Comments on: Late Night: A Whiter Shade of Pule http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:55 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: tk1200 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1928233 tk1200 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:33:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1928233 <p>I’m sure it’s just his ethanol plan updated for health care. There’s a reason why you can’t buy ethanol imported from Brazil, which would be cheaper even after all the shipping than ethanol produced in Iowa. It’s called barring competition from those interests near and dear to Senator Grassley’s wallet. So you pass a law requiring about 10% of each gallon of gasoline to contain ethanol, and then you bar any competing ethanol from entering the country. It satisfies the wants of Iowa’s farmers by imposing on consumers of gasoline a hidden tax equal to the difference in the cost of ethanol with competition and the cost of ethanol without competition.</p> <p>Senator Grassley, and other GOP and Blue Dog Senators, never hesitate to impose no competition taxes on consumers wherever it serves their corporate interests. In the health care debate it takes the form of requiring all Americans to purchase health care with no additional competition among the private health care insurers, which is almost always limited to no more than three insurers in most markets, and without adding cost controls or caps because cost controls and caps distort or disrupt free markets that have been massaged by the likes of the eminent Senator Grassley (R-Ethanol.)</p> <p>The Happy Endings Health Care Act of 2009 should be the title of the bullshit that the GOP and Blue Dogs are suggesting as the content for “real” health care reform. It’s all bullshit all the time for this group of free market fantasists.</p> <p>Have a safe and happy Fourth of July everybody.</p> I’m sure it’s just his ethanol plan updated for health care. There’s a reason why you can’t buy ethanol imported from Brazil, which would be cheaper even after all the shipping than ethanol produced in Iowa. It’s called barring competition from those interests near and dear to Senator Grassley’s wallet. So you pass a law requiring about 10% of each gallon of gasoline to contain ethanol, and then you bar any competing ethanol from entering the country. It satisfies the wants of Iowa’s farmers by imposing on consumers of gasoline a hidden tax equal to the difference in the cost of ethanol with competition and the cost of ethanol without competition.

Senator Grassley, and other GOP and Blue Dog Senators, never hesitate to impose no competition taxes on consumers wherever it serves their corporate interests. In the health care debate it takes the form of requiring all Americans to purchase health care with no additional competition among the private health care insurers, which is almost always limited to no more than three insurers in most markets, and without adding cost controls or caps because cost controls and caps distort or disrupt free markets that have been massaged by the likes of the eminent Senator Grassley (R-Ethanol.)

The Happy Endings Health Care Act of 2009 should be the title of the bullshit that the GOP and Blue Dogs are suggesting as the content for “real” health care reform. It’s all bullshit all the time for this group of free market fantasists.

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July everybody.

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1928145 ThingsComeUndone Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:50:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1928145 <p>What is bad is always desired and made a myth about sexually just ask all the senators with African American grand kids. I wonder if Mark Sanford has any brown kids?</p> What is bad is always desired and made a myth about sexually just ask all the senators with African American grand kids. I wonder if Mark Sanford has any brown kids?

]]> By: katymine http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927997 katymine Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:07:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927997 <p>I want to hear what some dipshit said about the wait times in the UK…. I can’t remember where but some wingnut said……. well in the UK there are 197,000 people waiting for procedures, IS THIS WHAT you want? </p> <p>Ok…. it seems there are around 87 million people in the UK which includes England, Scotland & Wales…… now do the math……. .02% are waiting for procedures. </p> <p>When I was in Crete there were 5 couples from the UK and I picked their brains on benefits and healthcare. Amazing one of the wife’s was the administrator of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and could get it from her directly. A law was passed several years ago to deal with wait times. </p> <p>When a primary care writes a script for surgery to the hospital then a clock starts. The time frame is 180 days. If the need is urgent or emergency then care is done immediately, there were circumstances that required delay, the patient needed therapy to get stronger, other health issues make it unsafe for surgery right away. There are patients that end up deciding not to have surgery. </p> <p>One of the guys from Scotland who worked for Johnson&Johnson (ya our own company) receives 66 days paid vacation.</p> I want to hear what some dipshit said about the wait times in the UK…. I can’t remember where but some wingnut said……. well in the UK there are 197,000 people waiting for procedures, IS THIS WHAT you want?

Ok…. it seems there are around 87 million people in the UK which includes England, Scotland & Wales…… now do the math……. .02% are waiting for procedures.

When I was in Crete there were 5 couples from the UK and I picked their brains on benefits and healthcare. Amazing one of the wife’s was the administrator of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and could get it from her directly. A law was passed several years ago to deal with wait times.

When a primary care writes a script for surgery to the hospital then a clock starts. The time frame is 180 days. If the need is urgent or emergency then care is done immediately, there were circumstances that required delay, the patient needed therapy to get stronger, other health issues make it unsafe for surgery right away. There are patients that end up deciding not to have surgery.

One of the guys from Scotland who worked for Johnson&Johnson (ya our own company) receives 66 days paid vacation.

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927992 BargainCountertenor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:02:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927992 <p>But do you know George Leroy Tirebiter?</p> But do you know George Leroy Tirebiter?

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927989 Eureka Springs Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:01:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927989 <p>That will cost you extry. /s</p> That will cost you extry. /s

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927988 BargainCountertenor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:01:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927988 <p>I can’t afford a Medical Diety, I’ll have to settle for PhD like me and thee, Dr.B.</p> <p>ES: Yes, I have BC/BS, which probably means that I have the right to go bankrupt if anything serious happens…</p> I can’t afford a Medical Diety, I’ll have to settle for PhD like me and thee, Dr.B.

ES: Yes, I have BC/BS, which probably means that I have the right to go bankrupt if anything serious happens…

]]> By: DrBong http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927986 DrBong Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927986 <blockquote><p>Depends, you insured and have <strike>collateral</strike> <strong>equity</strong> remaining on your house?</p></blockquote> <p>fixed</p>

Depends, you insured and have collateral equity remaining on your house?

fixed

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927985 Funnydiva2002 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927985 <p>and do you have any credit cards that aren’t maxed out?</p> and do you have any credit cards that aren’t maxed out?

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927984 Funnydiva2002 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927984 <p>Well…<br /><em>I</em> have a <em>master’s</em> degree…in <em>science</em>!</p> <p>FWDiva<br /> She knows more than you do. That’s right!</p> Well…
I have a master’s degree…in science!

FWDiva
She knows more than you do. That’s right!

]]> By: DrBong http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927983 DrBong Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:55:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/02/late-night-a-whiter-shade-of-pule/#comment-1927983 <p>BC - Prolly not the kind you be seeking…</p> <p>Or, maybe it’s your lucky night</p> <p>;~P</p> BC – Prolly not the kind you be seeking…

Or, maybe it’s your lucky night

;~P

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