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TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW

1gnoirents posted:

weird how they are so extremely profitable and yet it rose premiums somehow because you know

wait sorry ban the president etc

its because of the government price fixing for say medicaid. If you have to take patients who only pay say 10% of the price of service, and cost you 110% after administrative fess are added. You have no choice but to increase prices on your normal patients. Insurance companies run a racket with the hospitals. Hospitals essentially have a price list of what every insurance company will pay and what they will pay for. insurance companies, nickel and dime millions of people and set aside a set amount of their profits to pay hospitals what they want. then either or can just raise prices for whatever they want and balance the books with each other.

Obama care forced insurance companies to have to pay for more things at fixed prices, which meant they had only one group they could charge to make up the new difference without it hitting their profits, their customers. So they just pass all the new gov fees onto us.

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FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Tubgirl Cosplay posted:

you'd better be workposting right now you son of a bitch.

there isn't any other posting tbh, im not gonna sit on the forums at home after sitting on the forums 9 hours a day at work

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

I hope Boner wins and obama has to hand over the presidency. Do you realize how easy it is to make BONER bucks with a wad of $1s and a Sharpie? Move over wheresgeorge.com here comes wherehasmybonerbeen.com

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



the internet missed a golden opportunity to make boehner synonymous with boner in google kind of like what happened with santorum

School Nickname
Apr 23, 2010

*fffffff-fffaaaaaaarrrtt*
:ussr:

Lotus Brony
Feb 21, 2012

by Cowcaster
I don't care what you guys say: Obama 2016! He gave everyone free healthcare, fixed the housing bubble situation, allowed everyone to continue going to college, is letting people from other countries freely come here to pursuit their dreams, and gave me a free phone.

Best president ever, and if you disagree, you are a racist homophobe mysoginist.

Monday_
Feb 18, 2006

Worked-up silent dork without sex ability seeks oblivion and demise.
The Great Twist
lets just get rid of healthcare altogether, that'll solve the problem

Sierra Nevadan
Nov 1, 2010

Boner is orange and Reid looks like an old muppet

naem
May 29, 2011

stuntwaffle posted:

this reminds me that walmart is playing with the idea of opening up healthcare clinics in their stores, can't wait until our future cities are just suburbs sprawling out from a giant walmart supercenter like a cancerous growth

Welcome to Costco, I love you

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE
lol if you believe anything other than reptilian shapeshifters are controlling you're politics

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Lotus Brony posted:

I don't care what you guys say: Obama 2016! He gave everyone free healthcare, fixed the housing bubble situation, allowed everyone to continue going to college, is letting people from other countries freely come here to pursuit their dreams, and gave me a free phone.

Best president ever, and if you disagree, you are a racist homophobe mysoginist.

Ah, Obamaphones. Anyone else remember the time people tried to make Obamaphones a thing?

platedlizard
Aug 31, 2012

I like plates and lizards.

Lazyfire posted:

Ah, Obamaphones. Anyone else remember the time people tried to make Obamaphones a thing?

Reaganphones lol

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

platedlizard posted:

Reaganphones lol

Remember the time Reagan's administration sold weapons to Iran to fund Central American rebels after Congress disallowed funding to them due to massive human rights abuses?

I don't know where I was going with that, but man, that's some hosed up poo poo.

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010
What's stopping America from having more than 2 political parties ?

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Decebal posted:

What's stopping America from having more than 2 political parties ?

the existing two political parties

or you know there are plenty of political parties in fact ron paul...

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot
If you sign up for obamaphone, they'll literally never stop harassing you until you're subsidized for three or four of them. This is because Carlos Slim needs money

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

dontcareaboutname posted:

i forgot to mention how it screwed over workers, it forced a lot of layoffs, and slowed hiring because it increases the amount of non paid benefits employees get. Which caused a lot of companies to no longer be able to sustain their current level of employment. The biggest issue is that it is having new regulation and such constantly added to it, without having to be voted on any longer and no one knows what's even the law any more.

lol
boss: "we dont have to pay for their healthcare if they arent employees"
fires everyone
obviously Obamas fault


Lotus Brony posted:

No, I'm here. So true story time.

Three daughters here, innocently watched the show and, being kids, they naturally role-played and made themselves characters of the show. Yes, as their father I was obligated to participate, thus how my user name and picture were created (we found that pony creator online program much to their delight).

Then my ex found bronies. I'd watch the show with daughters (among other shows), and I'm a guy, so I must therefore be a Brony. Researched what this meant, and I explained that, in a way, the show is honestly based on porn.
Rarity: wassup good looking one
Applejack: country girl
Rainbowdash: athletic type/dominatrix
Fluttershy: innocent girl next door
The pink one: crazy party girl
The purple one: nerdy school girl

It amused me to no end as my ex slowly realized that this was reality, and was using small girls as ponies to entertain manchildren.

Yes, I've watched a lot of porn. Sure, I admit I've done kinky to odd things now and then. Equines? Nope. Cartoon horses? No. Children of any sort? F U if you even go there.

Bronies are different. Just stay as long as they keep to themselves and keep their perverted things away from kids, there won't be much trouble.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jul 25, 2014

Tubgirl Cosplay
Jan 10, 2011

by Ion Helmet

ty for this

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
*in Predator's electronic whisper*

anytime

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014
it's funny because you can kind of tell which people itt are trolls, which are republican sympathizers hiding behind the guise of being a troll, and which are genuine republicans who just don't give a gently caress and probably think obamacare is socialism

e: guess which one i am :ssh:

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

Sierra Nevadan posted:

Boner is orange and Reid looks like an old muppet

McConnel's face is melting and his voice sounds like its coming from a man with a melting face.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

InterFaced posted:

McConnel's face is melting and his voice sounds like its coming from a man with a melting face.

Well, Kentucky is basically a dumping ground for lovely genetics so you can't fault him for whatever hereditary disease makes him look that way.

King of Internet
Nov 16, 2013

High King Internet of Internet

Benedick Cuckold posted:

it's funny because you can kind of tell which people itt are trolls, which are republican sympathizers hiding behind the guise of being a troll, and which are genuine republicans who just don't give a gently caress and probably think obamacare is socialism

e: guess which one i am :ssh:

You're still the stupid one either way

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW

Benedick Cuckold posted:

it's funny because you can kind of tell which people itt are trolls, which are republican sympathizers hiding behind the guise of being a troll, and which are genuine republicans who just don't give a gently caress and probably think obamacare is socialism

e: guess which one i am :ssh:

its not socialism its pure capitalism, they are taking peoples money to create amarket that directly pays there friends. it has a super high profit level because they can use government price fixing. we are starting to get a new class of the wealth who are new robber barons. bot democrats and republicans are fostering their behavior.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

dontcareaboutname posted:

its not socialism its pure capitalism, they are taking peoples money to create amarket that directly pays there friends. it has a super high profit level because they can use government price fixing. we are starting to get a new class of the wealth who are new robber barons. bot democrats and republicans are fostering their behavior.

I have to laugh at every one of your posts because it always looks like some 14 year old on AIM is pounding away on his keyboard furious over something he read in the latest issue of the New Republic on his parent's coffee table.

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

King of Internet posted:

You're still the stupid one either way

i take the feedback i receive on here very seriously, so this is very troubling. looks like i'll have to seriously reevaluate my self-image over the next few days as i do some soul searching.

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ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
I got a splint for a broken thumb five years ago and it was basically plastic that they heated up in a tub of hot water.

I asked how much the "machine" cost and the therapist said $3000.

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