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Obama used executive orders to legislate from the oval office. Trump has used executive orders to overturn Obama's executive orders and to facilitate the enforcing of current law. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952 Where is the judicial branch given any authority on immigration? Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 This judicial overreach started with the Warren Court. Where in the constitution are low level circuit judges given the authority to stay an order by the president of the United States?
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The rest of the world doesn't have sufficient land space for surface green parking. Hong Kong has 7.13 million living in 427 sq miles.
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This is the future for cleaner air. http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5733618ddd08954f778b45cd/this-tree-covered-chinese-hotel-takes-green-architecture-to-another-level.jpg
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Will the EPA solve the Flint water crisis by 2100?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/sessions-takes-aim-at-dangerous-sanctuary-cities-warns-on-funding.html Sanctuary cities fight back. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/28/521771752/sanctuary-cities-promise-legal-fight-after-sessions-threatens-funds How does the progressive left justify giving illegal aliens more rights than ordinary Americans? There is no right to immigrate into the USA. The dishonest left loves to cite flawed studies which claim immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than average Americans. 300 sanctuary cities will not allow law enforcement to ask a criminal of their immigration status. Their crime total is clearly undercounted. Legal immigrants, especially those from Asia and Europe who come to America for university studies, commit crimes at a extremely low rate. The Trump administration is only deporting illegal immigrants who are also violent criminals. Any honest study would not group legal and illegal immigrants into a single large group. It is the uneducated illegal immigrants who are committing crimes at an extremely high rate. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/maryland-undocumented-student-rape/ 18-year-old Henry Sanchez-Malian arrested and accused of rape. Sanchez is an illegal immigrant who can't speak English. He isn't even fluent in his native tongue. These are the people who should be deported. Every advocate of placing illegal immigrants into public schools should be required to send their children, grand children, and great grand children of K-12 age into the public school system.
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Newsom's Healthy San Francisco only had to cover 8% of San Francisco. His plan is really only for those who didn't have access to good employer based health insurance. Healthy California may include as many as 30% of Californians. Would Newsom be able to design a creative way to fund such a large system? I have heard no plan from Trump or any republican which seems sound or workable.
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There is little evidence that any plan from any politician from either side of the aisle is any good. Gavin Newsom's health plan is the best I've seen. Unfortunately egotistic Jerry Brown refused to step aside and allow Newsom to run for governor of California.
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For the 30% with cadillac plans that statement is probably true. At the top level for the top 1% the USA certainly has the best healthcare. For the 25% at the bottom the USA may have nearly the worst healthcare among the industrialized world.
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With Obamacare the democrats thought the healthy poor would be willing to subsidize those with pre-existing conditions. Many choose to pay the penalty and still received no healthcare.
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Every health insurer takes in more in premiums than it pays out in claims. That statement must be true else insurers will go bankrupt. Therefore in the individual healthcare insurance market healthy persons are paying more than they are receiving. It would be much cheaper to pay ordinary medical needs out of pocket. Just have insurance for an unexpected catastrophic event. If you were allowed to enroll into your state's medicaid, you would be in a network. It would be easier to navigate the healthcare maze than doing it alone. You would just pay for your services. For all healthy people this would a cheaper alternative than buying insurance. Catastrophic health insurance makes no sense for the health insurer. When a person has a pre-existing chronic condition which clearly cost over $10K/yr to treat, how can the health insurer make a profit. America must decide how much money the treasury is willing to allocate to help those with pre-existing conditions. There are also 500,000 to 600,000 homeless. This group can't afford to contribute to their healthcare. Any health plan by a politician which doesn't start with a non insurer model is a loser out of the gate.
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Nothing should be set in stone. San Francisco has a health program for the poor. It is means tested. Each member is subsidized. This subsidy amount is dependent on the member's income and finances. Any money paid by the members goes to paying for the service provided, not to a health insurer. http://healthysanfrancisco.org/ Seems like most doctors refuse to see uninsured independent persons. HSF provides a network which connects patients to doctors.
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Why is the claims fraud rate so high with medicare and medicaid? How does private health insurers keep their claims fraud low?
