Democratic response to Trump's speech: He's 'Wall Street's champion'

[Monte_RCMS]

Anything will be better than Obamacare which is why the Dems set your ACA up in just a convoluted and incredible expensive fashion. This whole system is designed to fail. So that Hilary bless her heart can usher in single pay insurance. (Opps she didn’t win)

Hey don’t get me wrong, I’m from Canada where I get “FREE” healthcare! OUr healthcare system is a real blessing. I went to get my blood test the other day. Walked in at 8:10am and picked my number. 2.5 hours later I was on my way to work. If I had the money I would buy private insurance so I could skip around this bottom tier and jump the up to the top tiers like our politicians and super rich get to do! Must of these people end up going to the states for anything really pressing like a c-scan. THese are usually about a 3 or 4 month wait time. My wife was finally referred to a Gynocologist (that’s right ou cannot get to specialists without a referral) last October. She will get to see her in April. My tax dollars go towards abortion and sex change reassignement but for some life saving drugs one needs to pay out of pocket! It really is a head scratcher some times!

Worst case, Canadians can merely drive across the border to the United States and take advantage of the huge chain of hospitals that exist right close there.

You have to pay cash, but you can get same day, next day care.

In fact, if you go out of your way to pay CASH you also can get 80% discount from “list prices”.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Gotta tell you, I have really good private insurance here in the US, and your experience getting blood tests isn’t any different from mine. If I need tests, or an x-ray, or an MRI or CT scan, I’m going to be there half the day. At least. And the emergency room? I can count on a whole day lost.

Must depend on where one is. My wait time between seeing the doctor and a blood draw is a few seconds. It’s true that for a routine test (at my age, they do them) you won’t get the actual results for a couple of days. You get it by email and if there’s anything suspicious, the doctor calls you, same day.

In the ER, at least around here, your wait depends on the nature of your complaint. If the doctor thinks it needs immediate attention, you get it. If it’s a sore throat or one of those “kid bumps on the head, but no symptoms of any kind” we all worry about, you’re probably looking at 15 minutes, maybe 20.

 

[meltzerboy]

Must depend on where one is. My wait time between seeing the doctor and a blood draw is a few seconds. It’s true that for a routine test (at my age, they do them) you won’t get the actual results for a couple of days. You get it by email and if there’s anything suspicious, the doctor calls you, same day.

In the ER, at least around here, your wait depends on the nature of your complaint. If the doctor thinks it needs immediate attention, you get it. If it’s a sore throat or one of those “kid bumps on the head, but no symptoms of any kind” we all worry about, you’re probably looking at 15 minutes, maybe 20.

Based on this alone, it is tempting for me to move to the Ozarks. New York is a bit different.

 

[10gr8kids]

Based on this alone, it is tempting for me to move to the Ozarks. New York is a bit different.

Nothing against you, you seem like a really nice person, but please don’t. We are getting to crowded here already for my taste! . Remember that Saturday morning cartoon…::

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk

This is how I’m starting to feel.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Based on this alone, it is tempting for me to move to the Ozarks. New York is a bit different.

Differences might be accounted for by competition and the cost of things.

It might have more to do with the nature of the area than anything else. We have two enormous health complexes on the Missouri side of a trade area that also includes northwest Arkansas, and they compete fiercely. Both are well-resourced; resourced to a surprising degree. Likely some of that is due to it being a low-cost part of the country. We have a lot of doctors of every kind because they like to move their families here. So they’re from everywhere. There are two universities and three other institutions on the Missouri side that train nurses and other providers. The medical “trade area” includes part of northwest Arkansas, where the setup and competition are similar, and the competition overlaps in some parts of the area.

Because of the competitive atmosphere, there is almost no town so small that it doesn’t have a pretty good clinic from one or more of the giants, and specialists from the three bigger towns; Springfield, Joplin and the “single city” composed of Springdale, Fayettville, Bentonville and Rogers in Arkansas, circulate through the small town clinics and hospitals. The University of Arkansas med school is in Fayettville.

So, for instance, if you live in Branson, which is actually a very small town, and need a rotator cuff repair, you can go to one of the clinics or the hospital in Branson, get emergency care from the hospital there, get an appointment with a circulating ortho from Springfield, and have surgery within a week in Branson, unless you want to drive to Springfield and get it sooner. In nearly all area small towns, there are at least two competing ambulance services and two to four competing emergency helicopter services.

So, I don’t know how to account for the difference in services except perhaps to think it’s the combination of competition and low costs of living, building, developing land.

And you’re welcome any time.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Nothing against you, you seem like a really nice person, but please don’t. We are getting to crowded here already for my taste! . Remember that Saturday morning cartoon…::

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk

This is how I’m starting to feel.

Oh now, he’s welcome. Just as an aside, though, the heavily populated part is pretty narrow. In a “flat oval” georgraphically, with the northeast end being Springfield and the southwest end being Springdale/Fayettville/Rogers/Bentonville, the north edge being I-44 and the south edge being the lake area. Within that, there are a million people, even if you don’t count Joplin.

But if you get outside that oval, the population drops precipitously in every direction.

