Is there a single soul who is surprised that an Engineer came up with this
10,535 pages reduced to 4 sentences.
READ SLOWLY!
4 simple sentences
Great summary by a Notre Dame University engineer………
Here are the 10,535 pages of Obama Care condensed to 4 simple sentences..
As humorous as it sounds…..every last word is absolutely TRUE!
1. In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.
2. Next, we require the newly un-insured to be re-insured.
3. To re-insure the newly un-insured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.
4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured, so it will be ‘free-of-charge’ to them.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is called "redistribution of wealth" or, by its more common name, SOCIALISM, or “PROGRESSIVE”, the politically correct names for COMMUNISM !
Wow! What a brilliant way to raise money to fund a free service. Aren’t we lucky to have such a brilliant man leading us!
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Posted by: Dr Crapology on November 6, 2015, 3:56 pm
Posted by: Finisher on May 28, 2018, 4:58 pm
He has ENDED more deals then made and now is on the bad end of a new deal with North K .They come to table saying we gave you 3 prisoners and blew up are nuks tunnels so WHAT are you going to give US PERIOD . What a way to start off at deal making .
I wish him the best of luck for he will SURE NEED IT,
This is worse the a craps shoot .
It is a WIN WIN for the other side .
Posted by: Skinny on May 28, 2018, 6:38 pm
"Finisher" wrote: So explain the GREAT TRUMP plain since he has been in office for over a year and said that was FIRST . Were is the low cost drugs and better insurance I know that it takes time but were is the GREAT DEALS THAT HE WAS GOING TO Make ?
He has ENDED more deals then made and now is on the bad end of a new deal with North K .They come to table saying we gave you 3 prisoners and blew up are nuks tunnels so WHAT are you going to give US PERIOD . What a way to start off at deal making .
I wish him the best of luck for he will SURE NEED IT,
This is worse the a craps shoot .
It is a WIN WIN for the other side .
To see my response go to President Donald J. Trump’s Accomplishments List:
Posted by: Skinny on May 30, 2018, 1:00 pm
"Finisher" wrote: Where is the low cost drugs.
President Trump is taking effective action to lower prescription drug prices and to improve the American health-care delivery system, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma told me recently in an exclusive on-camera interview for Fox News.
The president is “not afraid of special interests,” Verma said.
Verma emphasized the importance of drug innovation and said that the pharmaceutical industry has done a fantastic job with bringing lifesaving treatments that have made folks healthier.
“But innovation doesn’t mean anything if folks can’t afford their medications,” Verma said.
Appointed to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in March 2017, Verma has a long history in the health policy world – most notably as an adviser to Indiana Governors Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence (now vice president) as the architect for Medicaid reform in their state.
Verma is working with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and their boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, as a capable cadre charged with putting teeth into the president’s drug price-lowering project.
A big step in this direction is a reform to what is known as the drug dashboard, a tool to allow Medicare and Medicaid patients to know the cost of their prescription drugs.
“The drug dashboard is a transparency tool,” Verma told me. “It’s an opportunity for patients and the public to see what’s going on with drug prices. We’ve gone from having 70 drugs on that dashboard to now we have 3,000 drugs. You can see the price increases year over year from 2012 to 2016 and you can see which manufacturers.”
Now someone insured by Medicare or a disabled or impoverished person can finally get to see the yearly list price increases for almost every drug that he or she is taking. Basic drugs that treat diabetes and high cholesterol showed large price increases in 2016. Zyrtec, a common allergy medication, increased in price almost 20 percent as did Enbrel, an important arthritis and psoriasis medicine.
In 2016, Enbrel cost a whopping $2,741 per patient every month – almost $33,000 per year before insurance payments. A friend of mine who has taken weekly injections of Enbrel for more than a decade for psoriatic arthritis was disturbed by the big increase in price when he reached 65 and changed from private insurance to Medicare Part D. His out-of-pocket cost for Enbrel last year under Medicare was just over $5,500.
What to do? Of course, knowing the list prices and which manufacturers are price-gouging is only the first step. If middle managers step in and negotiate the prices down for you, they have historically kept the profits to themselves and passed the rest of the cost on to consumers.
Verma told me that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are beginning to change all that. She said that last year the centers made some essential changes to their hospital program.
“The hospitals were getting discounts and they essentially were not passing these discounts to seniors,” Verma said. “So we changed the rules and this year alone, our seniors are going to be saving $320 million.”
Verma said that CMS is hiring negotiators to strengthen its negotiating power and increase competition to lower prices for seniors.
Over at the Food and Drug Administration, Commissioner Gottlieb is complementing this work by approving more generic drugs and biosimilars rather than making generic drug manufacturers redo expensive research that the brand-name drug companies performed initially. This leads to cheaper options, which also bring down prices through competition.
When President Trump released his prescription drug price lowering proposal, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., immediately attacked it, saying in a statement: “The President’s proposals are yet another giveaway to Big Pharma, and do nothing to hold wealthy drug companies accountable for their unconscionable price gouging.”
It would seem that Pelosi is wrong, as Verma, Gottlieb and Secretary Azar are proving. The path is simple and straightforward. Our seniors and our poor and disabled are our must vulnerable populations. They are the right place to start.
First, patients need to know what drugs are costing, and whether or not they are paying for them directly. Next, these costs need to be negotiated down with the introduction of more competition or choice. Finally, the government is correct to forcibly decrease the amount seniors have to pay out of pocket and stop the middle managers from gouging them.
Seema Verma is helping to put flesh on the bones of what she calls President Trump’s “bold” initiative. We should applaud her efforts.
Here is a link to that dashboard.
Click on any drug that you are taking and a chart opens up that shows you the drug costs for all manufacturers that produce that drug. Use the search feature to find your drugs.
Posted by: Finisher on May 31, 2018, 6:05 am
Good Rolling.
Posted by: Finisher on June 17, 2019, 3:31 pm
Good Rolling.
Posted by: Finisher on September 23, 2019, 6:17 pm
Also a friend had to go see doc. while here and it cost her 45 for docs visit and 30 for scripts .My wife said that would have been in the thousands in the States .
O by the way is Obama care not from a REPUBLICAN plan that started in Mass. ? Just trying to remember the real facts .
They all like to come up with plans till we like them then they say no .
Good Rolling. 😀 🙂
Posted by: Skinny on September 23, 2019, 7:19 pm
Posted by: Preacher on November 3, 2019, 9:10 pm
Heard of AOC+3, or the squad, led by ultra left Ocasio-Cortez? They are the crest of a final wave change throughout the Democrat Party riding on the shoulders of their radical base (I don’t think they’re radical, just true to their socialist convictions). Just like the Tea Party movement, with the support of its base, has largely (not completely, yet) transformed the Republican Party through Primary challengers starting 2010, the Democrat Party faces the same threat in 2020.
The Democrat base will throw the bums out, from their perspective, if they see no ideological shift in their Congressmen, and the Democrat House knows it. AOC+3 have been vociferously vocal about this, and AOC proved it in her Primary victory over a long term incumbent leader. This is why Pelosi and cohorts chose to conduct the charade of impeachment. They don’t have any interest in fair hearings. They need their impeachment proceedings to feed their hungry base. Sure, their behavior will cost them seats in the 41 swing districts, but those were going to flip anyway because of the Trump vote.
It’s all about keeping incumbent Democrat Congressmen safe in their primaries. In their calculations, the swing districts Democrats are goners anyway.
