at the McD's. And a gas station that can get me down the road another 400 miles.

I've never seen a ghetto in the US that could compare with an isolated smuggler port in the Philippines.

If I'm the issue here, lets go to the LTE, okay?
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You're not the issue here dude. You might love the feeling of control a little too much, and have a hard time accepting that American society has embraced less personal control, but I understand exactly where you're coming from. Your opinion is very valuable, and has great merits to it.

I, too, have found myself in the same role. It wasn't but what...4 months ago I was arguing that if we could teach our kids to be happy when they grow up instead of an astronaut or fireman, it would fix the economy. I also argued that, if the whole Christianity thing is real, God and Satan should just talk it out.

You're fine. Keep on keepin on.
 
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