Why I will not vote for Obama

[spectrumc01]

I haven't decided but I'm leaning against Obama.

I think he has been a weak leader who has exacerbated divisions in the country and has not paid enough attention to the economy.

here,here!

 

[AmericanFirst]

You want a few reasons why the US economy is sluggish? By this time, most economies have recovered and have experienced significant growth and more jobs after a recession is over. But not this time, and Mr Will talks about why.


Choking on Obamacare
By George F. Will, Published: December 2

In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.

So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation.

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama*care.

When CKE’s health-care advisers, citing Obamacare’s complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said that it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company’s $12 million health-care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants.

And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs — and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community. (CKE spends about $1 billion a year on food and paper products, $175 million on advertising, $33 million on maintenance, etc.)

Puzder laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections.

CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is $100,000 more than in Texas, where CKE is planning to open 300 new restaurants this decade.

CKE restaurants have 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health-care benefits under CKE’s current “mini-med” plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.

In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations had reached $1.75 trillion. That was 14 percent of national income unavailable for job-creating investments. And that was more than 11,000 regulations ago.
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Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators who regard business as the enemy. And 22.9 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state’s war on business.

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Wrong again socialist. Government run health care is nothing but a socialist dream come true. The lie about republicans wanting everyone to roll over and die is getting old, it just makes idiots saying it look like, well, idiots.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You want a few reasons why the US economy is sluggish? By this time, most economies have recovered and have experienced significant growth and more jobs after a recession is over. But not this time, and Mr Will talks about why.


Choking on Obamacare
By George F. Will, Published: December 2

In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.

So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation.

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama*care.

When CKE’s health-care advisers, citing Obamacare’s complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said that it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company’s $12 million health-care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants.

And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs — and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community. (CKE spends about $1 billion a year on food and paper products, $175 million on advertising, $33 million on maintenance, etc.)

Puzder laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections.

CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is $100,000 more than in Texas, where CKE is planning to open 300 new restaurants this decade.

CKE restaurants have 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health-care benefits under CKE’s current “mini-med” plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.

In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations had reached $1.75 trillion. That was 14 percent of national income unavailable for job-creating investments. And that was more than 11,000 regulations ago.
.
.
.
Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators who regard business as the enemy. And 22.9 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state’s war on business.

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

"Columbia health care economist Lynn Bailey said that by not creating its own exchange, South Carolina in reality is defaulting to whatever federal exchange emerges. “For the average South Carolinian, that’s probably the best option,” she said."

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"Arkansas has dropped plans for a state-run health insurance exchange, or marketplace, and will instead rely on one created by the federal government."

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"As Gov. Bob McDonnell balances his ongoing opposition to the federal health care overhaul with the continued implementation of the law, he won't say if Virginia should establish a state-run health insurance exchange or risk having one imposed by the federal government.

But like some other conservative states that have challenged the constitutionality of the law, Virginia continues to move forward in the process of establishing an exchange through small procedural steps. On Monday, legislators will meet in Richmond to hear about options for the exchange.

The exchange, a cornerstone of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, would create a database where individuals and small businesses could shop for insurance coverage. It is supposed to be operational by October 2013, with coverage beginning in 2014."

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"Hawaii will receive more than $14 million in federal grants to help it carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Hawaii's congressional delegation says the $14 million will be Hawaii's share of $220 million in grants the federal government is giving 13 states to set up health insurance exchanges.

Millions of uninsured Americans will be able to buy private coverage through these online supermarkets starting in 2014.

They would get federal tax credits, based on income, to make their premiums more affordable. Less-healthy consumers could not be turned away or charged more because of medical problems."

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"Sen. Thomas “Mac” Middleton, a Democrat from Charles County, said he doesn’t expect any opposition from Republicans when it comes to passing legislation authorizing an exchange, because he thinks it’s unlikely that a full repeal of the health care reform law will pass.

Instead, Maryland is trying to set up an insurance exchange by the 2012 deadline. If states don’t set up an exchange by then, the federal government will create the exchanges for them."

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"Consumer advocates urged the Kasich administration yesterday to start working on a key component of the federal health-care law — the creation of state insurance exchanges where individuals and small businesses can shop for health coverage.

The state could lose out on millions in federal aid for building an exchange. And if lawmakers do not pass legislation by June to create one, the federal government could enact one for Ohio."

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"Four out of five Pennsylvania businesses surveyed were unaware of health insurance exchanges and those that did know said the exchanges had “something to do with a government mandate,” according to a report released on Tuesday by the state Insurance Department.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law last year includes provisions for health insurance exchangeshttp://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2011/11/22/health-insurance-exchange-taking-shape.html, where individuals and businesses with fewer than 100 employees can compare various plans and buy coverage by 2014. The online survey was part of the department’s early steps to organize a health insurance exchange."

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"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday Vermont will receive more than $18 million to fund the design and development of a larger health benefits exchange to serve as the foundation for the state's future single-payer plan.

Thirteen states received grants to establish affordable insurance exchanges -- a so-called one-stop online marketplace where consumers can choose a private health insurance plan fitting their individual insurance needs -- to provide more flexibility and resources within the Affordable Care Act."

Yeah......it's lookin' like ANOTHER OBAMA WIN, so far!!!

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[Listening]

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Are you saying you are not capable of buyiing your own health insurance ?

 

[rightwinger]

You want a few reasons why the US economy is sluggish? By this time, most economies have recovered and have experienced significant growth and more jobs after a recession is over. But not this time, and Mr Will talks about why.


Choking on Obamacare
By George F. Will, Published: December 2

In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.

So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation.

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama*care.

When CKE’s health-care advisers, citing Obamacare’s complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said that it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company’s $12 million health-care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants.

And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs — and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community. (CKE spends about $1 billion a year on food and paper products, $175 million on advertising, $33 million on maintenance, etc.)

Puzder laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections.

CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is $100,000 more than in Texas, where CKE is planning to open 300 new restaurants this decade.

CKE restaurants have 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health-care benefits under CKE’s current “mini-med” plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.

In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations had reached $1.75 trillion. That was 14 percent of national income unavailable for job-creating investments. And that was more than 11,000 regulations ago.
.
.
.
Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators who regard business as the enemy. And 22.9 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state’s war on business.

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Wrong again socialist. Government run health care is nothing but a socialist dream come true. The lie about republicans wanting everyone to roll over and die is getting old, it just makes idiots saying it look like, well, idiots.

So....let's recap the Republican position

1. Govt run healthcare is socialism
2. A Govt option is unfair competition
3 requiring employers to cover people is an unfair burden

Seems whatever option is proposed, republicans will find a reason to oppose it

Let them die.......Republican healthcare

 

[oreo]

You want a few reasons why the US economy is sluggish? By this time, most economies have recovered and have experienced significant growth and more jobs after a recession is over. But not this time, and Mr Will talks about why.


Choking on Obamacare
By George F. Will, Published: December 2

In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.

So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation.

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama*care.

When CKE’s health-care advisers, citing Obamacare’s complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said that it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company’s $12 million health-care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants.

And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs — and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community. (CKE spends about $1 billion a year on food and paper products, $175 million on advertising, $33 million on maintenance, etc.)

Puzder laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections.

CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is $100,000 more than in Texas, where CKE is planning to open 300 new restaurants this decade.

CKE restaurants have 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health-care benefits under CKE’s current “mini-med” plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.

In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations had reached $1.75 trillion. That was 14 percent of national income unavailable for job-creating investments. And that was more than 11,000 regulations ago.
.
.
.
Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators who regard business as the enemy. And 22.9 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state’s war on business.

The question should be--Why in the Hell did you vote for him the 1st time around? You knew he was a socialist. You knew he spent 20 years in a racist--separatist church with his pastor screaming G.D. America. You knew he had absolutely NO EXPERIENCE and was way over his head as POTUS and you voted for him anyway.

 

[Listening]

Luckily, nobody cares what the dittoheads think anymore. Keep it, you've been a HUGE help. LOL!

I hear they looking for an understudy for the role of "dopey" in the play Cinderella. You'd be perfect.

 

[Listening]

No altering quotes-Meister

Fixed it for you.

 

[Listening]

Yeah......it's lookin' like ANOTHER OBAMA WIN, so far!!!

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Hence, his massive approval ratings.

 

[rightwinger]

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Are you saying you are not capable of buyiing your own health insurance ?

Many Americans have to choose between paying the rent, electric, car expenses, food.....and oh yea....that $500 a month self insurance rate

Choose wrong and republicans tell you....let him die

 

[Flopper]

Yes and no.

Mandates have increased costs, no may about it.

Whats that term..........

Oh yeah ........Preexisting conditions? But it didnt start there. Technological I would agree is one of the bigger drivers.

I said government adds to the cost but it's not the primary cause. When government pays for more healthcare for those who can not afford it, cost rises because more services are being delivered. One of the biggest causes of high medical cost is the fee for service system. It is wasteful, inefficient, and does not lead to the best outcomes. Lastly, patients are demanding better healthcare, earlier diagnosis, and more treatments for non-life threatening conditions.

The fee for service system? As opposed to what?

Nonprofit Healthcare Cooperatives such as Group Health in the Northwest or bundled health care such as in the Netherlands are far cheaper alternatives and seem to produce better outcomes than fee for service.

In a co-op system, the healthcare provider is paid a fixed fee by either the member, government, or an employer to provide all the healthcare services for a member. Services are always coordinated through a primary care doctor who is employed by the coop. All the patient's medical information such as doctors notes, tests, prescriptions, and treatments by all providers are kept online and made available to all healthcare providers working with the patient. So there is no duplication of test or treatments. Patient loads are managed so as to fully utilize all healthcare providers. Since all healthcare providers are employees of the co-op, there is no incentive to sell nonessential services. Instead of employees receiving bonuses based on profits or services sold, employee performance and patient outcomes are used to determine any bonuses.

In bundled healthcare systems, government or other organization contracts with a healthcare provider to provide all services in a particular bundle for a fixed fee.

