LONG overdue, I'm so tired of being thinking that he was qualified to be POTUS because of that title, like the one has much to do with the other. Notice he won the bat crazy poll tied with several others.
Ben Carson Loses Brain Surgeon License After Making Numerous Brainless Comments.
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Ben Carson Loses Brain Surgeon License After Making Numerous Brainless Comments.
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https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft Word - 5742.pdf
Page 1, eighth sentence from the bottom
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...mitic/&usg=AFQjCNEcTiXQ8F4XiT2G5b9NaS5P2kX9Rw
Above article boils down to the following:
Apr 28, 2016 - So, though you can be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic, most people who ... with any historically anti-Semitic slurs (e.g. “Zionists” are smelly, money grubbing, ... and winner of the Israel Prize who coined the term “Judeo-Nazi.
https://books.google.com/books?id=A...ved=0ahUKEwjzgI7ksvXNAhUCYyYKHWZEDP0Q6AEINjAE
Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature Ethan Goffman ... the horrible long-term results of anti-Semitic representations, understandable. ... Blues, whose Jewish characters were described as “money-grubbing, envious, ugly ...
Plenty more but there is no doubt the term is a slur.
Thanks Mountain ..... I have a friend who is a history buff and Israel supporter named Glenn Parker. Real name, not Jewish, obviously. From him I stole the greatest term to compare anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism. And many here will be familiar with this:
Zionism = Jewish Independence and the right of Jews to self-determination in their Homeland.
Any other definition is a gross aberration.
An anti-Semite hates Jews.
An anti-Zionist hates Jewish Independence.
It's the same Black Ink in different concentrations.
The epic failure continues....
Humana, one of the nation’s top health insurers, is pulling out of ObamaCare plans in all but a handful of states after a year of nearly $1 billion in losses. The company plans to exit nearly half of its Obamacare markets next year, the company announced during an earnings report Thursday. It will take part in “no more” than 11 state marketplaces, down from 19 states this year, the company said.
Humana’s decision to exit “substantially all” of the state exchanges comes the same day that the Obama administration announced it would step in to block a multi-billion dollar merger between Humana and Aetna. Both are among the so-called “big five” of the nation’s major health insurers.
Humana, one of the nation’s top health insurers, is pulling out of ObamaCare plans in all but a handful of states after a year of nearly $1 billion in losses. The company plans to exit nearly half of its Obamacare markets next year, the company announced during an earnings report Thursday. It will take part in “no more” than 11 state marketplaces, down from 19 states this year, the company said.
Humana’s decision to exit “substantially all” of the state exchanges comes the same day that the Obama administration announced it would step in to block a multi-billion dollar merger between Humana and Aetna. Both are among the so-called “big five” of the nation’s major health insurers.
"New York State Approves +17% Premium Hikes for Individual Market for 2017"
It isn't happening because of Obama's approval rating though!!!
the people who pay for everything get to pay more
the freeloading fucking idiots don't care, it don't matter to them
And the hits just keep coming...
Health insurer Aetna will stop selling individual Affordable Care Act plans next year in 11 of the 15 states where it had been participating in the program, including North Carolina and South Carolina, joining other major insurers who have pulled out of the government-run markets in the face of mounting losses.
Other markets it will leave include Pennsylvania and Florida
[FONT="]Aetna to cut nearly 70% of Obamacare plans in 2017 in move that will reduce choices and potentially drive up prices.
[/FONT]“In light of a second-quarter pretax loss of $200 million and total pretax losses of more than $430 million since January 2014 in our individual products,” Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said in a statement, “we have decided to reduce our individual public exchange presence in 2017, which will limit our financial exposure.”
“Providing affordable, high-quality health care options to consumers is not possible without a balanced risk pool,” Bertolini said, before noting that the company saw a recent spike of “individuals in need of high-cost care.”
[/FONT]“In light of a second-quarter pretax loss of $200 million and total pretax losses of more than $430 million since January 2014 in our individual products,” Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said in a statement, “we have decided to reduce our individual public exchange presence in 2017, which will limit our financial exposure.”
“Providing affordable, high-quality health care options to consumers is not possible without a balanced risk pool,” Bertolini said, before noting that the company saw a recent spike of “individuals in need of high-cost care.”
