tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8255504628937090648..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: And Now for the ConsequencesDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23662979682650972182010-03-23T02:15:00.484-04:002010-03-23T02:15:00.484-04:00"New construction in East Jerusalem or the We...<i>"New construction in East Jerusalem or the West Bank undermines that mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first step toward the full negotiations that both sides say they want and need," Senator Clinton told a pro-Israel lobby in Washington.<br /><br />But she says America's commitment to Israel is still "rock solid, unwavering and enduring".<br /><br />Mr Netanyahu will meet US president Barack Obama at the White House tomorrow.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/23/2854056.htm?section=justin" rel="nofollow">Claim to Jerusalem</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52370207153034508522010-03-23T02:00:46.660-04:002010-03-23T02:00:46.660-04:00But the bill's passage will also free him to d...<i>But the bill's passage will also free him to devote time to other priorities, including trying to secure congressional approval of a plan reform and tighten financial regulations.<br /><br />Republicans have labeled the $940 billion healthcare a government intrusion into the economy and warn it would drive up the budget deficit.<br /><br />The Senate this week is taking up a package of change proposed by the House to improve the bill.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2222456320100323" rel="nofollow">Healthcare Victory</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24076396900676490212010-03-23T01:47:45.002-04:002010-03-23T01:47:45.002-04:00The election leaves President Sarkozy weakened as ...<i>The election leaves President Sarkozy weakened as he heads off on two important trips - to an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday and a US visit to New York and Washington next week.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Meanwhile, Mr de Villepin - President Sarkozy's political archenemy - was poised to announce a new political party on Thursday, according to conservative lawmaker Francois Goulard, a member of the political group ClubVillepin. A close Villepin ally was named in the Cabinet reshuffle, with lawmaker Georges Tron taking a new post in charge of the civil service.<br /><br />Francois Baroin - who was briefly interior minister in 2007 and is considered close to President Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac - became France's new budget minister in a further change taking into account differences within President Sarkozy's conservatives. Lawmaker Marc-Philippe Daubresse stepped in as minister for youths, while Martin Hirsch, head of the High Commission for Active Solidarity, was to be named president of an agency for civic service.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iKVFWy0MJKZ_GqUXRcy0BNBzNExA" rel="nofollow">Poll Loss</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88658147029643226842010-03-23T01:35:18.885-04:002010-03-23T01:35:18.885-04:00The man was arrested by police and the school was ...<i>The man was arrested by police and the school was closed following the attack, which occurred early in the morning as pupils were arriving.<br /><br />Three children died at the scene and five others succumbed to their injuries in hospital.<br /><br />The five who survived were said to be in stable condition, the report said, without giving their ages or other details.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/23/2853868.htm?section=world" rel="nofollow">Hacker Doctor</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35991781686062962492010-03-23T00:55:07.773-04:002010-03-23T00:55:07.773-04:00Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted Isr...<i>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted Israel's "right to build" in Jerusalem, following a row with the US over plans for new homes in the city.<br /><br />...<br /><br />In his speech to a convention of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), Mr Netanyahu said that "the Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building it today".<br /><br />...<br /><br />In Monday's speech, Mr Netanyahu also said that "Iran's brazen bid to develop nuclear weapons... is the threat to the entire world".</i><br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8582190.stm" rel="nofollow">'Right to Build'</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15833869177793856172010-03-23T00:39:00.596-04:002010-03-23T00:39:00.596-04:00Physicians would be paid fee-for-service according...<i>Physicians would be paid fee-for-service according to a negotiated formulary or receive salary from a hospital or nonprofit HMO / group practice. Hospitals would receive a global budget for operating expenses.<br /><br />...<br /><br />A single-payer system would be financed by eliminating private insurers and recapturing their administrative waste. Modest new taxes would replace premiums and out-of-pocket payments currently paid by individuals and business.<br /><br />Costs would be controlled through negotiated fees, global budgeting and bulk purchasing.