Today Live from Charlottesville, Virginia Lars talked with Law Professor Richard Epstein on the repeal and replace of Obamacare.
Listen to the interview here:
Interview: Richard Epstein talks about repealing Obamacare
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Today Live from Charlottesville, Virginia Lars talked with Law Professor Richard Epstein on the repeal and replace of Obamacare.
Listen to the interview here:
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Trump needs to stop trying to get individual voter data. It could be used to retaliate against people who they view as a threat with their vote. Simply put it violates we the people.
What are you smokin’? Anyone can pay $500 to the state of Oregon and get a list of every voter in the state. How do you think all those campaign postcards and crap get into your mail box with YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS on it? I don’t like it but it’s true:
http://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/request-for-voter-list.aspx
I did not know that. I still don’t think that’s right. I am not saying Trump is doing something bad, but your vote and affiliation should be private to safe guard from retaliation. I don’t want a repeat of Obama’s IRS.
Apparently according to an article it the Oregonian today, the commission investigating voter fraud has also asked for other personal information that YOU may not be able to buy such as SS#s, etc. I am not sure how it could help investigate vote fraud, but maybe it could. The stuff that YOU can buy does include party affiliation – my wife, a DemonRAT, gets propaganda only from the DemonRAT party; I, a Republican, only get information from the Republican party.
BUT they cannot tell Trump or anyone else how YOU voted. The ballots aren’t associated with an individual voter to the best of my knowledge. If it turns out that they are marked so they know how YOU voted, then it will be time to take some rifles down to the county courthouse and show county officials who runs the show, as the fine citizens of Athens, TN did in August of 1946:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtrsk1HmOKU
Lars,
So depressing listening to Mr. Epstein babbling on about “making incremental steps to do a lot of good”. As if there is something difficult about the healthcare problem.
Phuk obamacare – leave it as is for those who want those expensive policies, except repeal the mandates.
THEN, pass a separate bill creating a totally separate (from obamacare) free market and allowing insurer’s to offer any policy they want across state lines including catastrophic coverage for people of any age. Doctors/providers required to post typical prices for common procedures and to provide a total cost estimate for any proposed procedures if requested by the patient. Insurer’s allowed to deny coverage for pre-existing for 3 to 6 months (to keep premiums low). No state exchanges for free market policies – buy at any time of the year from the insurer – there is no risk to the insurer this way because of the 3-6 month exclusion on pre-existing. Doctors/providers bill the patient directly; patient sends the bill to the insurer for reimbursement (required to reimburse within reasonably quick time period). Buy the amount of coverage you want – no mandated $1 million, or unlimited payout. I’m 59, can pay ~ $100/month – I’ll take whatever amount of coverage that will buy me. If they want to give us tax credits to help pay, fine, do it. The obamacare subsidies are used by many low income folks to pay their premiums and it is true that employees get a tax break by paying premiums with pre-tax dollars; so tax credits for the individual market make some sense.
It’s simple – noting complicated about healthcare in any way, shape, or form.
I suspect the big difficulties are caused by what the Rs think will happen to them if they throw a bunch of obamacare voters off of their healthcare. AND the other thing is probably lobbyists are bribing them to keep the corporate welfare gravy train coming to the insurers.
I had someone come to my door once promoting some kind of “progressive agenda”. I asked how he knew what party I was affiliated with? He told me (with an attitude) that it was public knowledge. I told him I thought that was an invasion of my privacy, and to get off my porch!! As far as the S.S.#, they probably want to match it with the person who was born with it, or if who it was issued to, is still alive. I’m sure that ties in with identity, and voter fraud. Obama went out, and encouraged illegals to vote, and encouraged them to come here in the first place, for that very purpose!! That administration needed to bring in a whole new group of people to lie to (in Spanish) in order to gain votes. Isn’t that enslavement? I don’t have a problem with Trump investigating this matter. As NACHO would say, “Let’s get down to the nitty gritty”! I don’t think legal Hispanics, who love America, would have a problem with it either. I know my neighbor (legal citizen) doesn’t want this country to turn into what he left in Mexico. Who wouldn’t agree?
Good thinking, Stella.
