[Magdalen] Now, a related thread - was, Anxiety?, House vote, Blah, Blah.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

My friend requires a drug regimen which costs about a quarter million
dollars a year, but I bet if the gloves came off of the negotiators that
cost would plummet to a few thousand.

Compulsory electric chair for big pharma and the scuzzy insurance weasels!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:48 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone actually thinks the former situation was better.  I never cease to
> be amazed at the poor judgment of folks given a little power.
>
> We need a single payer system and we need it yesterday.
>
> The director of my musical group has a disease for which the only
> treatment is a very expensive drug, and he was saying if that plan passed,
> he would probably be dead within a year. Which is probably about right.
> Nobody given a fraction of a chance would ever allow him to be covered if
> they could possibly get away with it.
>
> People who want things back the way they were forget that people die
> because of these decisions. The slime making the decisions have no problems
> because they are independently wealthy and have no worries for anyone they
> give a damn about (which certainly doesn't include any of us at all, at
> all) ever having a problem with health care.
>
> Another thing we tend to forget is that folks without coverage wait til
> they are desperate and then go to the ER.  Stuff which could have been
> dealt with by a visiting nurse or some such suddenly becomes life
> threatening, and it's also being treated in a cadillac setting. It would be
> a lot more reasonable an expense if these folks had decent care freely
> available.  When they come to that ER, we *A*R*E* going to treat them, but
> the expense is a few orders of magnitude greater in that setting.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/24/17 5:47 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>
>>> *Where* did he say he never said the ACA should be repealed and
>>>>>> replaced?!<<<
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> At his desk today in the Oval Office.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what he said that he never said, but in the last couple of
>> days, he has said that he never said that repealing/replacing Obamacare
>> would be _easy_, which was another thing that the Liberals were laughing
>> about his saying that he never said.
>>
>> (I never said that he wasn't any of several varieties of crazy or a liar:
>> a couple of things that I have said are that he wasn't/isn't suitable to be
>> a President (nor is/was Hillary, IMHO)).  I've also said that his
>> principles are not really Republican principles, no matter what party he
>> won with.  But really, guys, keep it straight about what it was that he did
>> say that he never said!
>>
>> One other point going in this thread is that when you're being all
>> triumphalist about the Republican replacement for Obamacare failing, you
>> should remember that a fair number of Republican Conservatives are against
>> that bill because they (sorta, kinda, "we", because my own opinions on the
>> matter are mixed) want Obamacare _abolished_, without replacement:
>> obliterated: back to the way things were before it passed Congress, and
>> weren't going to accept the watered-down compromise. Others, more
>> conciliatory, settled on "Ryancare", and voted for it, but the ones who
>> hated Obamacare more refused to vote for the replacement.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sibyl Smirl
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>
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