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Ashiwi

For years I have supported a reform of capital punishment laws based on a foundation of overwhelming evidence. Save the fortune of support costs (and the heartbreak of mistaken judgements) by making capital punishment mandatory with limited appeals in certain instances where the crime(s) is/are cons...

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Oooooh, also drop in there a slight reduction in premiums or tiny tax incentive for those who register with a national organ donor service. People probably don't realize how much it costs us to offer extended medical care to those who are waiting on a transplant donor. A reduction in time spent on t...

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Merry Christmas to all!

Please remember to share your joy with the world around you. A gift of your time, effort, or spare change can make a huge difference to those who have so little.

Ashiwi

In response to insurers not utilizing services like this... They already do, but you're certainly not going to see them presented quite like this yet. Most of the large name insurers are starting to move toward a format of diagnosis-based case management and utilization reviews. See how that sounds ...

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Total cost transparency may not be entirely impossible, but it's definitely unrealistic, and asking it from an insurer is beyond unrealistic. An insurer has no way of knowing what services are going to be filed until the claim has been received, and a provider isn't entirely sure what services will ...

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1) Allow drug reimportation. I very heartily agree with this. The main two problems I really see with it immediately are the issue with fraud, since non-US providers wouldn't be held to our regulations, and the issue with quality, for the same reason. It's ridiculous to pay over $100 in the US for t...

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Sigh. How does everybody miss the obvious in this topic? If you don't work, and you don't have money, there's a good chance you can get Medicaid on the taxpayer's dime. If you don't have Medicaid, you can find free clinics or income-based medical care which is typically offered at medical school cli...

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Since when do Christians consistently interpret the Bible? One group may believe that "reaping your blessings" means gathering wealth, while another sticks with the whole "camel and the eye of a needle" concept. There's a thousand different Christian factions, and Unitarian churc...

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What's the difference between a Cadillac and a golf ball?

Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball.

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It may be due to local regulations, but I think around here a ticket is issued because the fault has to be assigned. If you hit a hydrant and it's not your fault, you don't pay for it. If you hit a hydrant and it's your fault, you get a ticket and likely fined for the cost of repairs. If somebody's ...

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Kiryan, I understand what you're saying about licensing them to teach, but consider this for a moment... If you teach a friend the yoga moves you know at no charge, you don't have to be licensed. If you have some friends and the friends of some friends come over for a party and you get down on the f...

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Actually, last I heard the radar guns have gotten quite a bit more accurate, although I don't think they're foolproof, by any means. And yes, they can use them while moving. From what I understand the standard radar is best used while on the same road as the moving vehicles, because you don't have t...

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Having a license in no way proves that somebody is qualified to teach a course. It just means they're registered with the local government agency as an operating business. There are some businesses that have stricter licensing requirements, but for the majority of businesses a license is just an exp...

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He was driving, he hit a fire hydrant. The damage he did necessitated the replacement of the fire hydrant and additional work from the city. Unless you can prove somebody was at fault, he needed to be charged with something. Or is it now okay for celebrities to destroy public property without any co...

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Just a personal observation ... Every woman I know who has been diagnosed with breast cancer found the initial mass through self-examination.

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Well pffffft. I posted a long reply with prices and destinations, but timed out and lost it all. The gist was: pick your destinations and I'm all for price shopping if Dartan's dad can get us a good deal. One option I was looking at is back-to-back cruises. We could fly to Miami and take an Eastern ...

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Yeah Leah, Virgil would be jealous if we all came to visit you. We'd have to bury him in the sand and kidnap you. Neo, when you said you don't want to do South America ... did you mean southern North America, or actual South America? Is Mexico completely out? Not all of it is in such turmoil, and mo...

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Ummmmm, no. That would be awful. Sorry about that.

Nothing to see here! Move along! Move along!

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Treehugger! Check your PM.

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Dude, I live in Oklahoma ... I want to see something NEW!

Besides, I have a terrible weakness for Native American men. I'd get myself in trouble.

What about one of those resorts on Vancouver island where they specialize in deep sea fishing?

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What about a cabin in Alaska?

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Yes, yes, this is another "exotic getaway" thread. Laurel, you keep asking me about this, can we please start planning? You mentioned summer, but you know Mexico is out during the summer. Are you thinking Canada or Alaska? Did you want a cruise, or a flight to a resort with a multi-day sta...

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For Larble.

http://xkcd.com/61/

Think of you every time, dude.

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Have you ever looked at the chemicals put into the process of creating paper? You touch that stuff every day! And microwaving your food in plastic??? Are people insane?!? The toxins created from cooking with grease are known to be cancer-causing. Household cleaners are cancer-causing. Pesticides spr...

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Yeah, I can see them doing that when they attack all of our ills the same way. I don't see mangled bodies on the labels of Jim Beam, or tumors on every package of food with known cancer-causing additives.

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Rags, give it up. We're only this far in, with three more years to go. That's a lot of brick wall for you to bang your head against.

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My personal belief is that the whole "government run healthcare" issue is part fake-out. Watch and see. We'll end up with another option that may actually stand a chance of working, and it'll get passed in record time because people are so afraid of what's already been put in front of them.

