Posted on 12/01/2013 5:29:23 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
December 1st, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Michael Hayden, a former chief of the CIA and National Security Agency.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Tom Donilon, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rogers; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt.
I’m with you fellow former Jedi, but O has decapitated the flag officer corps and replaced them with PC social engineers.
I know. I got the “If it ain’t SEC, it ain’t football!” disease.
It isn’t true, but we still like to brag!
At least we’re not saying, “If you like your BCS number 1 seed, you can keep your BCS number 1 seed. Period.”
Because that's what it's actually for...gathering parasites
What’s that got to do with healthcare?
Absolutely nothing...except to destroy it.
Obamacare and Fox news sunday was a joke they don’t need to talk about benefits of an illegal law they need to start talking about how the illegal law came to be and how to get rid of it lock stock and barrel ...
And whoever that woman was she is a very convincing liar in all aspects of the law including cheaper and better coverage !
Yes.
Missouri was a great addition to your league. Their sole loss was that missed chip-shot 24 yard field goal in overtime.
Gamecocks came back from a 17 point 2nd half deficit to tie it for overtime. In second OT Missouri’s field goal hit the upright and the game was lost. Steve Spurrier was the most surprised person in the house.
[Note to topic police: This is an attempt to reach the century mark so we may hear from Rocklobster]
Tax dollars to register Democrats to vote for more Democrats? That is hard to believe?
Pretty soon Republicans will not be entitled to healthcare since they didn’t vote for it in Congress.
Is Obama playing the Knockout game with Obamacare?
First off Woofie....they are ALL high deductible plans.
Wait till the public gets a load of their deductibles and do not forget....THERE IS NO CAP!
Here’s my story....my husband and I had a private plan, thru his employer. It wasn’t a Cadillac plan but it served us well during one year of our spectacular medical procedures.
I had a quadruple bypass and six months later husband got a horrible brain infection, lasted six months, almost killed him.
The deductibles on his plan were similar to Medicare BUT....here’s the big BUT....
THAT plan had a cap.
THAT saved us from total financial ruin. Indeed the deductibles were high, couple thousand on a week long hospital visit.
BUT the cap....ahhhhh. Our out-of-pocket expenses exceeded five thousand dollars....goodness one hospital bill was over a hundred thousand dollars. Our cap was %4,000 and yeah, we had to pay that amount of out of pocket, to include doctor co-pays (every time the doc passes by your hospital bed costs you fifty bucks), hospital co-pays.
Four thousand bucks is a lot of money but peanuts compared to our medical bills. Most of them I was able to pay in payments and many I got reduced to half by wheeling and dealing.
Damn I wish this country had a decent health care system....people should not have to go through all this. But the medical people get paid too much, the lawyers got their hands in the till, hospitals got to pay to treat illegals. Y’all know the story.
OBAMACARE HAS NO CAP!
Did y’all know that?
As it was passed there WAS a cap on out of pocket expenses. Obama signed a paper, like he likes to do, and boom, did away with the cap.
Did y’all know that?
All part of the mission God has for me.
Thank me very much.
This law will effectively destroy this country.
But we do have options.
Again....all part of my mission.
;)
Well, we’ll just have to see about THAT sh**....
A bit off topic again, but even CNN is mocking O’scare. They tried the website today (the day it was supposed to be fixed).
They still can’t get in.
Her media can help her overcome whatever feeble attempt the eunuch Rs make.
And men? Heh. They’re like a bus. You miss one, another one comes right along.
Women? They're like a truck. You miss one, another one comes along and runs you over, leaving you in the middle of the street with tread marks on your face.
With Acorn and all the navigators (voter registers) on the payroll, isn’t the massive cost of O’Scare leaving less for Doctors and Hospitals than it did before? I mean, was not the goal to reduce the cost of healthcare?
Of course it was not Bambi’s goal, but that was how it was sold.
That is a great story Fish. Keep up the great work in DE.
And let’s not forget the biggest cost waster in health care in this country.,...
FIFTY FIEFDOMS ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAINS....where they play around with state health care depending on who supports who in the election. California requires health insurance to cover this and that, Oklahoma something else. THAT system is the biggest waste of funds.
Here’s my challenge....I dare the political elite to take me up on it....here’s the challenge...
Gather, with political affiliation or idealology not a factor in the choice, about fifty of the best of the best this country has to offer.
Come on....this is AMERICA! We got the world beat by half....do we really have to settle for this awful morass created by a bunch of politicians with no brains whatsoever? It’s not like THEY have to live with it.
Get fifty people....oh I dunno, a head of a major health insurer, a director of a hospital....get a general all around thorough view of health care.....lawyers...yeah.
Tell them they are charged with creating a health care system for America....with all of her resources. Most important, there is to be NO preconceived notions. In other words, NO laws, nothing. Pretend that you just walked into America and they have no healthcare system yet.
Of course they would eliminate these state fiefdoms. Things the population has control over....like getting pregnant....yeah maybe getting too fat....smoking....all would come with penalties.
I think the group could come up with a pretty perfect health care system that would eliminate waste, create democracy in medical decisions....on and on. With the technology available today?
It’s gotten so, people, that it is cheaper to have a team of four medicos come to your house, set up a sterile tent, and mind us there than it is to stay at a hospital. My husband’s bill for a 30 day stay...admittedly a long one...was over one hundred thousand dollars. Mostly he had to heal from a stomach operation to unclog his leg arteries.
He could not be released as he was unable to eat. They never release anyone who can’t eat...so I was told.
Did the man really receive 100K worth of care? Think about it. First of all, that’s line number one in the hospital billing system, what the average joe pays. Insurances get reductions and Medicare, of course, pays what it says. Shrewd individuals beat this price down.
But a lot of those charges to husband were for the Ecuadorans down in the ER with four kids with fevers and runny noses. A lot pay for the drug addict who was his roommate.
Health care is one tangled mess and come on guys....we are to expect this awful mess to make it better?
But we do have a choice.
We do, the best in the world.
the medical people get paid too much
No, they don't.
the lawyers got their hands in the till
Yes they do...we need tort reform.
hospitals got to pay to treat illegals.
That's fine if they want to, but they should be prohibited from jacking up our costs and insurance claims. (cost shifting)
Let them pay for "bad debt and charity care" some other way.
Jeff,
I don’t know if you were trying to be funny but you had me laughin for almost two minutes.
When I was a young woman....man I hated being a woman. I was a woman’s libber, in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.
So I hated men because....well they were men while I was a woman.
It was so unfair.
Somewhere along the way I managed to get four husbands and that don’t count the ones I lived with.
Even with all my inner simmering, the men would alkways stop by my bus depot, some of them stayed awhile.
;)
No, that was the lie that got it passed, and got the dictator re-elected.
He should be impeached and prosecuted for fraud on several levels.
Cock a doodle doo
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