It is called STRATEGY,PLANNING & PATIENCE Dumbfuck Republicunt Morons!!!
ointer:
SOON we will have what Obama/Clinton and the Democrats wanted all along SINGLE- PAYER Obama/ClintonCare (thanks to Benedict Donald):hahahahah
The gradual transition to a single-payer health care system
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Obamacare’s viability has been threatened after Aetna, on the of the nation’s largest health insurers, said it would withdraw from three-quarters of the states where it offers Affordable Care Act exchange plans.
Instead of expanding its offerings within the health care exchange, it’s instead curtailing its coverage — following in the foot-steps of UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, and Humana Inc. The reduced choices on the Obamacare exchanges will inevitably raise prices and drive down the quality of care available in the government run program — a marked threat to the program’s long-term viability.
Yet the president himself, doesn’t seem too worried. No formal comments have been given about the insurer’s withdrawal, and the administration just a few days ago released data showing the Obamacare markets were stabilizing. So why no major freakout?
Because a single-payer system has always been the goal. We just needed some time to transition there.
Remember President Obama’s comments before he was elected to office?
“My commitment is to make sure we’ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president,” Mr. Obama said at a SEIU health care conference in 2007. “I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can’t go through their employers to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort … but I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.”
And so, my friends, we’re now in that “transition” period.
Democrats can say they tried working with private insurers, in the open, competitive markets, but it failed — those insurers just got too greedy (never mind all of them are taking losses on the Obamacare exchanges as their insurer pools are more elderly and sick than estimated).
“The Affordable Care Act just does not work in its current structure,” Raymond Farmer, the top insurance regulator in South Carolina, told Politico. “Companies are leaving the marketplace for a reason. They don’t leave the marketplace if they’re making a profit.”
So profits will be demonized, and the government will have to swoop in and rescue — turning Obamacare into a single-payer, government-run system.
Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders is already promoting this narrative.
“It is disappointing that Aetna has joined other large for-profit health insurance companies in pulling out of the insurance marketplace,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement Tuesday. “Despite the Affordable Care Act bringing them millions more paying customers than ever before, these companies are more concerned with making huge profits than ensuring access to health care for all Americans.”
But again, these companies are taking losses. Aetna has lost $430 million since its Obamacare plans first went on sale in 2014. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Hillary Clinton won’t be too far behind, promoting a single-payer system. She’s already taken a step to the left on health care, suggesting she would like to give people the option to buy into Medicare.
“I’m also in favor of what’s called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age,” Mrs. Clinton said at a campaign event in May.
As The New York Times reported, the policy idea of being able to buy into Medicare “has been embraced by many advocates of single-payer health care as a way to move more Americans into the existing government system. An incremental expansion of Medicare was the hoped-for strategy of Medicare’s original authors.”
So here we go, transitioning to what Democrats wanted all along: A government-run single-payer system.
:toast
)cheersgifdbanana0-9:hahahahahwe$$$
:lol::devilex:
ointer:SOON we will have what Obama/Clinton and the Democrats wanted all along SINGLE- PAYER Obama/ClintonCare (thanks to Benedict Donald):hahahahah
The gradual transition to a single-payer health care system
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Obamacare’s viability has been threatened after Aetna, on the of the nation’s largest health insurers, said it would withdraw from three-quarters of the states where it offers Affordable Care Act exchange plans.
Instead of expanding its offerings within the health care exchange, it’s instead curtailing its coverage — following in the foot-steps of UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, and Humana Inc. The reduced choices on the Obamacare exchanges will inevitably raise prices and drive down the quality of care available in the government run program — a marked threat to the program’s long-term viability.
Yet the president himself, doesn’t seem too worried. No formal comments have been given about the insurer’s withdrawal, and the administration just a few days ago released data showing the Obamacare markets were stabilizing. So why no major freakout?
Because a single-payer system has always been the goal. We just needed some time to transition there.
Remember President Obama’s comments before he was elected to office?
“My commitment is to make sure we’ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president,” Mr. Obama said at a SEIU health care conference in 2007. “I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can’t go through their employers to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort … but I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.”
And so, my friends, we’re now in that “transition” period.
Democrats can say they tried working with private insurers, in the open, competitive markets, but it failed — those insurers just got too greedy (never mind all of them are taking losses on the Obamacare exchanges as their insurer pools are more elderly and sick than estimated).
“The Affordable Care Act just does not work in its current structure,” Raymond Farmer, the top insurance regulator in South Carolina, told Politico. “Companies are leaving the marketplace for a reason. They don’t leave the marketplace if they’re making a profit.”