I think the immigration thing is a bit weird. Why didn’t Obama just give them all citizenship when he had both tje house and the senate? I think it’s because they would start voting republican for the most part. They are majority chatholics who hate taxes.
As far as the voting thing that was fixed and screwed up decades ago. You should have to register every year in person and vote in person and have valid ID. I would also add that you should have proof you paid taxes. I would also add that one should never get more back from doing taxes than the total they overpaid.
I think he tried, (five million to be granted citizenship), but was deadlocked by the supreme Court. I’m not sure, but I think Texas put the actual block on that. I do care about people trying to live their lives in a crappy environment. I think Mexico, and South America could be self thriving countries, they have great potential in trade, and tourism. We should have maybe helped in their prosperity about 30yrs. ago. But emotions have no place in our law, and the left tries to use bleeding hearts to confuse, and water down our justice system, to our demise. Seems to me we have the “RESISTANCE” movement running our state, local government, and courts. Not to mention the FBI, NSA.CIA, and the media..Lord knows where else!! Where’s the Pied Piper when you need one??
Mexico was the second deadliest nation on earth last year. I am not against military intervention there if we could put together a solid game plan, but Trump is right that a wall needs to get done. If Mexico was like Canada, there wouldn’t be an issue.
Way to go Stella !! Not only is it a form of ” enslavement “, but it’s also ” DISCRIMINATION ” !!! It’s Waaaaay past time to DEMAND Photo I.D. to vote in EVERY election. We NEED to REQUIRE Photo I.D.’s, … R.T.F.N. !!! Not in one month, Not in one year, Not in one century, but NOW !!!. And make Term Limits mandatory so we don’t have old senile politicians holding up votes or mucking up government !!! The Demon-Rats have been working long and hard to unbalance voters in Amerika for far too long. Kalifornicate’s Demon-Rat Lib-Turd governor, ” Jerry The Fairy Lib-Turd Moon Beam ” this past year, gave over 5 million illegals the opportunity to vote in EVERY election, … that includes Federal Elections. So I can understand why our new President wants to dig very deep into ” Voter Fraud ” … in as many States as is needed, to find the truth and prosecute those responsible for committing Treasonous Activities. I doubt very seriously he has plans or wants to use people’s social security numbers for nefarious reasons. He is trying to eliminate the crime a day bring back honesty to our nation’s election process.
This is just my thought on healthcare, but why not just have a super safety net for those that are critically ill and nothing else? Private heath care for most things, except for when you get terminal cancer or go flying through a car window. I don’t know if that would work, but it would seem to me that covering those things would help with cost control. But I don’t see why the tax payers need to pay for every runny nose.
Just go look at all these bills in Oregon! $550 million more in health care taxes..free abortion for women, and heath care for ALL illegals under nineteen..Wow! What a great accomplishment!! They want to pass it on to middle class without a vote. According to Julie Parrish, we need to gather about 58,000 signatures in 90 days to put this on the next ballot! Go to OFIR (Oregonians For Immigration Reform) for this, and more information. I also don’t agree with the demos trying to take charge over the voters pamphlet, to edit for their gain. Some time ago, a read something about demos here (in Oregon), writing a bill to keep Trump off the next ballot, if he doesn’t release his taxes?? So I’m curious, does that mean Kate Brown, and Ellen Rosenblum (are they sisters or something?) are trying to limit our ballot choices, and rewrite propositions to confuse the voter? Confusion is their greatest weapon, you know. New laws, all based on ” how you feel” … Aren’t you fearful?… Give me a break!! Trump really needs to implement some serious action on these state officials that choose to go rogue!! These people are outright STEELING from us.. from taxes, to their undeserved salaries!! Must be nice to have five star meals all day, courtesy of my family.. while we make realistic choices everyday. How about a vote to rid them of their per-diem? I’d love to see Kate eat PB&J for a week! But that’s white privilege…..right? How about a pita,or torta Kate?
