Recent content by Bern80

Thank you for so clearly pointing out the fundamental problems with liberal thinking (or non-thinking in this case). Not only in this, but in your signature, you seem to be under the impression that government's job is to do things for you (Republicans have nothing to offer the working class)...

Like I said. A challenge. I don't know how you work around those issues.

That will be a challenge for sure. One reason drug costs are so high, is because we (America) do the bulk of the work in developing them, which is not cheap. Developing them takes years of research and investment. Years in which they of course aren't seeing a return or revenue being generated by...

I don't have a problem with insurance companies per se. I just think we have horribly screwed up system in terms of how insurance is handled with health care. I've said before it should be treated more like auto insurance. With Health insurance the people who have insurance use it for pretty...

Perhaps that is what we should be focusing on. That is the reason Obamacare is a failure. It does not address the actual cost of services. All it said was lets get every body insured and let's throw some real wrenches into the equation so we make sure even that doesn't work.

Those things have nothing to do with putting pressure on suppliers to lower prices. What it is again, is an example of an insurance based solution that doesn't allow insurance to work the way it's supposed to. Look at the equivalent of a pre-existing condition in other forms of insurance. That...

This is probably the best explanation of the second amendment I've seen. Especially with regard to clarifying the distinction between people and militia. They are not the same thing. The militia is mentioned in one phrase while people in the next for a reason. If they meant for only the militia...

Well probably not for the suppliers. I agree the focus was on the later. It has come at the expense of everyone else. It's just inefficient and arguably immoral.

This should be pretty basic logic, but apparently it isn't. It's called the Affordable Care Act. I would presume a law titled as such is meant to make the cost of care more affordable. That is how the left sold it anyway. So what part of the policy addresses making care more affordable? In terms...

It would appear that is true now more than ever. Except now you have to hope you don't get sick due to sky rocketing insurance deductibles and premiums. Look as with most things, this healthcare issue is not a disagreement over outcomes. Duh, we all would like health care to cost less. The...

It depends. All it depends on is whether the transfer was voluntary between all parties involved. If so, that's okay. If it has to be taken by force, it is not okay.

Oh Jake and I have gone at it plenty of times and I'm well aware he is person of zero integrity. He never actually takes a position on anything. Most of the time he argues about nothing just to be argumentative. It gets to a point where it just becomes amusing to watch him so willingly display...

what do we call a business not run by the government in this country? Oh yeah! We call it a PRIVATE business. Secondly, you don't get to just make up definitions of terms. Public good has a definition. A definition not met by anything a private business sells. Public goods have characteristics...

Maybe so. But it is not the role of government to outlaw ignorance. You liberals still don't get that main reason the framers put so much emphasis on individual liberty was not to defend what was popular, but so that even that which a majority found unpopular could not be silenced through...

1) the people who actually wrote it unfortunately disagree with you. Again just because something is a law doesn't make it moral. You can't have it both ways in saying people have the right to associate with whomever they choose yet tell them they are required to associate with someone...