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    Posted: February 01 2017 at 8:47am
"Buy it cheap. Stack it deep"
"Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
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LOL  No, he is just blowing his own "Trumpet". Wink
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Just a question:-  

 If the current Pontus accuses someone of something, can we dismiss it as a "trumped up charge"?
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Human flu is not here at all.  Our chickens and ducks are locked up by order from DEFRA as bird flu is in lincolnshire and lancashire (about 500 miles away) and they do not want it to spread.

How about there, Johnray?  And how are you?
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How bad is the flu where you live?
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Obviously, I am not in the pro-Trump camp.  So I tend to spot the anti-Trump stuff.  Even so, this surprised even me.   http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/donald-trump-mental-illness-narcisissm-us-president-psychologists-inauguration-crowd-size-paranoia-a7552661.html  






                             I just did not think anyone else had noticed yet.
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This is interesting - Trump just quietly reshuffled the National Security Council, downgrading the role of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and taking them out of their perpetual rotation at all meetings. They still attend meetings where Trump is the chairman, but Principals Committee meetings are now only open to them if it's deemed their expertise is needed.

It might not seems like a big deal, but as was mentioned by one commentator, "... the Chairman (of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) is designated by law as the principal military advisor to the President and the NSC; it’s a lot easier to serve that function if you’re in the room and privy to all the conversations." Likewise with the intelligence community - excluding them because they won't go along with your latest big lie undermines their effectiveness, and further alienates them from the current administration.

He did replace them though - with his strategist (and former Brietbart editor), Steve Bannon....

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/01/28/trump-just-replaced-the-director-of-national-intelligence-prepare-to-get-angry/

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I remember when the commercials touting clean coal started airing a few years ago. Make the lie big, tell it often enough, and people will believe it

The recent cuts are beyond belief - taking away funding to prevent violence against women was a shameful to do.

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"Clean coal" baahahaaha, like there is such a thing.
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They go with the "clean coal" calumny and hypothetical healthcare hype.  Sigh!

He is meeting our Prime Minister about now to discuss trade.  I can't see that doing us any favors either.  Protectionism never did any country a good turn (from outside obviously and from inside because it loses friends and gains reverse protectionism) and that seems to be the status quo of his approach - ie. "screw the other guy" if you can.  
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Well I'm disgusted at this point and I was willing to give Trump a chance even though I did not vote for him, I didn't vote for Hillary either, I voted Libertarian for the first time in my life. His decision to move forward with the Dakota Access Pipeline is a very poor move from an environmental standpoint, but then who needs clean water and land (insert sarcasm). Then I understand that he is looking at ending all the VAWA funding to states, this is money set aside for the Violence Against Women's Act, that is given to states to help pay for domestic violence services to victims. It helps pay for services to shelters, counseling, victim advocates, relocation, etc.

To add to both of those items. I am Native American, so the Standing Rock issue is two-fold for me. Plus the domestic violence aspect, I work under a VAWA grant, I make domestic violence services available to women in rural areas that have no transportation, no money, no job, sometimes not even a phone. So to me both are bad decisions.
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if they are going t "lock her up"
I guess its only fair that they "lock HIM up" too

Trump's top staffers have their own private email server; Trump is still using his unsecured phone

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/25/1625061/-Trump-s-top-staffers-have-their-own-private-email-server-Trump-is-still-using-his-unsecured-phone
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seems like a good idea
especially when you have someone as demonstrably UNSTABLE as Trump

Democratic Lawmakers Introduce Bill Limiting Trump's Ability To Launch Nuclear Strike

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/democratic-lawmakers-introduce-bill
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After Trump puts the truth on lockdown, climate change tweets deleted from park service account

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017...ervice-account

getting scared NOW ?

SIEG HEIL  !
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USDA under gag order
EPA now under gag order from the Trump regime
CDC cancels conference on health related issues due to climate change-didn't want to offend Trump

AmURiKa
you wanted change
you got it
now don't forget the most important part

sieg heil
sieg heil
SIEG HEIL !!!
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Originally posted by Satori Satori wrote:

a million and a half ?
official sources are sticking to their figure on ONLY 250,00 attending the ceremony signifying the collapse of the country

Trump is claiming a million and a half ?
good God
is there anyone who does not see this man for what he is ?

