The True Face of Democrats

They should be forced since they failed society by allowing big business to take over health care.

There is no reason why a doctor should not be filthy rich. Big healthcare giants have taken that option away from doctors and give the larger portion of the pie to corporate executives and stockholders who have never met a germ they didn’t like.

I am on BCBS of Tennessee. I wanted a new cpac machine.  The place that handles them told me to wait until I was covered by medicare, it would pay better.  (I was going on medicare in less than 2 months)

First, there is using the power of the state to force someone to provide a good or service by threat of force.  By definition, that is fascism. Progressives really loved Il Duce.

Second, medicare does pay most doctors enough for then to make a profit.  However, Medicaid does not.  Many doctors limit the number of Medicaid patients they will accept to ensure their practic1e survives.

The MAJORITY of TODAY's democrats ARE NOT the democrats of your grandfather.  Today's democrats are self-serving, paying heed ONLY to the entitlement bunch and illegal aliens.  Most of today's democrats care NOTHING for America.  Sadly, most Republicans fall into the same boat. America's FUTURE lies in The Tea Party and like-minded politicians of the various other political parties.

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And do you believe that the majority of Republicans are the Republicans of YOUR grandfather?

My grandfather and grandmother were probably the only Republicans in their county in Tennessee in the 1950s. I can assure you that they both would regard the current right wing of the GOP as something they could never support.  They would both be absolutely appalled at the Tea Party extremists in the Republican party.

QD,

Under what color sky do you live that you think it would be acceptable, or even legal, to FORCE a physician that they have to accept Medicare and Medicaid, which under many plans fails to even pay the cost of performing the procedure?  Do you actually think that you could then FORCE the physician to work?  Last time I checked we did not live in North Korea and were not subject to being FORCED to work for whatever the government wishes to throw our way.

Doctors did not fail society, as you are so apt to point out in tirades.  Of course, the next time you get chest pain or think you are having a stroke, call your local plumber's union and ask them if they can send someone over to clear your pipes.  My guess is that their charges are probably higher than what that doctor you so despise is getting for doing it, and they don't get paid extra to come in in the middle of the night or the weekend to do it.  On top of that I bet the plumber did not spend $300-500K getting his degree and license to practice his skills, nor is he required to document countless hours of continuing medical education and recertify every 10 years.

Perhaps the plumber will take your Medicaid and Medicare.

Actually, mosts docs I know are taking medicare patients, and do not have a problem with them.  medicaid has become a tough sell however.  More people are sued by the Medicaid patients than by any other group, and their reimbursement is usually way below other providers.  I do not know if this is the Entitlement Comples or just because they tend to have more complications, but this fact along with the regulations and cheap pay, is causing more and more people to not take Medicaid.  Which unfortuantely is the most common insurance that is being signed up under OBamacare.

t, you seem to see me as the enemy. I'm on your side duck. I'm disappointed that you have sold your soul to the devil.[big corporate medicine]. Big corporate medicine tells you how to practice medicine.

My college roomy is a heart surgeon and I know so much on him he would get up any time I call out of fear that I would spill many beans.

What makes you think I am 100% Republican?  FYI...and REMEMBER THIS: I vote as an INDEPENDENT.  It just so happens that MORE members of the Republican Party share MY IDEALS than do democrats.  

I am solid democrat for one main reason.  I am 100% blue collar.  The only way I can support my family is the sweat of my brow and the skill of my hands.  Every time in my memory that legislation is introduced that is detrimental to labor, it is republicans who introduce it and promote it.

Do you think there are no "blue collar" Republicans that make their living by the sweat of their brow? We certainly work for what we get. My parents were democrats, and I do remember my mom becoming concerned that the party was being hi-jacked by radicals. My father was gone by then. Today they would not vote the dem ticket because, like me, they thought people should work for what they got and leave the hand outs for the truly needy, the ones unable to do it on their own.  I am not a Tea Party member, I am not a member of the religious wing of any party. I'm a Republican because the things that matter most to me are things they're concerned with. One of those things is people having jobs so they can support their families instead of standing in some government give away line. I'm not interested in robbing people because they made the "mistake" of becoming wealthy. I also do not think we owe the rest of the world a living. Again, helping is fine, people should help others that are truly in need, but hurting your own citizens to give to others is another thing. When others become more important than US citizens, which is all the time now, I have a problem with it. Those are just a couple of issues I have with the left.

My father was a blue collar worker for the first 25 years of his working life. Then, a foreman and finally upper management during the last few years.  My mother was a secretary, albeit one who worked with scientists and was well paid as she understood their work.  Both left the Democrat party when LBJ was president and never looked back..

What caused them to leave during the LBJ years?

To Best, I'm not going to disagree with anything you posted.  However, labor does need to get the floor leveled.  For years and years, it has tilted to the side away from labor.

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The giveaways of the Great Society and disastrous policies like urban renewal, that wasted hundreds of billions. He still voted for state office Democrats for a time. 

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Expand on that statement.

To Dire, i'm glad it was the giveaways and not the civil rights laws.

To Best,  During my working years, all labor laws passed benefited CEO's and Wall Street. 

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What were your "working years"? Laws such as??

I started "working" when I was pretty small. About 1952 or 53 I would get on my knees on the truck seat, one of the men would put it in "granny" gear and set the throttle knob, and I would steer the truck while the men loaded hay on it.  When the truck was loaded and we started to the barn and got to the gate, one of them would steer it through the gate and on to the barn.  I thought I was something. 

I quit working for pay last month.  I retired

Can you name one that benefitted labor that was passed in the last 40 years.  In the 50's and 60's I knew nothing about labor laws and cared less.

You can start here.

http://employment.findlaw.com/..._PK=about+labour+law

jdavis ,best runs a sweat shop up the road. I could hire every one of her employees right out from under her if I wanted to. I'm engaged in some surprise capitalism thanks to Obama.

To Best,  ?