Greatest Threat to World Peace: A Gallup Survey

skimore wrote

nepa wrote

How much experience do you have with coding and billing in healthcare systems?

Updated more than one providers system recently and see the headaches

ScottyJack wrote

we're doomed!!

Coach Z wrote

Or repeated diagnosis of toxic toad poisoning

Like what was said that simple is best and big govt never does anything the simple way when complex and expensive is available.  Getting big Govt involved always adds huge costs.

Coach Z wrote

As Ronald Reagan said "the worst words you can hear are I'm from the Government and I'm here to help"

Jack Kerwick wrote

While he’s widely heralded for having slashed taxes, as Alan Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming and friend of Reagan, confirmed, Reagan went on to raise taxes eleven times during his two terms.Moreover, in 1983, he raised payroll taxes to pay for Social Security and Medicare, i.e. “government-run healthcare.”

Reagan eliminated not a single government program, much less an agency. Instead, he strengthened those agencies—like the Departments of Energy and Education—that he originally pledged to abolish, and he even strengthened the profoundly intrusive Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Reagan created the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. As Murray Rothbard writes, “The Gipper deregulated nothing, abolished nothing.”

He concludes: “Overall, the quantity and degree of government regulation of the economy was greatly increased and intensified during the Reagan years.”

Indeed it was. The federal government grew exponentially under Reagan’s watch.

As recently as 2014, Mother Jones, a leftist journal, commended Reagan for advancing the cause of Big Government. Alex Park remarks: “If you judge him [Reagan] by the uncompromising standards of today’s GOP, Reagan was a disaster.” During Reagan’s eight year tenure, the national debt almost tripled from $907 billion to $2.6 trillion. The federal workforce increased to 324,000 people (of whom only 26% consisted of military personnel). In fact, Park observes that as of 2012, nearly a quarter of a century after Reagan left office, the federal government has nearly a million fewer people working within it. In contrast, under the “liberal” Democrat, Bill Clinton, “the federal workforce was at its smallest size in decades.”

Coach Z wrote

Snowballs

+1000

Seems like a bizarre day to be having this discussion.  If you are not proud of this country maybe you need to go live somewhere else to see how great USA really is.  Seems like everyone else in the world that hate us so much still want to live and work here.

Never Forget
God bless America

MC2 5678F589 wrote

This whole discussion seems like first world problems. Who gives a shit about Medical codes? And if Coach is trying to prove that beaurocracy sucks, congratulations we already knew that. The real problem here is that People actually believe that Reagan quote implying that the government can't help people. What a load of bullshit that is. Your roads are plowed, your children are taught, your food is okay to eat, etc. because of government. To act like they don't help people is ludicrous. I was reading this today, and it seemed appropriate:

In economic policy, Republican orthodoxy never changes, no matter how the world might change around it. Whether there's a tech boom, a recession, low deficits, high deficits, low unemployment, high unemployment — the answer is always tax cuts on upper income brackets. The same is true of energy: whether clean energy is expensive or cheap, whether oil prices are high or low, whether climate change is a pressing issue or not — the answer is always more fossil fuel extraction...

Republican energy policy proposals are created under two constraints, which together render them utterly predictable.

The first is conservative ideology. Over the last few decades, conservative preference for "small government" has become more and more rigid and simplistic. It has reached the point now where the basic conservative reflex is to decry the government doing anything — taxing, spending, or regulating, which together pretty much exhaust the possibilities for domestic policy.

So GOP candidates can't promise to do anything when they take over the federal government. All they can promise is to undo things — reduce taxes and spending and repeal regulations.

Yet the public has goals and desires. And they want their politicians to help achieve those goals and desires. Since Republicans can't promise to do anything proactive, they are forced to promise that undoing things would achieve those goals and desires, whatever they may be. They have to pretend (or, who knows, maybe really believe) that government is not only a problem, but every problem, the sole reason the public is not getting what it wants, whether it's cleaner energy or more jobs.

Sums up today's political climate pretty well, I'd say.