Trump claims 'a million and a half' at his inauguration—delivers whooping lie in front of CIA

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/21/1623245/-Trump-claims-a-million-and-a-half-at-his-inauguration-delivers-whooping-lie-in-front-of-CIA

the DELUSIONS of grandeur are beyond describing in words

at this point I have went from being worried about Trump
to being terrified of him
something is DESPERATELY DESPERATELY wrong with this man

I cannot believe the hubris of Trump, to insist upon lying to the CIA, in front of a memorial wall dedicated to agents who made the ultimate sacrifice....believe me, they watched the parade via spy satellites and could probably give you an accurate head count to within plus or minus a few hundred.  

This is only the beginning of the first week....hang tight, folks, this is going to get rough.


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He Is Risen… But For How Long?

http://kunstler.com/cluster*****-nation/he-is-risen-but-for-how-long/


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If the first forty-eight hours are any measure of the alleged Trumptopia-to-come, the leading man in this national melodrama appears to be meshuga. A more charitable view might be that his behavior does not comport with the job description: president. If he keeps it up, I stick to my call that we will see him removed by extraordinary action within a few months. It might be a lawful continuity-of-government procedure according to the 25th Amendment — various high officials declaring him “incapacited” — or it might be a straight-up old school coup d’état (“You’re fired”).

I believe the trigger for that may be an overwhelming financial crisis in the early second quarter of the year. In, the first case, under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, it works like this:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Or else, it will be an orchestrated cabal of military and intelligence officers — not necessarily evil men — who fear for the safety of the nation with the aforesaid meshuganer in the White House, who is summarily arrested, sequestered, and replaced by an “acting president,” pending a call for an extraordinary new election to replace him by democratic means. I’m not promoting this scenario as necessarily desirable, but that’s how I think it will go down. It will be a sad moment in this country’s history, worse than the shock of John Kennedy’s assassination, which happened against the background of an economically stable Republic. History is perverse and life is tragic. And ***** happens.

Returning to the first forty-eight hours of the new regime, first the ceremony itself: there was, to my mind, the disturbing sight of Donald Trump, deep in the Capitol in the grim runway leading out onto the inaugural dais. He lumbered along, so conspicuously alone between the praetorian ranks front and back, overcoat open, that long red slash of necktie dangling ominously, with a mad gleam in his eyes like an old bull being led out to a sacrificial altar. His speech to the multitudes was not exactly what had once passed for presidential oratory. It was not an “address.” It was blunt, direct, unadorned, and simple, a warning to the assembled luminaries meant to prepare them for disempowerment. Surely it was received by many as a threat.

Indeed an awful lot of official behavior has to change if this country expects to carry on as a civilized polity, and Trump’s plain statement was at face value consistent with that idea. But the disassembly of such a vast matrix of rackets is unlikely to be managed without generating a lot of dangerous friction. Such a tall order would require, at least, some finesse. Virtually all the powers of the Deep State are arrayed against him, and he can’t resist taunting them, a dangerous game. Despite the show of an orderly transition, a state of war exists between them. Anyway, given Trump’s cabinet appointments, his “swamp draining” campaign looks like one set of rackets is due to be replaced by a new and perhaps worse set.

Trump was correct that the ruins of industry stand like tombstones on the landscape. The reality may be that an industrial economy is a one-shot deal. When it’s gone, it’s over. Even assuming the money exists to rebuild the factories of the 20th century, how would things be produced in them? By robotics or by brawny men paid $15-an-hour? If it’s robotics, who will the customers be? If it’s low-wage workers, how are they going to pay for the cars and washing machines? If the brawny men are paid $40 an hour, how would we sell our cars and washing machines in foreign markets that pay their workers the equivalent of $1.50 an hour. How can American industry stay afloat with no export market? If we don’t let foreign products into the US, how will Americans buy cars that are far more costly to make here than the products we’ve been getting? There’s no indication that Trump and his people have thought through any of this.

Trump can pull out the stops (literally, the regulations) to promote oil production, but he can’t alter the declining energy return on investment that is bringing down the curtain on industrial society. In fact, pumping more oil now at all costs will only hasten the decline of affordable oil. His oft-stated wish to simply “take” the oil from Middle Eastern countries would probably lead to sabotage of their oil infrastructure and the cruel death of millions. He would do better to prepare Americans for the project of de-suburbanizing the nation, but I doubt that the concept has ever entered his mind.

