Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Posted on 08/21/2009 7:14:29 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
I believe insurance companies, doctors, bureaucrats and lawyers have all been responsible for sinister and reckless behavior that have caused death and disability. Crap happens. If it was done maliciously and it can be proved. I would support some additional payment to the claimants.
I would rather that a private sector rating organization be used to determine service levels of insurance companies, death rates and failure rates for doctors, infection rates for hospitals. All of this done so that consumers can make informed choices when making health care decisions.
How do you feel about single payer legal services for Americans? Shouldn’t this be a right like health care? (I have to ask every lawyer this. It’s my mission this year.)
I do get your point. But there are PLENTY of Republicans who sound intellectual. Most of them are hanging whole wet BEDSHEETS in the wind to make SURE the wind is blowing in a certain direction before they clear their intellectual throats and speak.
Sarah knows when the iron is hot and she is not afraid to actually FIGHT. The Democrats FIGHT while Republicans CRY, COWER, and WINCE. We need someone out there clarifying what we conservatives stand for, unabashed.
‘Not by 2012, she won’t. She needs a good 10 years.’
Perhaps, but that’s only because she’s a Republican. Democrats have already proven that they can win big with someone with much less experience than Sarah Palin.
That’s not fair. Sean is a committed conservative. He does a lot for our side. I will not see him bashed. I think sometimes he tries too hard to be nice to people, and I think he has to be too thinly spread time-wise, but he is definitely on our side, and a bulldog at that.
He’s no Rush Limbaugh but neither is anyone else.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
And you're happy about that? Using Obama's lack of experience as a gauge of Palin's marginally greater experience is to damn her with faint praise.
That's your opinion.
I think she could probably build a campaign organization over the next couple of years and she would be in fine shape.
She certainly knows more than the current occupant of the White House right now. You would disagree?
There won't be an America left in 10 years.
Have fun supporting a statist who believes that advancing conservatism is to first offer the enemy tea and crumpets.
Quite obviously you need 100 years of practice and effort to make a comment sounding somewhat reasonable.
‘And you’re happy about that?’
I’m happy that Sarah Palin is a much (not marginally, but much) more experienced and capable public servant than B.H.O.
I don't think so. She'd be savaged by the media, and she has to overcome the "Dan Quayle" image foisted upon her (with a bit of help from Sarah Palin herself) during the last election. And her resignation is a real boon to her opponents, too. If you ask outside of the Amen corner, you'll discover that a lot of folks just don't take her seriously. She needs to spend a lot of time and effort to change that perception -- she can't do it in a year, which is when she would have to get serious about campaigning.
She certainly knows more than the current occupant of the White House right now. You would disagree?
My dog knows more than the current occupant of the White House, but I'm not suggesting that qualifies him for the presidency.
Since Sarah Palin is the only Republican leader who is putting any dents in the un-constitutional, communist, NAZI, health care proposals, perhaps you could just lay off the criticism during the heat of the battle.
If there are any other potential Republican leaders offering solutions besides compromise or total capitulation, I haven't heard from them. This is no time to be singing the dubious praises of RINO cowardice.
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Says who?
YOU?
Will you excuse me while I laugh?
I recall, better men than you, the grandees of the British Conservative party, saying exactly the same thing about Margaret Thatcher, just before she became Prime Minister. She went on to become their greatest Prime Minister of contemporary times. Sarah Palin has had more executive experience than Thatcher had, when she became Prime Minister of Britain, and had infinitely more executive experience than 0bama has ever had when he took power. Period.
Why not?
Key thing here, is that Zero's election has thrown traditional prerequisites one must have for POTUS out the window.
If a radical leftist who was actually in the Senate for 140 days can become President, then so too can a housewife who has an abbreviated term as Governor.
You: The Bob Michels of the GOP
Sarah Palin: Lee Atwater
A lot of companies are providing legal insurance for employers. They will cover so many hours on certain things, etc.
I don’t believe it is a right. Neither technically is health care. I say this as a diabetic, and who would otherwise be unable to afford medicine. Theoretically a prospective employee has the ability to negotiate for this and other benefits as part of a compensation package. It doesn’t really work like that for most people in the real world, but for me that legal fiction is preferable than to claim it is a right. I would support incentives to employers who choose to do so, however.
I think that with the current legal insurance that is out there, that it may actually increase some litigation (people can afford lawyers easier, so they litigate things they might otherwise let go). Also, I believe that for such plans there is fraud (inflating hours on bills, because one knows the insurance company will negotiate to pay only a fraction of this—incidentally, the same thing that happened with health insurance).
To have it move to a single-payer legal insurance plan would carry many advantages and many disadvantages. I won’t weigh them all. But one big advantage is that payment will probably be more assured than it is with a client who has no legal insurance. A big disadvantage is that a single-payer can dictate price and payment more effectively. So to sum it up, it’s easier to get paid, but you’re getting paid less.
To be sure there are other problems. At first blush I would be against the plan—the same as I am with health care. That’s not to say that there doesn’t need to be changes.
In any event, I like your idea for private sector rating organization—there probably are such things already. The big problem is one I touched on earlier—by and large, the meaningful decisions as to health care are made by one’s employer, so for most Americans control over health care decisions is only indirect. That is, unless one can afford to pay the whole premium oneself, and without employer contributions.
Yup.
That argument could be an indication that you may be posting on the wrong board here. The guys that think like you are right here:
http://www.dailykos.com/
It's alright to rejoin your close pals you know.
This 10 year theme is familiar. The last time I heard it was when they had the Al Gore 10 year countdown to world destruction.
I mean heck, if people (according to Algore) can destroy the world in 10 years, Sarah Palin ought to be ready to run for President in 2 or 3 wouldn’t you think?
So let’s hear your suggestion of who we need right now.
I don't think so. She'd be savaged by the media, and she has to overcome the "Dan Quayle" image foisted upon her (with a bit of help from Sarah Palin herself) during the last election
The media will savage all Republicans who are a threat. You have to stop living your life in fear of the liberal media. Besides, given the growth of the internet, FOX News and talk radio we me may actually be at a tipping point in our favor.
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She certainly knows more than the current occupant of the White House right now. You would disagree?
My dog knows more than the current occupant of the White House, but I'm not suggesting that qualifies him for the presidency.
Does your dog believe in the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution? Has your dog given speeches in front of millions of people. Will your dog over the next 18 months be offering common sense popular conservative positions on the issues of the day that would confront a U.S. President?
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