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-resources" rel="nofollow">Health Insurance</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31209595460816023992010-03-23T00:18:00.866-04:002010-03-23T00:18:00.866-04:00Correctly your article helped me terribly much in ...Correctly your article helped me terribly much in my college assignment. Hats off to you send, intention look ahead in the direction of more related articles promptly as its united of my pet topic to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71389734324211955232010-03-23T00:07:55.826-04:002010-03-23T00:07:55.826-04:00"We should get some sort of prestigious prize...<i>"We should get some sort of prestigious prize."</i><br /><br />You can keep my prize. The rich will get by. They always do. But I personally don't think I deserve a prize for favoring people who work for companies that pay for insurance over those who have to buy their own, for favoring one state over another, for favoring union workers over non-union workers, for ordering people to buy the government's idea of a minimum level health insurance from private companies as a price for being alive in the US.<br /><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84385615934600160262010-03-22T23:57:52.338-04:002010-03-22T23:57:52.338-04:00I'ze whupped. G'nite.I'ze whupped. G'nite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8866432888841410012010-03-22T23:57:06.838-04:002010-03-22T23:57:06.838-04:00I feel like a regular Paul Krugerand.I feel like a regular Paul Krugerand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82508900519326811982010-03-22T23:54:32.332-04:002010-03-22T23:54:32.332-04:00We should get some sort of prestigious prize. We&...We should get some sort of prestigious prize. We've done figured out that if you're going to subsidize the poor you'll have to tax the rich. Where do I pick up my award. Hope it's an "open" bar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42651886380529887002010-03-22T23:51:25.315-04:002010-03-22T23:51:25.315-04:00I think you're partly right. It will be paid ...I think you're partly right. It will be paid for by those making over, oh I don't know, $100,000.00?<br /><br />Those young people that haven't been carrying insurance will, obviously, see their costs go up.<br /><br />I think your older, self employed, might actually catch a break, here. They tend to have more pre existing conditions, and have more mechanisms set up for "gaming" the code.<br /><br />Basically, though, it'll be the "Rich." Well, they've had a pretty good run, overall. Time to pay the piper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21542850155199176082010-03-22T23:39:46.231-04:002010-03-22T23:39:46.231-04:00"Well, either ALL health benefits should be p...<i>"Well, either ALL health benefits should be paid for with before tax dollars, or ALL benefits should be paid for with AFTER tax dollars."</i><br /><br />Now your drawing distinctions?<br /><br />That's funny. It reminds me of your oft repeated comment, "Well we'll all be paying $1500 extra a year. But it will be worth."<br /><br />You won't be paying shit. Neither will I. Hell, there's subsidies written into this thing up to $96k per year for a family of four.<br /><br />With the subsidies the average working stiff will be getting a small decrease in costs. That is as long as his employer pays for health care. But people who are working and have to buy their own insurance (you know, the people who need the most help) will be the ones who see their costs go up daramatically.<br /><br />And how long do you think companies will continue to pay for benefits now that this is passed?<br /><br />The people who will be paying for this are the "rich", the middle class that pays for their own insurance, non-union workers, and those with "cadilac policies" (sometime in the mythical future).<br /><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89493001566019788012010-03-22T23:21:41.463-04:002010-03-22T23:21:41.463-04:00Well, either ALL health benefits should be paid f...Well, either ALL health benefits should be paid for with before tax dollars, or ALL benefits should be paid for with AFTER tax dollars.<br /><br />As it is now, those with jobs at the right companies get their benefits with before tax dollars, and the unfortunate individual has to pay with After tax dollars.<br /><br />Theoretically, it should work out the same, but I believe you would have a hard time selling the "theory" to the guy shelling out with after tax dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34882705050862598332010-03-22T23:04:24.238-04:002010-03-22T23:04:24.238-04:00IRS to expand by $10 billion and 16K employees.
A...IRS to expand by $10 billion and 16K employees.<br /><br />Agents are needed to review new tax form to assure that your insurance policy meets the new government minimum coverage. <br /><br />IRS will have the responsibility to judge whether your policy meets the minimum standard and the authority issue fines and penalties.<br /><br />This is also probably the first step in starting to tax health benefits.<br /><br />The middle class takes it in the ass again.<br /><br />(But hey, 16,000 more government jobs)<br /><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6125856985921084212010-03-22T22:50:39.543-04:002010-03-22T22:50:39.543-04:00Of course, this would have been a good thing for t...Of course, this would have been a good thing for the pubs to bring up, and they didn't; so maybe they are that stupid. Who knows?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33758968175922005632010-03-22T22:46:37.007-04:002010-03-22T22:46:37.007-04:00Well, Q, that wasn't a "value judgement.&...Well, Q, that wasn't a "value judgement." It was, simply, a statement of fact. No one (or, hardly anyone) will buy the health insurance.<br /><br />At that point it'll be too late to "scrap" the bill. They'll have to act. They all know this. Or, at least they should. I can't imagine how they wouldn't.<br /><br />Don't shoot the "messenger." I didn't write the bill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78614007629296639012010-03-22T22:27:55.408-04:002010-03-22T22:27:55.408-04:00"Well, at some point they will have to make t...<i>"Well, at some point they will have to make the fine equivalent to what the health insurance policy would cost, and, maybe, even add on a little "criminal" penalty, to boot."</i><br /><br />Good god, Rufus.<br /><br />Although I didn't agree with you regarding your position on HC, I at least gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed that yours was a principled (albeit ill-informed) position.<br /><br />But now you lost me.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17477510338080380392010-03-22T21:30:41.395-04:002010-03-22T21:30:41.395-04:00The Centre for Public Policy Priorities in Austin,...<i>The Centre for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, the Texan capital, says the bulk of those not covered are on low wages in jobs without health insurance and cannot afford the high premiums. "Part of the assumption is that there are still some who will chose to remain uninsured," said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the centre.<br /><br />...<br /><br />But the state has deeper objections to the new law. The governor, Rick Perry, says Texas will launch a legal challenge to the legislation as unconstitutional and an infringement on personal liberty.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, the health care vote had more to do with expanding socialism on American soil than it does fixing our health care finance and delivery systems," said Perry. "The Obama health care bill undermines patient choice, personal responsibility, medical innovation and fiscal responsibility in America."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/22/us-healthcare-bill-illegal-immigrants" rel="nofollow">Illegal Immigrants Excluded</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52313970921585284022010-03-22T21:22:21.841-04:002010-03-22T21:22:21.841-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24738705357835002382010-03-22T21:17:14.734-04:002010-03-22T21:17:14.734-04:00Well, at some point they will have to make the fin...Well, at some point they will have to make the fine equivalent to what the health insurance policy would cost, and, maybe, even add on a little "criminal" penalty, to boot.<br /><br />THAT should be a hell of a debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50206090791840787142010-03-22T21:13:55.847-04:002010-03-22T21:13:55.847-04:00But at a news conference, EU foreign policy chief ...<i>But at a news conference, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton offered no details about what sanctions, if any, the bloc might impose. She said the specifics would be worked out later.<br /><br />"We are very concerned about what is happening in terms of broadcasting," said Catherine Ashton. "We have not yet moved further forward in terms of what further actions to take.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Separately, Ashton condemned recent clashes in the West Bank between Palestinians and the Israeli military that left several people dead. She called for an investigation into the incidents.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/EU-Calls-for-Iran-to-Halt-Internet-Censorship-Jamming-88874627.html" rel="nofollow">Censorship/Jamming</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27213461499207187282010-03-22T20:58:26.194-04:002010-03-22T20:58:26.194-04:00In the morning-after analyses, at least one promin...<i>In the morning-after analyses, at least one prominent Republican commentator questioned his party's strategy of outright opposition to the health-care bill. David Frum, who was a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, said the health care debate amounts to the party's "most crushing defeat" in four decades.<br /><br />...<br /><br />But, said Axelrod: "I think the debate shifts now. The issue for those talking about repeal is whether they're going to look the small business people in the eye or the children and say this was horrible.<br /><br />I'm happy to have that debate."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/after-the-votes-a-battle-to-fr.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow">Frame Health-care Bill for the Midterms</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63390252322485007212010-03-22T20:46:08.785-04:002010-03-22T20:46:08.785-04:00I think I have some George Dickel left in the cabi...I think I have some George Dickel left in the cabinet... manana.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47198379260323046502010-03-22T20:43:54.474-04:002010-03-22T20:43:54.474-04:00It doesn't matter whether it will work as writ...It doesn't matter whether it will work as written, the camel's nose is under the tent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com