Vatiican, isn't it a shame that the woman that filed the law suit before the court now had to have her name removed from the suit. It wasn't going to look good that she got sick and ran up thousands of dollars in doctor and hospital bills, "with no insurance" and had to file bankruptcy to protect her body shop business. Guiess who pays her bill.

Vatican, Most Americans don't even know what is in the Health care plan----including most Republicans. Just sheep following Republican lies.

Good thing prayers don't work. Especially when you are praying for something negative. God doesn't like it.

Oh, that's right. Nancy Pelosi was the one that said, "You have to pass the Bill to know what's in it." Since none of the Dems actually read the Bill. Of course most Americans don't know what's in the 3,000 pages of legislation. They're own leaders didn't take the time and laughed when confronted with that fact. However, several Conservatives DID read the Bill, which is why it's now before the Supreme Court for a ruling this month. What GOP "lies"? Defeating Obamacare is a positive Athiest.

http://web.blomand.net/~dennmac/reich-wing/teabagger.html

You Know You Are A Teabagger when :

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no
threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on on
illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in
Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the national debt doubled under the previous
President from $5.674 trillion to $10.024 trillion.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping
Americans and the President lied about it.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter
Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city drown!

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America
deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.

Yes! Illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax
dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you, but helping
other Americans... well that makes you mad!

The Reich-Wing Republican Joke Page

Another crazy, irrelevant and racist Liberal that lacks substance and a positive message for America since their Progressive leaders have failed our nation. Wisconsin is only the beginning. Yeah! :-)

Oh My, what a lack of substance in you negative message on this post. Who is leading american down the wrong path?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/koch-industries-web-of-influence_n_845306.html

Charles and David Koch, the owners of the country’s second-largest private corporation, are libertarians of long standing, who contend that government regulations, taxes and subsidies stifle individual initiative and hamper American competitiveness. In recent years, the Kochs have played an increasingly public role as financial angels for conservative causes, politicians and foundations.

What’s not so well-known is the activity of Koch Industries in the trenches in Washington, where a Center for Public Integrity examination of lobbying disclosure files and federal regulatory records reveals a lobbying steamroller for the company’s interests, at times in conflict with its public pose.

The money that Koch (pronounced “coke”) has spent on lobbying in Washington has soared in recent years, from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. The Kochs then spent another $20.5 million over the next two years to influence federal policy, as the company’s lobbyists and officials sought to mold, gut or kill more than 100 prospective bills or regulations

Once again vat shows his education level the only failures have been the GOP who for 34 years have claimed deficits don't matter, tax cuts create jobs and they are for smaller government yet none of these claims ever came true in 34 years.

I bet most of the 26 year olds that are still on their parents healthcare are Democrats, which is very telling. Would love to see a study like that! I agree we need healthcare reform; just not Obamacare and its overreach.

I bet they are republicans and I bet you are one of them. I never met a republican who didn't have his handout.

After reading vaticans posts over the last few days, it's become very evident that he's a very negative person. There's nothing he find good. Has never posted a positive thought, and I use "thought" loosely. Wonder if he found out there is no tooth fairy and got all sad. Well, should we let him know, there no Santa Clause either?

And vat. I'll bet most folks under 26 are going to school, and at least 50% are republicans. But hell, you don't believe there are any republicans recieve any Gov't assistance either. Get out of the sun, it's damageing your lone brain cell.

5 Top GOP Lies About Obama's Health Care Plan :

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5932/2009-08-11.html

The Top Five Health Care Reform Lies—and How to Fight Back.

The First Lie: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandmother.

The truth: These accusations—of "death panels" and forced euthanasia—are, of course, flatly untrue. As an article from the Associated Press puts it: "No 'death panel' in health care bill."

What's the real deal? Reform legislation includes a provision, supported by the AARP, to offer senior citizens access to a professional medical counselor who will provide them with information on preparing a living will and other issues facing older
Americans.