The problems with Obamacare, and so-called health care generally, are burdened with so many layers of arrant racketeering that the system may only be fixable if it is destroyed in its current form — the overgrown centralized hospitals, the overpaid insurance and hospital executives, the sore-beset physicians carrying six-figure college-and-med-school loans, the incomprehensible and extortionate pricing system for care, the cruel and insulting bureaucratic barriers to obtain care, the disgraceful behavior of the pharmaceutical companies, all add up to something no less than a colossal hostage racket, robbing and swindling people at their most vulnerable. So far, nobody has advanced a coherent plan for changing it. Loosing the Department of Justice to prosecute the medical racketeers directly would be a good start. Overcharging and defrauding sick people ought to be a criminal act. But don’t expect that to happen in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. A financial crisis could be the trigger for ending the massive medical grift machine. Then what? Back to locally organized clinic-scale medicine… if we should be so lucky.

Saturday afternoon, Trump paid a call at CIA headquarters, ostensibly to begin mending fences with what may be his domestic arch-enemies. What did he do? He peeved and pouted about press reports of the lowish attendance at his swearing in. Maximum meshuga. I’m surprised that some veteran of The Company’s Suriname outpost didn’t take him out with a blowgun dart garnished with the toxic secretions of tree frogs.

Do you suppose Trump is going to improve? That was the hope after the election: that he’d take on some POTUS polish. No, what you see is what you get. I can only imagine that what’s going on behind the scenes in various halls of power would make a Matt Damon Bourne movie look like a sensitivity training session — grave professional men and women on all fours with their hair on fire howling into the acoustical ceiling tiles.

Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic “progressive” politics that gave us Trump. His infantile lies and foolish tweets were made possible by a mendacious political culture that excuses illegal immigrants as “the undocumented,” refuses to identify radical Islamic terror by name, shuts down free speech on campus, made Michael Brown of Ferguson a secular saint, claims that there’s no biological basis for gender, and allowed Wall Street to pound the American middle class down a rat hole like so much sand.

You think this is the dark night of the national soul? The sun only went down a few minutes ago and it’s a long hard slog to daybreak.

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The thing is Trump seems to be able to dish it out ,but boy their administration have real thin skins ,for Conway to ask "why are we getting a bad press" sweety this is the REAL WORLD people are going to Call you out on anything you say,and guess what YOU CANT FIRE THEM,you need to rise above it,(and boy is she Ugly).....oops bit incorrect but this is the trump era....
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if you have FACTS of your own
that contradict anything said here
by all means lets see them
this is a forum for discussion after all
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I read this thread and lost a lot of respect for most of the posters.
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a million and a half ?
official sources are sticking to their figure on ONLY 250,00 attending the ceremony signifying the collapse of the country

Trump is claiming a million and a half ?
good God
is there anyone who does not see this man for what he is ?

Trump claims 'a million and a half' at his inauguration—delivers whooping lie in front of CIA

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/21/1623245/-Trump-claims-a-million-and-a-half-at-his-inauguration-delivers-whooping-lie-in-front-of-CIA

the DELUSIONS of grandeur are beyond describing in words

at this point I have went from being worried about Trump
to being terrified of him
something is DESPERATELY DESPERATELY wrong with this man
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GREAT article Jacksdad

it certainly is possible to see Trump ending civilization
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Interesting read for those who don't understand the power of branding.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
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I told my kid the same thing, Techno. He got a kick out of that (as you do with anything flatulence related at the age of 15). "Trump" is unfortunately another word for fart in the UK LOL


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I am afraid that the only thing I can currently laugh about is the fact that to trump (in British slang) is to fart loudly.
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Originally posted by CRS, DrPH CRS, DrPH wrote:

I'm a disabled climate scientist who has many LGBT friends, so I am quite alarmed.


Thank you for giving me the first thing to smile about all day, Chuck. Classic line Clap


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Trumps day one PRIORITY

ok deplorables
the government needs YOUR check for $500 immediately

One Of President Trump’s First Acts Will Cost Homeowners Millions Of Dollars

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...4peymcm84r6bt9
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The ink was barely wet on the page when Trump's crew started to hack the White House website:


They deleted vast sections discussing climate change, LGBT rights, and disability. 

