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If you don't like me calling you a duck, stop waddling and quacking.

Quack quack quack quack...

Stop feeding the troll.

Speaking of the T-Word, which Libertarians invariably invoke whenever their precious faith is challenged:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/73359 ... bertarians

http://www.alternet.org/story/149197/ar ... versations

Are all liberals homogenous? Conservatives? Feminists? Then why do you keep acting like libertarians are all the same? (this is aimed at more than you, you're just the latest in the pileup)

I'm not getting your point. You still got your scan. If someone has to wait a while for a scan, but still does eventually get it, it's still better than not getting it at all.
Admittedly, the ACA isn't perfect, but until problems which you brought up are addressed, it's still better than not having that medical coverage.
And on a related point - best not to bring up chiropractors with me, because I consider them to be quacks and frauds.

Likewise, the time and money WASTED in dealing with insurance billing adds to the cost of providing service. Many doctors are going "cash only" so they can offer services at what they know to be a reasonable price. These doctors don't end up wasting income paying people to code insurance claim forms on the hope they will get paid in 3-6 months by the insurance carrier. ALL OF THIS HAS A COST IMPACT, but did you see the ACA address the garbage on "usual and customary" percentages or simplifying the insurance billing process to cut the cost and work put upon the service providers? These would have been more meaningful reforms but weren't done.

If you'd ever said anything of value, I'd address it,

I will rephrase: the most popular, politically powerful libertarians in the US today support the abolishment of laws that protect workers and minorities from the majority or from exploitive businesses, so no. The same libertarians are also anti-choice wrt. abortion.

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?

...Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable. . . . Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings.

The point was that the CT scan was faster and used less radiation because of innovations made since the last time. Those innovations will not tend to happen absent the profit motive. Better equipment, in turn, demands a cost to pay for it. Likewise, the garbage about insurance only paying "X% of 'usual and customary'" results in inflated costs so the service provider can be ensured that they are getting the amount needed to justify keeping their doors open.

Likewise, the time and money WASTED in dealing with insurance billing adds to the cost of providing service. Many doctors are going "cash only" so they can offer services at what they know to be a reasonable price. These doctors don't end up wasting income paying people to code insurance claim forms on the hope they will get paid in 3-6 months by the insurance carrier. ALL OF THIS HAS A COST IMPACT, but did you see the ACA address the garbage on "usual and customary" percentages or simplifying the insurance billing process to cut the cost and work put upon the service providers? These would have been more meaningful reforms but weren't done.

it is just that when I see the high people here enjoying their middle/upper class tax breaks out of one side of their mouth while carping bitterly out the other side over the relative crumbs thrown towards the working class, it makes me wonder.

Well, guess what?

http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-signs-oba ... 40766.html

After so much crying and whining about Obamacare, and doing his level best to destroy it, even John Boehner has signed up.

Confucius said: When rape is inevitable lie back and enjoy it.

ruveyn

Confucius said: When rape is inevitable lie back and enjoy it.

ruveyn