Because there is not aandate to do it. You set the stage for it; such as, having accounts for unger peop in Social Security, change t livery of healthcare, do it in a positive way. You set the ground work. You wont make headway with the congress. Shoot for 2014 and 2016. Rick, shoul entitlements be off the table entirely . I dont think they should im not one of those liberals. I would le to see the focus shift to where they are look at entiements in termsof cleaning it up. It should be a constant reform all the time. Weed out the people who may take advantage, so we have the money for the people who legitimately need the help. Lets talk about peop takingdvantage. Federal disability programs are just totally out of control. We have all kind of abuse and fraud. 25 of the cases are called, inappropriately decided. Isnt that a place to start . Yeah, that would be a place to start. I just dont want th republicans to do it in their typical root canaay where they talk about deficits and hothe
Rick unger. Tame get rid of the navigators . Of urse. Thiss something the Insurance Companies dove day and they should have their employees do it. The Bigger Picture in defense is they a a symptom of the muchbigger problem which is the obama administrations obnious conceit it can create Healthcare Market out of thin air. The better answer is to repeal it. Rick, john is f getng rid of them. But he is defending th i heard that. I heard that. John is right about one thing you said, the Insurance Brokers have people like this, who help customers figure out what the best policy is for them. That is all the navigators are doing. I look at the report from the house committee. It was ridiculous. They relie on data provided by jameskeith, who by the way, while they are concerned about the criminal behavior, he is the only one who has been convicted of a misdemeanor and had to pay over six figures to settle a case. You know, this is a tempest in the teapot. Leave these people alone. They are try
This thing is going to be extraordinarily expensive to everybody involved nobody is talking about all people who did not have insurance before the law. That was what it was sold as, as this cure all in a mean Spirited Society where tens of millions were left out of the system. That is miniscule numbers. Its heart breaking. Were the millions of people. One of the problems is it was hinted this stuff would be free. Its becoming more and more expensive as each day goes back. The irony was in the beginning to make sure everyone in this country was insured, now with this, we are looking at 40plus million who arent. Maybe we can whittle it down to 30 million that arent. Isnt that what we are going into here . That 30 million numberomeses from the congressional budget office. Its unclear how many of these a little more than 7 Million People that join the exchanges din have insurance, we have a good still only onethird were previously unemployed. You are basically shuffleing the deck chairs if
But is that the answer . I think it would be a big mistake. Thats in no way meant to minimize the tragedy too took place at ft. Hood. Ultimately we live in a world where there are mentally unbalanced individuals who will try to bring us harm. This will take place no matter what we do. They took precautions and they didnt work. We should be reluctant infringing on freedoms. No law or legislation is going to change this. After 2009 new security measures taken included adding more restrictions for weapons carried on base. Issuing security personnel with more kinds of weapons, et cetera. That wasnt enough. I want to say and i know im speaking for everybody, we have these people in our hearts, the lost loved ones. We are rooting for those who are hopefully healing in the hospital. I was speaking with an exmilitary friend of mine. These bases are cities. There are a lot of people there. The military is doing their best to bring this sort of thing to an end. I wonder how much they can do. The
Can. Of course it can. Capitalism in the profit mode are ability turning scarcity into abundance. Theyre about turning a Million Dollar computer in the 70s into something that costs a couple hundred dollars today. Health care is expensive and scarce today precisely because the government has naively removed the profit motor from the equation. President obama wants to make it universal and in trying to make it universal hes going to make it very hard for the average person to get. So, rick, this just proves the fact that the private sector could do the internet, that when the government gets into something it gums up the works. Well, theres two questions here. Obviously the internet has not gone as planned so far. I think it will be fixed by the end of november but well see. The real question here, which is can the private markets handle the pricing . Look, its really nice. If you need to go get an examination or a physical, whatever, yeah, you can probably take cash at a lower rate thr