Politics The Trump Crazy Train!

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  1. Everything Beagle

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    And they get tax cuts.

    All the unqualified cabinet picks, all the furor over one trans congresswoman, all shiny objects. The real aim of Trump administration is grift, to transfer even more national wealth to the very richest.
     
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    big problem with the healthcare industry is that those who dont have insurance, or homeless, etc., have no choice but to go to ER and that bill gets paid. But not by them. By the rest of us. 1 day in the ER is roughly 15k for a health insurance company. If you have insurance, they pay whatever you dont after they negotiate. But if you are homeless and have chest pain, you get an ambulance (+/-$500), the ER, and go home hopefully. That money doesnt just get written off.
     
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    No, this is not how it works. The “rest of us” don’t pay for people’s unpaid medical bills, they are subject to various collection attempts and if those attempts fail, yes they are written off as a loss.
     
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    Democrats deflecting the negative aspects of their Ukraine money laundering scheme onto another political party under the guise of healthcare, knowing full well they will never provide healthcare either and actively lobby against it, just like Republicans.
    Funny how the answer to this then just becomes “send more money to Ukraine”. Sort of cyclical logic.
     
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    Oh no!
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Actually, "we" do pay for people who can't or don't through higher insurance premiums. There is no getting around that.
     
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    It's not a big problem if it doesn't become overly contagious. However, if it does:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4001451/
     
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    I see conservatives are floating the idea in the last 24 hours of an actual military invasion of Mexico.

    Tell me again how Trump being Hitler was hyperbolic.
     
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    Hitler never invaded Mexico, so the comparison is bullshit.

    barfo
     
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    We obviously don’t pay directly. But if you don’t think health insurance companies recoup that money somewhere you’d be wrong. Lemme guess you also think the tariff idea is genius.
     
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    The rest of us absolutely do pay for them in our insurance premiums.
     
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    That's two down.

     
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    He is also unqualified with no experience beyond county sheriff. Too bad he is out because of one or two good things.
     
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    This Hegseth guy sounds like quite the guy to have nuclear codes.

    Wow

    10 former colleagues at Fox News say he was a lush who would commonly come to work smelling of alcohol.
     
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    At least the trains will run on time.
     
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    Well that's not good.
     
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    Could anyone here have come to work drunk and not been fired on the spot?
     

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