Lex's Health Care

Yeah Dan, I'm willing to call it a wash too.

As for a good reason for the AMA to support the bill, I'm sure there is a nice $$ trail attached to it like pretty much every thing the government and their lobbyists decide are "good for us". :) The AMA represents less than 1/3 of all doctors and half of those are retired. It's pretty silly how we think this historically conservative group speaks for all doctors. In the end, doctors are split as evenly as the population.

Here's my suggestion for healthcare reform...Just to temper: I don't parrot any one party. I vote people not party.

My suggestion for reform would be to first repair Medicare/Medicaid. Every year nearly $30billion is lost to fraud and abuse Let's get these two potentially great socialized healthcare programs working properly. Let's limit the abuse of the system and keep our poor and elderly healthy with good doctors...not just those doctors milking the system by billing patients for 24hrs of "care".

"According to a national CAHPS survey conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2007, 56 percent of enrollees in traditional fee-for-service Medicare give their "health plan" a rating of 9 or 10 on a 0-10 scale. Similarly, 60 percent of seniors enrolled in Medicare Managed Care rated their plans a 9 or 10. But according to the CAHPS surveys compiled by HHS, only 40 percent of Americans enrolled in private health insurance gave their plans a 9 or 10 rating." -Based on CAHPS scores 1997.

So, the public system is enjoyed by those on it...why not get some oversight in there to shore up the fraud? If the government would put forward a plan that would severely punish everyone that abused medicare/medicaid and that showed positive results in three years, I think we would one step closer to fixing the broken systems. At that point, I would suggest a 5% tax on all private insurance users to infuse more money in to the two systems. It would be easier to do, if people believed that these socialized systems worked efficiently. Most Americans, are not opposed to helping the poor and would gladly pay a little more to do it. If we focus solely on the people who are uninsured and truly can't afford it, we have 20million people uninsured that we could insure with a better operated program. Heck, we could even give illegal immigrants some type of balloon healthcare so when they show up at the Arizona hospital ER suffering from exposure due to illegally crossing, they will be covered by some general fund.

Sorry about the length. Hope you get a chance to click the links I added and take a gander.

A case of Science vs. Batshitinsane

Last night around 10pm, NASA launched a satellite named "Kepler" to seek out earth-sized planets around neighboring and semi-distant stars. If Kepler returns new "green" planets, what are we going to find? Are we really the only sentient beings in the universe? If we aren't, and the things we find aren't Christian or Muslim, do we holy war their asses? It would only make sense, right? We don't evolve and God must have installed other heathens on other planets to be fodder for intergalactic holy annihilation, right?

The Trouble With Creationism

I've had a tough time as a conservative understanding the blood lust that the Republican party has displayed with destroying science. I don't understand it. It's a hard thing for a science believer to grasp. It's been so hard that I have been actively trying to find reasons to disbelieve it using a Christian background. To this point, I have a hypothesis (not a theory like evolution). I will lay it out below.


So, according to the Bible, man came first and fucked around in the Garden for a period of time without a vessel to impregnate. This went on for years...

God came down out of whatever it was above Adam and told the guy that he would make a nice soft place to put his piece. To do this God knocked the hell out of Adam and removed a lower rib to make a female....as in, males are missing a lower rib which made girls.

They lived in harmony having sex and banging under all sorts of fruiting trees while all the other animals watched and learned....

Moving forward six thousand and nine years, I have to question that claim.

If God really removed a lower rib, why are we, as men, not able to suck our own dicks?

A fascinatingly odd surgery for certain types of men is the removal of a lower rib to achieve a frontal bend that will put even the smallest of penis in the mouth....so as Christians...why did we need to have it removed? Wasn't it taken out when we were but a dream in the mind of the first autofelletioing male? Shouldn't Adam have been the first guy to put his own penis in his mouth?

Going forward, how can we really trust folks who claim religious superiority over the population? Shouldn't they have to pass some test without surgery that shows that with their lack of that bottom "female" rib they can put their penis in their own mouth?

Can Pope Benedict suck his own dick? Doesn't that make him holy? It should. If he can suck his own dick, I will believe in Creationism. If he can't, it's possible that we just evolved to this. No offense to the religion...but seriously, if your own Pope can't reach his own dick without that tricky rib, why are we to believe that we lost a rib? Wouldn't the Holiest of Men in the Church be able to show God's work by putting his Pope dick in his Pope mouth?

Until I see Pope Benedict suck himself off, I can't believe in Creationism.

I love people who are turned in to internet puppets

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