So profits will be demonized, and the government will have to swoop in and rescue — turning Obamacare into a single-payer, government-run system.
Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders is already promoting this narrative.
“It is disappointing that Aetna has joined other large for-profit health insurance companies in pulling out of the insurance marketplace,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement Tuesday. “Despite the Affordable Care Act bringing them millions more paying customers than ever before, these companies are more concerned with making huge profits than ensuring access to health care for all Americans.”
But again, these companies are taking losses. Aetna has lost $430 million since its Obamacare plans first went on sale in 2014. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Hillary Clinton won’t be too far behind, promoting a single-payer system. She’s already taken a step to the left on health care, suggesting she would like to give people the option to buy into Medicare.
“I’m also in favor of what’s called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age,” Mrs. Clinton said at a campaign event in May.
As The New York Times reported, the policy idea of being able to buy into Medicare “has been embraced by many advocates of single-payer health care as a way to move more Americans into the existing government system. An incremental expansion of Medicare was the hoped-for strategy of Medicare’s original authors.”
So here we go, transitioning to what Democrats wanted all along: A government-run single-payer system.
:toast)cheersgifdbanana0-9:hahahahahwe$$$:lol::devilex:
Is this maggot retard another Duuuuhfinch ghost?
It is called STRATEGY,PLANNING & PATIENCE Dumbfuck Republicunt Morons!!!
SOON we will have what Obama/Clinton and the Democrats wanted all along SINGLE- PAYER Obama/ClintonCare (thanks to Benedict Donald):hahahahah
The gradual transition to a single-payer health care system
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Obamacare’s viability has been threatened after Aetna, on the of the nation’s largest health insurers, said it would withdraw from three-quarters of the states where it offers Affordable Care Act exchange plans.
Instead of expanding its offerings within the health care exchange, it’s instead curtailing its coverage — following in the foot-steps of UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, and Humana Inc. The reduced choices on the Obamacare exchanges will inevitably raise prices and drive down the quality of care available in the government run program — a marked threat to the program’s long-term viability.
Yet the president himself, doesn’t seem too worried. No formal comments have been given about the insurer’s withdrawal, and the administration just a few days ago released data showing the Obamacare markets were stabilizing. So why no major freakout?
Because a single-payer system has always been the goal. We just needed some time to transition there.
Remember President Obama’s comments before he was elected to office?
“My commitment is to make sure we’ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president,” Mr. Obama said at a SEIU health care conference in 2007. “I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can’t go through their employers to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort … but I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.”
And so, my friends, we’re now in that “transition” period.
Democrats can say they tried working with private insurers, in the open, competitive markets, but it failed — those insurers just got too greedy (never mind all of them are taking losses on the Obamacare exchanges as their insurer pools are more elderly and sick than estimated).
“The Affordable Care Act just does not work in its current structure,” Raymond Farmer, the top insurance regulator in South Carolina, told Politico. “Companies are leaving the marketplace for a reason. They don’t leave the marketplace if they’re making a profit.”
So profits will be demonized, and the government will have to swoop in and rescue — turning Obamacare into a single-payer, government-run system.
Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders is already promoting this narrative.
“It is disappointing that Aetna has joined other large for-profit health insurance companies in pulling out of the insurance marketplace,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement Tuesday. “Despite the Affordable Care Act bringing them millions more paying customers than ever before, these companies are more concerned with making huge profits than ensuring access to health care for all Americans.”
But again, these companies are taking losses. Aetna has lost $430 million since its Obamacare plans first went on sale in 2014. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Hillary Clinton won’t be too far behind, promoting a single-payer system. She’s already taken a step to the left on health care, suggesting she would like to give people the option to buy into Medicare.
“I’m also in favor of what’s called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age,” Mrs. Clinton said at a campaign event in May.
As The New York Times reported, the policy idea of being able to buy into Medicare “has been embraced by many advocates of single-payer health care as a way to move more Americans into the existing government system. An incremental expansion of Medicare was the hoped-for strategy of Medicare’s original authors.”
So here we go, transitioning to what Democrats wanted all along: A government-run single-payer system.
It is called STRATEGY,PLANNING & PATIENCE Dumbfuck Republicunt Morons!!!
SOON we will have what Obama/Clinton and the Democrats wanted all along SINGLE- PAYER Obama/ClintonCare (thanks to Benedict Donald):hahahahah
The gradual transition to a single-payer health care system
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Obamacare’s viability has been threatened after Aetna, on the of the nation’s largest health insurers, said it would withdraw from three-quarters of the states where it offers Affordable Care Act exchange plans.
