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  1. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/us/book-best-seller-trnd/ No. 1 Amazon bestseller: 266 blank pages on why to vote Democrat
  2. This is like when you were small and playing chess with your father. After a few moves, your father offers to change sides. He turns the board around and plays your pieces, while he play his. Today Trump's goal is his legacy. Trump hates Obama. Trump wants to be remembered in history as a better president for the American people than Obama.
  3. Medicaid is a network for healthcare. Currently(as I understand it) it is free for all participants. Allow the uninsured to join the network. But these members who do not qualify for free medicaid will be required to pay for services. For the vast majority of uninsured who are healthy this would be a less expensive alternative than buying health insurance. Healthy San Francisco works in a similar manner. Each member pays according to what that member can afford. This would allow the republicans time to solve the problem of how to serve the unhealthy poor. Of course I'm convinced there is no easy solution. Someone would need to volunteer to foot the bill.
  4. You will lose that bet. Trump will not go on an apology tour. 1SPADE Double entendre.
  5. Partner's range is more likely to be 0-6 HCP. It is possible to go -1100 or more.
  6. The four richest counties in the US are all near Wash DC. We need to put all lobbyists out of business.
  7. I don't agree any progressive agenda. On healthcare both democrats and republicans got it wrong. If the GOP plan isn't hated by health insurance CEO's, it is not an improvement over Obamacare. Since I don't need to be re-elected to any office, I can offer my plan which would anger many. On a temp basis, all uninsured can join medicaid. Only it's not free. They will be billed. The young and healthy should be pleased. They will have access to healthcare. And only when they need it. This doesn't solve the problem with older unhealthy Americans without health insurance. I'm amazed how old looking and unhealthy Americans who are 20 years younger than I are. Republicans can repeal Obamacare with no replacement. Put them into medicaid(and bill them for use) til republicans can agree on a workable plan. Not optimistic. Who will come forward and agree to foot the bill for the poor who are sickly?
  8. I wave my right to sue. Give me the inexpensive healthcare, no insurance companies and no lawyers. $100 a month with medicare. If you wish to retain your right to sue, you should pay $1,000 a month premiums into medicare. If the doctor is incompetent, decertify him. But give the plaintiffs and lawyers nothing.
  9. I favor the single payer/free market model. Long queue if you want someone else to pay. No waiting when you pay with your own money, whatever the market will bare. Steve Jobs paid his liver transplant doctor the taxes and utilities on the doctor's house for two years.
  10. Politicians wants an insurance-based system. About 20% of Americans have no access to this healthcare. These Americans are mostly the poor. Would not be able to afford any system designed by politicians. The poor want the most healthcare the public is willing to give them( with their tax dollars).
  11. The gov't shouldn't set prices. Just have price transparency by service providers. Let the public decide if they wish to pay more for 'better' providers.
  12. Health insurance is only good when someone else pays the bulk of your monthly premium. That's employer based health insurance. Medicare is subsidized by whose under 65. The individual health insurance is paid 100% by the individual. Bad for individuals. For those without health insurance there needs to be a bold new plan not tried by any other country. If the insurance industry hates the plan then it is probably a good plan for individuals. Freeze out insurance companies. Eliminate redundant paperwork. Medical computer chips. No need to fill out a multi pages of health info every time you see a new provider. Stop the gouging. No mal-practice lawsuits allowed. That just jacks up the cost for everyone else. Put the uninsured on medicaid while we figure how to solve this. But not free medicaid. Consumers get access to the network. But they have to pay.
  13. Repeal of Obamacare. GOP plan. DOA. All politicians seem to think those without health insurance from their employer are wealthy independent contractors. No, they are mostly poor people with no money. Tax credits won't help them. There needs to be a non insurance model. Temp solution. Allow all uninsured to sign up with medicaid with a $10K deductible. Poor people would at least have access to a healthcare network.
  14. What easy access? All those Obama holdovers hate Trump.
  15. I'm speaking of the last 8 years. Trump isn't really a member of the far right. Trump is truly an independent. I assure you, FOXNews is NOT non stop praising Trump.
  16. Typical for a A+ snob. How naive are you? All politicians are constantly lying. The big difference is the left-wing media is 24/7 writing negative stories on Trump, while ignoring the negatives on Obama and Hillary. Look at all the jobs created since Trump won the presidency. The left claims credit for those jobs. Nonsense. Keystone pipeline are Trump jobs. Hillary would have blocked them. ExxonMobil have announced 45,000 new jobs for offshore drilling in the Gulf. The left claims those projects have been in the planning stages since 2013. But Obama and his EPA wouldn't allow the drilling. In 2009 Obama said he would start 20 school zones like the Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone. Where are those new school zones? Trump won only 8% of the Black vote. Minorities need to wake up. The democratic party has done them no favors in the last 50 years. Trump at least talks about improving schools in the inner city. With reduced regulations, it will be easier for small businesses to obtain loans. If part of the Black vote goes Trump, the democrats are in trouble.
  17. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/02/context-what-jeff-sessions-told-al-franken-about-m/
  18. http://i64.tinypic.com/qoy36c.jpg So much for Nancy Pelosi never meeting the Russian Ambassador!! lol He is the fourth from the left.
  19. What if pd holds ♠ Kx ♥ xxx ♦ KQJx ♣ KQxx, would a pass of 4♥ be obvious.
  20. Russia and China are rational evil. Iran and North Korea are just scary.
  21. PASS. We probably have a 4-4 fit. Our HCP range is 16.5 to 19. Not a favorite to make 3♥. 5422. No shortness. Pd's 1NT should be no shortness. Also pd's likely doubleton would be in spades. If we make 3♥ and they go down in 3♣, it's a small gain. It is only a large gain if we make 3♥ and they make 3♣. This would be clearly less than 10% of the time. Maybe even less than 5% of the time. And 3♥ may go for a large number.
  22. Maybe it is because the USA provides the defense of the entire western world.
  23. It was expansion of Medicaid. The federal government offered to cover the cost for a limited time. Then the cost goes to the state. Governors said no thanks.
  24. I haven't seen many Latinos among the democratic leadership. There are African Americans playing bridge in the bay area. I've had African Americans in my home games. Also one African American's license plate is 1spade.
  25. The democratic party leadership looks like a ACBL club game.
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