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2019-01-24 05:32:05 UTC [Subverse #new-member-alert]  

2019-01-24 05:33:20 UTC [Subverse #bot-commands]  

!agree

2019-08-15 02:19:54 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Epstein is a distraction.

2019-08-15 02:20:17 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

If you want a real conspiracy, look up the nomination of Stephen Parente and how it was silenced.

2019-08-15 02:20:49 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

1/5th of the U.S. economy is healthcare.

2019-08-15 02:21:02 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Follow the $$$

2019-08-15 02:22:08 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Assistant Secretary of HHS for Policy

2019-08-15 02:22:48 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No hearings. No votes. No articles on his book proposing reform.

2019-08-15 02:22:58 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No discussion of his book.

2019-08-15 02:23:26 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Except one AEI symposium where they called him "He Who Must Not Be Named"

2019-08-15 02:24:44 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The video is about the book.

2019-08-15 02:25:53 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The book isn't bad. It is dangerous to the Swamp.

2019-08-15 02:26:21 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The recommendations would end the largest tax expenditure in the budget.

2019-08-15 02:26:35 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Again, follow the $$$

2019-08-15 02:27:24 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I am saying that Trump nominated Stephen Parente to be in charge of healthcare policy.

2019-08-15 02:27:39 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

He had written a book on how to fix the system.

2019-08-15 02:27:53 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No hearings. No vote. No discussion of his book anywere.

2019-08-15 02:28:12 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Not by the Republicans and not by the Democrats.

2019-08-15 02:28:26 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Yes.

2019-08-15 02:28:38 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

They usually have committee hearings.

2019-08-15 02:28:47 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Senate confirmation.

2019-08-15 02:29:02 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Nope. No vote.

2019-08-15 02:29:19 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

There is supposed to be a vote.

2019-08-15 02:29:24 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

He was nominated.

2019-08-15 02:29:52 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

There is not going to be a vote.

2019-08-15 02:30:42 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

LOL. Why don't you actually check instead of guessing.

2019-08-15 02:30:49 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

There is not going to be a vote.

2019-08-15 02:31:28 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Not for Assistant Secretaries.

2019-08-15 02:31:46 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No.

2019-08-15 02:32:53 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Nope. Each department has a particular committee.

2019-08-15 02:33:40 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

If it ever gets out of committee, yes. This will not get out of committee. If it were going to, it would have already.

2019-08-15 02:34:04 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No. It is nowhere.

2019-08-15 02:38:16 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Our news does not discuss the important things. Like 1/5th of the economy. It just discusses juicy stories about individuals. How many people did Epstein rape? How many people does the healthcare industry rape?

2019-08-15 02:40:06 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I am saying that the news discusses stories like Epstein instead of discussing the important things, like healthcare policy. Everyone knows Epstein's name and history. Who knows about Stephen Parente? Which is actually important to your life?

2019-08-15 02:42:13 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

All the events the news discusses are distractions from important discussions. There is no "news event" here. There is no dateline. Just a non-event.

2019-08-15 02:42:27 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

What happened to your backlog?

2019-08-15 02:42:56 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

You said there is a backlog. That is why Parente didn't get a vote, right?

2019-08-15 02:43:36 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

What assumption?

2019-08-15 02:43:56 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

All I said was that he was nominated and didn't get a vote.

2019-08-15 02:44:12 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

He was nominated in 2017.

2019-08-15 02:44:23 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

He didn't get a vote.

2019-08-15 02:45:20 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

And you are just going to speculate.

2019-08-15 02:46:21 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

You could watch that 2 hour YouTube video. At least the first 5 minutes of it. But you are too busy digging into the irrelevant life and death of Epstein.

2019-08-15 02:47:19 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No reason whatsoever. 1/5th of the U.S. economy, your healthcare system is not important.

2019-08-15 02:48:05 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Yes. It is. That is why I watch videos and read books. About the important things.

2019-08-15 02:49:32 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

To control 1/5th of the economy. To maintain the largest tax expenditure in the budget. To maintain 50% of the federal budget being spent on healthcare.

2019-08-15 02:49:54 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

May be 40%. I forget the exact amount.

2019-08-15 02:50:46 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I am including Medicare and Medicaid, yes.

2019-08-15 02:53:14 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Hmmm. Government taking money from some people and putting it in the pockets of other people. Nope, can't see why the Swamp would care about that.

2019-08-15 02:56:48 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I am advocating for the policies described in that book by Phelps and Parente, which would seriously reduce the amount of money we spend on healthcare. Which is why Parente could not become the most important policy person re health in the Trump Administration.

2019-08-15 02:57:56 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Ok.