I'm a disabled climate scientist who has many LGBT friends, so I am quite alarmed.   

The USA is the only country in the world to my knowledge to be led by a person who totally denies the science of climate change.  Even Kim Jong Un in North Korea acknowledges climate change (and blames it on the USA).  

Buckle up, folks, we are in for a rough ride.  I'm expecting China to move against Taiwan when they have sized this guy up.  Their first move will probably be to contact Taiwan and say "If we invade, do you think the USA is really going to defend you?"  Their second move will likely be a challenge such as a blockade of Taiwan's ocean shipping, which would be crippling.  

Hillary had huge flaws, was far from honest, and was not my favorite candidate....however, we have what we have.  America First?  That is an anti-semitic slogan of anti-interventionists from the second world war. 
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and this is who the people
sorry THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE decided is the best man for the job

seriously ?

Whose inauguration is that on Donald Trump's Twitter background?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/20/1622762/-Whose-inauguration-is-that-on-Donald-Trump-s-Twitter-background

can this guy be honest about anything?
ANYTHING ?

I'm beginning to wonder if his name is even Donald Trump

He lies
even on the very day he takes office ?

wow

dark days ahead America
DARK DAYS AHEAD
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poor Trump
he gave a party
and hardly anyone showed Cry

this is just downright embarrassing
humiliating even

Trump's crowd size raised eyebrows ... with how small it was

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017...w-small-it-was

Crowd count is in:
Trump 2017: 250,000
Obama 2013: 1,000,000
Obama 2009: 1,800,000#Inauguration

and at the preinaguration concert

Trump 10,000
Obama 400,000

Trump=NOT the PEOPLE'S choice
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We Stand At The Twilight Of The Great Republic

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/we...great-republic

"Here we stand.

Less than 24 hours until the inauguration of a man uniquely unqualified to hold high office in the history of this great nation. A man who, unlike any before him, has fought his way to the Presidency through lies, slander and outright graft. A man who has built himself up as a populist demagogue who is worshipped by his supporters, despite evidence of any wrongdoing.

When in the history of this Republic have we ever willfully elected a man who is unethical at best, and outright criminal at worst? Whose only thought is to defend his image and his ego - despite being played like a well tuned violin by an open adversary? When have we ever elected a man who puts the State of the Union and the security and welfare of the nation second to the perception that he was illegitimately elected?

This will be a sad day for the United States of America - and the death of a great Republic.

The Pre-Presidency of Donald J. Trump has already proven itself to be a travesty of scandal and corruption - with Trump himself acting as a new Boss Tweed - pulling the strings of power by nominating those who have given him, or the Republican Party, obscene sums of money - ranging from former Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson, with his untold billions from Russian Oil just waiting to be repatriated with the lifting of sanctions, to Betsy DeVos - the fundamentalist Christian "Education" advocate who believes it's God's Will that we have charter schools armed with guns against potential grizzlies (not to mention the $200+ million her and her family have donated to Republican Party members over the years).

We have Price, with his stock purchases that would have landed anybody else in jail. We have Flynn with his secret spewing son. We have professional wrestling in charge of the SBA, anti-environmentalists at the EPA, anti-Labor at... the department of Labor...

The most frightening thing is that the incompetence of the nominees and the incoming president is not what worries me the most: It is the vindictive and pseudo-fascist manner in which Trump conducts himself and apparently plans to govern as well.

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He has insisted that those who voted against him are "illegals" or committing fraud.

He refuses to admit that foreign powers openly interfered in our elections.

He has started to alienate our allies by insisting that they are obsolete, and we will not come to their aid unless, like mercenaries, we are paid.

And far beyond not liking scrutiny - he openly attacks those who criticize him and invites people to openly attack them as well. He invites our enemies to target his political enemies - and even has threatened to jail them.

The Republican Party, for its part, with members in both houses of Congress are either acting like accomplices or beaten spouses. They either are drunk on blind ideological zeal that says that now they are in power - they can do what they please, and mistakenly believe that they can control Trump through their votes - or they are too cowardly to even try to oppose him for fear of being the object of his aggression. Either way - they no longer serve the Republic - but they serve the Tyrant at 1600.

