Paul Ryan Advances Patient-Centered Health-care Reform

[megarational]

I wondered why it is that no matter how low the approval rating of congress is, 90% of those in congress never lose their seat.

The CNN documentary on 'gerrymandering" explained a lot.

Gerrymandering is the practice whereby the incumbent & his party use the census date to draw up voting districts, no matter how absurd & convoluted the district lines are drawn, so as to ensure the incumbent is re-elected.

Gerrymandering must end if we ever want to be successful in "voting the bums out".

[TheKmbt]

Everyone in Washington knows that Paul Ryan has been told he has a million dollar a year lobbying job for the health industry if he gets his health care law passed.

Here's how it works-he lies through his teeth to get it passed-the healthcare insurance industry makes billions more from vouchers while still denying it's customers health care.

Meanwhile this nigger gets a cushy one million dollar a year job as a lobbyist. Way to go Meathead!

[50trillion]

They aren't preventing you from killing your fetus. They just don't want taxpayers footing the bill for it.

[v07m9s]

The Republicans don't want a bureaucrat between the patient and the doctor? Once again double standards, because there are GOP Legislatures all over the country passing legislation that puts the government, yes politicians between the patient and a woman when she attends an abortion clinic.

[poindexterwitkowsky]

+Republican$ are always saying that they hate"Big Government". What they really mean is that they hate government regulation.Keep in mind that Republican$ don't work for you.They only work for BILLIONARES, CORPORATIONS& WALL STREET.They want to destroy MEDICARE because then they can give that money to the insurance co's. They want to destroy social security so they can give that money to Wall Street firms.+They want to destroy UNIONS so that everybody makes minimum wage (like in Texas).

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policy the world economy is crashing. We must do two things to stop the meltdown NOW!!! Firstly, we need to raise all payroll taxes 10% for one year. We also need to stop (right now) wasteful handout programs like medicare, social security, unemployment,, etc. and lower the minimum wage to $2/hr so we can compete with China. I will work with Perry, Ryan and my other republican colleagues and take immediate action on these proposals. God bless the GOP!

[NowThePeople]

@GOPkicksbutt Wow, unbelieveable:/

[megarational]

@GOPkicksbutt \'Wasteful programs like Medicare"?

Yeah. Thats the ticket. Tell those fucking old Americans, when they need to see a doctor, to go fuck themselves.

If all Americans were the brainless pieces of shit like Republicans, I would be first in line to donate to Al Queda.

American is one dumb country, and more and more without a soul,.It's sinking faster than the titanic and will slip below the waves with the brainless rednecks still chanting USA, USA, USA.

[bobklahn]

Out of the 52 minutes of the video, in the first 4 minutes I heard Paul Ryan make the purely dumbest comment on health care I have ever heard.

Going from the defined benefit to the defined contribution pattern may be arguable for pensions, but for health care it's the Palin Death Panels inscribed in stone.

[Visfen]

@bobklahn And why is that?

[jsteel89]

Didn't he vote for the bank bailouts? good video but... wtf?

[bobklahn]

@GOPkicksbutt The crash began in 2007 under Bush. Obama inherited a near depression, with a national debt nearly $12trillion and pushing 90% of GDP.

Yeah, he ain't near perfect, but your boy gets the lion's share of the blame.

[Visfen]

@bobklahn Well from that, he has not made things better, but worse.

[megarational]

@Visfen Do you have a short memory or just a selective one?

When Obama took office the country was losing 750K jobs per MONTH, and teetered on the brink of financial system meltdown and another "great depression".

[Visfen]

@megarational Which the country still is, it's just much more heavily in debt and it hasn't dealt with the structural problems. It's not a broken car, it's a chaotic system out of balance that needs to let the feedback mechanism operate to put it in balance again. Obama should have let the recession run its course, he should have abolished TARP, he should have forced the country to live within its means and today we would have what we saw in 1949.

[megarational]

@Visfen "feedback mechjanism" is just a euphamism for "I actually fell for the bullshit that 'the free market will solve everything''.

Just like Paul Ryan's "patient centered health care" is the uphmaism for "give the old farts a voucher & tell them to piss off."

[Visfen]

@megarational It's a way of understanding an economy as a complex mathematical system, I happen to have a masters both in engineering and economics.

The problem with Paul Ryan's plan is that it is too timid. People need to grow up an realize that you can't run these deficits forever and changing tax rates wouldn't do much about it because of Hauser's law.

The US didn't have anything going for it except freedom. Your theory is easily falsified looking at the middle east today.

[megarational]

@Visfen So you say you have "a Masters in engineering and economics", yet you have nothing better to do than diddle arouind on YouTube sounding like a garbled re-run of a Glen Beck show?

What the hell, I too have a Masters in economics, as well as in a Masters in International law & post doctorate in finance.

[megarational]

@Visfen Yet another factor in America;s success was the government copyright and patengt laws that motivated innovation and invention.

That competitive advantage too is largely muted, as China & other nations pîrate technology & inventions.

It`s difficult now for invenors to get the necessary credit from banks to market their products. Most end up having to sign the bulk of the pofits to a corp in order to get the finacing.

Exception; successful North Dakota w/ it's state run bank.

[megarational]

@Visfen just "needs to let the feedback mechanism operate"?

America rose to power because it has at least 6 major competitive advantages over other nations. Those are virtually all gone and it will take more than "feedback mechanism" to save the country.

see next comment for but one eg

[megarational]

@Visfen One eg: by the 1900's America was the worlds foremost producer of oil. Cheap & abundant oil perfectly positioned the US to take max advantage of the industrial revolution & develop a massive manufacturing infrastructure, which in turn gave it products for export & little competition from other nations.

