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In his doctoral dissertation, Cheeseman paid homage to the DEI ideology, so one does wonder how much of this junk has seeped into Beaufort County Schools?

Commented: Sunday, December 15th, 2024 @ 8:40 pm By: Rino Hunter

Any political smear against a Republican from the partisan Democrat propaganda machine CNN should be assumed to be false. Ditto MSNBC and the rest of the MSM.

Commented: Sunday, December 15th, 2024 @ 9:19 am By: John Steed

I Love you Diane TILL WE MEET AGAIN 💕

Commented: Saturday, December 14th, 2024 @ 2:09 pm By: Tony DeCarlo

John - MR was on tape making the comments. It was not a card, it was his position on the subject.
He could have apologized but he counted on the cult to vote for him anyway. He rolled the dice. Then the sex NAZi thing hit and he was done.

BTW- I predicted his law suit against CNN would be dropped 10 seconds after the election. NO WAY MR lets that go through discovery.

John, some people are just pigs and do not deserve to be in leadership.
MR is such a man.

Commented: Saturday, December 14th, 2024 @ 9:00 am By: Big Bob

We fight, they laugh all the to the bank. Cheers

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 6:48 pm By: Big Bob

What Obamacare has done, and it was predictable based on what happened with a similar government program in Australia, was a massive consolidation within all aspects of the medical care industry. Instead of lots of independent providers to choose from, we now have big conglomerates for the most part, both in insurance and in actual provision of care. This has made the system more impersonal and less user friendly. The Democrats' hope was that getting to that stage would encourage citizens to say "Aw, heck, just let the government do it all." That would be going from the frying pan into the fire.

Simply repealling Obamacare at this point would accomplish little because it is more the changes Obamacare instigated that are the problem than Obamacare itself. A path forward needs to be found somehow to encourage more insurance companies to get back into medical insurance so we have some competition, and to unwind these medical conglomerates like Vidant, which are now everywhere in the country. That is a tall order, but something needs to be done because the present system is a huge mess and socialized medicine is much worse.

Commented: Saturday, December 14th, 2024 @ 7:44 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

We had the same in the US when the Dems and their media mouthpieces were claiming Trump was Hitler. I don't think this nonsense will fool voters in Europe any more than it fooled voters in the US.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 5:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

What the liberal Democrats were trying to do with both HillaryCare and ObamaCare was to gum up the system so badly that people would accept socialized medicine. They have indeed gummed up the system, and lack of competition in health insurance and health care itself has been a huge problem.

Here is an important comparison between health insurance before Obamacare and now. As Sean Hannity pointed out on his radio show this afternoon, claim denials by all the big health insurers including United Health Insurance were under 2% in 2013 before Obamacare kicked in. Now they are over 15% at most and with United Health Insurance at an astounding 31%.

I still do not think people want socialized medicine. Too many are aware of Canada's problems there where people die on waiting lists unable to get timely appointments. Many Canadians come to the US for medical care because they cannot get it at home.

The same is true with the UK's National Health Service, where Brits increasingly go to India to get medical care to get around the waiting lists at home. THere was an article recently in a British newspaper about how the NHS would send doctors to make house calls at migrant hotels in areas where it takes many months for a citizen to get an appointment.

Yes, we need to cut off the illegal aliens. Send them home for health care. Americans should not have to pay for interlopers who should not even be here.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 2:18 pm By: John Steed

I think what you saw with Obama Care was an attempt at changing an awful system. Most Americans agreed change was needed and said so with their votes.

The money interest have been trying to kill it ever since. They have been unsuccessful, however they have adapted. Now most of us have coverage. So what do they do? They decline to cover the cost of all but the most routine care. You have a plan, but you better be careful how you use it. Better make sure you see the right doc. Better make sure the ambulance takes you to the right hospital. Better hope you dont need expensive treatment for a serious disease. They can't cancel the policy, but they can deny care until you are to weak or too dead to fight them any more.

Who to blame? Every politician, right or left, who takes their money and hopes you dont notice.

It's insane.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 1:25 pm By: Big Bob

There were two people close to what was going on in the medical field with Obamacare whose comments I heard that bear on how Obamacare changed medicine.

One was my own primary care physcian here in Washington, when I expressed surprise that he and his partners had sold their practice to Vidant. He explained that Obamacare created a bureaucratic nightmare for doctors in its regulations that was going to be costly and timeconsuming for them if they stayed independent but by selling to Vidant, that would be Vidant's headache, not theirs. The other thing they thought about when Vidant approached them with an offer to buy their practice was that right then their practice had a value on the market but where the government was going on healthcare, it might not in the future. So they pocketed the value of their practice and became salaried employees of Vidant with the same annual income as when they were independent. That process seems to have been repeated many times over all around the country.

THe other comment had to do with an international organization I was working for. At our annual interenational retreat in Washington, DC. After Obamacare passed, one of the speakers was the organization's health insurance consultant who negotitated our group health insurance provisions with insurance companies. He told us that the changes with Obamacare would mean a choice. If we kept all the coverage we had, it would cost more, and if we kept the rates we had, we would have less coverage. This was because under OBamacare, everyong in all group health plans was put in one big pool, and the health profile of that pool was worse than the health profile of our organization's own employyees. Insurance rates for group plans were based on health profiles of the people to be insured. He also said some insurance companies were getting out of the health care field entirely due to Obamacare, and less competition would also push prices up and coverage down. He did tell us the changes for group health were significant but not as severe as the changes for individual health insurance would be.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 11:11 am By: Steven P. Rader

I guess everything is about race to a race hustler like Bobbie, but our Obamacare mess is NOT. It is about a longterm scheme by leftwing Democrats to capture our health system. Their first big play was HillaryCare during the Clinton regime but that bombed. Those who concocted what later became known in popular culture as "Obamacare" were actually white leftists, many of them retreads from HillaryCare.

All of the regulations and rules of Obamacare are what led to the mass centralization of our health care, including health insurance, that destroyed choice for American consumers. Here in Beaufort County, we had two independent hospitals prior to OBamcare, but post Obamacare, Vidant in Greensville bought both and closed one. Vidant also bought up many of what had been independent doctors offices. All of that was driven by Obamacare, and that consolidation is not good for consumer choice. Similarly many of the insurance companies that used to offer health insurance got out of that business after Obamacare, and that also destroyed consumer choice.

HillaryCare would have done exactly the same. That was all predictable since that had also been the result of Australia's government medicine program called Medicare, which had also seen massive consolidation and centralization in health care, to the point that a subsequent govenrment that looked into ending Medicare (the Australian equivalent of Obamacare) found that all of the centralization that had occured made it impossible to go back to what had previously worked better for Australians.

Oh, and as to those insurance companies, I am sure you will find their stockholders are of all races, and so are their employees. This is NOT a racial issue, dude.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer