Obamacare and you

[Grey Fox]

Union hate.

[11B4V]

Union hate.

Easy to do.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I think we should ban advertising on all prescription drugs.

The idea is that your doctor is supposed to make an evidence-based diagnosis and create a prescription, not that Johnny Layman is supposed to go "hey, I'm a crazy fucker, maybe I should ask my doc about This Brand Name Anti-Crazy Pill."

Interesting and relevant: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/low-t-the-triumph-of-marketing-over-science/

[Ed Anger]

I can't speak for Ed, but the broken promise is what destroyed Obama's credibility in my eyes

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/27/obama_approval_hits_all-time_low_in_ohio_120797.html

Obama generally only gets a favorable rating from me on Drone striking brown shits. Otherwise, he is a huge disappointment.

[derspiess]

Otherwise, he is a huge disappointment.

He's more or less lived up to my expectations, actually.

[Valmy]

Otherwise, he is a huge disappointment.

He's more or less lived up to my expectations, actually.

Eh I doubt that.  I seem to recall you actually thought he was a left winger of some sort rather than a complete non-entity who would barely shake the boat at all.

[Admiral Yi]

Eh I doubt that.  I seem to recall you actually thought he was a left winger of some sort rather than a complete non-entity who would barely shake the boat at all.

He has been limited by a GOP controlled House since his first midterm.  I think it's safe to say that had he been given a more accomodating congress he would have been more active.

[Iormlund]

Just saw this in an OECD report ... American exceptionalism:

Question is: what happens when you adjust for the usually high level of deaths by accident and violence in the US?
These deaths tend to be uncorrelated or even reverse correlated from age and thus tend to hit life expectancy, but they aren't really addressable by the health care delivery system.

I have seen studies that suggest that the US health care system does a very good job of extending life span and quality among similarly situated people who have various kinds of significant ailments and conditions.  OTOH some public health and extension of basic care across the population may lag behind the leaders.

Health stats in the US by county.

Baltimore males live 12 years less than those a few miles away in Howard County.

Only a handful counties manage to reach Spanish average life expectancy, places like Marin County where income is several times higher than in Spain.

[Razgovory]

Union hate.

Easy to do.

Sheep get herded pretty easily as well.

[Razgovory]

That I'm less conservative than my grandfather who was a Democrat?

Wallace voter?

[Admiral Yi]

The herder they come, the herder they fall, one and all.

[The Brain]

Sheeple are nothing like the real thing.

[11B4V]

Continuing the trend.

Obama Delays Health Care Site for Small Businesses
(Newser) – The long-promised small-business portal at HealthCare.gov will be launching in November—November 2014, that is. The Obama administration had promised that the site, which was originally slated to open back in October, would launch by the end of this month, but Health and Human Services officials today confirmed for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal that it wouldn't be ready for a full year.

Small businesses will still be able to get coverage and apply for tax credits, and they'll be able to at least see rates on the site starting on Dec. 1. But to actually buy what they see, they'll have to buy it off-line the old fashioned way. It's the latest embarrassing digital setback for the health care rollout, and Republicans were quick to pounce. "If small firms failed to provide services this frequently, they would be fired," says one House Republican.

http://www.newser.com/story/178295/obama-delays-health-care-site-for-small-businesses.html

[DGuller]

Sheeple are nothing like the real thing.

[derspiess]

Eh I doubt that.  I seem to recall you actually thought he was a left winger of some sort rather than a complete non-entity who would barely shake the boat at all.

He is a left-winger.