Well. I’ve been busy fighting the good fight on a local newspaper blog. Sid Schwab of the Everett Herald writes a very leftist op-ed every Saturday. His reaction to Trump is no more or less freakish than the other snowflakes. But he happens to also be a surgeon in Everett, which is a scary thought. I started out just emailing him my views until he got so pissed at me and called me an f**ing idiot and blocked me from his email. Well, not one to be deterred I showed up under another name on his blog. Still me, just not my first name. Boy did I get some of them going! It’s so strange to see these “inclusive” people try and delete your comments and then get caught. I had it happen and called them on it. Got several “likes” from like-minded people and needless to say no more of my comments got deleted after that. I always liked the Herald for local news but they lean to the left. they are a far cry from CNN unless you count Sid Schwab. He could be CNN’s lead anchor.
The Left wants single payer health care. They don’t seem to bother to look at a very good example of government run health care in the VA. The VA is a real nightmare for veterans and liberals seem to want that for the rest of us without bothering to even fix the VA. The care that the average vet deserves, they do not get with the VA. 900,00 backlogged claims as of 2014. I think free market insurance, allowing different plans for different folks. Women and children and the elderly were covered long before Obama came to town and that should continue. Otherwise if you are not a citizen you pay for your healthcare.. If you are younger and able-bodied, you pay. The Senate has far more RINO’s and they are going to kick this can down another 10 miles. If the left gets back in it will be single-payer socialized medicine. Get ready to be put on a very long waiting list and after waiting until your hair turns gray, you might get seen and receive some mediocre care. Maybe. And liberals love that?
Way to beat them at their own game!! “Keep on keepen on”!! We need the few republicans to keep saying NO!! Until repeal comes first. Or yes, its single payer… we know is just a path to socialism. Look how Kate Brown is bypassing vote to the taxpayer left and right. Somehow providing abortion to all women at no cost is a really sick way to get her campaign funding from unplanned no parenthood! No to mention covering ALL illegals with medical. A push for higher corp. taxes is in house, which we just voted down!! And some Republican moron from the Dallas Or. wants to stand out in his career, and take away our second amendment rights!! How do we get these people out of here!! I find myself looking for property in Montana, Texas, Idaho… more and more. I think, I just might want to get the HELL out of here!! It WILL become unaffordable. If the legislation can’t handle Queen Kate’s demands, how can the taxpayers?
By the way…is that the same surgeon that sewed up the “Junior Mint” Kramer dropped into the patient???
On Seinfeld. That was funny. Wouldn’t surprise me if he dropped a lot more than a mint. He’s the type of guy that would remove an appendix on the wrong person and then blame it on Trump.
Or was that, Jerry that dropped it?
A team effort!
Mark, .. I can’t give you my email address for sake of being overwhelmed by leftist snowflake mindless liberal morons, but if you can contact Lars, and ask him if he would provide it to you, I’ll give you a major horror story about the so called VA Health Care system. What I’ve witnessed and been on the receiving end of, for the past 30 years should anger most every honest American. I can tell you this, our politicians don’t really give a rats ass about the care Veteran’s are receiving, or should I say … NOT receiving. If they did, you’d never hear complaints. Lars has my contact info. I’m a SSGT. served in the ARMY, the AIR FORCE and AIR NATIONAL GUARD with almost 20 years of Honorable Service. I’m also a HAM Radio Operator. That should be enough info. I’m also raising and training Golden Retriever’s as PTSD / SERVICE DOGS for Veteran’s that need them. I’m not looking for gratitude, thank you’s for my service, or anything like that. What I want to see is that ALL, .. every Veteran gets proper medical care, and better care than our country is providing to illegals and politicians. It’s the politicians who are directly responsible for sending our military to do the dirty work that politicians think is beneath them. We are not canon fodder !!! We are patriotic citizens who served our nation, and we deserve far better than we’re receiving.
We do need more like minded people, like you, to get the FACTS out. There is really no more media to rely on. If the left can wear ISIS in protest, and fly black flags of ANTI-FASCISM, and call themselves ANTIFA, the least we could do is try to enlighten others to the truth. God will only rise up nations that are for HIM…we should see how the world hates America, and Israel. Jesus talked about if you follow him the world will hate you, like the world hated him. This will not be easy, we must be strong in prayer. This is the foundation of our nation.