There are several good provisions in the ACA including the pre-existing condition exclusion elimination and kids remaining on their parents ins until 26. These common sense reforms could have been handled outside of the 2000 page novel. And the millions who don't have insurance could also have been addressed without the multitude of new taxes and the individual mandate.

A lot of us have seen our health insurance costs rise significantly since the enactment of the law. I certainly don't think that was the plan when the Congress enacted it. It needs major changes and unfortunately that won't happen unless the SC rules the entire thing unconstitutional.

Facts are facts. And you have the Progressives and Liberals who blog here confused with people who intend to be swayed by toxic vomit from the right.

Yup, the Progressive and Liberal message is so good that Scott Walker made history in America and defeated a recall election because his reforms worked and the leftist toxic message is one of proven failure. :-)

What history was that vat? The historic fact that in 2010 he was elected by 53% of the state and when he faced recall he still only got 53% of the votes of the state. Yep sounds like someone who doesn't understand historic events or what history is.

http://www.politicususa.com/in-200-days-the-house-gop-has-voted-to-kill-1-9-million-jobs-and-created-0.html

Why Koch had to keep Walker installed in Wisconsin.

Much of the entire Koch political machine is geared towards ensuring that Koch Industries never has to compensate the people and ecosystems damaged by Koch Industries pollution. Koch front groups — from Tea Party groups to think tanks — have diligently promoted Koch Industries' bottom line by denying global warming, fighting regulations on Koch's cancer-causing chemicals, and snuffing out investigations into Koch's environmental crimes:

– In 1990, as both Republicans and Democrats proposed a cap and trade system to address acid rain, Koch financed a front group called "Concerned Citizens for the Environment" to battle proposed regulations. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the group "has no citizen membership of its own," but produced studies arguing that acid rain was a myth and that deregulation would benefit the environment. Koch refineries and factories, top emitters of acid rain-causing toxins, were impacted by the successful cap and trade system. A front group founded by David Koch, Citizens for a Sound Economy (which later changed its name to Americans for Prosperity), also battled regulations designed to combat acid rain, labeling the problem a "myth."

http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=121:how-koch-industries-makes-billions-corrupting-government-and-polluting-for-free-part-2

Here you go, thankful mom,

on the affordable care act, for those who didn't, or haven't seen it yet:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview

to check out.

peace*

VAT....wasn't OBAMACARE as you call it modelled after the Romney health care that he passed in his state as governor? Why are you on Obama for a positive health care policy that the Republican Romney also favoured and had passed in his state? If the Romney health care that passed in his state is a mirror image of what Obama has proposed and had passed and you don't like it why not ask Romney what he was thinking by bringing in something so un-Republican? Could it be that you are so full of hate for Obama that you just can't bring yourself to take what Romney did to task? Are you that biased? Are you that prejudiced? Do you not see any good in what Romney did in his state? If not then why not tell Romney his health care plan is bad, just as you are telling Obama! Or is it that you have a double standard?

Amen brother. Welcome to the Twilight Zone! Liberals really live in a lunatic parallel universe. wow :)

Except you righties that are never correct got lost and believe you are posting on a Fox news blog. Hey righties here is a clue the hosts name is Ed not Bill.

Is there an aversion to the truth on the Ed Show blog? Can you explain why people are allergic to the facts here? Is it a Liberal "thing"? Waiting for you to debunk our facts with legitimate sources. :-)

Here's the facts EVERYONE GETS SICK. When someone cant pay, premiums go up for EVERYONE. Illness is universal. Healthcare in the US isn't.

First you have to post a fact all we get from your posts is tea bagging lies that you repeat non stop.

Coming from a foreigner.. I'll take that as a compliment. Your opinion doesn't even count here. :-)

Right except you know nothing about me so you make an ass out of yourself by going on a mining expedition.

5 Top GOP Lies About Obama's Health Care Plan :

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5932/2009-08-11.html

The Second Lie: Democrats are going to outlaw private insurance and force you into a government plan.

The truth: With reform, choices will increase, not decrease. Obama's reform plans will create a health insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace for affordable, high-quality insurance options. Included in the exchange is the public health insurance option—a nationwide plan with a broad network of providers—that will operate alongside private insurance
companies, injecting competition into the market to drive quality up and costs down.

