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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    That assumes the financial institutions will allow that revolving credit scheme to continue ad infinitum. I suspect we're getting close to the end of that scheme. I suspect 2011 was where that possibility arose when the credit rating of the US Government was downgraded...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Thank you. I thought you might have jumped a little too abruptly to implying there were available efficiency improvements that could close the gap. But it just wasn't that clear to me and the points you cited seemed more tangential than transitional. To level the health care costs as you seem...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    (What perfect example of a false dichotomy argument. Do you know of anyone that has ever lived beyond 130 years? No, they all die. It's nature's ultimate efficiency.) That's why I'm saying the generation that receives the health care (and incurs the expenses) must pay for it. We shouldn't play...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Using your false equivalency, your legal clients should not pay the portion of your bill that pays for advertising since I'm sure you do no research to advance the sciences or the arts.
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    So distribution of health care facilities in West Texas is akin to that in northern Ontario: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1DHIEhZtdOTf5297Q6BFziES-NMI&hl=en_US&ll=52.21866716129606%2C-84.79556321874998&z=4
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    It's not a question of whether they're losing money in Canada., It's a question of whether Canadians are paying their fair share compared to other customers internationally. With Canada requiring an average of a 40% discount in exchange to recognize and protect the patents on the drugs is akin...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    But Canada has a much lower involvement in medical innovation as indicated by papers presented and Nobel Prizes for Medicine. https://www.quora.com/What-countries-have-lead-the-world-in-medical-research-and-innovation-in-the-past-20-years Maybe the US drug companies shouldn't give Canada such...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    What does any of your post have to do with avoiding the US government borrowing money (i.e., financially burdening future generations) to pay for health care of the current generation I expressed in my post? All you are posting is tangential comments about the supposed efficiency of health care...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    If we were to ever somehow go with a single payer system (i.e., a European Socialist health care system), the most important feature must be that it pays as it goes. No debt accrual to be paid by future generations should be allowed. That will mean we'll have to increase everyone's taxes to...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Are you saying only a simple answer to the initial topic question posed by the OP is allowed to be posted and sidebar discussions of issues that affect choices of the answer to the original question are not allowed? Also, are you speaking as a participant in the discussion or as a mod?
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Uhh, sorry but the AARP is a very liberal organization. They were one of the bigger supporters of the ACA. http://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/aarp-sells-out-seniors-for-obamacare-081497
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Thank you for that link. I'm still working on a tl;dr reply with citations to Bigmac's earlier post and one thing that struck me about the Commonwealth Fund's study was that the only science involved was political science. Your link confirmed my observation of just one of their papers. I...
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    The Tax Debate

    To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of manufacturing are greatly exaggerated. If it were so, we'd be missing about 6 trillion dollars of GDP in the US. Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-output-has-doubled-in-three-decades-2016-03-28 There is always a...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Other than the personal anecdote (with no indication of the severity of the illness), do you have any comparative citations from the healthcare industry like I posted to support your claim?
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    The Tax Debate

    Blaming the tax code and tax rates for poor economic growth is just more red herring arguments to fuel the Class Conflict argument. Real Economic growth comes from making things from raw materials. We've exported those jobs to where the costs are much lower due to fewer regulations...
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Actually the elimination of lifetime dollar limits was just as important, but seldom recognized aspect of the ACA. http://obamacarefacts.com/dollar-limits/
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    The Affordable Care Act's Replacement

    Be careful what you wish for: "The results of Canada's rationing, an idea abhorrent to Americans, are apparent. Harvard Business School's Regina Herzlinger, PhD, in Market-Driven Health Care, documented that only 18 percent of Canadians versus 38 percent of Americans had medically necessary...
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    When did you first realize that FA exist?

    There was a decade and a half between realizing my attraction to a fat girl in my first grade class (and later marrying another BBW who was 7 years older than me as my first wife) to becoming aware of other FAs like me. That was via an article in the old Penthouse Forum magazine in about 1977...
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    Through a different lens

    I only used California and Calexit as an example, but I agree both coasts have more of a Dignity culture. It's just that those Dignity cultures seem awfully comfortable with using less than dignified verbiage when referring to the areas outside of theirs, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Even...
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    960lb Strong Man

    Comparing his pics to those of Robert Earl Hughes, I'd say it's very plausible. He's a little taller than Hughes was and muscle is denser than fat.
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