There are other alternatives to fee for service but all of them focus on removing any incentive to sell unneeded services, better utilize personnel, and provide a better healthcare outcome by utilizing a team approach in which a doctor manages the care as oppose to a patient.

 

[Listening]

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Are you saying you are not capable of buyiing your own health insurance ?

Many Americans have to choose between paying the rent, electric, car expenses, food.....and oh yea....that $500 a month self insurance rate

Choose wrong and republicans tell you....let him die

Most americans seem to be able to afford data plans. We get to make our choices.

Are you saying you are not capable of making one ?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Yeah......it's lookin' like ANOTHER OBAMA WIN, so far!!!

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Hence, his massive approval ratings.

....Except from the functionally-illiterate Teabaggers.

Obama's Accomplishments!!

 

[AmericanFirst]

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Wrong again socialist. Government run health care is nothing but a socialist dream come true. The lie about republicans wanting everyone to roll over and die is getting old, it just makes idiots saying it look like, well, idiots.

So....let's recap the Republican position

1. Govt run healthcare is socialism
2. A Govt option is unfair competition
3 requiring employers to cover people is an unfair burden

Seems whatever option is proposed, republicans will find a reason to oppose it

Let them die.......Republican healthcare

Obamacare is unconstitutional. Gov't. run healthcare is unconstitutional. Republican position=America. Dimwit position=socialism. Socialist.

 

[rightwinger]

Are you saying you are not capable of buyiing your own health insurance ?

Many Americans have to choose between paying the rent, electric, car expenses, food.....and oh yea....that $500 a month self insurance rate

Choose wrong and republicans tell you....let him die

Most americans seem to be able to afford data plans. We get to make our choices.

Are you saying you are not capable of making one ?

Most Americans are able to afford healthcare because their employers kick in. Those who are self employed or have lost their jobs know how prohibitively expensive it is

 

[rightwinger]

Wrong again socialist. Government run health care is nothing but a socialist dream come true. The lie about republicans wanting everyone to roll over and die is getting old, it just makes idiots saying it look like, well, idiots.

So....let's recap the Republican position

1. Govt run healthcare is socialism
2. A Govt option is unfair competition
3 requiring employers to cover people is an unfair burden

Seems whatever option is proposed, republicans will find a reason to oppose it

Let them die.......Republican healthcare

Obamacare is unconstitutional. Gov't. run healthcare is unconstitutional. Republican position=America. Dimwit position=socialism. Socialist.

Try to keep up

The only thing being challenged is the individual mandate. We don't know if it is constitutional or not

There is nothing unconstitutional about either universal healthcare or a government option

 

[Dr.House]

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Wrong again socialist. Government run health care is nothing but a socialist dream come true. The lie about republicans wanting everyone to roll over and die is getting old, it just makes idiots saying it look like, well, idiots.

So....let's recap the Republican position

1. Govt run healthcare is socialism
2. A Govt option is unfair competition
3 requiring employers to cover people is an unfair burden

Seems whatever option is proposed, republicans will find a reason to oppose it

Let them die.......Republican healthcare

More hyperbole...

Do you have anything new?

 

[asterism]

You want a few reasons why the US economy is sluggish? By this time, most economies have recovered and have experienced significant growth and more jobs after a recession is over. But not this time, and Mr Will talks about why.


Choking on Obamacare
By George F. Will, Published: December 2

In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.

So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation.

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama*care.

When CKE’s health-care advisers, citing Obamacare’s complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said that it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company’s $12 million health-care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants.

And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs — and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community. (CKE spends about $1 billion a year on food and paper products, $175 million on advertising, $33 million on maintenance, etc.)

Puzder laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections.

CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is $100,000 more than in Texas, where CKE is planning to open 300 new restaurants this decade.

CKE restaurants have 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health-care benefits under CKE’s current “mini-med” plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.

In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations had reached $1.75 trillion. That was 14 percent of national income unavailable for job-creating investments. And that was more than 11,000 regulations ago.
.
.
.
Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators who regard business as the enemy. And 22.9 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state’s war on business.

I happen to agree with George Will. I don't think employers should be the ones providing healthcare coverage. It is inefficient and not in their best interests

That's why we need government to step in and fill the role formerly conducted by employers.....provide an option for low cost healthcare

Or we could do what conservatives advocate......tell everyone to go fuck themselves. "Let them die"

Should the government provide housing for everyone?

 

[asterism]

There are many reasons for rising healthcare cost. Government may add to cost but it is not the major reason for rising costs. Fee for service and technological advances are far more important factors.

No incentive to reduce costs through efficiency is the primary factor. In fact, there is a huge disincentive to increase administrative overhead.

 

[asterism]

Another Pub Big Lie. Strong gov't regulation is the only way to hold down costs of health care.. ALL non-Pub-BS experts and the CBO say even weak Obamacare will save money on health care.And it will be added to and tinkered with forever.
Where all all the Pubs for a national exchange now? Absolutely bought off and FOS, they love this ridiculous non system. Dittohead fools....

Please show me a single government regulation that has ever held down costs.