States Acting Against Fed. Government!

They realize it, it just weakens their argument.

Then do single-payer.

I wouldn't say its too far off. I would say that it took a greater hold on the people who were watching it at younger ages before school and continued to watch it. I don't think it is much of a stretch to say there has been a decline since 1999 either. Neither here nor there, but that was more what I was saying.

Cheers!

The ACA does not ensure a greater portion is able to manage their healthcare costs. Do you realize that the ACA has made healthcare price's sky rocket? The ACA is STILL 2 million short of the 6 million insured people it took coverage AWAY from lmao..

Explain how that would work then. And remember, the US government is known to be very inefficient and wastes money like you wouldn't believe it.

Explain how a single-payer system in US would be cheaper and provide a better service than the system we currently have.

If I recall, you were arguing on a different thread that the personal effort and decisions of a student were the driving factor, not the quality of education.
The federal standards need to be complied with only to receive federal funding.
That's not exactly what is going on, and that actually makes it sound better than what typically occurs.
For those who don't know, in many cases teachers are not allowed to opt-out of a union, but have union fees directly removed from their paycheck.

Yes, and no. Physical activity and education is something which needs to be taught and encouraged (for a wide variety of reasons), but you certainly don't need to go as overboard as many schools do.

Frankly, they would probably be better off having better screening of teachers who can actually teach a topic, and move towards a lecture/TA or lecture/workshop scenario.

poidh

It'd be pretty easy, but I'm pretty sure our current stock of elected officials would manage to *** it up.

The only way to fix this massive train wreck, repel this *** law. Make Insurance company's operate across state lines and get rid of all the damn middle men. Then look into the damn cost's that hospitals are charging, it should not cost 15-30k to have a 15 min operation getting your gall-bladder removed.

Read the news, Obama just said they have 4 million signed up.
The really funny part is that's most likely and inflated number.

That sounds socialist to me. Who are we to dictate where insurance companies need to operate?

same thing I think of your number, hence the point of my comment.

Its socialist to make a company operate outside state lines so they dont have a monopoly and charge crazy prices.

But its totally fine to make me pay the same companys money for a product that I dont want?

Do you have any idea the amount it costs to do that procedure? not to mention scheduling, operational costs, insurance costs, equipment costs, payroll, cost of others not being able to afford their bills, etc.

I work for a non-profit hospital, and can tell you point blank there's many reasons that the costs are high, and you don't know what you're talking about.

So you admit you're a socialist. Go back to socialland you socialist.

I will leave out fox news they say 7 million or more.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/26/government-claims-4-million-obamacare-enrollments-sebelius-lies-about-what-it-means/

http://beforeitsnews.com/obama-birthplace-controversy/2013/12/obamacare-updat-nearly-6-million-americans-lost-insurance-due-to-obamacare-a-total-10-million-expected-to-lose-it-next-year-when-employee-mandate-2472278.html

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2013/12/obamacare-causes-56-million-cancelled-insurance-plans/

Are you shitting me?!? Have you been asleep for the last five to ten years?

Although I disagree with the bolstering of tenure, of which I blame the ousting of a couple of friends who got the boot early in their career during the massive lay-offs, give us some stats on teacher's unions in Texas because you're talking out of your *** if you're placing blame on that.

Lack of funding you say? Funny because Abbott had a hand in that which also pulled the rug out from under Pre-K funding that helped underprivileged children get the head start that they weren't getting at home. He has also been hemming and hawing over how he is going to approach education (speculation is that Abbott will just be harping on school vouchers). Where as Davis is trying to resolve the the under-staffing problem. (Which can also be attributed to the mass lay-offs, since young teachers at the time didn't return, and education majors sought out other degrees since there was no guarantee that they would have a job.)

The misappropriation of funds could be connected to TX flipping the script of standardized testing every time it doesn't produce intended results. Who benefited from TAAS to TAKS to STAAR in the past ten years? Seriously?!?

Are you seriously only paying attention to national news? Do you know any teachers?

AHHH!!! AHHH!!!

/throws hand in the hair

Also, link your stats on revenue teachers' unions receive in Texas, please!

EDIT: Yeah...Football stadiums...That one in Allen. :/ But ***! There's more than that.

Checked the profits and executive salaries of insurance companies latley?

Also the system we have means increased accounting workload in the hospitals themselves.

This is the problem. While constitutionally the fed can't
orce many things, they can, will and do attach funding to cooperation.

Then again, if more tax monies went to the states rather than Sam, many states wouldn't need fed assistance and the more solvent states wouldn't have to pay for the bloat of states like California.

Morality, ethics, and being nice aside, a lot of what Washington forces states to do is financially unsustainable. That, however, strays from the topic.

Your lack of education is shining even brighter than it was when you made this joke thread.

The rate of increase in insurance and healthcare costs has actually declined since 2010, costs are still skyrocketing, but at a lower rate than they did prior to ACA.

Also, there is nothing funny about a government program under-performing unless you have a personal bone to pick with either a politician or political party.

The enrollment rates aren't that short of predictions and have increased recently, though they are still noticeably off in terms of age demographic.

Yea I do because I have payed it. I also know they did 14 of them that day. I payed 15k W/O insurance if I had insurance it would have cost 30k+ Lets break out some math! Lets round this off to 20K x 14 people. $280k the hospital made in one day in one room doing one kind of operation, that is a very simple procedure. Yes there's many reasons costs are high, lets focus on that instead of making the working class pay for everyone and themselves!

It is a driving factor, not the driving factor.

That doesn't mean that states can't have additional standards for themselves or towards each county/parrish.

And the unions also negotiate their own fees to be paid by the state, AND by the teachers.

At least in Texas they do. Teacher's union is pretty much the strongest union in the state.

PE is ok, $60 million for a football stadium is not. Just imagine how much better/higher quality items that $60 million would have helped.

Probably.

Your logic assumes that those 6 million people were automatically dumped into the federal and state marketplaces, which isn't the case.

All you've done is call names, put words in people's mouths and add nothing to this thread. Typical democrat.

If they was automatically dumped into the federal and state marketplaces, wouldnt ATLEAST 6 million people be signed up..
Who's logic is flawed again?

I'm saying it's silly to assume they were.

yup....

I actually debunked your thread with my first post. You have been backpedaling ever since, abandoning the topic and trying to find a new one. Typical troll.