If you're happy with your coverage and doctors, you can keep them. But the new public plan will expand choices to millions of businesses or individuals who choose to opt into it, including many who simply can't afford health care now.

Whom your own words betray you as a non-US citizen that despises America and has contempt for our nations success and role in the world. Remember, your opinion doesn't count here or on any American political blog. It's just more noise. :-) I read you like a cheap comic book. Way too easy! :-)

Still trying to mine for information. What is the matter vat you upset because I told you there wasn't anything about you that made you or your fellow tea bagging republicans exceptional. That was a statement of fact vat as anyone who isn't an egotistical lunatic knows no matter what country they are from. I suggest you read the "Red Badge of Courage" that gives you a good break down of reality when a person who believes he was an exceptional person found out he wasn't.

Whom your own words betray you as a non-US citizen that despises America

This is the second time I have read that he is not a US Citizen. Is this true?

Is it or is vat making things up that he is clueless about or another words a normal vat post.

I agree with 2ez...and I am a senior who has already been a victim of how the State of Georgia is changing its medicaid requirements..these co-inside with the changes in the new Obama Care.

Check out the changes that states are making as the state economies are hitting the empty make....

The states are using exchanges to decide if you are eligible...My local SS office told me I should fight the states decision to stop paying my medicare part B because I am way below the poverty line for the eligibility ..

BUT I AM A 7 YEAR CANCER SURVIVOR.....BINGO...COVERING PRE-EXSISTING CONDITIONS MY a++.

To keep my precription drug coverage I have to pay for the Part B of my Medicare at $100 per month.. The states are purging the food stamp rolls as well as the medicaid programs.

Look under any states gov offices recent changes.

What the Obamcare is suppost to help the states are taking away...

You have my condolences for living in a republican-controlled state. You vote 'em in, you live with 'em, or die with 'em.

Nope. Obamacare and it's mandate was implemented at the federal level vs. state (Romneycare). This is why the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional this month because it's a state right, not a federal right, and the Commerce Clause does not support this instance. States can have a mandate.

5 Top GOP Lies About Obama's Health Care Plan :

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5932/2009-08-11.html

The Third Lie: President Obama wants to implement Soviet-style rationing. The truth: Health care reform will expand access to high-quality health insurance, and give individuals, families, and businesses more choices for coverage. Right now, big corporations decide whether to give you coverage, what doctors you get to see, and whether a particular procedure or medicine
is covered—that is rationed care. And a big part of reform is to stop that.

Health care reform will do away with some of the most nefarious aspects of this rationing: discrimination for pre-existing conditions, insurers that cancel coverage when you get sick, gender discrimination, and lifetime and yearly limits on coverage. And outside of that, as noted above, reform will increase insurance options, not force anyone into a rationed situation.

You really sound like a broken record; a one trick pony, which is typical of a zombie Liberal. Same BS different day. :-)

No that would be you vat, your post sounds like repeats of Reagans 25 greatest lies.

VAT...do you pay taxes that then go towards schools? Why? In your world the public paying taxes for schools is socialism! Schools should fund themselves otherwise they are sucking from the teat of the state! Do you drive a car? Do you drive on a road that was built and is maintained by public taxes? Then you are a socialist in your mind! Stop driving on someone elses road and start to build your own roads! Do you ever go to a hospital? Was it funded by the public purse? If so then you are a socialist and you should stop going to these hospitals and stop taking your sick family members there. If you don't then you are a socialist! Only go to hospitals that you helped build and which you pay the premiums to be able to access. Stop using the publicly funded infrastructures that exist for all and only use those establishments that are free from any dipping into the public trough for funds! Be a man and start to declare any and all public infrastructure socialism. Follow your ideals and stop using public facilities....just use private! That way you can be true to your anti-socialism views!

BINGO BOB! Gotum!

