Mitt's 1981 Arrest - Page 6

ROFLMAO...GSDGuy, not everyone only has sex when they wish to procreate.

Four in 10 low-income women of reproductive age have no insurance; more than six in 10 are not covered by Medicaid. 

Blitzen, The Penal Code defines rape in each State.  It doesn't make the distinctions you suggest.  I would say "legitimate rape" would be an assault that had been reported to the police.  If abortion were restricted to cases where rape had occurred, there is the possibility that a rape claim would be falsely made to get an abortion under that exemption without filing a criminal complaint.

I want to know what is so great about Medicare if we still have to purchase supplemental private insurance to cover the 20% Medicare doesn't pay?  So Seniors still have to deal with those nasty insurance companies anyway, or hope their 20% share doesn't bankrupt them.  Isn't Medicare Advantage, which 25% of Seniors have already voluntarily switched to, just about the same as the Romny/Ryan plan to privatize Medicare for those under 55 years old? Is this just another big to-do about nothing?

Perhaps you should research it rather than providing your errant opinion in the form of rhetorical questions.

non-legitimate = ? 
the lacrose students.....
concensual it the time, firends find out and then claims rape a few days later - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=consensual%20rape
the omg i got caught with another man and claimns rape

many different charity organizations will do woman's health (not abortion on demand) on a sliding scale.
http://echealthinsurance.com/texas-health-insurance/public-health-assistance/free-clinics-in-texas/ ..... long list..

Bush's tax cuts reduced taxes for all tax brackets....if they expire we will all be paying more.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Bush+Tax+Cut+Table&view=detail&id=5DDF62CF335EF66D802FF6944E604794AEAC154A&first=1

Ryan's plan...... http://paulryan.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=9978

"Secures the Medicaid benefit by converting the federal share of Medicaid spending into a block grant tailored to meet each state’s needs, indexed for inflation and population growth. This reform ends the misguided one-size-fits-all approach that has tied the hands of so many state governments. States will no longer be shackled by federally determined program requirements and enrollment criteria. Instead, they will have the freedom and flexibility to tailor a Medicaid program that fits the needs of their unique populations.

Improves the health-care safety net for low-income Americans by giving states the ability to offer their Medicaid populations more options and better access to care. Medicaid recipients, like all Americans, deserve to choose their own doctors and make their own health care decisions, instead of having Washington dictate those decisions for them.

Saves $810 billion over ten years, contributing to the long-term stabilization of the federal government’s fiscal path and encouraging fiscal responsibility at the state level.

All Americans will pay more because of this broken Medicaid system – and not just in higher taxes. Because Medicaid’s reimbursement rates have been ratcheted down to below-market levels, the care that Medicaid patients receive is often substandard. Offering states more flexibility for their Medicaid beneficiaries will remove the stigma Medicaid recipients face, and allow them to take advantage of a range of options available. Several of the nation’s governors have made innovative proposals to fix Medicaid. This budget encourages further efforts in this direction."

 

I'm more worried about the 9 member pannel that will decide if the care I need is the care they want to afford......as Obama said, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo ..


yes the 9 member panel is in the law...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf





 

About 66% of rapes are not reported and I guess we women know why. I am speaking of the references to "legitmate rape" as it relates to limiting legal abortions - ie Akins and Ryan. Why isn't it good enough for a woman to say she's wants to abort a pregnancy, why must she submit herself to all sorts of scrutiny and humiliation?  A waiting period,  lessons on virtue,  transvaginal ultrasounds, and proof of a legit rape? What exactly does that mean?  Why do some think they have the right to make such personal decisions for others? A small government is an oxymoron when politicians think they should be able to make that choice in a woman's stead. Last year there were around 39,000 pregnancies that resulted from rape. 

Be against abortion, it's not a very palatable choice for me either, but suggesting women should be forced into giving up making decisons about their own bodies is just not right in my mind. For god sake, stop playing god and let them abort an unwanted child rather than bring it into the world and let him/her starve to death or worse. That happens every day and I promise you if there is no more legalized abortions, there will be more abused and murdered babies.

