scott218

scott218


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People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
There was Medicate available as well for younger people. If paying premiums isn't such a big deal for most people, why wasn't it sold to the public that way, instead of lying about it and saying it would lower costs for everyone? When people argued that costs would skyrocket, they were ridiculed. While you argue that repealing the ACA is a "fuck you" to the American people, without knowing yet the plan to replace it, I argue that passing the ACA was a direct fuck you to the people they lied to in order to get it passed. Jonathan Gruber has admitted they had to lie to the "stupid" Americans in order to get it passed.
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People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Medicaid was available prior to Obamacare. Again, my point is that these memes that praise Obamacare for saving someone's life are ridiculous. We're there good things about It? Of course there were. We're there bad things? Hell yes. It was passed as law by bribing Congress members for their votes and exemptions from the law, changed illegally, then found to be legal only by lying about it, contradicting directly what they claimed about it. Did expanding Medicaid give healthcare insurance to people who previously didn't have it? Yes. Was it worth he cost of raising premiums for virtually everyone else and costing many their previously held plans? I think not.
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People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
sorry, I didn't realize initially that it was two links. While maybe only 9% of employers offer 100% funded insurance, a much larger percentage offered very good insurance plans, even prior to Obamacare.
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People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Where are you getting your figure that only 9% of the companies offer health insurance? Furthermore, those are incomparable percentages.
People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
That wasn't my argument at all. If he was one one of the very few out of millions that actually benefitted from this mess, it doesn't negate the fact that it's a bad law. My argument was simply that you can't post a picture of a discount given by insurance, which was available before Obamacare, merely not mandated, without any details at all, and then claim that Obamacare was the sole cause of your father being alive.
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People are dying 47 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
And how exactly is it that Obamacare helped your father? If he starts chemo Monday, it certainly wasn't a pre-existing condition. If he had health insurance before Obamacare through an employer, he certainly didn't drop it to get on one of the Obamacare plans. And he certainly is older than 25 and not on your grandparents' plan. Pretty much the only option left is that your Dad didn't have insurance until Obamacare forced him to purchase it or pay a fine, or tax, or fine, depending on how they're answering the question.
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Baloney pony 20 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
kidney stones....even women who have gone through childbirth will often say passing a kidney stone is worse.
Unsuspected killer 31 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
You just figured out what Dr. Drew has been doing for years.
Or vice versa. 8 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
That's the saddest thing a woman can do? I can think of many things that are sadder. I would think it would be much sadder for a woman to sell her child into prostitution in order to pay for heroin. I would think it's sadder for a woman to slice her arms and legs with a razor blade because she suffers from depression.
What if he punched saitama? 8 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Then why does it appear that he struggles when he's holding up a building or bending a steel beam?
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Open your eyes, people! 8 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
It's from Roadies
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How about just being who you are? 123 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
I identify as a veteran so I can get scholarships and medical benefits. How dare anyone try to quantify my PTSD.
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How about just being who you are? 123 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
I'm all about the discounts
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How about just being who you are? 123 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
I'm age fluid. I identify as a senior citizen sometimes (mainly at Luby's) and under 12 other times (at the movies)
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure your MSNBC- watching ass couldn't hang
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Forget what? You insulted a group a people, then when one of those people call you out on it, you claim it wasn't directed at them. I understand that it wasn't directed at solely me, but I am included in the group you insulted. Now, care to discuss the topic at hand, or are you just going to keep going off on tangents because the basis of your argument has no substance.
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
So again, what has Obama done that he's been blocked on?
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
I put words in your mouth? "Which is conveniently forgotten by these Fox News-watching half-wits so they'll experience no cognitive dissonance when blaming him for the problem."
That was quoted directly from your comment. Now, please tell me, which words did I put in your mouth? If not me, whom were you speaking of?
#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
So you call people names, then imply you didn't and try to argue semantics, rather than the argument itself. Typical strategy for those without facts and evidence to back up their original premise of a debate.
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The story of a fighter 75 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Right after he took this picture, the fox bit him, and now he has to go get rabies shots
#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
Me and others, yes
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
If you're saying he has and does try to help veterans, please show us what he has tried to do and how he has been blocked? You called me a "Fox News-watching half wit", but I'm the close-minded one? I can present evidence that shows the spin this administration has performed.
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
What has he been blocked on from helping the vets? This administration has bungled the VA time and time again and has used distraction and spin at every turn. Care to go toe to toe with evidence?
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
You're being a dick in that you're dismissing the message through minor grammatical errors that could easily be attributed to an iPhone keyboard typo
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#vetscomefirst 48 comments
scott218 · 7 years ago
You absolutely CAN do both, but it requires prioritization. Not only should we place a priority on our own first, regarding vets as this post does, the situation of our VA hospitals has been absolutely atrocious, with no accountability from this administration.
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