What did President Obama do for you this year?

[Dirty]

don't want to hear bitching... don't want to hear racist shit.....I just want to hear what His adminstation did for you!!!!

[doc mercer]

He gives hope to a country that got financiall raped for 8 yrs by President Cheney and his Monkee boy

Rome was not built in a year and Reagan at month 19:

UNEMPLOYMENT WAS NEARING 12%

S&P HAD DROPPED FROM 132 TO 105

Barack took over a house gutted with 8 tons of dogshit on the front lawn with no help from the GOP or gutless Dem assclowns like Bayh and the rest of the blue dogs who deserve to get shown the front door

McCain would have continued the Bush financial nitemare and had this country at war and the BITCH Palin would be warming up

[Dirty]

Again you don't answer a question Doc

[Finance]

The man is just a walking commercial....

[Dirty]

Ronald Reagan was not mentioned or any stats... I ask a simple question and get that Bullshit and an Opinion of what he does for America

[Dirty]

So Doc I take it Obama has done Nothing for you at all this year.... other than let you form more Opninions.... Your answers proved my point... He has done Nothing for anyone that I know or come in contact with....

[doc mercer]

Lets see Dirty ....

this country was looking at the 2nd Great Depression when took over Cheney's clusterfuck

the economy grew at 3.5% in Q3

Responding to the crisis required creating an enormous fiscal deficit that Barack will spend years trying to reduce...... not even the most conservative economists recommend attacking the deficit before the economy is stabilized on a path of growth.

Only Republican demagogues think that's a good idea

Going to Egypt and speaking directly to the Muslim world about cooperation rather than conflict. Embracing multilateralism as the template for U.S. foreign policy in the new century. Accepting the scientific consensus on climate change. Investing in "green" jobs and education reform as key engines of economic development


THE GUY AIN'T PERFECT AND HAS FUCKED UP ... I AM SO THANKFUL THE NAME PALIN IS NOT TAGGED WITH THIS GUY WHO IS BUSTING HIS ASS TO MAKE YOUR FAMILIES FUTURE A BETTER PLACE SO PULL GLENN BECK'S DILDO OUT OF YOUR ANUS AND YOU WILL SEE AMERICA HAS LEADERSHIP THAT WE NEVER HAD UNDER THE CHENEY FASCIST REGIME



And then there's health-care reform. I've been impatient with Obama's strategy of letting Congress take the lead on writing legislation, but he's brought us to the brink of truly meaningful reform much faster than anyone could have imagined a year ago. We still have some fighting to do over two words -- "public" and "option" -- but it looks like the principle that everyone is entitled to health insurance, a Democratic Party goal for at least six decades, is about to become law.

[Minnesota Mike]

Lets see Dirty ....

this country was looking at the 2nd Great Depression when took over Cheney's clusterfuck

the economy grew at 3.5% in Q3

Responding to the crisis required creating an enormous fiscal deficit that Barack will spend years trying to reduce...... not even the most conservative economists recommend attacking the deficit before the economy is stabilized on a path of growth.

Only Republican demagogues think that's a good idea

Going to Egypt and speaking directly to the Muslim world about cooperation rather than conflict. Embracing multilateralism as the template for U.S. foreign policy in the new century. Accepting the scientific consensus on climate change. Investing in "green" jobs and education reform as key engines of economic development


THE GUY AIN'T PERFECT AND HAS FUCKED UP ... I AM SO THANKFUL THE NAME PALIN IS NOT TAGGED WITH THIS GUY WHO IS BUSTING HIS ASS TO MAKE YOUR FAMILIES FUTURE A BETTER PLACE SO PULL GLENN BECK'S DILDO OUT OF YOUR ANUS AND YOU WILL SEE AMERICA HAS LEADERSHIP THAT WE NEVER HAD UNDER THE CHENEY FASCIST REGIME



And then there's health-care reform. I've been impatient with Obama's strategy of letting Congress take the lead on writing legislation, but he's brought us to the brink of truly meaningful reform much faster than anyone could have imagined a year ago. We still have some fighting to do over two words -- "public" and "option" -- but it looks like the principle that everyone is entitled to health insurance, a Democratic Party goal for at least six decades, is about to become law.

You say everyone is entitled to health ins...are you aware that many if not most of the uninsured dont want it doc, they done want it either because they're young and healthy or old and rich. Thats what the dems hate doc, freedom of choice...freedom of choice to a democrat means freedom to pay.

[doc mercer]

The Dems hate freedom?

This comment from Minnesota Mike who thinks Michelle Bachmann is brilliant?

Love it ... we were also told that the Arabs "attacked" because they hate our freedoms


Tough shit if the GOP base is trembling over the Insurance companies gravy ride being forced to come to an end

We saw 8 yrs of FREEDOM LOVING GOP agenda in action and we saw the fuckin results ... Barack should tell Boehner and every Republican to STFU along with Bayh and the Dem sellouts

FUCK REPUBLICANS ..... SHIP EVERY BASTARD OFF TO A REMOTE ISLAND AS 82% OF OUR NATIONAL DEBT IS BECAUSE OF THAT POS REAGAN AND THE MAFIA TWINS BUSH AND BUSH

[doc mercer]

Lets sum up the GOP base and their :"logical thinking"

The GOP would rather that the uninsured just simply NOT GET SICK.

But if the uninsured did get sick, instead of getting health care at the same level as Glenn Beck (who's in the hospital for appendicitis, BTW), the GOP would rather that the uninsured simply DIE QUICKLY.

(Saves money, you know)

Now despite the fact that neither Beck nor the GOP, or the health insurance conglomerates want to repeat this fact, I just want to say that the first steps are being taken to IGNORE THESE MOTHERFUCKERS TODAY.

[Minnesota Mike]

so what did the president do for you this year doc? make you proud?

[Dirty]

Oct 25, 8:37 AM (ET)

By CALVIN WOODWARD

WASHINGTON (AP) - Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."
Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.
Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure. This partly explains why the credit ratings of some of the largest insurers were downgraded to negative from stable heading into this year, as investors were warned of a stagnant if not shrinking market for private plans.
Insurers are an expedient target for leaders who want a government-run plan in the marketplace. Such a public option would force private insurers to trim profits and restrain premiums to compete, the argument goes. This would "keep insurance companies honest," says President Barack Obama.
The debate is loaded with intimations that insurers are less than straight, when they are not flatly accused of malfeasance.
They may not have helped their case by commissioning a report that looked primarily at the elements of health care legislation that might drive consumer costs up while ignoring elements aimed at bringing costs down. Few in the debate seem interested in a true balance sheet.
But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground. A look at some claims, and the numbers:
THE CLAIMS
_"I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers'"obscene profits."
_"Keeping the status quo may be what the insurance industry wants their premiums have more than doubled in the last decade and their profits have skyrocketed." Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, member of the Democratic leadership.
_"Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." A MoveOn.org ad.
THE NUMBERS:
Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries. As is typical, other health sectors did much better - drugs and medical products and services were both in the top 10.
The railroads brought in a 12.6 percent profit margin. Leading the list: network and other communications equipment, at 20.4 percent.
HealthSpring, the best performer in the health insurance industry, posted 5.4 percent. That's a less profitable margin than was achieved by the makers of Tupperware, Clorox bleach and Molson and Coors beers.
The star among the health insurance companies did, however, nose out Jack in the Box restaurants, which only achieved a 4 percent margin.
UnitedHealth Group, reporting third quarter results last week, saw fortunes improve. It managed a 5 percent profit margin on an 8 percent growth in revenue.
Van Hollen is right that premiums have more than doubled in a decade, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study that found a 131 percent increase.
But were the Bush years golden ones for health insurers?
Not judging by profit margins, profit growth or returns to shareholders. The industry's overall profits grew only 8.8 percent from 2003 to 2008, and its margins year to year, from 2005 forward, never cracked 8 percent.
The latest annual profit margins of a selection of products, services and industries: Tupperware Brands, 7.5 percent; Yahoo, 5.9 percent; Hershey, 6.1 percent; Clorox, 8.7 percent; Molson Coors Brewing, 8.1 percent; construction and farm machinery, 5 percent; Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.
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Associated Press writer Tom Murphy in Indianapolis contributed to this report.



My Way News - FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat

[doc mercer]

Considering the CHENEY LED nitemare he interited I give the guy 2 thumbs up

McCain would have continued the GOP agenda of rewarding the rich and would have
this country in a fullshit shootout with Iran and

How did 8 yrs under Bush work out? How did Reagan's 1st 19 mths work out?

Anyone with working brain cells know BO took over a situation the likes of which no President in our lifetime has ever inherited