Balta1701

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:51 PM) Except insurance companies do not want to pump more money into facilities and doctors, they want lower and lower costs, fewer and fewer treatments. That is where their profit comes from. Now in the ideal world, this would create competition between doctors for access to the population pools of insurance companies (since you can't exactly choose your doctor on the way to the ER, for example) and that competition should push prices down. And then, competition between insurance companies should push prices down at that level, because if an insurer tries to charge you too much, you leave and go to another insurer. What really happens is that the insurance companies make more money if they can lock you into their service through your employer or by denying you coverage in any other way, and they pass on additional costs from doctors within their network without evaluating their effectiveness, because they don't lose customers if they pass on those costs.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) more money --> better facilities and programs --> easier to attract better doctors and more specialists --> you recieve better and more sophisticated health care. Sadly though, it doesn't work anywhere close to that way.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) My solution is to do what makes sense. That's more then "wind power" can ever say. I acutally have a solution, but it's too oily to talk about. So basically your solution is to pretend that oil isn't a problem. (Note; not "Getting oil" or "importing oil" or anything else...every single step in the process causes problems)

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:39 PM) How does a hospital and insurance company trying to make a profit improve your health care? In an ideal system, various hospitals and insurance companies would be setting up competitive systems where costs are kept down and innovation is fostered by competition between the organizations. That isn't the system we have right now, though. It's also not the system that the Republicans would want, and it's not the system I'd want, and it's not the system that is going to come out of the ACA (although I would argue that in some ways, it does step us closer).

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:34 PM) Oh well. Would have been nice to beat hime up another inning or two. With a 4 run lead already...their bullpen now has to handle 8 innings, and now I can start caring about their bullpen being depleted for the next game or two

That has to be because of his performance in the dugout.

Zambrano gone already?!

JFP that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) What?! More info needed. DJ says Zambrano was just yelling randomly and Lee happened to walk by so that's how it looked.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) Carlos Quentin might hit himself onto the all-star team if he keeps going at it like this. LOL, he's more likely to wind up in the closer's role.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) No way he goes more than 2 innings if he keeps pitching like this. 1 way...Kotsay.

QPERMAN!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 04:18 PM) Zambrano's pitches are screaming, "Hit me." The Sox are obliging.

Welcome back to the game Rios.

Get him in.

Extra bases for Piere!

Fuk u dome. I know that's not original. I don't care.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) What's another trillion+ on the Fed's balance sheet. I have no problem with that and think it's a good idea.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) Mitch Daniels is an epic f***up, too. They are both doing EXACTLY the same thing, interestingly enough. My man Mitch!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 03:58 PM) OHHHHH, yes, the 3% of the population and use 25% of a resource arguement. f*** that, we need to blow ourselves up. Now get off your oily made computer. So what's your solution? Close your eyes and yell loudly with your fingers in your ears when we point out that things like the 2008 spike/collapse are exactly what you'd expect if the world is genuinely up against the supply constraint? Say "oh well" when an accident happens? Waste another trillion dollars invading the wrong country the next time that an oil-rich, corrupt country winds up giving rise to a terrorist organization that hits us?

Just hope the rest of the soap opera that article is talking about is containable.

You know, since the Bulls still have Deng's contract, it is theoretically possible for them to walk away with Bosh, Johnson, and Lebron, if the Raptors have interest in Deng and filler.

Well, I'll stop at this point and say you and I won't see eye to eye on this one, because you're focusing on the "they're protesting government" part of the phrase and I'm focusing on the "giving health care to poor people/killing a few million people" part of the discussion. The government does an awful lot of things that are much more intrusive than the health care bill and they don't provoke violent outbursts; it's all about what the result of the action is.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 10:50 AM) It would be nice to add a better leadoff hitter, but there is a bigger blackhole in the lineup at the DH spot which could be improved immensely. Or 2b.

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 10:49 AM) I don't like Duhon but we desperately need guards after trading Kirk. I personally would've preferred to trade Deng instead of Hinrich. We pretty much have to sign someone like Joe Johnson and invite a bunch of guards to camp because we have nobody besides Rose. I'd like us to invite some of the below: Ben Uzoh Scotty Reynolds Manny Harris Sherron Collins If the Bulls can manage to sign Lebron, then there's a strong possibility that Deng winds up shipped out and a guard comes back as part of the return.