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LA Times article

Actually I didn't say that. I said that uninsured patients were less likely to be admitted to a hospital when needed, referred to specialists, and to receive expensive procedure/medications. But, as it turns out there is some evidence for insurance also determining the amount and quality of care within some hospitals (apparently not yours based on your observations). The study I quoted in my previous post does find that the uninsured spend less time in the hospital and are the object of less expenditure than insured patients even though the uninsured are usually in a worse state by the time they are admitted. In a similar vein, The Kaiser report 'Sicker and Poorer: the Consequences of Being Uninsured' says: "Although not explicitly linked to the concept of needed services, Burstin, Lipsitz, and Brennan (1992) found that the uninsured were more than twice as likely as the privately insured to receive substandard care, defined as adverse events due to negligence, when hospitalized. Their conclusion was based on the review and analysis of over 30,000 medical records from 51 New York hospitals in 1994. Moreover, the analysis controlled for hospital characteristics as well as underlying risk and other patient characteristics, suggesting the patient’s insurance status rather than the choice of hospital was the primary reason for the observed difference." http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/Full-Report.pdf

Yo, Billco. Keep me out of your crazy rants and especially don't make up shit because it suits your agenda. I was criticizing Obama before he was elected and I have pointed out numerous times since his many shortcomings, including his numerous failures to walk back the clock on Bush's assault on civil liberties and human rights.

http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb108.jsp 5.3% inpatients without insurance to be compared with 15.4% (in 2008) of the US population without insurance (and much more inadequately insured). Some uninsured are healthy people, but many uninsured have chronic conditions due to lack of treatment until an emergency demands a trip to the ER. Also note that the report points out that society pays for the uninsured through increased health care costs despite some here pretending that hospitals somehow eat the cost without passing it on to the public and/or their customers.

The smell of poop and rancid milk?

BS. Cliff was a gasbag that nobody took seriously, which I suspect is the entire gist of KKK's "humor".

"Not all in good fun" is not equivalent to "serious". KKK following his political opponents to issue ad-hominems is pathetic but not serious.

In other words, your "humor" amounts to comparing someone to a douchebag in a sit-com. Have you ever been told that poking someone in the eyes is not "likable". If you want to follow me around making demeaning comments, do not be surprised if you get burned, fucking moron. AND please, don't insult my intelligence by pretending it's all in good fun.

I don't think I ever made it through one entire episode of Cheers. I pretty much found it stupid, degrading, boring and not very funny. I much preferred Taxi around that time.

Ah, yes. The righteous lack of imagination of people whose main cultural references are stupid sit-com. Sad.

What are you trying to say, jackass? It's nothing to be especially proud of but I saw my first Sounders game in ~1978, decades after I first played the game. I don't consider myself a Sounders fan btw.

Soccer has been very popular in the Seattle area for a long time already. The Sounders had a large fan base starting in the 70's (when rob was likely still in diapers). In fact, it is probable that Seattle had the first soccer moms.

Like many things, footie is an acquired taste.

Standards of care are usually different according to whether one has insurance (admission to hospital, referrals to specialists, expensive procedures/medications, etc). You are very confused, indeed. We (the public) eventually pay for this bill so Libertarian fantasies about charity supported health care is just that, a fantasy (or is it a pony?)

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Kind of unfortunate he didn't have better life hygiene (too much partying) since he was the best striker of his generation by a mile (or two).

it's not Alaska, it's Lake Louise.

Quit your whining. You are to blame for cheering on every day the neoliberal policies that cause people to protest the violence done to their lives. 47000 people die for lack of health care every year (among other grim statistics) and our clueless moron talks about "potential for bloodshed".

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Einstein hands out the copies for the final exam. One of the eager beavers in the front row looks at the exam and blurts out: “but professor, the questions were the same last year”. Einstein responds “ah yes, but this year, the answers are different”.

My first sewn harness was a Whillans too but I used a swami belt almost as much during that time. My understanding is that a combination of swami/webbing/bowline on a coil was prevalent through the 60's until the sit harness came along but the Northwest scene was largely influenced by the Mountaineers during that time and the bowline was likely the preferred method.

here comes the moron recycling his high school jokes.

8 days into the protest and there isn't a thing about Occupy Wall Street on Ron Paul's web page. You'd think that with his populist rhetoric he'd get behind a people's movement to rein in the looters.

Reading isn't your forte as the article makes it very clear there is a significant difference between the 2 parties. Can you explain how your position and that of other tea party types at the time of the health care debates (and most other issues) didn't amount to capitulation to corporate interests? As your cartoon remind us, putting the accent on the debt instead of the economic crisis and unemployment is a corporatist talking point.

Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult Much more: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult