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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
I never said statistics don't matter, social liberals have to realize that there is such a thing as "statistical sleight of hand", you shouldn't immediately trust numbers coming from the mouth of a politician or the bureaucrats he's quoting. The low Medicare overhead myth is a clear example of that:

- The overhead percentage is the administrative cost compared to total costs, so a lower overhead doesn't mean less costs, it means less compared to the total costs. When Medicare's costs are out of control, overhead will shrink making Medicare look good to anyone dumb enough to only look at that particular statistic and conjure the image of Medicare as a model of efficiency.

- Medicare serves the elderly, they have higher expenditures because they need greater levels of medical care, thus making overhead costs smaller compared to greater total costs in percentage terms.

- Medicare has very high levels of fraud and abuse, something like $70 billion every year! They don't waste any money trying to stop it, because they don't care if needless procedures are being done or if people are stealing money, it's not their money! Private insurers, on the other hand, actively waste money to fight fraud and abuse, which adds to the overhead and reduces total costs, increasing the overhead percentage in relation to these smaller costs!

- Private insurers pay state health insurance premium taxes and all sorts of business taxes, Medicare doesn't.


P.S.: Peroxide, please spare me your misdirected hatred of Bill O'Reilly, I couldn't care less what the hell he said about Amsterdam, reply when you have something pertinent to say.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 5 hours 17 minutes ago | CH
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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
This congressman is either being deluded by fake numbers or being plain dishonest (not very unlikely for a politician), I wanna' bash the anchorman's head for buying into his overhead bullshit and not doing his homework. Medicare's overhead is smaller in overall *percentage* terms because it wastes a lot more money, that makes the overhead costs smaller in comparison to the total costs which are enormous: They are servicing the elderly!

Not to mention what is wasted on high levels of fraud and abuse, that's not being counted as overhead for Medicare's numbers. Private insurers, on the other hand, waste money fighting against fraud and abuse, and that counts as overhead! Private insurances also have to pay state health insurance taxes of 2-4%, which, you guessed it, counts as overhead, and Medicare doesn't.

It's all bureaucrats fooling around with statistical hedonics. If you compare on a per-person basis, Medicare wastes 25% on overhead, dramatically less efficient than private insurance.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 5 hours 19 minutes ago | CH
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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
EDD, you're right and I was wrong. Sorry for the name calling. Thanks again for educating me. I'd like to repost my original posts without the name calling.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 6 hours 8 minutes ago | CH
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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
@EDD

How about reading the entire post or arguing any of the points before immaturely powertripping on someone for not worshipping your little hero?


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 6 hours 32 minutes ago | CH
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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
I never said statistics don't matter, social liberals have to realize that there is such a thing as "statistical sleight of hand", you shouldn't immediately trust numbers coming from the mouth of a politician or the bureaucrats he's quoting. The low Medicare overhead myth is a clear example of that:

- The overhead percentage is the administrative cost compared to total costs, so a lower overhead doesn't mean less costs, it means less compared to the total costs. When Medicare's costs are out of control, overhead will shrink making Medicare look good to anyone dumb enough to only look at that particular statistic and conjure the image of Medicare as a model of efficiency.

- Medicare serves the elderly, they have higher expenditures because they need greater levels of medical care, thus making overhead costs smaller compared to greater total costs in percentage terms.

- Medicare has very high levels of fraud and abuse, something like $70 billion every year! They don't waste any money trying to stop it, because they don't care if needless procedures are being done or if people are stealing money, it's not their money! Private insurers, on the other hand, actively waste money to fight fraud and abuse, which adds to the overhead and reduces total costs, increasing the overhead percentage in relation to these smaller costs!

- Private insurers pay state health insurance premium taxes and all sorts of business taxes, Medicare doesn't.


P.S.: I'd like to ask all social liberals with downvoting power not to downvote this post purely based on the fact that I'm not sucking up to congressman Small Weiner.

P.P.S.: Peroxide, please spare me your misdirected hatred of Bill O'Reilly, I couldn't care less what the hell he said about Amsterdam, reply when you have something pertinent to say.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 8 hours 22 minutes ago | CH
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Rand Paul... Anti-Liberty. (Blog Entry by blankfist)
You guys should talk about human rights then, it would be very interventionist to consider all humans entitled to the protection of the US Constitution.

