[Pesqueeb]

payback for riding a scooter.

jesus doesn't roll like that.

Jesus drives a hummer, with baby seal skin seats.

 

[X3pilot]

and the game has reached a new low:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/wheelchair-bound-woman-sh_n_275472.html

And lower:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/health-care-activist-bites-off-the-finger-of-a-counter-demonstrator.html

 

[ire]

And lower:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/health-care-activist-bites-off-the-finger-of-a-counter-demonstrator.html

I'm having images of Tyson biting off Holyfield's ear...

 

[ohio]

And lower:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/health-care-activist-bites-off-the-finger-of-a-counter-demonstrator.html

Good thing that fingerless 65yo has Medicare to cover the emergency.

 

[syadasti]

Good article on the 2009 OECD study on healthcare.

But perhaps any discussion of healthcare in the developed world ought to begin with a plain fact noted early in this study: Among the OECD's 30 members...there are only three lacking universal health coverage. The other two happen to be Mexico and Turkey, which have the excuse of being poorer than the rest (and until the onset of the world economic crisis, Mexico was on the way to providing healthcare to all of its citizens). The third, of course, is us.

 

[dante]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jng4TnKqy6A&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jng4TnKqy6A&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

 

[drkenan]

^^ Awesome video.

Could someone explain to me why a not for profit health insurance company who focused on patients' rights and treated their customers like customers couldn't take over the country right now?

 

[ohio]

Could someone explain to me why a not for profit health insurance company who focused on patients' rights and treated their customers like customers couldn't take over the country right now?

You mean like Kaiser?

 

[X3pilot]

This little gem of thinking by the republicans is why we're all doomed on health care issues

Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.

Yep, turn over health care to the fattest, most obese, drug dependent citizenry in the world.

<sigh> I give up.

 

[drkenan]

A guy I know put this up on Facebook:

if health care is such an important issue and "cannot wait another day" as our president states, why then does the plan not kick in until 2013? Also, if healthcare is 17% of our GDP, and is "unsustainable", why is no one talking ...about the government which takes up 22% of our GDP and is expected to rise to 26% of GDP. Why isn't this "unsustainable"? Anyone?

Correct me if I'm wrong here but when a single private industry is within 5% of the government portion of our GDP (which includes military spending), wouldn't that be a bit "unsustainable?"

I also read that our military spending was 45% of the world's total so these are huge numbers that we're talking about.

 

[syadasti]

I was chatting with some military moms (my cousin is in the air force) and one of these airheads says they don't want the government running their healthcare, what they have works great. They knew had Tricare and yet they did not get it

 

[Pesqueeb]

A guy I know put this up on Facebook:



Correct me if I'm wrong here but when a single private industry is within 5% of the government portion of our GDP (which includes military spending), wouldn't that be a bit "unsustainable?"

I also read that our military spending was 45% of the world's total so these are huge numbers that we're talking about.

 

[stevew]

Yep, turn over health care to the fattest, most obese, drug dependent citizenry in the world.

the funny thing is you probably get sick as often as they do......

 

[syadasti]

the funny thing is you probably get sick as often as they do......

There are mountains of studies that show diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices influence health. Why would you say something so dumb?

 

[stevew]

There are mountains of studies that show diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices influence health. Why would you say something so dumb?

i know that ......but....

just going by the number of people on here who bitch about getting sick.....i thought people on this board would be the healthiest of the healthy....

 

[syadasti]

just going by the number of people on here who bitch about getting sick.....i thought people on this board would be the healthiest of the healthy....

The development of your immune system and the overuse of antibiotic products is a different issue...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html?_r=1&em

 

[X3pilot]

the funny thing is you probably get sick as often as they do......

No, I don't. But thanks for thinking of me..

you did understand the point right? That a general population that runs to the doc everytime they see a new ad on American Idol for the newest drug that big pharma swears will cure their ails, then stops at McDonalds and supersizes their Big Mac meal then hurries back home to plop on the couch to watch Real Housewives of Atlanta probably aren't the best folks to decide their own healthcare plan??

 

[X3pilot]

I was chatting with some military moms (my cousin is in the air force) and one of these airheads says they don't want the government running their healthcare, what they have works great. They knew had Tricare and yet they did not get it

Why would the Moms have Tricare? Tricare is for active duty, retired (under 65) and their dependents. but yeah, same airheads that are on Tricare and VA care are bitching. Mostly I think bitching to be bitching..

 

[syadasti]

Because they are married to active duty. Military moms as in wives with children.

 

[X3pilot]

Because they are married to active duty. Military moms as in wives with children.

Oh. When you say "military moms" I think Moms with kids that are in. Sorry

 

[DamienC]

Just jogged past the US Capitol with the dogs as it was getting tea bagged. Open wide!

 

[Straya]

i thought people on this board would be the healthiest of the healthy....

Nah. Mountain bikers are healthy, we are computer drivers who talk about mountain bikes.

 

[ire]

On the topic of health....I walked by the vending machine last week at work and they these labels on certain food, "Better for you"....you've got to be kidding me. There is nothing in that machine that is "Better for you". Better than what? Eating Crisco?