The Joseph R. Biden Score Card

The thing is, it's not the doctors that are getting the money... The whole system is fucked. Our only choice is to stay healthy..... I can't afford to use my shitty health plan - yeah it might get me a discount here and there but 99% of the time nothing comes close to the deductible, so why have it? I'll buy a cheap disaster plan to cover hospitalization in case I step in front of a bus, the rest is cheaper out of pocket.

 

... And you can throw in some exploration / vacation time. CR has outfits that rent dirt bikes and you can either go out on your own or be guided through lots of dirt back roads and trails.

But the real effects of our challenging system is that people in the middle (between those on govt assistance and those with strong financial success) put off care because it's so costly for us, and that leads to less healthy outcomes.

 

I get that you don't want to entertain the possibility that you've been bamboozled by your elected govt and the compromised media. So stick to your fed narrative and make like it's all for YOUR own good, not theirs.
Don't worry about things like people here admitting we were involved in biolabs in Ukraine, or any other facts that serve to crumble the narrative. Stick to your guns! Don't try to understand anything which goes counter to what you're fed. And by all means, don't listen to anyone you've never heard of. Unless they agree with what you've decided to believe, otherwise it just gets too confusing. And that could lead to uneasiness, anxiety, even depression. So stay healthy, believe the administration and their media, and don't worry about or question things. If nothing else, do it for the children! The truth is an existential threat!

 

Our health care system is in poor shape because the Republicans enacted lawsuit limits for medical malpractice; and it was the Republicans who inserted loopholes in insurance regulations so the big companies can weasel out of paying health insurance claims. Moreover, it was the Republicans who repeatedly voted against strengthening Medicare regulations which would solve the problems for the poor. It was the Republicans who raided the Social Security fund then told us Social Security would go broke. It was the Republicans who went against The Affordable Care Act and even started calling it Obama Care to disparage a Back President whom they despised. If these illustrious Republicans cooperate for just a little, maybe we could solve the big problems with health care, like high hospital charges, high Doctor fees, and ridiculous ambulance fees. When I lived in Indiana, we had to have ambulance insurance, Part A Coverage, Part B coverage, Part D coverage, and Gap insurance on top of all that. That insane system was the work of Republicans would prefer to see poor Americans dying on the sidewalks. These are the very same people who wave Confederate Flags as they claim to be Patriotic.

 

O-kaaay

If only we could go back in time and fix the blunders...

Wasn't it president Trump who proposed transparency in medical pricing, no surprise billing, and negotiating down drug prices?
Who opposed all that?

 

He's talking to you.

 

Trump wanted transparency in nothing.

 

The only transparency to him is looking through one ear and seeing out through the other.

What's to negotiate with drug prices?? REGULATE them. I saw a drug commercial on TV yesterday, Kisqali. For laughs, I looked up the price, it was $15,745 for 63 tablets.

 

No, he’s talking to you. He’s got you bamboozled, but you do you and believe the bullshit he spews.

 

The price of oil is fixed by private companies who have decided this is an opportune time to gouge the living shit out of everyone and either ship overseas, or keep capacity capped off. Isn't it amazing how the price of gasoline, which had been manufactured three months ago or more and is sitting in the pipeline can take the leap that it has? The same with empty shelves - and the price of food. A box of pasta or canned goods were manufactured at least six months ago. The price of meat and poultry is fixed by a very small number of price fixing corporations - the money doesn't go to the producers, beef on the hoof prices haven't been climbing. Our supply chain issues have been exacerbated by our poor port and rail systems. Why do we ship coast to coast using a truck when rail has the lowest by far price for ton/mile ? It's our disaster of infrastructure that hasn't been invested in. Over 50% of the rails used every day are 50 years old or worse, built with the same technology used since 1860.

 

Yup--it's the capitalistic way. Gouge the shit out of the public and ALWAYS find some reason other the desire to take advantage of the populace. This- here is ameriky, brother.

 

Look at it like this, heard about Covid for 2 years, All of a sudden it went away. Now Russia and oil prices.

 

It's amazing that there is a whole world out there, isn't it...