Medicare covers 80%, most of us old farts pay for supplemental insurance or have switched to Medicare Advantage which I did when, in less than one year, Harley more than doubled the co-pay for the supplemental insurance they offered employees. Medicare Advantage is an HMO, the providers here in FL try to charge for the services that are supposed to be free. Just last week I walked out of a new dental office when the dentist refused to clean my damned teeth unless I paid him an extra $49 for fullmouth xrays. Never mind he agreed to provide a cleaning, exam, and bitewing xray to get on the provider list. No fullmouth xray, no cleaning either. Bye bye. BTW he did reduce the price form $49 to $36 but I still said - no, I want the xryas you are being paid to take. Like a good citizen, I reported this to my agent - his reponse was - there are plenty other dentists on that list, you don't have to use that one. When I asked him if his compnay wasn't concerned that he may be billing them for xrays he doens't take, he shrugged his shouder and said - well you can file a complaint of you want. A few days before that I scheduled 3 routine tests with providers out of my system. Iused them before and wanted to go back felling I'd just pay out of pocket. Well guess what, the cost is less tahn half for each test If you have no insurance. Health care is so screwed up in this country, it may never be any different no matter which plan is followed unless there is alwasy someone there looking over those doctor's shoulders to make sure they do what they are being paid for and not overcharging Medicare. 

GSDGuy08 - now you've really disappointed me ! [ Auggie - stick your front paws over your ears, please].
Who said anything about the whole human race turning to homosexuality ?????????????
Plus what about those of us who do not subscribe to Creationist Theory so don't accept the Adam & Eve
stuff anyway ?
 

The rest of the u-tube interview submitted by sitasmom:


Obama, June 24: I don’t want bureaucracies making those decisions. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they’re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they’re being made by private insurers. …

[W]hat we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that’s not making anybody’s mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that at least we can let doctors know, and your mom know, that you know what, maybe this isn’t going to help, maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller. …

The point is we want to use science, we want doctors and medical experts to be making decisions that all too often right now are driven by skewed policies, by outdated means of reimbursement, or by insurance companies.

The president didn’t say that government would decide what treatments or procedures would be allowed for each individual. He said the opposite: "I don’t want bureaucracies making those decisions," and "we want doctors and medical experts to be making decisions," based on scientific evidence of what is likely to result.

We have already debunked certain claims about rationing of care in Britain or Canada, whose single-payer systems are not what Obama or members of Congress are trying to duplicate, false assertions to the contrary. We have also written about the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, a creation of the stimulus bill passed in February, which is empowered to coordinate research into what treatments work best and which are most cost-effective, but has no power to tell doctors what treatments and procedures to perform or prescribe.

We don’t know whether or not some form of rationing would eventually take place if one of the pending bills were to become law. We would note, as does Obama, that denials of coverage are routine among private health insurance companies and under Medicare in our current system, and we asked McClusky about that. Why would such decisions about care be more objectionable under a public plan, for instance, than they are when Aetna or UnitedHealthcare denies coverage? "We find it more troubling when the federal government is doing it," he said. "It’s the 800-lb gorilla."

— by Viveca Novak 

I don't think they want to ban abortions, but they want to stop tax payer funded abortions ....

most on the mainstream concervatives do believe a woman should be able to choose abortions in cases of insest, rape or the life of the mother. on the on other hand, mainstream concervatives not believe in late term, partial birth, gender selection abortions....we definately believe that abortion should not be considered birth controll.



Federal payments to states for medicare has been reduced by huge sums, the states must find a way to pay for it, and reducing services and increasing co-pays is their way of dealing with it.... this is only going to get worse.....the obama care bill cuts 716 billion more......

I always call to find the best price for service for doctors, dentists and veterinarians.....its the free market approach and it works for me.