2019-08-15 02:59:55 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

If Parente's ideas were good, the Republicans would have talked about it. If his ideas were bad, the Democrats would talk about them. But since they are dangerous to the swamp, nobody talks about them.

2019-08-15 03:00:47 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Not one article on the book written by Trump's nominee to be the head of policy.

2019-08-15 03:00:58 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

No hearings. No vote.

2019-08-15 03:03:53 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Everyone has heard of "Medicare for All" and "single payer." Not one word about what Phelps calls a "shameful" transfer of money from the poor to the rich. The socialists don't care!

2019-08-15 03:24:55 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The wealth transfer is the tax expenditure for employer healthcare. Phelps and Parente provide the details, including in that video. I'm sorry if I cannot explain it better than two of the most prominent professors of healthcare economics in the U.S. I didn't say "you're dumb/ignorant." I said this is important information about public policy.

2019-08-15 03:36:09 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I'm sorry. Not everything fits in 140 characters. Especially things that the Swamp doesn't want us to talk about. Em.ployer provided health insurance is the largest tax expenditure in the budget

2019-08-15 03:37:10 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

When you talk about things that are not in the public view, nobody knows the ABCs. That is by design.

2019-08-15 03:37:57 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The words "tax expenditure" aren't even something most people have heard.

2019-08-15 03:40:57 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

They are exempt from federal income taxes. That is called a tax expenditure. It is a trick to hide subsidies. Instead of handing people money, you make something they buy anyway tax deductible. That is the same thing as handing them cash.

2019-08-15 03:42:26 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Okay, so Professor Phelps knows nothing about economics. Glad you understand economics better than he does.

2019-08-15 03:43:23 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Silly AEI, having him speak about something some fool on the Internet can't explain better than he does.

2019-08-15 03:44:59 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

What argument? All I am arguing is that we should pay attention to important things. How is that something that needs to be argued?

2019-08-15 03:45:45 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

"Let's spend time listening to experts about the largest parts of our budget." What is your counterargument to that?

2019-08-15 03:47:11 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Bingo! It is an idiocracy... At least it feels like it at times.

2019-08-15 03:47:29 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

We listen to the people who are most entertaining, not most knowledgeable.

2019-08-15 03:48:56 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Wouldn't it be nice if a single newspaper in this country reviewed a book on healthcare policy by Trump's nominee to head healthcare policy? I would then be able to point you to that review instead of having to try to explain it to you.

2019-08-15 03:49:37 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

But, we'll listen to a bunch of idiots "debating" "healthcare" "policy" on TV...

2019-08-15 03:49:57 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

You don't feel it is worthwhile why?

2019-08-15 03:50:04 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

You never heard of it

2019-08-15 03:50:06 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

?

2019-08-15 03:50:45 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Well, I am sure that will fix it.

2019-08-15 03:51:43 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Let me know how that works out for you when Kamala Harris bans all private health insurance.

2019-08-15 03:53:00 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

If you say so.

2019-08-15 03:53:37 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

So did Obamacare happen or not?

2019-08-15 03:54:50 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

You sound like gun control people talking about how great it will be when we ban guns and suddenly will live in a world without guns. Because unconstitutional things never happen.

2019-08-15 03:56:16 UTC [Call-In Show Server #debate]  

LIability insurance for intentional torts is illegal in many states...

2019-08-15 03:56:36 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

"We"

2019-08-15 03:57:42 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I am advocating that we pay attention to the book written by Stephen Parente, first and foremost because the fact nobody talked about his ideas is suspicious.

2019-08-15 03:58:25 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

"we" again. You said you were not convinced. I thought you bowed out of this conversation.

2019-08-15 04:00:50 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I didn't say you should read it. I said I think people should listen to that two hour presentation. I watched it and I think he talks about important things that people should discuss.

2019-08-15 04:01:27 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Actually, I have. But I read books about insurance. Very few people do.

2019-08-15 04:02:31 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

That is a video from the AEI about a book written by a nominee for Assistant Secretary of HHS. How is that different from discussions on the shape of the planet? Okay. You convinced me. I am wrong.

2019-08-15 04:03:13 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

@uncephalized I am not arguing you should read the book. I have said that several times already.

2019-08-15 04:04:13 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

My video and my book. LOL

2019-08-15 04:04:29 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I get clicks when people go to an AEI video. I am the AEI

2019-08-15 04:04:47 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

I'm done. Have fun.

2019-08-15 04:09:32 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

The really absurd thing about clown world is that you get accused of ALL the things at once. HONK HONK

2019-08-15 04:11:24 UTC [Call-In Show Server #general]  

Please uncephalized, tell me. Did Big T not say that nobody is accusing me of trying to get clicks at the exact same time Putz was accusing me of trying to make money by clickwhoring? Did I dream that?

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