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by cydygitt1 July 6, 2009 8:46 AM EDT
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! ROTFLMFAO!!

They can't even save their party of NO from extinction!!
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by payasyougo July 6, 2009 8:07 AM EDT
Three simple to do items to solve the health care issue. They have to do with costs.

If you lose a lawsuit, you should pay a flat fee of 5% of your suit amount to cover court costs. You sue for 1M, you owe 50k to the court if you lose. Yes, this will eliminate almost all of the malpractice suits.

Windfall profits tax on winnings. 90%.

Congressional leaders should be provided health care by their state by required participation in their state plan.

"Texas Tort - the other state lottery".
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by WoodsideParkBob July 6, 2009 7:06 AM EDT
"Medpac" wants to treat the symptoms (malpractice payments) rather than the disease, malpractice itself. Data from the National Practitioner Data Bank show that from one to two percent of physicians are responsible for over half of all the malpractice payments. Many of these physicians have multiple payments in their records. If physicians spent as much time working to revoke or restrict the licenses of the very few physicians causing the bulk of the problem as they spend complaining about lawyers, it would go a long way toward both reducing malpractice costs but also protecting patients. Trying to cap malpractice payments does nothing to protect patients and would allow incompetent or dangerous physicians to continue to practice while protecting them from the consequences of their malpractice by shifting the costs to their victims.
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by rhs648 July 6, 2009 1:16 AM EDT
mccain08nc - Your statement is nothing more than "poppycock." It shows how much of a fool you must be for spouting off such dribble. Give us something imtelligent.
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by rhs648 July 6, 2009 12:57 AM EDT
Several weeks ago I needed an emergency eye procedure. I was able to get an appointment with a retina specialist the same day and the procedure was performed within minutes of the eye examination. The total cost came to $1,900. Insurance covered all but $103. Do I favor national health care. No way. Having had good luck with private health insurance for 61 years, there is no way I want to take a chance on a government program.
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by rhs648 July 6, 2009 1:16 AM EDT
mccain08nc - Your statement is nothing more than "poppycock." It shows how much of a fool you must be for spouting off such dribble. Give us something imtelligent.
by cydygitt1 July 6, 2009 12:44 AM EDT
"Republican politicians screaching and squacking about universal health care when their health care benefits are provided by the tax payers"
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Exactly! When all American's health care benefits are provided by the taxpayers, and we get exactly the same coverage as the congresscritters, America will finally have reformed health care!
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by cydygitt1 July 6, 2009 12:38 AM EDT
libscrytoo goes out on the limb and says:
"Time to understand that only 63% of Americans approve of Obama."
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OK....and your point is that only about 2/3 of all Americans approve of President Obama....or in other words.....a vast majority!

.......while you're in the vast MINORITY still whining....

.....still cryin' about being a "sore-loserman".....



Please..... go cry on caribou barbi's shoulder, since cryin', whining, little republiCONS look and sound like little children.....
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by cydygitt1 July 6, 2009 12:25 AM EDT
slownewsday_05 says:
Rowdy's simply a caricature of the perfect brainwashed right-winger.

Her own shadow probably makes her yell "commie!!"

Rowdy is the Chicken Little of CBS.
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Yep....brainwashed rightwads tend to spew the same ignorant rants, all heard on the murdoch foxnewsus propagandus for dummies.
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by hungry1968-16 July 6, 2009 12:19 AM EDT
As usual, mccain08nc lacks reasonable and intelligent answers, so I guess I'll say goodnight.
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by medpac July 6, 2009 12:10 AM EDT
So your "wife" doesn't pay more for malparactice insurance than she pays for health insurance. And you think that the only solution is a single payer system. Like yeah we are believing that you could actually be married to anyone. ROFLMAO You are a bozo that probably thinks that your opinion is special. *** do you care? A**hole
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