Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Still no gay stuff yet. You promised.

 

I hear their ads on conservative talk radio all the time. Right alongside the conservative alternative to AARP and other commercials targeting conservatives. I was thinking the other day it's like the righties are seceding from the U.S. economically.

 

what's the conservative alternative to AARP? how old do you have to be?

 

This reminds me of a conversation we had here a while back, where it was said that you can't truly be "pro-life" yet not support expanding access to health care. Not necessarily Obamacare, but something. Obamacare just happens to be the ONLY thing that has been implemented, and its goals are worthy.

 

Let Exxon continue to return only 4% or 2% or whatever and you'll see just how acceptable that is. There will soon be a change at the top, I can assure you. Even firms that aren't in the same line of business are in competition with one another: They may not be competing for customers or sales, but they're competing for capital.

That's why the "yeah it's a small percentage but still a huge amount" argument is way off the mark. Investors in a company have tons of options. They don't give a rat's ass as to how much money the company made. They care only how much the company made them. And if that's a low percentage, as compared to other options, they'll be looking for other destinations for their dollars.

The BCBSs of the world are different beasts, as they're "owned" by their policy-holders. But if ACA-related losses are eating into their bottom lines, their policy-holders are going to suffer, and it doesn't sound as if they're too far removed from that point in Alabama (and elsewhere).

 

Heed, move! NOW!

 

Health insurers that do business with the government through Medicare, Medicaid or ACA plans can only keep 15 percent of what they take in to use for their expenses, salaries, etc. So they tend to have small profit margins.

And the insurance companies -- like journalists -- are the ones getting the blame, but they aren't the ones charging $5,000 for an MRI or $10,000 for a CAT scan. They are the ones trying to pressure companies to lower their prices. Or they refuse to pay. Then insurance companies are the bad guys for refusing to pay.

Americans are horrible consumers of health care because we have been taught that we pay our $20 co-pay and don't care what things cost after that.

 

There was a Civil War mixed in.

 

The exception that proves the rule!

 

Once upon a time that wasn't such an outlandish thought, which is why so many hospitals are named St. Somebody.

 

There is no age limit; however, your mind has to have been born in 1935.

 

Just as an aside, we haven't had everyone voting on the same day for 200 years. Election Day wasn't codified as a specific day (first Tuesday after first Monday) until 1845. Prior to that, states could hold the election any time withing a 34-day window. Just random trivia.