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POPSBeginning of the End of Free Market Health Care in the U.S.by
Rustee Yesterday 11:23 PM 
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Commercial insurers—who were still required to pay taxes, establish reserves, and adhere to other state insurance regulations—had difficulty competing with the Blues, which, by the 1950s, together were the largest provider of health insurance in America. In an effort to compete with the Blues, more and more for-profit insurance companies offered similar plans, and the model of third-party insurance plans paying the providers directly with little or no input from the patient—and paying for routine care through insurance—became entrenched. This new model was a disaster in the making. In addition to minimizing incentives for insured customers to comparison shop for medical services, it also minimized incentives for doctors and hospitals to compete on price.
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POPSWeather Balloons To Control Climate Basic calculations suggest that, in maybe a week or less, ten million tons of raw materials could produce enough balloons to cover the entire earth at twenty miles altitude. That may sound like a lot of material, but in fact it's about the same amount that goes into building 100 miles of a modern highway—so it's well within reach of even a small nation to acquire the materials if they have the hardware and software and a desire to control the weather of the earth. Shifting mirrors inside balloons to make some areas warmer and others colder, to make some wetter and some drier gives at least rudimentary power for Josh's "Nano-enabled Climate Control for the Earth." These balloons may well be helpful in slowing, stopping, or even reversing the trend of global warming, as long as we recognize the very real danger of unforeseen, unintended, and possibly irreversible consequence.
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POPSUS Health Care Deadly for Uninsured Immigrants That creates a burden. “It’s a killer,” said Brian Conway, spokesman for the Greater New York Hospital Association. But it also establishes the potential for neglectful and unethical if not illegal behavior by hospitals.
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POPSBad news for the long tail It turns out that the long tail may not have any silver lining - online music sales effectively run down to zero faster than expected and winners take even more. It looks like the future really is going to be one or two megastars and a whole lot of one hit youtube amateurs.
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POPS"I'm The One They've Been Waiting For" Obama Added To Mt Rushmore video http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNoseOnYourFace?ob=1 The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama ~ Hard-core Obama Convert & propaganda minister or whatever andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 27 Oct 2008 09:33 pm Here's "the daily dish" nine months since that previous post: Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama. And last but not least, number three on that list 3. Two words: President Palin.
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POPSIll Health for Small Business To me the most striking statement in the entire article is "Mr. Obama has not released details". A week before the election and he won't say what his plan will require businesses to do??? Sure, because he knows it would cost him votes. After the election he'll be happy to tell us all about it.
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POPSMore Scary Obama Footage The MSM Will Never Show You Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident? Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
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POPSObama's Health Plan ~ Details Would Make Business Sick
“To all of a sudden whack 6 to 7 percent of payroll costs, forget it,” he said. “If they do that, prices go up and employment goes down because nobody can absorb that.” More from the Times on Team Obama's plan to hide the ball: “We will ask all but the smallest businesses who don’t make a meaningful contribution today to the health coverage of their employees to do so by supporting this new plan,” he said. Left undefined has been what size firms would be exempted, what constitutes a “meaningful contribution,” and how much noncompliant businesses would be required to pay. “We made a decision even before the plan was rolled out not to decide,” said David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who speaks for the campaign on health care. “It’s not that there’s a decision out there that we’re not telling. It’s literally that we’ve decided not to decide. " Not deciding on the extent of the new business tax is a slick gambit if the press will let them get away with it.
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POPSBurn the village to save it "Those who would prudently save will be punished with negative real interest rates and asset deflation. Those who would prudently invest in productive industry will be starved of scarce capital and forced into liquidation. Those who would prudently labour for a decent wage will be slowly robbed by inflation and kept docile by the threat of unemployment." Wow, if this guy is right, there is no safe haven in America.
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POPSNobel Laureate Yunus: 'Capitalism has degenerated into a casino' these castles don't exist at all. That was the point at which the financial system collapsed." Also true during the '90s tech boom and bust with all that betting on little companies not even worth the paper their IPOs were written on. And let's not forget all the employees working like slaves for promises. Oh when will we learn?
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POPSNational Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive In case you didn't think my last two clips were possible.. This is from the .gov site.. After reading this go down my other clips to you get to the prisons being built here in the USA -- give this some thought!!! This ever going fear is a result of a very planned set of events following the ever planned 911 just like Pearl Harbor think about it!
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POPSFraud of Global Warming It is time to revisit several assumptions and implications Al Gore made in An Inconvenient Truth. Each of the fourteen highlighted in this article are a snapshot of the Global Warming doomsayers’ views. The added perspective shows the fraud of the catastrophic manmade Global Warming thesis
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POPSDemocrat Fingerprints Are All Over The Financial Crisis ........under stricter regulatory control. In 2006, it was revealed that Fannie Mae had overstated its earnings – to which its senior executives' bonuses were linked – by a stunning $9.3billion. Between 1998 and 2003, Fannie Mae's executive chairman, Franklin Raines, picked up over $90m in bonuses and stock options. Yet Barney Frank and his chums blocked all Bush's attempts to put a rein on Raines. During the House Financial Services Committee hearing following Bush's initiative, Frank declared: "The more people exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness , the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury which I do not see. "There were nearly a dozen hearings where we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke. Mr Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and particularly at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr Franklin Raines."
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POPSPreparing for a broken arrow http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/34D2A614-65F2-4BD1-A974-FB16DAF99187/ 9 out of 10 so far. The big one may be coming soon. http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9F6663E2-E580-47AE-BFF5-CE357AACE770/ http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E02742D4-5FF7-446A-9AC0-07816E939C61/ Reminder: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FB3569E5-ABEA-41C2-AC6E-5AE48408502C/
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POPSMcCain: Campaign by Anecdote Never mind that the stories have little to do with the topic, or that he, among Senators, bears more responsibility than most for the current financial debacle.
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