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  1. President Obama's FY 2012 Budget, FY 2011 Continuing Resolution,? Gov Shutdown

    dp1200 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  2. President Obama's FY 2012 Budget, FY 2011 Continuing Resolution,? Gov Shutdown

    dp1200 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  3. President Obama's FY 2012 Budget, FY 2011 Continuing Resolution,? Gov Shutdown

    dp1200 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  4. Vermont governor signs single-payer health law

    dp1200 replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  5. Universal Heath Care - Lessons from Massachusetts

    dp1200 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  6. Is it sexist....

    dp1200 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Men in Nursing

    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...

  7. Which job to take?

    dp1200 replied to jamesy7's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    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...

  8. Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken Earned $4.6 Million Last Year

    dp1200 replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Goes to show that for-profit, competitive insurance providers are better at cost-containment than supposed "non-profits",

  9. Vermont governor signs single-payer health law

    dp1200 replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  10. Shadowing a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

    dp1200 replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    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...

  11. New Health Care Bill

    dp1200 replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  12. New Health Care Bill

    dp1200 replied to rodmoser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  13. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    dp1200 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  14. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    dp1200 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  15. The Other Side of ObamaCare - Nurse's Health Benefits

    dp1200 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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"...

  16. I made it!

    dp1200 replied to buster4's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Grats, Buster! I'll be applying for my program of choice this summer and praying I get accepted; still a year+ away from even starting, but I do enjoy hearing of others' successes. Good luck on...

  17. Will DNPs be chosen over MSNs?

    dp1200 replied to Le-Lee_FNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    This is exactly how I see it as well: DNP is a solution to a non-existent problem. There is a wise old phrase from the story of Nixon's Watergate scandal that I like to apply to situations like...

  18. What kind of stethoscope should I get for nursing school?

    dp1200 replied to FLhusker's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a Littman Master Cardiology, which I love. In the back of a noisy, bouncing ambulance, my aging ears need all the help they can get. I think it will be overkill for school, but since I...

  19. Helping Classmates

    dp1200 replied to nursegc's topic in General Students

    Personally, I find study groups utterly useless. From my own experience in school, I have found there are two types of students: (a) ambitious, self-motivated students who sacrifice in other areas...

  20. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Good string of posts, edrnbailey. I work in EMS and I completely sympathize with your frustration. Nothing bugs me more than bringing a patient to the ER in my ambulance whom I know is simply gaming...

  21. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    sorry, but this defense of social security is full of holes big enough to drive a truck through. what?! it does have a continuous stream of new "investors": every single person that works and has...

  22. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    that in and of itself is part of the solution (don't forget means testing). well, i'm still trying to figure out how i'm going to finance my own retirement, or if i'm even going to get to have...

  23. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry, I've been rather busy with work and school, haven't had a chance to revisit this thread in a few days. Anyway, to be precise, I'm really not "arguing" about anything on this thread so far: all...

  24. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *sigh* so, in other words, you don't want to think critically about the points i raised, illustrating that what the government is telling us is a bunch of rubbish? i reject your attempt to...

  25. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    dp1200 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    mediajunkie, was there a point to that massive cut & paste from the social security soothsayers? if you are trying to challenge the simple math of my prior post, can you do so directly? a couple...