Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   Please provide me the link to the regulations then. I can assure you, triaging has been going on way before ACA ever came into existence and that’s what we’re talking about here. If you can’t provide the specific links to these specific regulations, then you’re just a sad person. I’m out.

2. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   @Fernando D’Forrest Jr The “demons” you should be talking about are her employer, the healthcare plan they picked through the ACA, the healthcare plan itself and what it tells the doctors to do, and sadly, her particular health condition and her lifestyle (is she active, sedentary, way overweight, other health issues, etc.), not the ACA. The ACA is a health exchange system, nothing more. For example, my brother-in-law went to the doctor’s to talk about getting a knee replacement because he was in alot of pain and was told by said doctor that he wasn’t going to get his knees replaced because he was very obese. This, my friend, is called triaging. I bring that particular term up because triaging has always been occurring in the US medical system. When I talk with folks about health care in say the northern European countries, people freak out, talk about how they deny care to folks, it’s socialized medicine, etc., and we have the best healthcare system. As you and your mom found out, she was triaged out of getting a hip replacement in the good old USA and as I have been associated with and worked within the healthcare system for many years (well before ACA), it has always been like that. Other examples I can give are seeing patients getting discharged before they should be because the insurance companies told the docs, “Discharge them or you won’t get paid.” Docs yelling at the insurance companies about not discharging the patients because of complications. The patients getting discharged and being brought back by ambulance later that day because they were discharged before they were stable. Think that’s a great system? I don’t. It’s wasteful, unnecessary, and dangerous.

   Again, this has nothing to do with ACA, triaging has always been happened here, it’s just never been discussed openly like it is now. Please don’t take this as me saying you don’t have the right to feel angry. You do and I would too. I’m just saying you may be blaming the wrong entity.

3. 12 days ago on Prickly City

   Remember what McConnell said: Deficits don’t matter. So why should tRump care? I agree with you but remember who you’re talking about.

4. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   Let’s just hope his stupid sons don’t get any ideas.

5. about 2 months ago on Prickly City

   He just can’t help himself. He really thinks he has to be balanced so the MAGAs won’t come after him. But as Jim Hightower sez, the only thing in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos. You listening, Scottie? (Probably not).

6. about 2 months ago on Prickly City

   Are you kidding me? Over by next week? HAHAHAHA that was a funny one, Scottie! Me thinks you forgot 2020 and J6 already.

7. 2 months ago on Prickly City

   Don’t forgot about Elaine Chao, who is married to Moscow Mitch.

8. 3 months ago on Prickly City

   You’re so right about Libertarians. And then when you start to point out exactly what is involved with their philosophy and what it means for folks, they go “Oh no, that’s not true.” I have a friend that when she went to work for a large software company, she was shocked, SHOCKED that folks were jammed into rooms and working like crazy. I pointed out to her that the Libertarian Party would think that’s totally appropriate and her response was: Oh no, that’s not true. Total disconnect.

   Needless to say, after she wandered around for a couple of weeks, not doing her job, she got fired and she couldn’t understand why.

9. 4 months ago on Prickly City

   Prove it with facts, then.

10. 4 months ago on Prickly City

    Please provide the link to the page on Trump’s campaign website that has his specific policy positions.