Where are the Republican's health care reform ideas?

They don't have any.

They claim they do, but where have they been for the past 17 years?

Their health care reform is for everyone to buy their own insurance and shut the f*ck up. If you don't have a job that provides insurance, then go get one and quit whining.

Yeah, that's a great plan.

Like that stupid revisionist cricket/ant chain mail that so many f*cking idiots like. If you don't know what I'm talking about then here you go.

Do I think people should get a free ride? F*ck no. But not everybody who needs a handup is a sponge. And providing a hand up doesn't make you a socialist. It makes you a caring person.

George H. Bush spoke of a "kinder and gentler" United States, and that's because the f*cking Reps are vicious and uncaring. Not all of them. Just the bulk. Personally, I liked George Sr., but I think George Jr. was an idiot. George Sr. had oodles of political experience. George Jr. rode into Texas governor on his daddy's coat-tails, and then leap-frogged into the presidency because Gore has an awkward personality. Nevermind his DWI (when he was 30 and should have known better) and possible cocaine use, the conservatives voted for him because they can't put 2 and 2 together. Clinton smoked some pot in the 60's (imagine that) so that makes him scum, but a DWI and coke is A-OK, just so long as he's a Republican.

But back on the point. Where are the Reps health-care reform plans? Oh, they have them, you protest. Bullsh*t. They only bring them up when the Dems try to pass health care reform. Otherwise it's "get a job you f*cking losers." Great plan.

Do I agree with the current bill? I don't have any idea what the damn thing says, and I've tried to read it. It's ridiculous. I think they can make it shorter and more comprehensible. But at least they're trying to do something.

If the Reps had their way, you wouldn't get emergency room treatment if you didn't have a way to pay for it. Yeah, that's real compassion. And they'd probably leave you to die if you couldn't pay for any other health care. I suspect that's what Jesus would have done...NOT! F*ckig hypocrites. Save the life of the unborn potential humans, but let the living suffer and die?

I think that businesses would welcome any health care reform. I quit my soul-killing job to seek independent opportunities, and I paid for COBRA for a few months. It cost $500 per month. HOLY SH*T! My company was subsidizing me by about $350 a month? My wife has pretty good insurance she pays for on her own, and it only costs $180/month. But the group that my previous employer had was super expensive. I would think that any public plan would lower their costs.

I think the basic idea of the Dems health care reform proposals is flawed. But so is the whole concept of health insurance. You do realize that it is health insurance that has caused the rise the cost of health care, right? You know, that whole supply/demand thing?

The situation is complicated. Massive dollars provided by insurance provided an INFLATION in the cost of health care, because that's what happens when you have a large supply of something. Yes, dollars can be considered a supply. If you have too many Shamwows to sell and nobody's buying, then the cost goes down. But if you have a limited supply of Shamwows, and everybody wants one and is throwing money at them, then their cost goes up. This is what happened in health care. Basic economics.

But the massive dollars available for medicine, equipment, doctors, and nurses caused an improvement in health care. Pharmaceuticals created new, wonderful drugs because they know they can make a lot of money. Inventors created new equipment to get a piece of the pie. Without the money we wouldn't have the drugs that we b*tch about costing too much.

If everyone has insurance, this will create a shortage in health care. There will be fewer slots available for doctors to see patients, there will be more people buying prescription medicine, more people in the hospital, etc. The costs might actually RISE instead of fall. And the quality might drop, since the system and doctors will be overworked.

What's my bright idea, you may wonder? There are many steps to getting the costs under control.

1) Create more medical schools. Right now you have to have something like a 3.5 GPA to get into medical school. Certainly someone driven to care for people with a 3.2 GPA would give good care. And there are a LOT of smart people that can do a great job as a doctor who don't have a great GPA. The AMA has a stranglehold on the industry, and this causes an unnecessary shortage. Increasing the supply of doctors by 10% would only cause a small reduction in the current income of doctors, but that will drop the cost of doctors. And doctors won't have to work themselves to death.

More medical schools will also increase the number of residents available in training. What's good about this? The current rules limit the number of hours a resident has to work from preposterous to ridiculous. So, those doctors that are giving you or your child emergency care, or cancer care, may have been awake for the past 24 hours. Sleep deprivation causes lapses in judgement and thinking. And of all f*cking people, the doctors should know this. But they put patients are risk because of their flawed culture. They believe that doctors in training must suffer like they did, because it creates good skills and good character. BULLSHIT!!! (Notice I didn't askerisk by profanity. That's how strongly I feel about this stupid belief.) I'm sure a doctor can learn his specialty quite adequately working only 40 hours a week.

Also, I suspect (but this is just my theory) that the cost to governments for providing health care for the uninsured and under-insured would DROP MORE THAN THE COST OF PAYING FOR MORE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

2) Supplement doctor's malpractice insurance. Doctors bitch that they have to charge such high prices because malpractice insurance is so expensive. I think that this is partly true, but I also think it's partly BS. I know that the malpractice insurance for heart surgeons is close to $100,000/year, but the heart surgeons don't really have to make $250,000/year profit. So, supplement the insurance because it's too expensive, and then they can't hide their extraordinary profits behind this cost.

BTW, why do they make so much money? BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH DOCTORS! Basic economics.

3) Require all health insurance to have at least a $3000 deductible. Sure, they can have one free trip to the doctor per year, but otherwise they should pay a $3000 deductible. Personally, I don't want to have to pay $3000/year to get health care, but if I REALLY needed it I would. That's the point. It would reduce the demand on health care, thus reducing the cost of health care.

4) Have the f*cking government make new medicines and sell them on the open market. What, government competing with private enterprise? You're godd*mn right. We all know medicine is super expensive. And some medicines cannot be produced at a profit. So, logically, a company is not going to make a product it cannot sell at a profit. This isn't greed, it's common sense. If a company cannot make a profit, the company will cease to exist. So, if we want better medicines at a reasonable cost, then the government has to get involved in their production.

5) Have the government pay for extreme, chronic conditions. If you need a new heart, have cancer, or AIDS, it shouldn't bankrupt you. If you have any of these, the deductible should be waved. Let's have some compassion. Nobody can afford the treatment for these conditions, unless they are quite wealthy. This will also help people who are adamently avoiding that deductible from receiving critically important care. If you have the sniffles, then you should pay the $100 for the visit. If you have cancer, we care about you.

6) Give low interest loans to people to pay the deductible.

That's a hell of a lot more than the Reps have offered, and I think it's a hell of a lot more conservative that what's on the table by Dems. But I'd rather have Dem health care reform than none at all.

When Rush Limbaugh is the de facto leader of your party...

your party is seriously screwed up.

Rush Limbaugh is a liar. His bread and butter relies on his ability to enrage his fan base (mainly conservatives/Republicans) and piss off liberals/Democrats.

But there is no way on this earth that he can possibly believe all the rhetoric that he spews. He's spewed it just about every day since at least 1992, and it's always the same.

He just LOVES when a Dem becomes president. I wouldn't doubt he voted for Obama. I'm sure his highest ratings are when the Dems are in control, and his lowest are when the Reps are in control. That is the height of hypocrisy. When you help create the beliefs you villify, you are almost evil.

Nobody is capable of holding such one-sided views. I know many (too many) hard-core conservatives, and I know for a fact that even they hold some moderate views. It cannot be helped. Nobody can think so one-sidedly. Personally, I'm a moderate. I've got some pretty liberal views, a LOT of moderate views, and a surprising number of conservative and VERY conservative views. Why? Because I'm a person that uses my brain to assess the truth and value of the different situations and different point of views.

But Limbaugh mainly operates on hate. He utterly villifies the Democrats. He made Bill Clinton out to be a "great satan" and now he's doing the same with Obama. Congrats, Limbaugh, take your throne next to Hitler, Sadam, and Ahmadinejad. Sure, you spout some American values, since nobody is all bad, but your one huge flaw is your vicious hate mongering. And if you think my comparison to Hitler is a bit extreme, he operated on hate.

Hate is irrational. Sure, I'm jabbing the Republicans in the side to show them their massive hypocrisy, but I'm not into hate. But Hitler was. He built his base on villifying the Jews.

