They understand how it works. They just want the poors to die. Natural selection Republican style.

It is “bad” for those who are callous fucks....

Wasn’t the individual mandate initially a Republican proposal?

It’s more “healthy people subsidize unhealthy peoples rates”. By cutting out Pre-existing conditions, insurance premiums should go down. But that’s like expecting gas prices to go down when oil reserves are released. Once a coming has an established price point, it’s rarely lowered. I’d rather see work get done on…

Oh they understand how it works. They. Just. Don’t. Care.

The US has a long, sordid history of “rugged individualism” that is mostly bullshit. Politicians appeal to that idea and get people to go against their own best interests so the politicians can funnel money to their buddies instead of building a society.

They believe whatever’s convenient.

The same way Republicans believe government is dysfunctional by not holding themselves accountable for their actions, just shovel money to things that interests them, not to things that are of our best interests.

The fact that we’re actually having (and apparently, are somehow losing) a debate about whether all children deserve healthcare is a sign how completely broken a society we are.

When did republicans stop understanding how insurance works? