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Of course, I mean all of that in the very best sense, Jay.

Keep in mind that includes inefficiencies and redundancies in each of the thousands of insurance companies which are themselves incredibly redundant in every respect, but especially so in claims processing. I'm guessing administrative and systems redundancies actually run more like 75-85% over a single payer clearing house. And you would be wrong. the inefficiencies you speak of actually run, on average, about 350% higher in the U.S. verses all other industrialized countries who offer some form of public option: about 5% versus our 18%. Look, the 'debate' is over. The experiment's been done since WWII in all industrialized countries including our own. Our employer based private health care system sucks ass: it's a joke to the rest of the civilized world, it's near the bottom overall regarding outcomes and stats (despite JayB's endless stream of 'my wife's fresh out of med school so I'm an expert complete and utter bullshit' and it's incredibly cruel. Witnessing what is happening to a large number of friends makes me an expert on that one. We need a strong, not for profit, public option. The exact form doesn't matter than much: they all work fine elsewhere and herere where they are used.

You're simply not in touch with reality.

Yeah, I'm not really sure I care whether or not the money went for the kids piano lessons...in Monaco...or some chick with coke spoons for pasties.

No, it's entirely appropriate and quite instructive that the suffering and destruction caused by these people and those like them is driven by the basest, most pathetic motivations possible. These "captains of industry", the "best and the brightest" that are driving the planet off a cliff (whether they're doing it legally or not) are simply infants playing in each others dirty diapers or strung-out adolescents. It's a simple truism but it is an obscenity and makes the suffering they're creating actually seem worse. No wonder we need to create myths of shadowy, omnicient conspiracies to understand the exercise of power. The reality is far more depressing. Cue the "human nature", "it's always been this way", biodeterminist horseshit whenever... Perhaps if they'd established a firm foundation of respectful friendship with those coke whores before getting blown....

hey tvash, there's yer new sig! I was right about one thing....

I'm no expert in intelligent design, but isn't this the gist of their argument? So this is an argument they would use in support of intelligent design. Yes, you are correct. In any case, 'precisely calibrated' systems are prone to failure. Evolution tends to disfavor them, producing instead more robust 'good enough' systems, which are usually supplemented by a patchwork of back up systems, and crowded with legacy spare parts in the process of evolving into something else or nothing at all.

I sold a ray gun today.

You've taken too much acid. YOu've got to get back to the ship.

Why step down the political power and income ladder?

last time i checked thirty is the legal age... OK, Picasso.

outsourcing funny since 2009? It's easy: 1) Assess target 2) Prime target 3) Drop Nanopsychomanipulation device on target 4) Collect new signature from insult burst phase of resultant psychotic episode I've gotten my last 4 or five signatures this way. It's kind of a hobby.

Um...who gives a fuck about the 'culture of sexual deviance'? It would seem that 'ass raping the entire country with a raspy dildo the diameter of the Holland Tunnel' might be a little more apropos.

Fuck it's cold in here.

Or should we start calling you Rod Stewart?

Speakin of milkshakes, the rest of us would like to confirm that your new wife is of legal age.

Cupcake.

Dude, I'm strapped (down) enough as it is.

I'm a cupcake guy.

That should be a new thread, but I'm too lazy.

I need a new signature. Creative insult, please.

De-bake that for us

These pussies aren't free.