 

[10gr8kids]

Oh now, he’s welcome. Just as an aside, though, the heavily populated part is pretty narrow. In a “flat oval” georgraphically, with the northeast end being Springfield and the southwest end being **Springdale/Fayettville/Rogers/Bentonville, **the north edge being I-44 and the south edge being the lake area. Within that, there are a million people, even if you don’t count Joplin.

But if you get outside that oval, the population drops precipitously in every direction.

This is the area where all the newcomers seem to land, and very,very close to my neck of the woods, making it very crowded.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is the area where all the newcomers seem to land, and very,very close to my neck of the woods, making it very crowded.

Lots of newcomers in the whole area. In the countryside, it’s one of the few places where the “green” (all year) fescue belt and the Bermuda belt overlap. But in the towns there are a lot of jobs as well; some low-skill, some really high tech and a lot of them in between.

One oddity due to the grass overlap is that a lot of Aussies and Kiwis have come into this country to raise cattle. Interestingly, they milk their beef cattle in addition to having a cow-calf operation. Not much milk to get, but it’s very rich in butterfat. The buyers are the “premium” ice cream makers…the super expensive kind, who’ll pay a lot for it. Who would have thought it? They won’t buy land much north of Springfield or south of Fayettville, because they don’t get that dual grass effect reliably. They’ll go a little way into Oklahoma’s “Green Country”, but not far. The attraction is that they almost never have to feed hay. When the warm season grass (largely Bermuda) goes dormant in the fall, the cool season grass (usually fescue) takes over and is nutritious all winter long.

But you’re right about the numbers. If one flies over the countryside in the winter, it’s astonishing how many homes there are in the rural areas. Simply driving on the roads doesn’t tell you the story because so many of the houses are tucked back into the woods and you can’t see them from the roads.

 

[ProdigalSun]

Must depend on where one is. My wait time between seeing the doctor and a blood draw is a few seconds. It’s true that for a routine test (at my age, they do them) you won’t get the actual results for a couple of days. You get it by email and if there’s anything suspicious, the doctor calls you, same day.

In the ER, at least around here, your wait depends on the nature of your complaint. If the doctor thinks it needs immediate attention, you get it. If it’s a sore throat or one of those “kid bumps on the head, but no symptoms of any kind” we all worry about, you’re probably looking at 15 minutes, maybe 20.

I’ve never seen my erupts they go to my doctor. I asked for them one time and was told it would be a 30$ service fee for a copy. MRI. 6 mo the to a year wait.

 

[Erich]

Very true. So-called “conservatives” have always been big spenders. The notion that they’re fiscally responsible is a farce. Since 1970, the administrations that have had the largest increase in federal spending have been (1) George W. Bush, (2) Ronald Reagan, and (3) Gerald Ford. Trump’s plans will further balloon the deficit. President Obama had to clean up George W. Bush’s messes, just as certainly as the next president will have to clean up Trump’s messes.

On Jan. 20, 2009, the date of Obama’s inauguration, the debt held by the public – as accrued by Obama’s predecessors – stood at roughly $6.307 trillion and the total debt was about $10.6 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” calculator. When Obama left office, the debt held by the public stood at $14.403 trillion (over 2.25 times more than all previous presidents combined) and total debt was $19.9 trillion (88% higher). How is he not #1 on your list?

Kinda reminds me of when President Clinton claimed to be the only President who knew something about agriculture when he got there. Never mind that Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were all farmers before they were President.

 

[dvdjs]

On Jan. 20, 2009, the date of Obama’s inauguration, the debt held by the public – as accrued by Obama’s predecessors – stood at roughly $6.307 trillion and the total debt was about $10.6 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” calculator. When Obama left office, the debt held by the public stood at $14.403 trillion (over 2.25 times more than all previous presidents combined) and total debt was $19.9 trillion (88% higher). How is he not #1 on your list?

“increase in federal spending” vs "increase in debt. There is a difference, you know.

 

[stinkcat_14]

On Jan. 20, 2009, the date of Obama’s inauguration, the debt held by the public – as accrued by Obama’s predecessors – stood at roughly $6.307 trillion and the total debt was about $10.6 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” calculator. When Obama left office, the debt held by the public stood at $14.403 trillion (over 2.25 times more than all previous presidents combined) and total debt was $19.9 trillion (88% higher). How is he not #1 on your list?

Kinda reminds me of when President Clinton claimed to be the only President who knew something about agriculture when he got there. Never mind that Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were all farmers before they were President.

I think that one thing is for certain, neither republicans nor democrats really care about fiscal responsibility.

 

[Erich]

“increase in federal spending” vs "increase in debt. There is a difference, you know.

OK, I’ll bite… how is it possible to increase public debt to over **2.25 times more than *all previous presidents combined ***without increasing spending?

 

[ProVobis]

OK, I’ll bite… how is it possible to increase public debt to over **2.25 times more than *all previous presidents combined ***without increasing spending?

It’s possible because Bernanke through QE purchases managed to increase the debt by $4 trillion to keep the longer term interest rates low. I believe the 12 member banks still hold the bonds.