Muddy Creek
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What's the appeal?
I'm just asking.
I'm just asking.
I'm voting for Romney because I think he will do a better job.
My wife is voting for Romney because she said that Obama's ACA has put her non-profit hospital on track to go bankrupt in 5 years.
I want a President who doesn't "lead from behind". I want a President who is not a self-described racist.
You lost me right there, and it got worse afterward. No president describes him or herself as a racist.
What's the appeal?
I'm just asking.
Thinking he will do a better job is a valid reason. You're wife's reasoning strikes me as inaccurate. Having people insured pays more bills, not less. Outside of insurance companies, Hospitals are the next biggest winners of the legislation.
Thinking he will do a better job is a valid reason. You're wife's reasoning strikes me as inaccurate. Having people insured pays more bills, not less. Outside of insurance companies, Hospitals are the next biggest winners of the legislation.
She's explained it to me that the additional regulations and inspections just to get "certified" to accept Medicaid and Medicare are extremely expensive. The compliance office visits have gone overboard. She also indicated that they were losing their rears on both of those programs reimbursement rates, and the ACA expands those roles.
Didn't read the fictionalized auto-biographies or didn't believe them? Twenty years in a racist church has no meaning for you and describing the racist minister as a mentor went over your head? Saying you associated with some by choice and avoided others based on race isn't meaningful?
Totally. Why would she know when Obama talking points say something different.
has nothing to do with anything any candidate or talking head said. It is logic. More people paying increases revenue. It is that simple. Math.
Is it? What if hospitals are being paid less because of the $716 billion in cuts that we keep pretending are not true?
revenues equals price times quantity. You are only focused on quantity.
Or are you saying that Obamacare will massively increase overall healthcare costs since it will not have any impact on prices but will increase quantity?
I have connections to a lot of hospitals, and none have made that complaint. Perhaps she could share with you some evidence we can examine? In fact, the hospitals here are energized and excited, revamping ways to work together with all kinds of providers to reduce costs.
But again, some viewable and verifiable information would be welcomed.
I have connections to a lot of hospitals, and none have made that complaint. Perhaps she could share with you some evidence we can examine? In fact, the hospitals here are energized and excited, revamping ways to work together with all kinds of providers to reduce costs.
But again, some viewable and verifiable information would be welcomed.
Why?
Four years of absolute economic misery.
A Foreign Policy in shambles.
Last night this guy showed us who the Democrat Party is.
Ugly, condescending, arrogant, boorish, and deceitful.
Why?
Four years of absolute economic misery.
Surprise Jack Welch Missed Shows Better U.S. Growth: Economy
It isn’t only the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics that is issuing surprisingly good news about the U.S. economy these days.
If former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch’s charges of a political fix to manipulate economic data ahead of the presidential election are true, there must be a vast econometric conspiracy embracing auto dealers, real estate agents, the Federal Reserve and corporate America’s 96-year-old Conference Board.
The economy is improving more than professional forecasters anticipated, particularly in data on employment and housing, according to the Bloomberg Economic Surprise Index, which compares 38 indicators with analysts’ predictions. The index, based on gauges compiled by private businesses and trade groups in addition to government, confirms U.S. growth is generating jobs in the face of a global slowdown and looming federal spending cuts and tax increases known as the fiscal cliff.
“The economy is improving, and the labor market is getting better,” said Robert Brusca, president of Fact & Opinion Economics and a former New York Fed economist. “These numbers are what they are, they’re not being slanted. On a scale of one to 10, the economy is at a fairly firm six and may be heading higher.”
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Growing Number
The Bloomberg Economic Surprise Index, which compares indicators with analysts’ predictions, shows a growing number of those measures are exceeding expectations. The index climbed to minus 0.06 today from this year’s low of minus 0.42 at the end of July.
The Citigroup Economic Surprise Index shows a more pronounced improvement. It jumped to 49.4 today from this year’s low of minus 65.3 on July 19. A positive reading suggests the economic releases have on balance been better than the Bloomberg consensus.
Among the indicators that have topped analysts’ forecasts: consumer confidence, car sales and purchases of existing homes.
Sales of previously owned houses, reported by the National Association of Realtors, rose 7.8 percent in August to a two- year high. Cars sold at a 14.9 million annual rate in September, the fastest pace since 2008, according to Ward’s Automotive Group.
‘Doing Better’
“The economy is doing better than people think,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York. “Don’t count the consumer out yet.”
Among the headwinds to growth, Rupkey said, are the European debt crisis, a slowdown in China and the so-called fiscal cliff, more than $600 billion of tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect early next year unless Congress acts to forestall them....
Surprise Jack Welch Missed Shows Better U.S. Growth: Economy - Bloomberg
I think that's gilding the lily quite a bit. Yes, Biden did show us all, again for the millionth time, what a assshole he is. But do we then apply that to all dems - no.
I too have connections in many hospitals, a couple hundred of them across the US and growing every day. I don't get any such feeling from them. They're scared and many of the doctors are talking about ending their relationship with medicare, not accepting any new medicare patients.
There are plenty of news articles in the last couple years that show that trend.