tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post8420525979892301808..comments2024-03-27T17:52:09.889-04:00Comments on You Might Notice a Trend: So, No Surprise Anymore About The Republican War On EverybodyPaul Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-56459715583272869042016-12-10T16:02:35.835-05:002016-12-10T16:02:35.835-05:00yeah, we are dealing with people who are idiots be...yeah, we are dealing with people who are idiots because they cannot find any empathy for people outside of their small little circles.<br /><br />and man, I know you mentioned before that you're on disability, so I know a lot of this is going to hurt you. I am so sorry you're getting screwed over by the TrumpsterFire of 2016. :(Paul Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-51884115882889203352016-12-10T15:35:14.099-05:002016-12-10T15:35:14.099-05:00Still trying to undo the new deal and the great so... Still trying to undo the new deal and the great society so that, what? No black people ever get a dime of their money? The elderly and the disabled have to get by on nothing, or cat food if they're lucky? <br /> They are being shortsighted to the extreme about this. Everyone who lives that long will need Medicare. Some, like me, need it already, as we are disabled from a stroke. A stroke can happen to anyone, and even if you have a good job and good health insurance, it will be gone when you can't work and make money to pay the premiums. 795,000 people have strokes every year in the US. And those provisions for preventative care in the ACA? If I'd had access to a doctor between 2005 and 2008, just the most basic of check ups, I'd have known that my blood pressure had gone up from 125/70 to 160/100, and I could have been treated for it and avoided the stroke.<br /> So for the price of four yearly check ups, and three monthly prescriptions, the taxpayers could have avoided the quarter million dollar cost of my hospitalization and rehab, the year of state disability I collected, and the seven years so far of Social Security Disability I have collected. Add to that the taxes I would have been still paying were I still on the job, and the economic benefits of having all the money I would have earned injected into the economy, and those preventative programs start to look like a screaming deal. Then multiply that by, say, 500,000 (not everyone who has a stroke costs as much as I did) and what do you get? You get ONE disease and it's effects on the economy.<br /> These are idiots we are dealing with. We really need to figure out how to beat them in the mid terms, so we can begin the slow, lugubrious, process of undoing the damage they did, one more time. <br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com