I'm guessing Rand Paul considers the prisoners in Guantanamo as prisoners of war. If that's the case, the Constitution does not apply to them, it's not meant to restrict government against war enemies.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 16 hours 15 minutes ago | CH
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Tea Party Patriots laugh at Lost Daughter And Grandchild
The Tea Party movement is trying to do the right thing and has its heart in the right place, too bad it's being done by Americans: People who aren't capable of revolting intelligently anymore after years of being dumbed down by public education.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 16 hours 36 minutes ago | CH
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Congressman Weiner: "You Don't Know What Socialism Means!"
This congressman is a deluded imbecile, I wanna' bash the anchorman's head for buying into his overhead bullshit and not doing his homework. Medicare's overhead is smaller in overall *percentage* terms because it wastes a lot more money, that makes the overhead costs smaller in comparison to the total costs which are enormous: They are servicing the elderly!

Not to mention what is wasted on high levels of fraud and abuse, that's not being counted as overhead for Medicare's numbers. Private insurers, on the other hand, waste money fighting against fraud and abuse, and that counts as overhead! Private insurances also have to pay state health insurance taxes of 2-4%, which, you guessed it, counts as overhead, and Medicare doesn't.

It's all bureaucrats fooling around with statistical hedonics. If you compare on a per-person basis, Medicare wastes 25% on overhead, dramatically less efficient than private insurance.


written by gtjwkq  | 2 days 16 hours 47 minutes ago | CH
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Rand Paul... Anti-Liberty. (Blog Entry by blankfist)
blankfist, you're nuts. He's not a warmonger, he's very aware of the military industrial complex and only acknowledges that the federal government's top priority should be national defense. It used to be the only reason we actually needed a federal government.

Foreign terrorists don't deserve the protection of our Constitution because they're not american citizens, they're prisoners, it doesn't apply to them. Doesn't that make any sense to you?

Like his father, he realizes that US military interventionism was the reason 9/11 happened. Ron Paul was also in favor of going into Afghanistan (and voted likewise). The problem is that it turned into occupation, instead of the military just going after Al Qaeda and those responsible for the attacks.


written by gtjwkq  | 3 days 8 hours 17 minutes ago | CH
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Skydiving with a Peregrine Falcon
Bird's thoughts the whole time:

Stop falling you idiot!


written by gtjwkq  | 3 days 17 hours 58 minutes ago | CH
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Father Separated From Child By Train Door
When I was only 5, the train... ah, never mind. This never happened to me.


written by gtjwkq  | 3 days 18 hours 11 minutes ago | CH
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Hong Kong - Stacked like lab animals!
Location, location, location.


written by gtjwkq  | 3 days 21 hours 39 minutes ago | CH
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Boxer doesn't think he can get knocked out
It actually is harder to knock out a boxer. Unless he's an idiot.


written by gtjwkq  | 4 days 18 hours 1 minute ago | CH
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Obama on Palin's Rating of his Presidency
>> ^KnivesOut:
And if those two things don't happen, will you kill yourself? Put your money where your mouth is, so to speak?

That's harsh. If you live in the US, I'm hoping you don't kill yourself.


written by gtjwkq  | 6 days 5 hours 50 minutes ago | CH
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O'Reilly: Is Obama The Devil?
^ Maybe if some people forgot about right and left for a minute, they'd realize the mess Obama is doing.


written by gtjwkq  | 1 week ago | CH
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O'Reilly: Is Obama The Devil?
I like Dobbs' answer. I don't believe in the devil, however, I think Obama's decisions are going to ultimately cause great destruction of wealth and lives.


written by gtjwkq  | 1 week ago | CH
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What if Earth had rings like Saturn?
In a far away galaxy, there's this very earth-like planet with rings on it, just like the ones on this video. Too bad life and civilization didn't get to evolve as much, given the crazy weather messing up the atmosphere and the rings' exploding debris falling from the sky so often.

They hate rings over there.


written by gtjwkq  | 1 week ago | CH
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Obama on Palin's Rating of his Presidency
I couldn't care less about Palin's opinion, but she's being too soft on Obama.

I'd have to give his administration a grade of 2. Obama's not taking the economy seriously and his administration's mistakes will become very evident when the dollar and the US economy collapses.


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Dennis Kucinich Raises a Valid Point on Health Care
^ Oh I see, if the wonderful government doesn't come up with a solution for something, no one ever will, right?


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Unexpected but awesome own goal (young girl)
This is what you get in a country where soccer is played mostly by women and children


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