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Topic: No Objectivity in Journalsim
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Sun 11/13/16 05:18 PM
Obamacare was designed to deplete American financial reserves. Traditionally, no $ means no political voice.

The elite began buying up media outlets --in earnest, circa 2000. Traditionally, no media outlet means no political voice.

What nobody expected was Trump's ability to circumvent both suppressive strategies, resulting in his delivering his message and securing the presidency via alternative media, at minimal cost. :laughing:


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Sun 11/13/16 07:12 PM

crickstergo:

Nobody is pretending anything - Some of your talking point analysis of my conclusions are worded far too general to invalidate my specific observations. One thing for sure though is that Trump is definitely not going back on his vow to repeal Obamacare. The individual mandate provision is the only stipulation that doesn't exist anywhere else in other insurance policies. If you have evidence where Trump said these other provisions now being talked about in the news were horrible I might then entertain your conclusions. Obamacare IS and ALWAYS has been 100% about the individual mandate and I'm pretty sure Trump hasn't moved even
.00000000000000000000000000001 per cent on that.


Your PREDICTION that Trump "is definitely not going back on his vow to repeal Obamacare" is just that. We will see what actually happens.

Part of this will be a matter of politically biased opinion. Some people already see backpedaling by Trump, with his announcement that some provisions of the ACA should be retained. You might have chosen on your own, to decide in advance that 100% repeal of the ACA is not 100%, and that's okay with you.


The real talking point here is that when Trump repeals the individual mandate Obamacare ceases to be Obamacare - you can spin it like the media any way you want but effectively once that provision is repealed Obamacare wont exist anymore. Think of it this way - If you take the technology out of a self driving car it becomes just like any other car on the road. There are plenty of insurance policies written in the US every year that include covering pre existing illness and such policies existed long before Obamacare.

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Mon 11/14/16 07:41 AM
there are not AFFORDABLE policies

without 'OBamacare'

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Mon 11/14/16 08:16 AM
It's a friggin tax.

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Mon 11/14/16 09:34 AM
Edited by Conrad_73 on Mon 11/14/16 09:35 AM
Experience and the law of unintended consequences suggest the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" will neither protect patients nor make health services affordable.
Actual caring will resemble that of the U.S. Postal Service.
Servi...ces will be rationed and denied in arbitrary manner after long waiting, as in other countries with government health systems.
Advocacy groups will institute something like a 'disease-of-the-month-club,' to apply political pressure to cover various conditions.
In short, decisions which ought to be made by patients and physicians will instead be made by cold, distant bureaucracies. Switzerland has a market-based system which works.
Care there is as good as in the US at 58% of the per capita cost.
Such a system was not even considered here, because the goal is government control, not accessible, affordable or quality care.

written by a Doctor-Friend of mine,who holds a License to practice Medicine,both in the US and Switzerland,thus is very familiar with both Systems!

He wrote this a couple years ago,and it looks like events bear him out!

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