Limbaugh might claim that he doesn't hate the Dems, he just hates their beliefs. That's a LIE. He massacred the character of Bill Clinton, and he's working on Obama with a vengence. Massacring someones character is no way to convince them, or anybody else, that their policies are wrong. Unless you're a f*cking idiot and agree with Limbaugh. Am I villifying Limbaugh? You're godd*mn right I am. He's evil. I'm not saying that because I disagree with his political views. I'm villifying him because he's a villain. He's intentionally creating hatred for people that don't deserve it. He's not just pushing a political point that people disagree with. He's creating evil in the guts of his fans and critics. What does Jesus say about hate? Hmmm. Maybe church-going Limbaugh lovers should rethink their agreement with Limbaugh. But I doubt they will, because many of his fans are a bunch of f*cking idiots.

So, if Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the Republican part, then the Republican party is the party of hate. Don't agree with me? Think I'M evil? Want to kill me and all like me, or forcibly indoctrinate me into your political and religious views? There you go, hater. You and Limbaugh can burn in hell together, you f*cking hypocrites.

McCain was railroaded

Not by Obama, but by Bush and the Republican party.

That man is a freaking war hero. He is a reasonable person. He stands in stark contrast to King George.

I might have voted for McCain had I not experienced 8 years of King George and his Republican Ring Wraiths. I was so sick of that, I was willing to vote for almost anyone that was different from the status quo. I think this was the general attitude held by Americans, and it propelled Obama and the Dems into the leadership.

But I think the Reps knew they were going to lose, regardless of who they put up for their nominee, so they decided to make the moderate people and Republicans believe that they have a softer, more reasonable side. And McCain, a good man, was screwed out of his chance to lead the country.

Republicans are the biggest bunch of whiners

Seriously.

Say what you will about the Democrats and their bleeding hearts, but the Republicans are just a bunch of VICIOUS liars. They couldn't beat Obama on the issues, so they attacked his CITIZENSHIP. And his ancestry. And his religion. And secretly (though they'll never admit it) his race.

COME ON! Is that the BEST you can do?

So, now they've lost, fair and square. And Dems didn't win with a technical knockout by winning only the majority of the electoral votes, but they also won the popular vote (unlike our old beloved King George.) The majority of the people wanted Obama as president, and the majority of representatives wanted Obama. But do the Republicans want to acknowledge defeat? HELL NO! They are flipping off the will of the majority of Americans.

When King George won by only electoral votes, dems were pissed for about 3 months. Sure, it came up here and there, and it's still a thorn in their side, but it was pretty much done. But the Republicans just cannot let it go. They cannot let go the fact that the whole country had a gutfull of their hypocrisy, egotism, lack of empathy, and my favorite, King George's utter refusal to compromise or have transparency.

So, now, they spread lies, and manipulate the media.

LIES?! Certainly not the upright, moral republicans!! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's start with the lie about Obama renaming the national Christmas tree the national "holiday tree". A lie intended to smear him, because they can't get him on the issues.

Then there is the lie (my favorite) that he not only doesn't place his hand over his heart during the pledge of Allegiance, but that he actually turns his back on the flag. They forgot to mention that he also flips the flag off and moons it! Oh, the comedy from the Reps, that many unfortunately think is true.

And then , supposedly, Obama would make soldiers wounded in combat pay for their own injuries. Are they for real? Come on!

And here are two rumors unrelated to Obama that show the true character o Republicans:

- Those who are "pro-euthenasia" are actually pulling people off of life-support who are awake and conscious and begging not to be killed.

- Hillary Clinton refused to meet with the "Gold Star Mothers" (a group of women who are the mothers of soldiers who died in combat) when the visited the Capitol. Well, Hillary wasn't at the Capitol that day, which would explain why she didn't meet with them. The group was profoundly apologetic to Hillary for this BS rumor. The info is on their website here (http://www.goldstarmoms.com/FAQs/FAQs.htm).

But what absolutely fascinates me is the refusal of the Reps to actually spend about 5 seconds researching the rumor on the Internet. They get an email, become inflamed, and forward it to a few dozen people. Either they're too stupid to research it, or they don't really care if it's true or not.

These self-righteous Reps don't care how you get the enemy out of office. "The ends justify the means" is their implicit war cry. What would Jesus do?

I can just about guarantee you that Jesus would be a hell of a lot more socialistic than Obama. And he wouldn't lie. He would be kind, and He would have you work to not profit monetarily, but give to those in need. I certainly don't want to put words in the mouth of Jesus, but I think the Gospels lay out his beautiful ideas much more clearly than the rest of the Bible tells its stories.