It has already become patently clear that this Congress will be nothing more than a Rubber Stamp on whatever maniacal ideas President Trump has a desire to implement - from requiring visiting dignitaries to stay at a Trump hotel, to creating opportunities for sweetheart deals for his sons. They have had no objection to blatant nepotism in the administration, nor have they raised a single objection to completely transparent control of Trump by the Russian President - Vladimir Putin.

In Short: We have entered the time of an Imperial Presidency, and we are unlikely to come through it unscathed. Do I believe Trump is capable of seizing power beyond 8 years - absolutely. Do I think he will? Undecided. However, the unparalleled grasp on power over all 3 branches of government that he has already begun to exhibit will be far more terrifying for the next Emperor to sit in the American Curule Seat.

I weep for the America I grew up in. Reagan's shining city on the hill. That was an image we all could understand and aspire to. That shining city has become the same festering whore that was Rome. And as in Rome - the Rubicon has been crossed - the patricians in the Senate (and House) have no power over the Imperator that we have elected, but the mob in all its glory - having gorged on the Bread of McDonald's and the Circuses of reality TV and 24 hour news - is a seething mass ready to do the Tyrant's bidding.

Build the wall! Denigrate those who serve us! Hate a Religion that isn't ours! Despise those on the other side of the argument! Punish those who oppose us!

I weep for the Republic we say we defend - and the Constitution we say we believe in.

I weep for a country I can no longer be proud of.

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Pence recently said that what Trump  REALLY meant when talking about health care
is that he is going to make "insurance affordable for everyone" not that everyone would actually have health insurance much less health care

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I love this site!  Clap

We may never meet, nor share a drink or meal, but we certainly share many great experiences!!  

Maggie, dear, I lived in the UK off and on for a few years, doing environmental work down in Devon.  I quite fell in love with the countryside, pace of life, people, and a few of the local maidens!  

At a party once, I had a chance to speak with a number of fine Brits about their country vs. ours....they were jealous of things they thought that we had, but I brought up the armed violence that is pervasive, lack of social support services and other things, and we had a good chat.  

Mr. Trump will soon be President Trump, let's hope he doesn't screw this up too badly.  I have very low expectations....if anything, the death penalty will be easier to implement, health care harder to get, and employment faltering (assuming he starts a trade war with China).  Stay safe, fingers crossed! 


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Dear Chuck and Co.,  

I do hope that your new President arranges something similar to our National Health Service and does away with the death penalty because there is nothing more ungodly or saccreligious in any of the major religions than killing another human being, after pronouncing judgement upon them and failing to assist those who need help through no fault of their own.  

Now, I have served beside Americans of all races, colors and creeds during the so-called cold war and after 29 years I still miss those "Yanks" and have fond memories of some of the things we got up to.  I have always been a believer in an Anglo-US empire or "Union of the English Speaking Peoples".  The reason I favor English as the language is because of its expressive flexibility above other languages (no disrespect to my German and Spanish friends intended).  

But, having fought off cancer, and having suffered to a degree that was very bit as bad as physical and emotional torture, I have survived thanks to our NHS and some brilliant and dedicated medical nurses, doctors and surgeons, whom were comprised of all nations and creeds, from Muslim, Christian and atheist, African, Asian people and a fair mixture of continentals, I must say: I am deeply saddened that people of my blood, from the 1600s when they went to America, and are probably well "mixed in" now, do not have the health benefits we have here.  

God Bless you America, you have been a great ally and friend, but, as a friend, I advise you to continue to push your new administration for the advancement of your society.  Your people deserve better.

All the best, Bernard.
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Those of us who want a more complete service can and do opt for private health insurance.  This gives you the more expensive and experimental chemotherapies and a private room.  

It seems to function less well overall though, Chuck.  My friend, who had a private insurance, ended up with an NHS  service after all, as the private system turned out to be far slower in an emergency.  On the NHS there are no conditions not covered and no bar for pre-existing conditions.  There is a shortage of doctors, but those we do have are driven with a calling, instead of being driven by money.  Both drives have their advantages, but I think we win on aggregate.  This probably works out like your medicare.  

