Democratic House Investigations of Trump Mega Thread

[waregim]

Healthcare without some form of price controls will ultimately doom the ACA, something which I believe was its intended effect. It was afterall Mitt Romney's plan, designed for corporations, by an azzhole who took delight in destroying companies and jobs, while making a fortune on the process.

The whole system should be nationalized, with perhaps the Chinese type system of the government directly owning and operating pharmaceutical and hospital operations. As well as medical device production.

[Executive]

Healthcare without some form of price controls will ultimately doom the ACA, something which I believe was its intended effect. It was afterall Mitt Romney's plan, designed for corporations, by an azzhole who took delight in destroying companies and jobs, while making a fortune on the process.

The whole system should be nationalized, with perhaps the Chinese type system of the government directly owning and operating pharmaceutical and hospital operations. As well as medical device production.

Congressional Republicans poked a lot of holes in the ACA legislation over the years,  most notably when it was first being debated in 2009-2010, and the Democrats and President Obama caved on the Public Option that would have strengthened and made it truly affordable via Medicare.  Then again  in 2015 when Senator Rubio slipped a rider amendment into much a much larger bill that removed the risk corridors that provided millions of dollars to the health insurance companies.  That's the reason that premiums and deductibles spiraled out of control.

[waregim]

Medicare for all will still bleed prople dry, as it only pays 80% and when you're looking at a major illness that can easily run $250,000 that $50,000 can still bankrupt the average person.

Universal MedicAID is the only answer, with license revocations for non-participating physicians.

[Executive]

Medicare for all will still bleed prople dry, as it only pays 80% and when you're looking at a major illness that can easily run $250,000 that $50,000 can still bankrupt the average person.

Universal MedicAID is the only answer, with license revocations for non-participating physicians.

There's something you overlooked here though....  When Medicare became the law in the mid 1960s and throughout the 70s,  the government covered 100% to seniors.  Republicans and their lobbyists were always against it, and they caused it to over an extended period of years to be cut back to 80%.  The extra 20% that private insurance companies cover via Medicare "Part D" as a supplemental.

What the progressive Democrats and Bernie Sanders want to do is restore Medicare's coverage to 100% and expand it so it covers from age 0.  That would also eliminate the participation of the insurance company thieves.   The private insurers could still remain in business, but in that case only rich people who want private hospital rooms would have to pay their outrageously high premiums and deductibles.   Under a Medicare for All plan for everyone else,  premiums will be obsolete !  That would most likely be a Single Payer system, in which the patient at most will only have to pay a small doctor's co-pay.

We know it works in dozens of other countries, including Canada, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc.... So in the case of the USA, it's going to require Democrats retaking the White House and Senate first. If they can get corporate money out of politics and eliminate government lobbyism that would also be a major help. If one or both of those things don't happen, then it will be up to certain states doing it first -- such as in New York or here in California.

[Executive]

Back to the House investigations..... The Mueller Report staff told The NY Times this week what everyone but Republicans have opined :  The there's a lot of damaging stuff in that report that Bill Barr and Donald Trump don't want the public or even the U.S. House to know!   Here's the article, which also includes a half-hour audio from "The Daily" that discusses this in more detail :  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/po...eport.html

[waregim]

The Bernie idea of 100% Medicare coverage then becomes Medicaid. In itself a very good idea.

But some type of price controls need to be in effct or the gouging will worsen immeasurably. Patients should have full ability to purchase their meds form anywhere, middlemen should ne nationalized, and so should all major hospitals. Doctors should be salaried, and not paid for every motion they make. Personally I would nationalize the entire health care system, and induct military, police, and civil service, and academia into it as necessary. Open up more med schools and turn them into fully fledged hospitals. An intern has 90% of their training intact, and under supervision of an experience nurse can actually earn their extra salaries (interns should be paid).

Russiagate is over. I am sure that Mueller dug up more trivial bullshit on repugs and chumptards, but it was outside the scope of his brief, and therefor Probable Cause is lacking. If the feds are chomping at your heels they can charge your grandmother in a wheelchair with at least a half dozen federal felonies.

Laws are invented here on an as-needed basis. That slimeball Giuliani was tossing low hanging wall street goomers in jail on charges that werent even based on real laws. Not that I dont think wall street isnt nothing but crooks and thieves.

I just happen to believe in rule of law. For good, and scum alike.

[stts2]

Time will tell the tale...

Everything today that we speculate is endless Fake News will have to wait before the truth is cut in stone. So now we can revisit old Fake News to see how earth shattering it really was. The Mueller report and all the heinous crimes it was SUPPOSED to expose. I remember The View bimbos used to go absolutely berserk with giddiness about how Trumps days were coming to and end. Now FIVE years since last post? Umm, about the only thing shattered here was The Views dreams of no more Trump. The Mueller report at the time reported a nothing burger on Trump but gross over reach by the Feds. Barr was accused of covering up vast Trump criminality and 5 years later, no Mueller criminal findings were ever found. Not even Mueller himself has ever had anything else to say to clear up ANY mischaracterizations by anybody Republican. So the fork stuck in this Fake News can be officially ruled as indeed, Fake News.

[HalfWollf]

Back to the House investigations..... The Mueller Report staff told The NY Times this week what everyone but Republicans have opined :  The there's a lot of damaging stuff in that report that Bill Barr and Donald Trump don't want the public or even the U.S. House to know!   Here's the article, which also includes a half-hour audio from "The Daily" that discusses this in more detail :  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/po...eport.html

Thanks for sharing! It’s interesting to see more insights coming out about the Mueller Report. It’s clear there’s a lot that some people would prefer to keep hidden. I’ll check out the article and the audio for more details.