If the Koches thought they could privatise air they would try!

xxx ooo

well if they keep the house take senate and the Presidency they the koches would try to do just that. maybe not so much by making profit on it but by only their area being in shape to breath while the rest of the country world be dam.

5 Top GOP Lies About Obama's Health Care Plan :

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5932/2009-08-11.html

The Fourth Lie: Obama is secretly plotting to cut senior citizens' Medicare benefits.

The truth: Health care reform plans will not reduce Medicare benefits. Reform includes savings from Medicare that are unrelated to patient care—in fact, the savings comes from cutting billions of dollars in overpayments to insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.

myths and facts on the healthcare reform bill:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/myths-and-facts#healthcare-menu

Liberals here love to think government is the answer vs. the private sector. They cannot name one government program that improves and reduces costs over time vs. the private sector that must compete, provide more and better services and create a profit to exist. The government is rife with fraud, waste and abuse of our tax dollars and red tape, which creates rationed care and less quality. They never learn. Why do you think Canadians cross the border for American healthcare services?

We tried the republican privatization, it lead to the robber barons of the 1890s and the first stock market crash in 1892, then it was tried in the 1920's and by 1929 a stock market crash which lead to the great depression. Then FDR took over got us away from GOP stupidity which lead to the working mans paradise of the 1950's and 60's. Then 1970, the GOP put Nixon in and we saw inflation as well as job slow down. 1980 Reagan was selected and by 1982 the first stock market crash since 29, out sourcing, lay offs, low wage service jobs along with a 1 trillion deficit. Then Bush 41 in 4 years he managed to drive the deficit up to 3 trillion. Clinton comes along raises taxes starts paying off the interest of the 3 trillion deficit at the end of 8 years for the first time since 1970 there is a surplus in the budget, which could have been used to pay off the GOP debts. Before that could happen GWB was selected, gave the surplus away to the wealthy and went on a borrow and spend spree at the end of 8 years totaled 15 trillion plus interest. Yeah the GOP's great track record in a nut shell.

Whom

For once get your facts straight. Clinton, to his credit, worked with the the Republican Congress under Gingrinch to eliminate waste, reform welfare and balance the budget. Bush's deficits increased the national debt to $10 trillion by the end of his 8 years. Obama has increased the debt to $15.5 trillion - so far.

And your hero Ron Reagan created more jobs in his 8 years than any president in our life time. Sorry dude, you can't rewrite historical facts with liberal talking points.

I'd also like to start a new contest here. Let's see who can predict how many times Whom uses the term tea-bagging in the next 7 days. Any takers?

We've learned that Whom is a foreigner, not a US citizen - that can't even vote for Obama or any Democrat, Progressive and Liberal. This explains why her facts are from the twilight zone. Don't waste your time, she lives in a European fantasy land. :-)

A FED....

Las Vegas placed the over /under at 34.

Three tea bagging republicans sitting in a tree pretending they are wise old owls and open up their mouths just to prove they are gooney birds.

repeat

one down, 33 to go...

Wrong as usual storm really you should seek professional help for those delusions of yours. Really when you keep repeating the same crap day after day topic after topic all you show is you have nothing worth answering so instead its time for us to just ignore your nonsense.

Vatican...

do we know for sure whether Whom is a male or a female? are we sure it is human?

just saying...

Let's see who can predict how many times Whom uses the term tea-bagging in the next 7 days. Any takers?

Or how many times he calls Reagan a doddering insane fool.

Whom

You mean your lies about the true deficit/debt numbers? I think everyone on this blog know your numbers are wrong and just ignore your posts about them. Come on now I'll be disappointed if there isn't a tea-b---- in your response. LOL

Las Vegas is asking for a clarification on the wording before they set the over/under on this one...does it have to be a specific negative comment about Reagan or does any derogatory comment count?

Really deny deny deny.

VAT...your view id the government should have NO role in the public infrastructure! You want everything to be private! Good, then only use the private infrastructure you have contributed to.....do not use public schools, public transport, drive on public roads, play in public parks, go to public Universities, stop using public health care! Follow your beliefs and only go to private facilities where you can pay your own way and not be a burden to anyone else in the public arena. I have no problem with that! The problem you are going to have is being able to afford your ideological view of the world. You may die before finding a hospital that is private that will take you! But then that is your choice! Go for it and be happy on your road to health and education!