Instead of expanding its offerings within the health care exchange, it’s instead curtailing its coverage — following in the foot-steps of UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, and Humana Inc. The reduced choices on the Obamacare exchanges will inevitably raise prices and drive down the quality of care available in the government run program — a marked threat to the program’s long-term viability.
Yet the president himself, doesn’t seem too worried. No formal comments have been given about the insurer’s withdrawal, and the administration just a few days ago released data showing the Obamacare markets were stabilizing. So why no major freakout?
Because a single-payer system has always been the goal. We just needed some time to transition there.
Remember President Obama’s comments before he was elected to office?
“My commitment is to make sure we’ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president,” Mr. Obama said at a SEIU health care conference in 2007. “I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can’t go through their employers to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort … but I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.”
And so, my friends, we’re now in that “transition” period.
Democrats can say they tried working with private insurers, in the open, competitive markets, but it failed — those insurers just got too greedy (never mind all of them are taking losses on the Obamacare exchanges as their insurer pools are more elderly and sick than estimated).
“The Affordable Care Act just does not work in its current structure,” Raymond Farmer, the top insurance regulator in South Carolina, told Politico. “Companies are leaving the marketplace for a reason. They don’t leave the marketplace if they’re making a profit.”
So profits will be demonized, and the government will have to swoop in and rescue — turning Obamacare into a single-payer, government-run system.
Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders is already promoting this narrative.
“It is disappointing that Aetna has joined other large for-profit health insurance companies in pulling out of the insurance marketplace,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement Tuesday. “Despite the Affordable Care Act bringing them millions more paying customers than ever before, these companies are more concerned with making huge profits than ensuring access to health care for all Americans.”
But again, these companies are taking losses. Aetna has lost $430 million since its Obamacare plans first went on sale in 2014. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Hillary Clinton won’t be too far behind, promoting a single-payer system. She’s already taken a step to the left on health care, suggesting she would like to give people the option to buy into Medicare.
“I’m also in favor of what’s called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age,” Mrs. Clinton said at a campaign event in May.
As The New York Times reported, the policy idea of being able to buy into Medicare “has been embraced by many advocates of single-payer health care as a way to move more Americans into the existing government system. An incremental expansion of Medicare was the hoped-for strategy of Medicare’s original authors.”
So here we go, transitioning to what Democrats wanted all along: A government-run single-payer system.
Ya, or the American people blame the government rather than private insurers and you make it even more difficult to get single payer. Either way.
Eat Crow You Wingnutz!!!
Asked whether they were changing their health plans in response to the ACA, roughly two in five respondents—in both the manufacturing and service sector surveys—said they were not. Of those that were, however, the most widely reported adjustments involved higher deductibles, increased co-pays, and higher out-of-pocket maximums. The vast majority of firms in both surveys indicated that they would be paying a higher total premium, and somewhat more than half of respondents in both the manufacturing and service sector surveys said they were raising their employees’ share of contribution to the premium.
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All respondents were asked if they were making specific changes to certain fundamental business measures, owing to effects of the ACA. Roughly 17 percent of service sector firms and 21 percent of manufacturers said they were reducing the number of workers in response to the ACA.
Asked whether they were changing their health plans in response to the ACA, roughly two in five respondents—in both the manufacturing and service sector surveys—said they were not. Of those that were, however, the most widely reported adjustments involved higher deductibles, increased co-pays, and higher out-of-pocket maximums. The vast majority of firms in both surveys indicated that they would be paying a higher total premium, and somewhat more than half of respondents in both the manufacturing and service sector surveys said they were raising their employees’ share of contribution to the premium.
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All respondents were asked if they were making specific changes to certain fundamental business measures, owing to effects of the ACA. Roughly 17 percent of service sector firms and 21 percent of manufacturers said they were reducing the number of workers in response to the ACA.
[h=2]One in Five Manufacturers in NY Cutting Jobs Due to Obamacare[/h][FONT="]Nearly a third of these employers said they would raise prices on their customers[/FONT]
BY: Ali Meyer — August 18, 2016 2:30 pm
One in five manufacturers in New York said they were reducing the number of their employees due to Obamacare, according to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
BY: Ali Meyer — August 18, 2016 2:30 pmOne in five manufacturers in New York said they were reducing the number of their employees due to Obamacare, according to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
