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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 your boards!

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 this: Follow the money. In the case of DNP as entry t...

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 already use it for work, I'll use it at school too.

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 of their lives and would do just fine on their own....

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 the system. We have some known frequent flyers w...

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 ss taxes withheld! we are all captive "investors"...

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 one, and you want me to solve this for everyone els...

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 I've been trying to do is to get through to people...

*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 characterize the issues i raised as "phony right wing talkin...

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 questions about your cut&paste info: 1) this wo...