Doktor Avalanche

Did I say anywhere in my post that we are not allowed to "advertise?" The dude posted like a Labour Party advocate and that is all I said. Take your Ritalin.

LOL you sound like a spokesman for the Labour Party. You are pretty much advertising.

All of your blame on the Tories is the result of having a centralized system which has pitfalls built into it. I simply do not like Single-Payer Healthcare. I see troubles which can be avoided if the US swings that direction. Call me an idiot if you disagree with me. I will call you an idiot if you love a centralized monopoly for your Healthcare provider.

"Baby Charlie" who has according to the press a 10% chance to live, yet a judge is trying to pull the plug? I would say that is a "death panel" by the definition. Extreme case, but the parents have no say whether their child lives or dies. Pretty shitty situation.

Yay. I get a cookie now. You get one too.

To prove the low cost per person is more than subjective, as some would cost barely anything versus others who would be ridiculously high, and using other government departments to do most of the work is why the supposed administrative costs would be low. It does not add up. Its a nice lie. Evidence then. Heh, a steady increase in all European nations since 2006 says otherwise. A major increase since 2014. Nope. The average wait time for both hip replacements and cataract surgery is 20.5 days. Hence the wait time for analysis and treatment. Usually? Huh. 75% of most research is privately funded. However, I believe the pharmaceutical industry needs more than a huge overhaul on how it functions and costs. How? No clue. How are they not? Please, enlighten us with your bias. After you, sir.

"Single-Payer" Healthcare is a fanciful term for "Government-Ran-and- Government-Controlled" Healthcare. The government makes the rules, set its limits and decides who gets what for their care. End of Story. End of your Doctor, too. And you are definitely wrong on the cost being less than what we pay for now if we were to implement it into the United States and to maintain with the same consistency we have right now. With implementing in new technologies and new drugs, the costs are increasing worldwide and Europe itself is having difficulties maintaining their own systems right now. Every EU nation has increased their costs, some doubling, by means of increased taxation and even increasing sales taxes to cover costs. The United States, unlike the individual nations in Europe, has almost 400,000,000 citizens. The costs to maintain this is not cheaper than we have now. To assume it will be is blind and asinine. The troubles involved with Single-Payer is to look at what has been happening now in the UK and Canada, where the wait times for a hip replacement in Canada and the UK are on average 9 months to 2 years. Cataract surgery is about as long. Both Canada and the UK both have had to deal with misallocated funds due to ideologues attempting to make decisions which in the end either made patients wait up to years for simple treatments. Some treatments are slower to implement in these countries too, due to the lack of equipment for years however the technology may be available, the equipment costs limit the availability. And example: Most individual hospitals in the US have more MRI and PET scanners than entire Canadian provinces and English Counties. Most advancements in medical treatment have come from the United States since WWII. This is a result of the United States not maintaining government oversight in our healthcare. Medicare and Medicaid are already Single Payer Healthcare and it has issues, along with high costs on the system. A good example is our current Veterans Healthcare system and the nightmare that is. When a party other than a patient or a provider starts making healthcare decisions, it’s easy to lose sight of whose interests should be paramount in a healthcare transaction. Governments and private insurers often have conflicting agendas regarding treatment, but a sick person never does. He or she just has one goal: recuperation. So, I stick to what I said and that is Single-Payer Healthcare is utter crap.

What is being proposed by the GOP is crap. The Affordable Healthcare Act is crap too. Bernie Sanders' plan for Single Payer Healthcare is probably the crappiest idea of all, which is what Obamacare was built to fail and bring us to under Hillary anyways. Glad she lost.

Ever heard of the Foursquare Church? It was founded by Aimee Semple MacPherson who was a faith healer and infamous for supposedly being kidnapped and then returned, mysteriously. They have a logo and a flag, too.

Riddikulus!

No worries at this point of being undercut by me. I stopped selling on the market for right now anyways.

Not praising me, just the Lovecraftian theme, Master Ryleh.

I undercut by $5. Sue me.

Damn. We are up to 563 posts in this thread. I refuse to read the whole thing. Congratulations, Lordship. I think you may have started the longest thread on the forums.

I actually logged in to see this. LOL Let us run another one soon.

Random people used to send me their Lovecraftian praises before I changed handles. I would also receive a lot of hatemail for being in Terminus Est from people I never even knew and were nowhere near range to hit. We never did anything against these people which made it amusing.

I predict OWR & Rose battling it out for the win.

LOL Catsby has it right. Large then small if entering through the bungy-bum side

Yeah. just read it. Muh baddie

Mensa was strangled by OWR and had a cannon go off noting Mensa's death, but Mensa is shown still alive in the roster.

Who cares? Call 'em all douchenozzles. Most people in this game are a bunch of jackasses regardless of what shmackel-gobbling alliance they are in anyways. Changing a name and expecting to get them offended over it is pretty much what the US has done when ISIS turned into Da'esh and you can see how effective that was.

Hard to reply, as many I have shared and expressed thoughts which show intellect, but wisdom and discernment are often lacking in some decisions in this game. I believe both are necessary to answer thoughtfully on this. I choose Ole, Partisan and Caanite. As Thalmor has stated there are others. I would also pick a couple who have left but they are no longer in the game and give them rest. We have more playing now.

finally

Sadly I cannot make it to help host. Will be gone this upcoming weekend celebrating the wife's Birthday and will be on the road late that Sunday.

Take care!