I agree with most of what you say. One problem with drugs is that the U.S. taxpayers fund R&D for new drugs in several ways other countries don't.
(1) The U.S. federal government protects drug patents within the country. This allows a single company to set the price, often to offset the cost of development they say. U.S. taxpayers pay for that, other countries don't.
(2) The U.S
I completely agree with your point. I'd rather not spend that money on insurance, and then if I get something that requires $20k in spending, I'd be happy to pay that bill on a monthly basis. If I get something that requires $200k in spending? Honestly, if I can't afford it, just let me suffer. I don't want to be a burden on people.
I never paid for insurance before Obamaca
But car insurance doesn't have a industry-wide influence on the cost of car repairs. If we could only go to dealerships for repairs, then the prices would skyrocket. That's essentially what we have in healthcare.
Sanders kept talking about how the cost of health care keeps going up. He says insurance companies are to blame for the problems, not Obamacare, even though Obamacare was supposed to help solve that. Now he wants a single payer option.
How is that going to lower the cost of health care? Is that going to lessen the legal restrictions on hospitals and doctors? Is that going to lower the barriers
All the Muslims I've personally known have been fine people.
Having said that, I know two people that have lived among Arabs in the Middle East. One is the daughter of immigrants from S.Korea and spent time in Afghanistan and Jordan. The other is from Ohio and spent time living in the Arab part of Israel.
Both tell me it would be devastating to put tens of thousands of these fundament
You wrote:
"I began to notice just how prevalent make-up, plastic surgery, and silicon enhancements actually are among these models the Western media tend to endlessly parade around"
Then you turn around and post links to girls wearing tons of make-up. Yes, irony abounds.
The BBC article I linked said this:
Russia's Stavropol region has a ban on hijabs - the first of its kind imposed by a region in the Russian federation. The ruling was upheld by Russia's Supreme Court in July 2013. In Chechnya, the authorities have defied Russian policy on Islamic dress. In 2007 President Ramzan Kadyrov - the pro-Moscow leader - issued an edict ordering women to wear
I remember hearing a few months back that parts of France had banned the burqa bikini, or burkini. Then my brother told me the Supreme Leader of Germany, Merkel, had changed her stance on inviting refugees to Germany. I was in disbelief. I looked it up. It's true! Not only that, but she is now advocating to ban face veils! Shocking!
Normally, I thought to myself, this would be evidence of
I hope the media and everyone hound him just enough every day of his life so he spends the next day trying to figure out how to win their affections.
I think the moment he gets comfortable in public opinion (or gives up trying) he's going to be incredibly corrupt as he tries to fill the glory-seeking void inside while insiders play him like a $2 fiddle.
In the meantime, I hope he bans
Being able to heal your elemental with Altruism is crazy powerful.
I'd like to try a warrior with Whispers and Maelstrom some day. Not sure what spec. Sword would be great for tank+damage, dagger for degen and I like the -hit for fighting mobs, h2h for stun would be great.
Do you wonder why you likely had the wrong idea about Assange's motivations?
I am very glad you did seem to change your mind about CIA/FBI accountability. That whole conversation made me want to give up.
You put a lot of weight in "sources", which is fine. But for really important things, like potentially heading toward WWIII? I want better evidence.
I'm the kind of
Pointing out how you interpret things wasn't meant to hurt your feelings. I honestly hope you will recognize this limitation and seek to expand your worldview. Cause right now you are either doing a masterful trolling on me, or you have absolutely no clue where I'm coming from. Really. No clue.
Take the DNC hack as an example: I won't back down from wanting to see the evidence b
"I really don't understand why you're still cheerleadering him."
I'd love to hear about all the fascinating research you did concerning my cheerleading Trump. The best I can find is this. :-(
The next thing you know, you'll be saying we should consider body cam and dashboard cam videos when reviewing police encounters. Outrageous! Are you suggesting Internal Investigations and Oversight Committees are not enough accountability? Blasphemy!
I'm forming an internal oversight committee to review your thoughtcrimes against Big Brotherment. If we like you, we'll ask you
Disclaimer: I've had a few beers. Please don't take what I'm about to say too seriously. I get that tone is hard to convey over the internet. Imagine me leaning heavily on your shoulder slurring words into your ear while looking wildly into the horizon and sloshing beer on you from time to time.
I pretty much agree with what Jib said. Only thing I'll add is in response to:
I'm not saying the Russian didn't do it, I just haven't seen any evidence that points to that. There's a reason hearsay is not given much credibility in court...
And even if Russians did hack the DNC, that does not mean they are the ones that gave the leaked emails to Wikileaks. Especially since Wikileaks, who is far more credible than the U.S. intelligence agencies, says i
"Overall Conclusion
The IP addresses that DHS provided may have been used for an attack by a state actor like Russia. But they don’t appear to provide any association with Russia. They are probably used by a wide range of other malicious actors, especially the 15% of IP addresses that are Tor exit nodes.
The malware sample is old, widely used and appears to be Ukrainian. It has no appa
Assassins: Please coordinate a tiny bit, and have a plan to deal with the healer first and always. You need to kill him, force him to flee, or otherwise render his services useless.