Chitown/Storm

Whom's tea-baggin and Reagan insane comments are neck and neck. I think the over will be a lock. LOL

Here you go Rex. Listen, read and educate yourself on the actual GOP plan:

roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

I and Rex have read the road map to destruction. Don't try telling somebody you kmow nothing about to read something. He's read more than you've ever seen.

5 Top GOP Lies About Obama's Health Care Plan :

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5932/2009-08-11.html

The Fifth Lie: Obama's health care plan will bankrupt America.
The truth: We need health care reform now in order to prevent bankruptcy—to control spiraling costs that affect individuals, families, small businesses, and the American economy.

Right now, we spend more than $2 trillion dollars a year on health care. The average family premium is projected to rise to over $22,000 in the next decade—and each year, nearly a million people face bankruptcy because of medical expenses.

Reform, with an affordable, high-quality public option that can spur competition, is necessary to bring down skyrocketing costs. Also, President Obama's reform plans would be fully paid for over 10 years and not add a penny to the deficit.

We're closer to real health care reform than we've ever been—and the next few weeks will decide whether it happens. We need to make sure the truth about health care reform is spread far and wide to combat right wing lies.

Hit Rewind, then Play. Same old broken record of Liberal nonsense, division and distortions, which America turned their back on earlier this week. I hope you keep rewinding your tape of songs. :-)

Still better then your fact less repeat posts vat.

Give up! Ulnless you've been waterboarded 183 times it won't believe you!

I have family in Canada and go there often and hear about the rationed poor quality healthcare and long wait to be seen by a physician so save me the Liberal nonsense.

The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care: Go to America!

Vivek Rajasekhar

February 9, 2010 at 3:00 pm

One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within their collectivist framework. This, then, begs the question: why is the head of an east coast Canadian province coming to the United States for medical treatment?

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is seeking heart surgery in the United States, drawing criticism from “local bloggers and people calling in to the province’s immensely popular open-line radio shows.” Yet his actions are hardly unusual for world leaders. Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is known to have his checkups at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006 . Even middle-class Canadians are utilizing their proximity to the United States to seek treatment here.

A study by Steven Katz, Diana Verilli, and Morris Barer in Health Affairs examining the Ontario Health Insurance Plan from 1987 to 1995 found “evidence of cross-border care seeking for cardiovascular and orthopedic procedures, mental health services, and cancer treatments,” although not widespread. Examples include the governments of British Columbia and Quebec sending patients to the United States for coronary artery surgery and cancer treatment. Shona Holmes, a Kingston, Ontario resident in need of an endocrinologist and neurologist, crossed the border when she was told to wait “four months for one specialist and six months for the other.” Karen Jepp delivered identical quadruplets in Montana “because of a shortage of neonatal beds in Canada,” with the Calgary health system picking up the tab.

Perhaps Canadians’ health care migration patterns are a result of their own centralized system of government health care planning and “free care” crashing into the government’s budget constraints. The annual study “Paying More: Getting Less“ produced by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, found that government-run monopolies established in each province of Canada (simultaneously barring private operators from competing for the delivery of public health services) produce rates of growth in government health care spending that are “not financially sustainable through public means alone.” Each province’s policy of insulating consumers from price signals, such as premiums, co-payments and deductibles, has naturally led to over-consumption of medical treatment. Thus provincial governments, encountering fiscal restraints, must resort to long queues and the rationing of care.

And wait patients must. A hospital survey of five countries (United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia), conducted by Robert Blendon and colleagues in Health Affairs found that “waits of six months or more for elective surgeries were reported to occur ‘very often’ or ‘often’ by 26–57 percent of executives in the four non-U.S. countries; only 1 percent of U.S. hospitals reported this. Half of all Canadian hospitals reported an average waiting time of over six months for a 65-year-old male requiring a routine hip replacement; no American hospital administrators reported waits this long.

Perhaps if Canadian provinces adopted a free-market approach to health care, more of their citizens (and politicians) would seek treatment within their borders. This leaves just one question: if the United States adopts government-run health care system, even remotely like that of Canada, with government control of benefits and financing, plus reams of rules specifying what we can and cannot get, which border are we going to cross to get the care we need?

So vat tries to tell a Canadian who uses Canada's health care system he is wrong but vat is right because vat posted a site that says what vat believes.

VAT...you are so ignorant of Canada and our health care. If Danny Williams wants to get surgery somewhere else than in Canada that is his RIGHT! You know....freedom to choose! If he can afford it then great. I would also partake in a heart surgeon in another country that has done a procedure well hundreds of times vs taking one that may have only done it a couple dozen or so....if I could afford the flight and the out of pocket costs for not getting my health care in Canada! Sure there are wait times and that affects some timely accessibility but let's be honest here. I can get health care anywhere in Canada....how many Americans can't even get basic health care in their own county let alone state or anywhere else in the country! I would rather wait a week to get arthroscopic knee surgery in Canada than to only have access to health care providing I have a credit card with lots of room on it. In America there are many many people that would never even qualify for basic health care because they don't have a credit card or have financial where-with-all to pay for their health care. I don't know about you but needing the health system is not something you plan, not like planning to buy that boat, or a new house, or a car.....it happens suddenly at times and that is when you need an available health care system to be available to access. Not because you are a dead beat or a socialist but because you have an unexpected need!

What a Liberal moron. So typical of the radical entitlement class that expects everyone else to pay for their healthcare. You're too lazy to read the GOP plan, so you ask for "my plan". We are not Congressmen, so who cares what "we think". Obamacare is total nonsense that is killing jobs and the CBO recently said the cost has now doubled from it's original estimates. Your lack of substance and common sense speaks volumes. Do you really think I care what you have to say? :-) Fetch Rex.

news.yahoo.com/cbo-obamacare-price-tag-shifts-940-billion-1-163500655.html

blog.heritage.org/2012/03/21/cbos-estimates-of-obamacare-revisited/

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Obamacare will cost taxpayers $1.76 trillion, double the $900 billion price tag advanced by the president, and could lead businesses to cut off coverage to 20 million Americans, according to a report released Wednesday.

From the Washington Examiner:

The CBO released its latest cost estimate of Obamacare’s spending provisions showing that the law will cost $1.76 trillion through 2022. But even that doesn’t capture the law’s true price tag.

Since Obamacare will not be fully implemented until 2014, we will not know until next year what a full 10-year cost estimate of the law looks like. But, extrapolating yesterday’s estimate forward, The Washington Examiner‘s Phil Klein predicts the final ten-year cost of Obamacare will exceed $2 trillion, more than double what Obama said it would cost.

On Thursday, the CBO provided an equally explosive report on the number of people who will lose privately provided health insurance once Obamacare is fully implemented. The office provided best case (5 million) and worst case (20 million) estimates on the report, both of which are far higher than previous estimates.

From the Hill:

Under CBO’s best estimate, 11 million mostly low-wage workers would lose their employer coverage. About 3 million would choose to drop their coverage to go into the new subsidized health exchanges or on Medicaid, while another 9 million would gain employer-sponsored coverage, for a net total of 5 million people losing employer coverage in 2019. …

Last year, CBO’s best estimate was that only 1 million people would lose employer-sponsored coverage.

Comparing Canada and the U.S. on Education
By Futures of School Reform Group on April 4, 2011 11:13 PM

By Ben Levin

Most Canadians were very surprised when the OECD PISA studies ranked us among the best performing education systems in the world - and many Canadian probably still do not believe these results. Yet for four rounds now, Canada has been among the top performing countries, and also one with smaller than average gaps between high and low performing students.

