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Would be great if Graham could somehow get imprinted to follow DeMint the way he’s been following McCain. Maybe he just likes those six-letter, two-capital last names.

Of course... when health care is rationed, and salaries of those in the health care field are limited, one cannot expect the most talented people to be working in health care.

Precisely.

Only for liberals and Democraps, thank you very much...

The states should bring indictments against their elected representatives for violating their oath of office.

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Well, at least the injection was free.

The people get generations of bondage in debt and tyranny.

There really is no way to lower health care costs very much. We can get rid of legal liability. Stop the fraud (most fraud is in government run) It is hard to defraud a Private Company. Higher deducts. etc. But sick people need care. We are paying for better technology and drugs.

That is true.. There where Webb supporters on this site...

Don’t forget to call Mitch McConnell every day for the next year to thank him for his cowardice on Christmas Eve.

The Medicaid is for the illegals who work in the Omaha meat-packing plants, and illegals who work in other industries throughout the Cornhusker state.

That’s quite plausible, especially in an institutional setting.

What’s a few hundred million anyway?

The payoff to NE and Nelson could lead to winnable lawsuits. Other states can certainly show harm to themselves and their constituents, and how could a state not have “standing?”

Good to see that they’re raising the red flag on these bribes.

These actions won’t withstand public scrutiny, or constitutional challenges in federal court.

(Lindsey????)

The Attorneys General of every state need to investigate this corruption and stop it in its tracks.

"...that’s the State AG, not Holder they asked."

Excellent!!! That will disturb a lot more of the serious (BLEEP!!!)

With both their senators pushing this to the wall, South Carolina just might have to seceede in spite of not winning the Civil War the first time!!!

(I know... I don't like Lilly-Livered Graham either, but he's really a useful idiot in this case)

Context context context! NY 23 has little or NOTHING to do with the current fights in Congress. Yes, the LOCAL GOP, in NY, made a huge mistake.

Bait and switch. Your statement was the RNC has done a "FANTASTIC" job. Now you redefine that to exclude the failures of the RNC. That is disingenuous (although I suspect unintentional).

Do you WANT an RNC that is so strong (and arrogant) that the RNC refuses, at will, to support the local Party nominee?

I would want a RNC that has integrity to a core ideological anchor to conservative principles. Instead there was just a blind rubberstamping of a candidate to the left of the democrat.

In the CURRENT health care fight, the GOP has done a very good job, a fantastic job. In the House, we lost ONE VOTE! In the Senate? Not a single Republican voted for this garbage, and the Senate version is not quite as bad as the House version.

I can agree that the RNC has done a decent job in the current struggle over health care. That assessment splits between doing a very good job in keeping a unified front coupled with only a passable result in shaping the debate. Granted they are swimming upstream on this part given the gross abandonment of objectivity and honesty on the part of the MSM.

Blind loyalty? No, I am by no means guilty of that. Anyone who knows be will tell you that.

That would be my assessment of you in what is admittedly a very limited amount of exchange. You can write it off to my misperception or you may want to reevaluate how you come across, your choice.

However, I think you might very well be guilty of blind pessimism and blind disloyalty.

My original post you jumped on was a 2 sentence statement of opinion that the republican party is idiotic for fighting over method instead of content. It is a fact (at the time of my post) that was true. Today DeMint made a strong showing to fight on the constitutional grounds that I was advocating. If they wish to fight along both lines that's more than fine with me, but to ignore the constitutional issues would have been great folly. There really was no pessimism in my original post you were responding to, just statement of op ion based upon fact. As for disloyalty, I indicated to you that I'm not a republican and I also listed what I hold as values. I have not been disloyal to my values. Apparently you believe everyone should hold allegiance to the RNC regardless of party affiliation. You'll have to just accept that such a view is irrational.

Again, it is a wonder that anyone ever volunteers to fight for the conservative cause, as so many of our members choose to "eat their own" rather than attack the enemy.

