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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin On the topic of legislation, I put it this way in a speech I gave to my walk-run attendees: "The only way in which we can change peoples’ apathy and indifference to the obstacles of a social disorder that affects millions of people across the globe, from all walks of life, is through ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin You can call it what you want, but when governments force businesses to SERVE certain people at gunpoint, it's a form of SLAVERY. Whether you want to be associated with that is up to you. I sure as hell don't.
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin As Ayn Rand once said, you have a right to your life and property, but there is NO right to enslave – even if it's a dirty, greedy, profit-seeking corporate entity. Kinda reminds of a David Bergland quote. "People engaged in business, commercial, or economic activities, are still huma...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin Your accusation of theft is bizarre. You're not entitled to insurance. You don't have a right to it. Insurance companies are only your servants only insofar as you are willing to pay and agree to the terms of the contract. The government cannot force them to serve you. When it does th...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin Why give us autistic people special privileges? I thought a free society was based on equal protection under the law, not treatment of certain groups of others. Taking that in mind, why not cover everything and everyone? Of course, that would be impossible. It would put insurance comp...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin This cottage industry ends up driving up premiums for everyone, including those with autism (who'll just have the costs added on to other medical expenses by the insurer instead). And why stop at autism? Other disorders are just as prevalent and emotionally damaging. Schizophrenia. Po...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin There's a reason insurance companies don't cover everything. If they did, they'd go bankrupt. Autism mandates do indeed create a "cottage" industry where people can get coverage merely by having symptoms of autism. As long as you can call yourself "autistic," no matter how truly high-...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin That would drive up the price of insurance for everybody else, since my insurers would have to raise premiums in order to make up for the losses for the exorbitant expenses it would pile on. But my treatments aren't necessary. I don't need to be "cured." I can do without coverage, as ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin I realize that the autism "umbrella" is complicated and diverse. But's that's one of the PRIMARY problems with these mandates. For instance, if my state's legislator decided to require insurance companies to cover my disorder, those insurers would have to fulfill my demands no matter ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@timnkris Not once did I claim to know all the answers, as you are implying. I am not posing as an "expert" or some sort of messenger from heaven (as our politicians in Washington tend to do). But the solutions I proposed are supported by a variety of economists and historians. To shrug them off...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@timnkris You're right, there's lots of things we need to overhaul, and I advocate reform in several areas – not just health care. The difference between the kind of reforms I propose and the kind The Autism Lobby™ proposes is that I favor freedom over coercion – always. I don't think we should ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@timnkris You didn't address any of my actual points. One of your major concerns was how to make insurance/medical costs cheaper, and I listed several of the ways you can do that. You yourself are playing a convenient card of your own (the "you're young, wait a few years" card). You act like only...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@timnkris See my comments to ColeJoplin for some alternatives to today's not-so-capitalistic health care system. I advocate a wide variety of solutions, none of which includes increasing the size and scope of government.
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin Freedom is the answer to our problems. Not government.
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@ColeJoplin How 'bout we let private charities, hospitals, shelters, churches, and communities provide assistance to those who are disadvantaged and needy? How 'bout we stop all the government meddling in health care that got us into this mess into the first place? Eliminate insurance subsidies. ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin How 'bout we let people purchase insurance across state lines to encourage price competition between insurance companies? How 'bout we let people save pre-tax dollars in medical savings accounts? How 'bout we get rid of the regulations and red-tape that get between the doctor and thei...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin Maybe instead of increasing the State apparatus and the police-state, how about we pursue peaceful, alternative solutions? Like cut taxes maybe? Let people keep more of their hard-earned dollars so they can make ends meet for themselves and their families (and perhaps donate more to c...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin You can visit my website at phillipsrunforautism (...dot...) org.
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin I heartily endorse organizations like Bridge the Gap, which provide private assistance to those on the spectrum. A lady (and a friend of mine) from Bridge the Gap told me that they'd cover me financially for pretty much anything I requested. Medical care. Private schooling. Therapy. A...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
@ColeJoplin No clue about the real world? I HAVE AUTISM. So does my cousin, my uncle, and several other of my loved ones. I hold an annual walk-run through Bridge the Gap every year to raise money for those afflicted with autism. It's hard and difficult and emotionally crippling at times to deal ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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@kickndave21 Next vid's gonna focus on the practical side rather than the philosophical.
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
@kickndave21 Also, I think I focus too much focus on the philosophical argument in this vid, which most people aren't too comfortable with. Ayn Rand once referred to today's not-so-capitalistic economic system as a system in which "everybody is enslaved to everybody." True, because citizens will ...
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AnimaniacsFanatic
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1 year ago
@kickndave21 Exactly! That's precisely why I oppose every single one of these coverage mandates. As a bonus, they send insurance prices through the roof. If we demanded that insurance companies cover everything, just imagine what would happen. But we're moving in that direction.
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Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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@w6p7a *no choice but to compete
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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@w6p7a And does anybody even think about reforming the system so that make people can pay for more of their medical expenses out-of-pocket? There's a lot of work to be done in this area, to be sure (tax reform, regulatory overhaul, etc.), but one of the first steps in the right direction is healt...
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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AnimaniacsFanatic said:
@w6p7a People should be able to buy whatever packages they want to buy, without the government interfering with their health care choices. The mandates force them to buy packages with items they don't even need, and that's just bullcrap. And you made a good point about inflation, too. The higher ...
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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AnimaniacsFanatic said:
@w6p7a We need to reform the tax code so that more people are capable of purchasing insurance individually (without having to tie it to their job). And we need to get rid of all the mandates and red tape that drive up costs. Another MAJOR step in the right direction (a reform that could be made i...
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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@w6p7a Exactly. Plus there's a total lack of price competition. This is, in part, due to the fact that employment is tied to insurance. The government provides a tax exemption for purchasing insurance through an employer, but no such thing for purchasing insurance individually. How fucked up is t...
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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AnimaniacsFanatic said:
@ColeJoplin And that, my friend, is what I stand for: FREEDOM.
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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AnimaniacsFanatic said:
@ColeJoplin "Charity and enterprise are the best possible means of helping the disadvantaged. We must be the difference we seek in the world."
Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People
Sharron Angle was RIGHT.
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AnimaniacsFanatic said:
@ColeJoplin "...education, charity, persuasion, music, art, essays, books, speeches, everyday discussion, and anything that uses peaceful exchange as a method of changing the world we live in. No amount of legislation or social engineering can change peoples’ apathy and indifference toward autism...
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