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Medicare and medicaid is single-payer like. Seems like most doctors accept medicare and many refuse medicaid. Is anyone here working in the healthcare field? Is the payment schedule for medicaid lower than medicare? Are there fifty different payment schedules in medicaid, one for each state? Why can't the uninsured enroll into medicaid, only the services are not free? These politicians speak of a family of four receiving tax credits up to an income of $100,000. Give me a break. How many people earning over $100K/yr don't have health insurance from their employer?
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The looming doctor shortage. Every article says we need to educate more doctors. There needs to be a more pragmatic and less expensive solution. Ottlik tells us when one encounters an unexpected problem it may be right for an alternate tack. Politicians' approach to every problem is to continue the same methodology which wasn't working, only throw more money at it. Time to think outside of the box. Make the nurse practitioner the face of healthcare. NPs can be trained in 21 months. Even now doctors don't visit end-of-life patients who stay at home. Doctors stopped making house calls in the fifties. NPs will often work under supervision of a physician.
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Your partner holding 4=4=4=1 with no HCPs would not be pleased hearing 2NT from you.
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Both your doctor should get more and you should pay more in premiums and co-pays.
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Single payer makes no sense(medicare is single payer). Cost of living is much greater in large cities than rural regions. There should be a tiered payout system based on cost of living of the region.
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Healthcare is not a right. If it were, citizens would be demanding bells and whistles we can't afford. It is in the government's best interest to provide some minimal healthcare for its citizens. Maybe it is time for free physicals and free flu shots.
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Pre 2008 the truly poor are entitled to free medicaid. These would still receive free medicaid under my plan. I'm really speaking of the working poor. 18-40. Do these people really need that much healthcare? Under Obamacare the bronze plans had a $5000 deductible. My plan would have the same $5000 deductible only there would be no monthly premiums. The Ryan plan will subsidize health insurers by $100B a year. That $100B can now go directly to state medicaid. Nothing should be written in stone. In Healthy San Francisco every member's co-pays is dependent on his income and finances. There is no reason to have a fixed formula. The plan should be flexible depending by how much the taxpayer is willing to subsidize the working poor towards the cost of their healthcare.
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There isn't just one bell curve. There is a family of bell curves. Many of those bell curves one can control. It takes two or three generations before Japanese in America to catch up the whites in height.
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I don't support any healthcare model by any politician. They just don't understand that the 25% who are uninsured are mostly poor. For the poor there is no such as affordable healthcare. There is only how much in subsidies are the taxpayers willing to give. My plan is to allow all uninsured to enroll into medicaid. But not free. A high deductible. Not written in stone. Tweak the amount of the deductible to find the best number. Also the deductible must be in constant dollars. That means if the deductible is $5,000 today, it may be $7,000 in ten years. There isn't just one medicaid. There are 50 state medicaids. And many of them are terrible. Congressmen must use their district's medicaid for their annual physical.
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Who gets to decide which ideas are ridiculous? Do you accept the idea that adult heights are correlated to ethnicity?
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That's not Acol. Acol is 4 card majors. This sounds more like British K-S.
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Ryancare repeals Obamacare, doesn't force healthy people to buy expensive individual health insurance, and relieves small businesses of the responsibility of providing health insurance to employees. Everything else in Ryancare is at best a minor improvement over Obamacare. When will politicians learn that people want inexpensive health access, not health insurance? There needs to be a non insurer model for poor people without access in employer based health insurance or medicare. Insurers and lawyers are parasites increasing the cost of healthcare. Do not subsidize the insurers. Subsidize the poor directly. No individual health insurance for the uninsured. No malpractice lawsuits by the insured. For the poor there will never be affordable healthcare. Find ways to provide healthcare as cheaply as possible. At some point drugs should be provided a wholesale rate. I suspect I will not like Rand Paul's plan either. Allow all uninsured to enroll into medicaid. A high deductible. All enrollees are means tested. All members of congress should be required to get their annual physical from their districts's medicaid group. Congressmen need to experience the type of healthcare coverage the poor is receiving.