Again, I argued that the RNC was using poor strategy which prompted your attacks. The underlying assumption to your position would require blind obedience brooking no question of strategy...sorry, it's not going to happen. I will cheer when the RNC gets it right, but I will criticize when they get it wrong.

Ooops. that’s the State AG, not Holder they asked.

Competition under capitalism, is the only way to reduce health care costs.

When people pay with insurance dollars or government funding, there is no reason to incorporate thrift.

“Load me up. I paid my premiums darn it.”

That’s my take on it. You take care.

Wow. Lindsey? Helping DeMint? Regardless, I don't think Eric 'racecard' Holder is gonna be inclined to help 'em out.

Smedley Butler is the only source for the meeting with evil industrial fascists!
It's a highly controversial historical claim.
Butler associated with a large retinue of socialists and Comintern types right up to his death.
Maybe he was just politically naive like the Oppenheimers.
Yeah right!
Ok Webb has supported some good things for veterans and thats nice, but these tokens he throws them is far outweighed by the damage he is doing the country as a whole. Carrying forth the agenda of Reid, Pelosi & Obama makes the good he does insignificant! Webb revealed his true nature by encouraging antisemitism in both his primary and general election campaigns. Do you really believe he didn't sanction it? Remember he didn't switch parties until almost the last minute to register to run. After he switched he almost immediately made appearances with Little Chucky Schumer! What does Chucky Schumer have in common with the people of Appalachia, western Vigirnia, etc? A more principled approach would be to have registered as a independent and take on the challenge of running that way. No Webb is for Webb and no one else!

Nailed it:-)

Wasn’t it less than a year ago that he said, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!!”...?? That teleprompter is just loaded with cliches... so, which is it. There is more to come and it depends on the meaning of “worst.”

They can not. The taxes would be astronomical and the rationing unacceptable. Their only hope to continue the Ponzi is cost shifting to Private Plans. However the clueless academic Marxists need the Private Sector to demonize. Most probably do not even realize the private insurers are totally run by the Government now through ERISA, HIPPA, and various State rules and regulations. Amazing to watch these imbeciles babble on. We are broke and bankrupt. The well and will have to pay more and the sick and old be rationed no matter what they do.

Which is a good argument they never planned to go to single payer.

The Democrats want fewer hospitals and few physicians. Their game plan all along was to provide less access to medical care. Cut facilities and staff, and few people can get service.

What student in his right mind will decide to become a physician and go through what they have to do to get a degree, to wind up with $350,000 in loans outstanding, with the prospect of earning $80,000 a year?

Private practice would cease to exist, and physicians would only be employees of hospitals.

That is an interesting situation, because then physicians couldn’t make independent suggestions for treatment, although some of that takes place now with formularies and peer review committees.

They are going to force people to buy insurance from Private companies at super high rates so they can cost shift the over runs from medicaid and medicare. That way they can still demonize them and blame shift the cost away from themselves. It is so simple. Cost shift and Blame shift. With single Payer they will not have anyone to blame but themselves.

Diabetes is basically broken glucose metabolism.
Why not run your body on a different fuel ?

There are some ways diabetes indirectly affects you.

1. High blood sugars damage nerves, kidneys, etc.
(Thiamine/Benfotiamine is protective, but diabetes patients are typically deficient)

2. Insulin resistance means that larger amounts of insulin are needed to drive glucose into the cells. Large amounts of insulin is bad.

3. Ketoacidosis.

None of these things will happen if you’re running your body on fat rather than glucose. Your body doesn’t need much insulin if your glycogen stores are not full.

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413333/posts

Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth
TOWNHALL.com - Column by Dennis Prager ^ | December 22, 2009 | by Dennis Prager
Posted on December 22, 2009 2:34:24 PM PST by Cindy

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

“Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth” by Dennis Prager

SNIPPET: “As the passage of the bill that will start the process of nationalizing health care in America becomes almost inevitable, so, too, the process of undoing America’s standing as The Last Best Hope of Earth will have begun.”