Now, the US imports 70% of it’s oil – the greatest continuing transfer of wealth the world has ever seen .

[Visfen]

@megarational By the 1900s the US was already the most prosperous nation on the planet. The US grew immensely during the late 19th century, particularly in the areas not affect by tariffs or subsidies. Take the railways, those that got government help were terrible, while the privately done were very profitable

The "Industrial revolution" is the name we've give for what happens in early market liberalization

Public education didn't do that. The US was first before it was fed.ized

[megarational]

@Visfen Heres`s another past competitive advantage that helped the US.

Massive gov`t investments in infrastructure gave the US the most extensive and modern infrastructure in the world, which gave businesses and industry a competitive advantage in relation to the rest of the world.

That advantage too is now history. The US infrastrurture is crumbling, no longer the best in the world, & the US per capita investment in infrastructure is now far below that of many other countries.

[megarational]

@Visfen You say that by the 1900`s the US was already the most prosperous nation.

Apparently you don`t grasp that that does not diminish the fact that the US cheap & abundant oil allowed the US to take maximum advantage of the industrial revolution and develope a massive manufacturing infrastructure.

That competitive advanatage is gone. Industry still has to run on oil, but now the US has to import 70% of it`s oil and at ever higher oil prices.

[megarational]

@Visfen Again, the US public education system gave every child a chance to maximize his or her potential and ability to contribute, and gave the US the competitive advantage of the best educated work force in the world, (regargless of how well the US was doing b4 the public education system.

That competitive advanatage is now history too, as other nations are far outstripping the US in percentage of graduates, especially in the critically important fields of math, science & egnineering.

[megarational]

@Visfenm More eg's: The US public education system allowed every child a chance at a good education so they could maximize their contribution, & gave the US the most well educated and skilled workforce in the world. It has now dropped to 16th place.

Gov't patent & copyright laws spurred innovation and invention, now China copies everything & the US has slipped to 6th place in research & innovation.

[megarational]

@Visfen More eg's; Demand for products & services was fueled for decades by wave after wave of young healthy, hard working and sillied immigrants. Now the immigration is cheap unskilled labor that helps a corporation maximize profits but takes American workers jobs and costs taxpayers for the welfare, police and other expenses.

THE FAILURE OF SUCCEESSIVE GOVERNMENTS OVER DECADES TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF MONEY OVED THE ELECTION SYST.

[Visfen]

@megarational Illegal immigration is not a problem for the US, it's a net plus.Working people coming into the US that do less crime, expand the economy, and take work Americans wouldn't

A society will be more prosperous and more civilized the freer its markets are.

Governments never serve the people. That's a pipe dream and quite ridiculous. They serve special interest and always will. That's why you need to fight the government and be for freedom

Welfare programs create poverty

[megarational]

@Visfen Do you hear that folks? I don't know what all the fuss is about because Visten tells us that illegal immigrartion is not a problem for the US.

[megarational]

@Visfen You say govt's always serve the special intests & not the people.

They always will so long as the politicians are dependent on deep pocket special interest money to get elected.

Hense the critical need for

- public financing of elections

- $100 campaign donation limits for both corps & individuals

- curbing the power of deep pocket special interests to blainket the media with misinformation and deceptive attack ads. (consider their cost to be campaign donations)

[megarational]

@Visfen A sucessful and civilized nation will have a free market syst, good gov't that serves the people rather than the corp's & moneyed campaign donors, and common sense social safety nets.

You have had a gov't gridlocked by rigid ideologies and a 'win at all costs' 2 party system, and corrpupted by the power of money over the election system.

[megarational]

@Visfen If people want smaller gov't and good gov't you have to start by changing the syst so politicians work for the people instead of the campaign donors;

- term limits for congress

- public financing of elections, &/or $100 contribution limits

- end gerrymandering so "vote the bums out" can work

- end congress's exclusion from insider trading laws

- end the power of corp's & deep pocket special interests to blanket media w/ misinformation & deceptive attack ads.

[Visfen]

@megarational Public financing for election will insure the party structure stays the same. Congress are not excluded from insider trading laws. That's laughable for you to suggest. What is true however is that insider trading is practically impossible to convict someone of thought laws.

Basically most of your 7 responses was a bunch of empty words, as were your suggestions. Thinking the US became rich because of competitive advantage is at best an approximate cause.

[megarational]

@Visfen I also thought that of course congress must be subject to insider trading laws, until I watched the recent '60 Minutes' documentary on the topic.

Before I reply to the rest of your post, google '60 Minutes documentary on coongress insider trading', watch a video of that documentary, then tell me again whether congress is subject to insider trading.

[megarational]

@Visfen "Public financing of electionns will ensure party structure stays the same".

Do you just come up with these gems even when they fly in the face of common sense, logic, and the research?

Public financing of elections would greatly reduce the power of money over elections & give even 3d party candidates an equal opportunity to be heard. Combine that w/ $100 donation limits for both people & corps & whoever's message resonates with PEOPLE draws ahead.

[bobklahn]

@GOPkicksbutt Oh, and your proposals guarantee a full blown depression, and the complete collapse of the US.

Have a nice century.

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policy the world economy is crashing. We must do two things to stop the meltdown NOW!!! Firstly, we need to raise all payroll taxes 10% for one year. We also need to stop (right now) wasteful handout programs like medicare, social security, unemployment,, etc. and lower the minimum wage to $2/hr so we can compete with China for jobs. I will work with Boehner,Paul Ryan and my other republican colleagues and take immediate action on these proposals. God bless the GOP!

[Noghori]

I love long videos like this where we really get to hear your viewpoint and what you believe in.

[alonewcompany]

LONG LIVE PAUL RYAN!!!!