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By Mike Finnigan Saturday Nov 29, 2008 8:00amPolitics in the Zeros: Mumbai and Pakistan's ISI
Calculated Risk: Certain economists need to do some serious soul searching. Instead of leaving it to us to guess why their analysis was so flawed, I believe the time has come for Mankiw, Kling and many other economists to write a post titled "Why I was wrong"
Climate Progress: EPA, Interior Dept. will be busy cleaning up Bush's crap
The Progressive Puppy: Low-income Americans who depend on Medicaid will soon face higher co-payments for doctors’ services, hospital care and prescription drugs, thanks to a new federal rule by the Bush Administration.
Bob Geiger: The Saturday Cartoons
The Stranger: Oh my God...this is terrible
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The mop up begins. Hopefully there will be a few wolves and polar bears left to work with.
Certain politicians need to do some soul searching. Instead of leaving it to us to guess why their voting record is so flawed, I believe the time has come for Obama, Clinton, Bush and many other politicians to stand up and give an address to the American people titled...
..."Patriot Act, Why I was wrong"
... maybe "Telecom immunity, why I was wrong"
... "Bailout, why I was wrong"
... "Bank De-regulation, why I was wrong"
..."Weapons of mass destruction, why I was wrong"
I want Barney Frank to do a special one since he was on the House Banking oversite comittee entitled..."why I said nothing"
Arlen Specter should give this address:
..."the Single Bullet Theory, why I was wrong"
In many cases making patients pay a copayment on certain types of their medicaid services might be a good thing. In my experience most state funded health plans have no copayment, although there are some plans with monthly premiums and I don't know anything about those. However, if a copayment would help preclude abuse it could be a good thing. I live in a small town and I have seen several occasions where Medicaid patients call the ambulance as if it is a taxi cab. They have a headache, back ache or restless legs, and want a ride over to urgent care to get some medicine. Well, Medicaid won't pay for a taxi and the ambulance won't go to urgent care/walk-in clinic. So then you have an expensive ambulance ride to the expensive ER for a nonemergent medical situation all paid funded with tax dollars. How do we curtail that? It's a waste of several thousand dollars in one quick pop.
and I agree with it completely, the problem comes in when people do not have the money for a copay. What that does is create a carrot to dangle in front of someone's face (here, you can go see a doctor...if you can afford it), but for some, that will effectively create a barrier to seeing a doctor.
I don't know what the median ground should be. How do you reduce abuse while still ensuring that people can get care? Perhaps charge for an ambulance? Charge if it is not an urgent case (who determines that)?
If I knew, I would have my application up at change.gov.
They'll drive all the rest of us hard-working, honest, real Murkins to the poor house ourselfves, if'n we let 'em behave like 'at...
Better charge 'em co-pay, cuz if they can't afford that, maybe they'll stay home and die out of sight, where they don't bother anybody...
why should I be punished? I can't afford fucking copays. I can't afford to eat.
You speak as if 99% of recipients do that. Got any Cadillac-driving welfare queen stories for us?
MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!!
Comic books? Grow the fuck up.
As long as Captain America's Shield hangs proudly on Stephen Colbert's studio, the culturally ignorant like yourself can kiss my ass.
did I hurt your feelings? :(
That's a bit harsh, isn't it?
What are YOU into? Poker? Pottery? Garden gnomes?
Man, get over yourself.
I'm into various past times, to answer your guesses no, no, and no. Hiking and kayaking are a couple of the adult past times I have. What are you into, Missy?
Poor Bush. He can't even fill out a census form correctly.
He has shit the bed, trashed the house and maxed out all of the charge cards, tortured a bunch of folks, caused the deaths of over 4,000 of Our military and untold numbers of civilians...and he is going to walk away with a tidy pension and personal protection for the rest of his pitiful life. All on Our dime, with out being held responsible for any of it.
Only in America.
ISI's been involved in everything violent in central and south-central asia since FOREVER.
Probably they were paymasters for the 9/11 attacks.
Probably they have already killed Osama bin Laden.
Probably they were involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Probably there hasn't been any dirty work anywhere in the region for the last 30 years on which you couldn't find their fingerprints.
Probably they were sponsored at critical times by the US CIA and the Brits.
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