SNIPPET: “Just as the left has waged war on America’s Judeo-Christian roots, it has waged war on individual liberty and responsibility.”

SNIPPET: “Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are right about one thing — they are indeed making history. But their legacy will not be what they think. They will be known as the people who led to the end of America as the last best hope of earth.”

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...

it is so onerous to private insurers and individuals that it will be de facto socialism.

Crash the system.

I think there’s a lot of truth in that.

I also think the insurance companies stand to win big under this bill as it is. Everyone will be required to buy an insurance policy, and the government will gift one to those who can’t afford it.

How would you like to run a business everyone had to frequent, and the government would pay the costs if the consumer couldn’t?

I suspect this bottle DID have the sort of labelling you describe, and nobody bothered to read it. A physician ordered something from the pharmacy, the pharmacy didn’t have it in stock ro readily available ffrom its usual supplier, pharmacist saw what looked like the right product on an internet catalog, ordered it, sent it down to the physician, who injected it.

Government-run health care in action, people.

Pretty much the only competition that is left in the health care industry these days, is the competition by federal and state governments, and private insurance companies to prevent hospitals and physicians from keeping their doors open.’

Has anyone done any kind of projections of how many doctors, nurses, lab techs, etc, would leave the profession when this is fully outlined? Going to get your future health care from some 3rd world doc who doesn’t even speak English? Feds then going to hire thousands of “interpreters”????

How many people are planning on retiring on their pensions-—which were invested for years in auto manufatrurers-banks-and insurance companies?
Good Luck!!

How many people working for insurance companies will be out of a job?

How many insurance companies which provide many different types of insurance will raise the rates on homeowners/auto/liability/business, etc insurance to make up for the profits from their health insurance divisions?
Having a profit means that you can repay your lenders, shareholders, and expand in the future. It is what this country was built on. It isn’t a bad thing, people!!

Stopping all of that kind of growth only puts the entire country into a downward spiral.

Axelrod and NObama are deliberately destroying the country, along with Reid and Pelosi-—and they KNOW it!!

BTW_ NObama calling bankers names is really the words of an ungrateful brat:
Who took Barry into her house at age 9 + when Stanley Ann got herself into another pickle?
Who put clothes on his back-
food onto his plate-
sheets on his bed-
books into his hands?
Who pulled some strings and favors and paid for Barry to attend the most expensive and exclusive prep school in the Hawaiian Islands?

Grandma Dunham-—that’s who!!!

Grandma Dunham was a banker!! Good thing she isn’t alive to hear his backstabbing words!!!

What an ungrateful wretch the occupant of the Oval Office is!!!

Context context context!

NY 23 has little or NOTHING to do with the current fights in Congress.

Yes, the LOCAL GOP, in NY, made a huge mistake.

Do you WANT an RNC that is so strong (and arrogant) that the RNC refuses, at will, to support the local Party nominee?

Now, back to CONTEXT:

In the CURRENT health care fight, the GOP has done a very good job, a fantastic job.

In the House, we lost ONE VOTE!

In the Senate? Not a single Republican voted for this garbage, and the Senate version is not quite as bad as the House version.

Blind loyalty?

No, I am by no means guilty of that. Anyone who knows be will tell you that.

However, I think you might very well be guilty of blind pessimism and blind disloyalty. Again, it is a wonder that anyone ever volunteers to fight for the conservative cause, as so many of our members choose to "eat their own" rather than attack the enemy.

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THAT! That’s it! THAT’S the healthcare WE need! Can we get that kind?! Please?!
“

that would be ObamaCare...

My beloved Canadian relatives think I’m a redneck reactionary...
but I’m DEAD SERIOUS when I tell them that if ObamaCare takes hold,
they will need to find another destination (than the USA) to get
the quality second-opinion they seem to always have time to get when
they visit flyover-country USA.