In most respects America beats us, hands down!  You fund more research, and pay the researchers better, leading to a "brain drain".  Overall you are far wealthier, and opportunities are more common.  You have a culture and ethos of self-reliance and go-getting we can only envy from this side of the pond.  But, we have the NHS and no death penalty.  Britishers and Americans are very alike in almost every way (if you ignore the facts that we are divided by a common language and the Brits are very lazy by comparison) but I think our power elite have more respect for human life than yours do.  So, I would stay here if the opportunity to emigrate arose, even though  I may never have a beautiful huge american colonial style house, have to suffer bad dentistry and be treated in overcrowded wards.  I only wish you could all join us.

Stay safe and well, my friend.  Maggie.
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Originally posted by Technophobe Technophobe wrote:

The NHS still has many problems.  NICE (National Institute of health and Care Excellence) regularily denies funding for life extending drugs such as some of the most experimental chemotherapies.  Our accident and emergency rooms are overcrowded and our hospitals all have a shortage of beds.

But no life saving treatments are withheld, no pain medication is restricted and overall the NHS is amazingly wonderful.  In my family of 4 it has given epilepsy medication and brain surgery to my son, given me two C-sections and a ceramic/titanium hip, saved my husband with surgery for a ruptured AAA and (hopefully - looking good so far) successfully treated and cured stage 4 cancer. 

The government would be lynched (literally!) if they let the NHS fail. It is the one government controlled service that is universally loved.  Generally the people are more afraid of the the government than vice-versa but on this single point the government dare not fail.  

Wonderful stories, Techno!  I myself have epilepsy and underwent brain surgery in 1999, and it was successful!  Blessings to my dear wife, who had the insurance from her employer to pay for this. 

We Yanks desperately need "health insurance for all," and I believe that allowing all of us to have access to Medicare is the way to do it.  Medicare doesn't pay the best to doctors, so those who have better insurance through employment may have access to the better quality specialists, but Medicare would certainly suffice for everyone.  It is a fine program. 

Thank you for sharing!  It is not fun to be chronically ill in America, without insurance, and paying huge bills out of pocket as I have done.  I hope you and your family continue to enjoy good health!  

Be safe and best wishes, Chuck 



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ASIMOV..... A.C CLARK...... what incredible forsight.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA



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Aaah! Asimov was my first love!

The problem with all politicians is that they never, ever tell the truth.  Putin will praise Trump and our British leaders refrain from comment.  But, reading between the lines, most of our politicians think him a dangerous idiot and Putin thinks he will make a fine puppet.  I can't speak for any others as I can only tell what their lips are saying.  I would love to hear comments from anyone in their own countries who has a handle on what they mean.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Scottish Newspaper's TV Guide Brilliantly Nails Trump's Surreal 'Twilight Zone' Inauguration


http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/scottish-newspapers-tv-guide-brilliantly


too funny

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let the 4 year NIGHTMARE begin

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Originally posted by Medclinician Medclinician wrote:

The world leaders respect Trump more than Hillary despite the fact he is not a movie star or especially loved by some of the minority groups.


I think worry is the overwhelming reaction to Trump's election win, Med. I'm not seeing much that equates to respect from most world leaders.

http://secondnexus.com/politics-and-economics/trump-interview-stuns-european-leaders/?utm_content=inf_10_1164_2&tse_id=INF_9f4f1de0dcc111e6a03c354c456e1db2


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The NHS still has many problems.  NICE (National Institute of health and Care Excellence) regularily denies funding for life extending drugs such as some of the most experimental chemotherapies.  Our accident and emergency rooms are overcrowded and our hospitals all have a shortage of beds.

But no life saving treatments are withheld, no pain medication is restricted and overall the NHS is amazingly wonderful.  In my family of 4 it has given epilepsy medication and brain surgery to my son, given me two C-sections and a ceramic/titanium hip, saved my husband with surgery for a ruptured AAA and (hopefully - looking good so far) successfully treated and cured stage 4 cancer. 

The government would be lynched (literally!) if they let the NHS fail. It is the one government controlled service that is universally loved.  Generally the people are more afraid of the the government than vice-versa but on this single point the government dare not fail.  
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I'm fortunate to have health coverage through my employer, but I've also been in the position of being uninsured here in the US. It is truly a scary situation to be in, and it galls me that lawmakers who have health insurance get to decide whether their employers (the American public) should have it to.

Fingers crossed that the NHS survives, Techno. Much maligned, but having had experience of both the US and UK systems, I'd take the good old NHS every time. Healthcare belongs in the hands of doctors, not accountants and self serving politicians.


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