Canada has many similarities to the U.S. in education. We have virtually no federal government presence in schooling; the 10 provinces and three territories run the systems. We also have a system of local districts with elected boards, as in the U.S., that developed as the country was settled by European arrivals. Many Canadian schools, especially in our cities, are very diverse; in Toronto, where I live, about 50% of the population was born outside of Canada, from all parts of the world. In western Canada, more than 10% of students are Aboriginal. Yet, Canada has consistently been a high performing country on international assessments of student performance. Compared to the U.S., the main difference is that Canada has a much smaller proportion of low performing students; performance at the top end of the distribution is quite similar.

The Ryan Plan is a total disaster for the 99%...

If you you want a CHANGE IN LIFE STYLE.....Romney and Ryan will give it to you...

Even Romney's name gives me nightmarish images of the year 500BC when the King Romney's decided who was worthy to live by their usefulness to the reign.

And then there was Hitler and his high hopes of breeding a superior race..And this was being done in Germany at the time of WW2.. The exterminating of the undesirables this was not just the Jewish people....

What did Mitt Romney say.."That your worth was based upon your productivity."

Lets talk about the Democrats, Progressives and Liberals that support Planned Parenthood that had its roots in American Eugenics where they attempted to commit black genocide and population control, which began with Margaret Sanger. Read on: blackgenocide.org/sanger.html Democrats attempted to defeat the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, and then we have this. Such a proud history you all have. :-) Democratic War on Blacks, Women and other minorities. Wake up America! :-)

Liar. You probably also believe Planned Parenthood is there for the purpose of providing federally funded abortions. You really need to get out of the sun.

You probably also believe Planned Parenthood is there for the purpose of providing federally funded abortions. You really need to get out of the sun.

PP got 360 million taxpayer's dollars in 2009. PP does abortions. ERGO PP is ther for the purpose of providing federally funded abortions.

Wasn't that simple??

You're full of it jerry. Go kiss a frog.

http://www.care2.com/causes/at-least-48-million-could-become-uninsured-under-paul-ryans-budget.html

Written by Igor Volsky

Since Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) new budget eliminates $1.5 trillion from the Affordable Care Act, cuts $770 billion from Medicaid and reduces Medicare spending by $200 billion, Ezra Klein points out that “it would be very interesting to see an estimate of the uninsured population under Ryan’s budget.” The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of Ryan’s plan does not provide those numbers, but a rough back-of-the-envelope estimate suggests that at least 48 million Americans could lose their health insurance:

Here is how:

– 33 MILION FROM HEALTH REFORM: The budget repeals the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to purchase health insurance coverage, the provision of subsidies for lower-income Americans, and the expansion of the Medicaid program. In other words, it completely defunds the law’s investment in reducing the number of uninsured. As a recent CBO estimate found, compared with prior law, “the ACA is now estimated by CBO and JCT to reduce the number of nonelderly people without health insurance coverage by 30 million to 33 million in 2016 and subsequent years.”

– 15 MILLION FROM MEDICAID CUTS: The budget would eliminate the existing matching-grant financing structure of Medicaid and would instead give each state a pre-determined block grant that does not keep up with actual health care spending. This would shift some of the burden of Medicaid’s growing costs to the states, forcing them to — in the words of the CBO — make cutbacks that “involve reduced eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP, coverage of fewer services, lower payments to providers, or increased cost sharing by beneficiaries—all of which would reduce access to care.” The block grants would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $810 billion over 10 years, decreasing federal Medicaid spending by more than 35 percent over the decade. As a result, economists estimate that states could reduce enrollment by more than 14 million people, or almost 20 percent—even if they are were able to slow the growth in health care costs substantially.

– 1 MILLION FROM MEDICARE AGE INCREASE: The House budget would raise Medicare’s age of eligibility from 65 to 67 by 2034. CBO estimates that while such proposals would reduce Medicare spending by about $150 billion over 10 years, the change would affect roughly 5.4 million seniors. Of this group, about 2.7 million seniors would pick up health insurance offered by employers. Some of the remaining seniors would obtain coverage through Medicaid, qualify for Medicare because they are disabled, or purchase private health insurance in the direct purchase market. But since the House budget would also cut Medicaid and repeal reforms in the Affordable Care Act that would make the direct-purchase market accessible and affordable, many more seniors would become uninsured.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/at-least-48-million-could-become-uninsured-under-paul-ryans-budget.html#ixzz1xN14yOPz

The cost of implementing Obamacare has already skyrocketed and it's not even 2014 yet when it goes completely active; killing more jobs as the government attempts to take over 1/6 of our nations economy. God bless the Supreme Court as I hope they rule it Unconstitutional later this month to save us citizens from the Progressive elitists in Washington. Once Obama loses in 2012, America will be saved. :-)

Hope

If a 90 year old mans needs a hip replacement he will not get it because of his age. Will he be euthanized? Of course not. Will he be expected to live out his life in a wheelchair....you betcha!!

Yep, jerry is all for a disabled person living half a life. Best hope it doesn't happen to you jerry. My tax money ain't gonna help a loser like you.

Yep, jerry is all for a disabled person living half a life. Best hope it doesn't happen to you jerry. My tax money ain't gonna help a loser like you.

1st of all the government has no intention of paying for every single medical problem that a person may have. That's why Obama hired Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm's brother. His job is to bring "efficiency" into the government run health care system if and when it gets going. Efficiency means cutting costs, that means the 90 yo guy doesn't get a hip replacement.

The disabled person doesn't have to worry about me, he has to worry about Obama.

btw I've had med insurance for most of my life without a problem. If I wanted a procedure done that isn't covered, I'd pay for it myself.

I started planning for those situations 45 years ago. Did you?

So, it is all about what only applies to you.? I don't plan to be disabled, but what if it did happen? Not all I had planned for would be the same. And if I suddenly became unable to do anything about it what do you suggest I do? What if you brought a child in the world that had special needs and you were young and you had not really had the time to save and to plan for it? Things happen to people they don't plan.

So, it is all about what only applies to you.?

That's correct!!

What if you brought a child in the world that had special needs and you were young and you had not really had the time to save and to plan for it?

Real Conservative don't bring children into the world then pass them off to the taxpayers. We leave that behavior to liberal democrats.

Right jerry except before SSI you good conservatives either hid your disabled off spring in attics if they could perform house hold tasks or you shipped them to state hospitals where they became wards of the state.

To a pont you're correct. But you need to include females in that statement.

angry under-educated males of all colors who without any education in History or government can not sort out or rationalise what is happening to their country...

They have nothing to fear do they? Aren't you liberals going to do everything for them? I think it's in the liberal oath of allegiance, isn't it?

It would be a shame if they actually had to make decisions in their pathetic lives.

What happens when anger is all that they have left...?????

That's when civilized people start investing in Smith and Wesson.

Pelosi said that.....We have to pass the bill before knowing what is in it"...I agree with you Obama Care has nothing to do with health care.

Yesterday, Pelosi told Rachel Maddow that the only thing that the Democratic Congress could do about changing Citizens United was to change the Constitution. Changing the Constitution takes years....Why should it take a change in the Constitution to stop Citizen United.....?????

The silence from the Occupy and other activist groups, many of which are preparing for what ever it takes to take back our government..Their silence is scary.. !!!!!

These old senile legislators need to be forced out of office...

Pelosi was a pathetic hand -twisting old woman with no ideal what to do and it showed...BIG TIME..

Rex,what makes you think Obamacare won't be expensive? The truly poor who are not paying anything will still not be paying anything. How many people in this country can afford health coverage but chose not to? How many people are delusional and think some how this is going to be free?

Rex, if they don't already know, it's because they don't want to. They don't want any information that might possibly benifit this country or it's people if it happened to come from President Obama. That is just fact, as has been proven by the right wing comments on this blog site.

Yeah like saying I am not a US citizen. Gee what next I have to show my birth certificate? Oh yeah thats right I don't have one, I need a court order to get it.

Sorry but the only ones whining about Obama are not a majority they are just 3 or 4 posters on Ed's blog with a bunch of sock puppets so they can pat themselves on the back.