You may notice the Insurance Companies are laying low on this. What is going on is that the Government entitlements are totally bankrupt. The Private insurers are solvent. The Socialists can not allow the failure of the Collectivist scams to be exposed. There is no way they can run the Ponzi Medicare and Medicaid scams without cost shifting to the Private plans. It is a real mess. If they put the Private plans out of biz they will not be able to cost shift and hide the failure.

That's just mean. That's just plain mean!

“
A grandmother died after ‘gross failures’ by NHS doctors who injected
her lungs with a chemical that was ten times the recommended strength,
a coroner ruled today.
“

I remember a fellow graduate student complaining about getting only
(maybe) 2 points out of 10 on an exam on plant cell culture.

My fellow student had calculated the amount of a needed plant hormone
at 10 times the correct amount.

I was a good friend of the grad student, but I did appreciate the
professor’s reply:
“You calculated a TEN TIMES TOO HIGH amount of plant hormone for
what might be a very financially-precious plant cell culture.
If you made the same sort of calculation for a human patient...
YOU WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM!!!”

local contact and fax numbers for Senators (demwits)

Email them but the Phone is the best route.

Remind them that obamanationcare effects EVERY ONE!

VA cuts, retired Military..Tri Care for Life (nearly $5,000 in new fees) 8% cut in Medicare, increased premiums, 15% cut to nursing homes and for Pete's sake why are we creating a new tax on special needs kids? And why do we need 111 NEW federal agencies to 'oversee' obamnationcare? Oh, that is how he is 'growing' jobs!

Every government funded plan does essentially the same thing, pay about 50 cents on the dollar for services. What many people don’t realize, is that many private insurance companies do pretty much the same thing. When they saw the government could get away with it, they jumped in.

This is the main reason why I laugh when I see folks make statements like, “The physicians and the hospitals will just have to make do on less”, as if they weren’t already pretty much cut to the bone.” I say this, because hospitals in particular have faced this for up to fifteen years, in some instances more. The government slashed it’s payments decades ago.

Despite this, the leftists claim that still more can be wrung out of hospitals. That’s not true.

As for reviewing the services you need, private insurers do this to some extent, some of them pretty much looking like the government when they do it.

Pretty much the only competition that is left in the health care industry these days, is the competition by federal and state governments, and private insurance companies to prevent hospitals and physicians from keeping their doors open.

It’s really gotten bad, and this health care bill will only make it worse IMO.

If they wanted to make things better, they would encourage competition. I don’t think they want to make things better. Either that or they are bumbling fools, and don’t know up from down.

Praise be to Allah that the UK government health system prevents pharmacists from being sued when they make a minor mistake.

Oh my God - what a horrible way to die.

My prayers to the family of that poor woman, and to anyone else suffering under government ‘health’ care.

That is something I would dearly love to hear, too. It needs to be made to happen.

The usage of shorthand like “10X” is EXTREMELY common among researchers and is commonly seen on bottles of concentrated solutions. In fact, after I have explained the “_X” usage, one of my favorite questions to ask someone new to the laboratory is “How many mils (milliters) of 20X buffer do we need to mix with water to make one liter of 1X buffer?”

I have to wonder exactly how much training that “junior pharmacist” had. It doesn’t sound like he/she had ANY basic laboratory skills training.

Of course... when health care is rationed, and salaries of those in the health care field are limited, one cannot expect the most talented people to be working in health care.

It sounds like the lady died of the high salt concentration of the buffer; at 1X, the salt in phosphate buffered saline would be near physiological concentration.

That type of labeling thankfully would never be approved here in the States by the FDA. It would have to show concentration of active ingredient by percentage or by dosage (milligrams per milliliter.)

That sounds pretty expensive. We'd better adopt the enlightened European labeling standards instead.

/ bitter sarcasm

TORT REFORM!!!

No thanks Obama.

Does this wonderful bill have the same language as Hillarycare did about JAIL time for doctors who won’t accept this healthplan or those who take cash from patients who want better care?