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And I completely agree with you on that, but until we become the perfect Communist state, what's the fix for it? Much of what's causing our problems today stemmed from the fixes that went in to bring us out of the Great Depression. We've had great abundance since that point, so something about it ob...

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I don't think fully comprehensive healthcare is what I was driving toward. Basic medical necessity is something that should be offered to all in the US, whether they can afford it or not. Immunizations, semi-permanent to permanent birth control, disease control and emergency services are what I'm re...

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Thank you Corth, for touching on what people seem to miss time and time again. In our system, healthcare is a "scarce resource." It's going to have a limit no matter where you go, because it's always going to be based on the level of the population that decides to go into a healthcare prof...

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Alaska is more expensive, but Laurel and I were talking about perhaps taking an Alaskan cruise. How great they are depends on what you like and how you respond to it. Not sure if these links will work, but here's a few just to think about. http://www.carnival.com/Itinerary.aspx?embkCode=SDG&itin...

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In order to get these statistics into perspective, can we please get a comparative breakdown between numbers waiting on upcoming healthcare in these other countries and numbers who don't bother trying to get healthcare because they can't afford it here in the US? Didn't think so, but in order to rea...

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Neo, give it up, already, and just show us what you know we want to see!!!

A detailed invoice.

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So if we took one next year, what would anybody be interested in? Cabo San Lucas? Acapulco? Baja? Cozumel? Jamaica? Puerto Vallarta? Alaska? Right now I'm leaning towards an eight day Mexican Riviera cruise with two days in Acapulco for $429.00, sailing out of San Diego. There's also a seven day Wes...

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it is very well documented who pays the bulk of taxes, the rich. Its not illegals making $10 bucks an hour drywalling or $8 an hour picking crop. They may pay sales tax and Social Security taxes on a false SSN, but they are not coming anywhere close to paying their way. Those illegals do contribute...

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For one of the questions above about the time you've been out of the gym ... If you didn't really do yourself any good in the first place, you haven't really lost anything, but once you start to build actual muscle then stop, it's much easier to get back to where you were than it was to build it up ...

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I just hope that when the same stupid posters are made of Bush, you don't look at that and say that was good, but instead try and ignore it, and rationalize why he began wars etc. http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushjoker2.htm Not quite the same, but it's been done. People don't li...

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Before a bunch of rhetoric is posted, can we please clarify? This "drug intended to prolong the life of individuals with advanced cancer," for example ... what kind of drug is this? I would almost bet that's just a vicious spin on how to say "This plan doesn't cover experimental and i...

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OMG, Awful Green Things from Outer Space!!!! I haven't played that since I was a kid and Tiny Games was putting it out in little plastic ziplock baggies at sci fi cons. Or am I remembering the wrong game? Isn't that the one they put out about the same time they put out Tiny Dungeons? Wow... way back...

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Okay, you've got me laughing and throwing up my hands again. Dude, you are a masterpiece.

And if you did admit you were wrong previously, I apologize. I just don't think I've ever seen it.

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Sarvis, you've been vehemently jumping all over Kirayn throughout this thread for multiple issues, but you kept going on and on about how he was advocating ME doing something harmful to myself. The "harmful" thing was an ADA supported diet, which I practice on a regular basis. You grind yo...

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I understand perfectly. I advocated that Ashiwi harm herself to lose weight. I mean really ... can you please do some research before you open mouth/insert foot? Another instance of you going off on something you obviously know nothing about. http://professional.diabetes.org/UserFiles/File/Make%20t...

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Remember that picture I took in New Orleans that got me lectured on how "sometimes taking pictures of people can be considered an invasion of privacy." Well if the cop had stayed out from behind the bar and away from their till, I wouldn't have taken the picture! You don't see that kind of...

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Yup, I've heard it. I've heard it all. My doctor's last advice to me on the subject was, and I quote, "You should probably give up trying to lose weight, because considering the medication you take and your condition it's just not likely to happen, and you're just frustrating yourself." Do...

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::cough:: I'm sure everybody here who has met me or seen pictures of me is well aware of the fact that I am substantially overweight. On the average I consume less than 2000 calories per day, and more often than not I take in fewer than 1500 per day. I was out of the gym for a little bit, but I'm ba...

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Alta wrote:At least I didn't pretend to be a woman.

Things that make you snort milk out of your nose. This is one of them.

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Kifle, great points, and in your argument that would make perfect sense if the sanctity of life applied only to newborns. Now, let me reiterate...

Quoting Sarvis:
"How about "as many as we can?""

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So once they get lung cancer from smoking for years and lose their jobs and have to go on Medicare and disability ... what are you going to tax again?

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Before anybody but Sarvis replies, I'm going to go ahead and retract part of what I said to Kifle. He makes a very good point, and truth be told, I actually support testing like this, in spite of what some may think after this. However, I was responding to Sarvis, who doesn't have a clue. Seriously,...

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Kifle Odd, I don't remember such restrictions being placed on this before other examples were given. I believe I was replying to Sarvis's uncalled-for and overly melodramatic accusation, and while there is a very narrow window for the particular condition you're referring to, the "strawman"...

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