Presidential Campaign: 2012

[Robinhood]

Originally Posted by CharlieBoy

I know what you mean. I have and old friend from high school. His dad was one of two primary pediatricians in our small town of of 15,000. The "Doc" took great care of me and my friends. He worked hard, he cared, he was rewarded financially and I'm sure spiritually. He died the other day. I was just thinking that an era died with him. I hope one day we can get that back but I'm not encouraged.

Thanks for the good wishes. If I end up sweeping for a living, I hope it's sand!

Your a good man Charlie Brown Good things happen to good people. I hope you can visit us expats down here in Playa we could sure use some Americans down here. I can sure see a big drop in tourism from the States.Put in the good word Playa is great and most of all safe.

[Robinhood]

Originally Posted by Dan-0

Jeez, roni, no wonder you're so much in favor of Obamacare you probably won't have to deal with it anyway.

Maybe Merida has the things you mentioned because the free market is allowed to work to a greater extent than it is here in the U.S.? Insurance companies are part of the problem & "feeding the pig" with taxpayer money is not the solution.

[Robinhood]

This is what scares me more than the ACA ...the government administrators that will be in charge. For our sake i hope they are better than this women.

[Seakony]

Originally Posted by CharlieBoy

Agreed. The only health care I have experienced in Mexico is dental, but extensive dental and I've had a lot from many providers there. My last experience was with Dr. Jorge in Playa. Of course he doesn't accept any US insurance. Great service, expert work, and I left perfectly happy- for one third of my out of pocket cost if I would have done the same thing here with insurance. That savings paid for 2 very nice vacations. Wonder what we can learn from their system. There must be something.

The overhead is alot cheaper in Mexico.
I have been to Dr Jorge's office with a friend..He worked alone, did his own lab work..You don't find many dentists in the US that do that. I have met only one dentist that worked alone and he did most of his lab work..He was also alot cheaper than the rest of the dentists. Most dentists have 2 other employees..A receptionist and a chairside asst. Mine has 2 hygenists, 2 chairside assistants and 4 working in the office part.

Also locations play a big part on any practice. In the US, the Drs office needs to look decent as well as the building it's in....Americans are picky about that. Then there is the extra overhead of a staff and accounting...oh and very expensive insurance coverage for the staff and the big one..malpractice insurance.

It's no longer cheap to practice in the USA.

[STOGEY]

People are judged by the company that they keep. Which is why Liberals and Hollywood are so comfortable with each other. They're all phonies.

Why zm i calling Liberals phonies. That's ,because for years we're told that we must accept certain lifestyles. Yet recently it's come out that Tom Cruise likes men for sex. Which is ok if you're into that stuff.

However we've been told for years that we must accept a certain lifestyle as a norm. Yet the industry that Tom Cruise is a part of won't accept a gay person. Unless they're married to a woman and have kids.

Which to me speells phonyism. Which is why our President fits in so nicely with those people. They're so into telling the rest of us how we should live and what norms ro accept. But they wont accept those norms themselves.

[roni]

Originally Posted by Dan-0

Jeez, roni, no wonder you're so much in favor of Obamacare you probably won't have to deal with it anyway.

Maybe Merida has the things you mentioned because the free market is allowed to work to a greater extent than it is here in the U.S.? Insurance companies are part of the problem & "feeding the pig" with taxpayer money is not the solution.

Covering a large proportion of the tens of millions of USA residents who do not currently have insurance is the primary basis for my support of the ACA. It is an ethical and a moral issue for me.

[MikeW]

Originally Posted by roni

Covering a large proportion of the tens of millions of USA residents who do not currently have insurance is the primary basis for my support of the ACA. It is an ethical and a moral issue for me.

I think you are talking about the extension of MediCaid. If so, in order to cover the persons with higher income they are going to have to change some of the very restrictive rules that qualifies someone for Medi-Caid. If not, very few of the new "eligible" persons will qualify for it and still be in the same boat with no insurance.

[bearcat]

Originally Posted by STOGEY

People are judged by the company that they keep. Which is why Liberals and Hollywood are so comfortable with each other. They're all phonies.

Why zm i calling Liberals phonies. That's ,because for years we're told that we must accept certain lifestyles. Yet recently it's come out that Tom Cruise likes men for sex. Which is ok if you're into that stuff.

However we've been told for years that we must accept a certain lifestyle as a norm. Yet the industry that Tom Cruise is a part of won't accept a gay person. Unless they're married to a woman and have kids.

Which to me speells phonyism. Which is why our President fits in so nicely with those people. They're so into telling the rest of us how we should live and what norms ro accept. But they wont accept those norms themselves.

You are a fascinating dude Stogey. Not many could so seemlessly segue from Tom Cruises "lifestyle" choices into a critique of Obama.

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by bearcat

You are a fascinating dude Stogey. Not many could so seemlessly segue from Tom Cruises "lifestyle" choices into a critique of Obama.

yeah..."fascinating"...that must be it.

[user 6507]

Originally Posted by roni

This one is for Mr. Hood

Funny but even out here on the liberal left coast I did not see that picture of doom and gloom embraced yesterday-just thousands of people having fun with lots of red white and blue mixed in. Oh...thanks for the bread Mikey & E....toasting it now...

[bearcat]

Originally Posted by Jacko

yeah..."fascinating"...that must be it.

Jacko, I meant to ask you a couple days ago but WTF with that fracking vote override in North Carolina? Seriously, the lawmaker puching for the bill pushed the wrong buttom and ended up being the deciding vote to overrule it?

How a lawmaker's mistaken vote put North Carolina on a path toward fracking - Politics - NewsObserver.com

[ryberg]

CB, sounds like you may need to exercise a little free marketry yourself and switch to doctors who don't make you wait so long for so little time with you. That's what we did the last time a doctor did that to us and things have been great since.

That was for my kids but my wife and I also switched doctors 1-2 years ago when we weren't so satisfied and again the results have been good.

[roni]

Originally Posted by MikeW

I think you are talking about the extension of MediCaid. If so, in order to cover the persons with higher income they are going to have to change some of the very restrictive rules that qualifies someone for Medi-Caid. If not, very few of the new "eligible" persons will qualify for it and still be in the same boat with no insurance.

That is part of what I am talking about, but not just that. There are already provisions of the law in force that probably increased the number of insured folks.

Not all without insurance will be Medicaid eligible.

It is interesting that the Governors who say they will not change medicaid are in states with the higher percentage of non-insured residents.

[bearcat]

Hmmmm....Ann Romney said in an interview that her husband is considering a female VP and that would be her personal preference. That pretty much leaves Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Martinez from New Mexico. I will sadly leave Condi out of consideration. There was talk of a Congresswoman from Washinton state, (don't know name) but that died as quickly as it surfaced.

[bearcat]

Originally Posted by bearcat

Hmmmm....Ann Romney said in an interview that her husband is considering a female VP and that would be her personal preference. That pretty much leaves Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Martinez from New Mexico. I will sadly leave Condi out of consideration. There was talk of a Congresswoman from Washinton state, (don't know name) but that died as quickly as it surfaced.

Right after I posted this I found this link. I was not too far off.