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Hold on, this is not true, the doctors and surgeons at VA hospitals are among the highest paid in their field.
Says....?
Hold on, this is not true, the doctors and surgeons at VA hospitals are among the highest paid in their field.
I already did... the VA
Hold on, this is not true, the doctors and surgeons at VA hospitals are among the highest paid in their field. Administrators and executives aren't paid as much, but there are many more of them in the VA, as opposed to private systems. So I don't think you've made your case. Now the VA does provide their service to Veterans at no cost to the Veteran, but that doesn't mean it's cheap. As taxpayers, it costs us a great deal more to operate the VA than it takes to run a private hospital-- Mainly because taxpayers don't subsidize private hospitals very much. We have to publicly fund the VA because the private sector would find no profit in free health care to veterans, and we don't have to fund private hospitals who can find ways to earn profit in the private sector. I hope this explains why the two are different, and that you have failed to make a valid argument.
ekg...
From now on let's just call Dixie "ICEMAN".
You, of course, know my views of the VA. And how virulently I will defend it against ignorant people. It's not perfect, but it is the best health care system out there. The only thing that's bogging it down right now is the influx of veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as well as other veterans who cannot find affordable health care anywhere. It doesn't help that the Republicans in Congress refuse to allocate sufficient funds for care. Under the Obama administration, more has been done to improve mental health care alone than during the entire eight years of the Bush regime.
What riles me is ignorant mother fuckers like this fool:
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE THE MOST IGNORANT PERSON I'VE EVER KNOWN! TO SIT YOUR FAT ASS IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER AND SPEW BULLSHIT LIKE THAT TAKES NOT ONLY AN IDIOT, BUT A RETARDED MOTHER FUCKING DUMBASS!
YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU BRAIN DEAD MOTHER FUCKING STUPID NEANDERTHAL GODDAMN FOOL! GO AWAY.
ekg...
From now on let's just call Dixie "ICEMAN".
ahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa That's insulting ice..
HA!
at this point it's Dix's word vs the link I provided.. so yeah, I'm going with the link
can you give me an example of something the government does cheaper than private industry?.......
Are pursuing market reforms after their systems have developed the very sort of problems they were told they would.
is this the rational debate zappa is talking about?
LOL
I don't think Romney has ever said this. It sounds like something maybe taken out of context. Our problem is NOT defense spending! That has been an ongoing left-wing liberal meme, because they loathe the military. Recently, the dovish Ron Paul types have idiotically picked up the banner, but that doesn't make it any less stupid and short-sighted. Can we find cuts in the military budget? Of course we can, I think Paul Ryan even proposed cuts in his famous 'Ryan Budget,' and I know Newt Gingrich raised a strong argument for billions which could be cut from the military budget, that would effect hardly anyone. We currently have 30-year-old technology on the drawing board, which is already obsolete. Our bureaucratic system is literally too slow to keep pace with technology, so we are funding weapons systems we'll never use. Some of our foreign bases are no longer vital or necessary, NOT ALL OF THEM, but SOME! The problem is, peace-nicks who loathe the military, see absolutely no use in military strategic advantage, they had just as soon see the entire military dismantled and all our guns melted down.
Again....Reality is, we are not going to dismantle the military or put our national security and interests at risk. It doesn't matter which party is in charge, that isn't going to happen. You can blow all the rhetoric horns you like, it's still not going to ever happen in the reality we live in. Can we find ways to save money and cut the military budget? We HAVE TO! There is no way around that, but to insist that we take some draconian step at gutting our military, while completely ignoring the 800lb unfunded liability gorilla in the room, is beyond stupid. Our problem is spending a trillion dollars a year more than we take in, and that can't be addressed with military cuts alone, I don't give a damn what you think.
It's not a matter of gutting it. The problem is every cent spent on the military is one less cent spent on social programs....
We now have nearly 50 million people on food stamps, how many more would you like to see?
This would indeed be it! I believe I was called an "ignorant motherfucker" for pointing out VA doctors are among the best and highest paid in their field.
Isn't it ironic?
There's no irony in the fact that you are ignorant and horribly misinformed.
You are incapable of intelligent discourse and are a pox upon the right wing representatives of this forum.
You are, in fact, an ignorant motherfucker. And a blatant liar. Six million times over.
And how, pray tell is Romney going to sell the end of Medicare as we know it to the large elderly population in Florida?
Ryan is not a rabid rightwing nut as you would stereotype a southern conservative. His economic policies were written on Wall Street and approved by the WSJ. I'm mildly shocked by this pick. Mitts is screwed. I can't wait to see Ryan debate Bidden though if they do debate he had better hope there are filibuster rules or he'll not get a word in edge wise. I don't think Biden will have the kids gloves on with PR that he did with Palin....not that anyone really gives a rats ass what a Veep has to say. Still, could prove interesting. I would say this choice was as bad as Palin but I think Mitt's going to see a lot of second guessin on this choice and if he loses a lot of people will blame it on Ryan.
Medicare 'as we know it' is a severely underfunded liability. The status quo is not acceptable.
Ryan will destroy Biden in a debate.