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  1. This rhetoric of partisan class warfare and incessant harping on the Obama tax cuts (Bush isn't President anymore and it was Obama who last signed the law reauthorizing these tax rates) not only fails to address the actual problem or offer a real sol...
  2. The phrase, "Bush tax cuts for the wealthy" is nothing but a partisan talking point. Obama wisely signed a continuation of these very same tax cuts, acknowledging the very simple economic truth that raising taxes on anyone during a recession is mist...
  3. If we agree that Bush's economic policy sucked (it did), and that Bush's deficit spending was bad (it was), it is illogical and intellectually bankrupt to try to use that to defend Obama's much, much worse deficit spending (which it is). If you thi...
  4. Vermont governor signs single-payer health law

    You know the old saw about making assumptions, right? FYI, I've lived my entire life in a BLUE state, which is bankrupt thanks to its own experiment with "universal health care" (MA). Just answer the question: are VT and its residents going to conti...
  5. Is it sexist....

    Technically, yes it is "sexist", but I'm not bothered by it at all. I'm in school and working as an EMT right now... "I lift things up and put them down." Whenever I'm on a floor waiting to process a patient discharge and I hear a page for lifting...
  6. Which job to take?

    Think of it this way: which one would you have been most disappointed about had you been rejected? That's the one you want. :) A) sounds like the best option for career development; B) is a more attractive schedule. If it were me, I'd probably ch...
  7. Goes to show that for-profit, competitive insurance providers are better at cost-containment than supposed "non-profits", eh?
  8. Vermont governor signs single-payer health law

    hmm, ok, let's look at the parts of this that the op didn't mention: the entire state's health care system is going to be in the hands of five people? are these five incredibly powerful positions elected public offices? i bet they aren't. no, th...
  9. Massachusetts' 5 year-old experiment with universal health care is yielding some interesting results that the rest of the country would be wise to learn from. While Romneycare has mostly satisfied the headline goal of "getting more people insured", t...
  10. Shadowing a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

    Shadowing may help somewhat if you can actually find an NP that will take a shadow. I asked about this at the NP program I am intending to apply to for next year, and was told straight up that they don't do this for a number of reasons - liability, ...
  11. New Health Care Bill

    MA has the highest health insurance costs of all states, thanks to Romneycare. 5 painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts Uh, yeah, I know the "Republican" Romney brought us this mess. I wouldn't vote for this guy for town dogcatcher.Whene...
  12. New Health Care Bill

    Let's see how you feel about it in a couple years. I live just south of you in MA - the first state to experiment with "Universal coverage". It's an abject failure, and we now have the HIGHEST health care costs in the country. There is no such th...
  13. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    ok, gwin, if you are unaware of some incredibly basic facts such as the true magnitude of our federal deficit and how social security is funded and insist on either ignoring or trivializing these simple facts, then it is going to be impossible for us...
  14. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    You led off with a post declaring those who opposed Obama's agenda as uninformed ignoramuses. How is that not obnoxious? How is a single-payer system, with the government as that single payer, not government-run healthcare? Your earlier response ...
  15. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    If your intent was to be as obnoxious and offensive as possible, congratulations, mission accomplished. You might be surprised to learn that those of us who oppose government run ("single payor" being your euphemism of choice) health care are not ne...