Ah, another Taxpayers Alliance press release turned into 'news'.

Yeah, why can't we get the promised death panels to deal with these people?

New Welfare Program:

Put everyone eligible for welfare on a website with a photo of themselves and a short bio. Everyone can come to the website and vote whether or not they get to recieve public funds. Majority rules.


/similar to hot or not, but with welfare

Hmmm...

I'm trying to figure out where this is coming from. Do people think that "socialized medicine" covers any and all medical procedures that anyone wants?

I live in Canada, and I can't just waltz into a plastic surgeon's off ice, have him enlarge my dong and implant my love handles into my scrotum, charge the whole thing to the taxpayer, then enjoy a successful porn career as Johnny Gigantiwang.

So the NHS in Britain covers tattoo removal? Who gives a shiat? The amount of money is trifling, it's not a necessary component of any single-payer system, and the article talks about how members of their Parliament are trying to get rid of it.

If you've got to reach this far to attack "socialized medicine", your argument is looking pretty weak.

That doesn't really fall under any definition of "medicine" I'm aware of.

They can cover that stuff when billions a year is not going to a profit margin.

Strapping myself in for the derp

imapirate: SkinnyHead: A tattoo is the mark of the lower class. You can burn it off with a laser beam, but you're still low class.

This really helps things along, now doesn't it?

We should start a blog called "Shiat that Skinnyhead derps."

I prefer FreepImpacts blog.

Why is this tuesday 200% dumber than usual? Is Rick Perry running fark today?

Conservative Mindset: Somebody, somewhere is getting something I think they don't deserve from the government. I can't prove it, and my attempts in the past have been laughable failures, but it still compels me to attempt to get rid of all government other than military spending. It doesn't matter what other good things come along with the package it all has to go because I can't stand it.

Something like that anyway.

How many people?

SkinnyHead: A tattoo is the mark of the lower class. You can burn it off with a laser beam, but you're still low class.

Meanwhile, men with neck tattoos who play professional sports make more a year than the combined income of this entire thread.

What might socialized medicine cost? Try over $300,000 in four years for removing ugly tattoos from stupid people


The CEOs of many key health care trade groups earned big bonuses in 2009 ... Overall, the chief executives were paid well: Nine of 12 health care trade associations paid their CEOs compensation of $1 million or more ... Lobbyists at the associations received compensation in the range of $250,000 to more than $1 million ... Tauzin, the former CEO of PhRMA, is among those who received a bonus. On top of his base pay of $2.1 million, he was awarded a $2.3 million bonus. James Bryant Hall, PhRMA's top federal lobbyist after Tauzin, received a bonus of $91,750 on top of his $371,182 base pay. Another key health care player, Scott Serota, CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, earned a bonus of $1.6 million on a base salary of $856,055, and BCBSA chief lobbyist Alissa Fox received a $130,000 bonus plus base pay of $278,760. Chip Kahn, CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, received a base salary of $900,000 and a bonus of $315,000, while Jeff Cohen, one of the group's top lobbyists, earned $325,000 in base pay and a bonus of $65,000.


STFU, submitter, you raging moron.

It'll never happen over here. The insurance companies that will run government medicine will find a way to get out of it. Sure we'll still pay for it, but no one will get their tattoos removed.

Code_Archeologist: What a childish argument.

Claiming the invalidity of a program over a small and sensational flaw is like saying you don't want a free car because there is a small scratch on a door.

That's also the bulk of counter-arguments they have to solving problems.

'If this doesn't solve our issues perfectly 100% on the first try, its not worth doing at all!'

OMG! The way insurance works is an outrage!

The median CEO pay in the [US health care insurance] industry was $10 million. times 456 companies in the study . . . . $4.5 billion per year in pay for people that could be easily replaced with bags of moldy moss.

Yeah, the Brits are doing it wrong, sure.

Universal coverage is less expensive as overall % GDP than the current, for-profit system. Does anyone disagree with this? Why is this so much more offensive than "socialized" firemen, police, and military? Next time you have a stroke,

£200k in four years? THE OUTRAGE. That's, like, £50k a year.

And the NHS has a budget of £106 billion.
That comes to ~0.0000005% of possibly wasteful spending.

HEADS MUST ROLL FOR THIS
AMERICAN HEALTHCARE IS MUCH BETTER

/VOTE REPUBLICAN

Riotcow: Universal coverage is less expensive as overall % GDP than the current, for-profit system.

The current for-profit system isn't going away because of health care "reform." The only real difference under the new system is mandated profit.

'Socialized medicine' doesn't have to cover all procedures you know. You can make rules, this isn't 'Nam.

Code_Archeologist: What a childish argument.

Claiming the invalidity of a program over a small and sensational flaw is like saying you don't want a free car because there is a small scratch on a door.

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

I know this is going to come as a surprise but, it doesn't take long for little shiat to add up.

Oh, The RNC has declared Anti-Obamacare day. EVERYONE FIND ANTI-OBAMACARE STORIES FAST! BE IN WITH THE IN CROWD!

NeverDrunk23: Code_Archeologist: What a childish argument.

Claiming the invalidity of a program over a small and sensational flaw is like saying you don't want a free car because there is a small scratch on a door.

That's also the bulk of counter-arguments they have to solving problems.

'If this doesn't solve our issues perfectly 100% on the first try, its not worth doing at all!'

It also fits well into a news cycle - even if a program is outrageously successful there are always going to be a few mistakes or problems, and then any parts of the press opposed to the program will concentrate on those. Its like how crime has fallen fairly consistently over the last 20 years or so in the UK but 60-70% of people think it has risen due to the selectivity of news sources - if overall crime is up one year they report that, if the next year it is down they report that say murders are up, and if both overall crime and murders are down they will pick up that burglaries are up, etc.

I alone am best: I know this is going to come as a surprise but, it doesn't take long for little shiat to add up.

That sounds like a great argument for a tiny financial transactions tax!

Desperately waiting for socialized medicine...

Rev.K: $75,000 a year for tattoo removals.

The horror.

But over 12 years it will be almost $1 million.

You heard that right.

Over One Million Dollars a year on tattoo removal.

Be sure to forward this onto your friends and family.

Came for amusing photos of examples of stupid people with tattoos.

/left disappointed

I alone am best: I know this is going to come as a surprise but, it doesn't take long for little shiat to add up.

Does it add up more or less than the costs of people who are unemployable or only employable at the margins because of their stupid tattoos?

Am I supposed to be outraged? I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with this.

Mad Scientist: Came for amusing photos of examples of stupid people with tattoos.

/left disappointed

From a Sports tab thread last week:

So you're mad that people are getting rid of ugly tattoos?
You regressives just can't make up your minds, can you?

EatHam: That's probably a bargain. Either pay a couple grand to remove the "fark you" from some dipshiat's neck, or pay for his welfare the rest of his stupid life when he can't get anyone to hire his dumb ass.

Welfare doesn't work that way.

Let him get a shiatty job in a kitchen to save up for getting those tats removed.

EWreckedSean: Desperately waiting for socialized medicine...

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Why would anyone want to get rid of that absolutely glorious piece of art?

RichieLaw: Totally true. It totally wouldn't be worth the hundreds or thousands of people who die at home because they can't afford to go see a doctor when they are sick.

BS

Oh man, I can't afford that! Can someone else split this $300,000 cost with me?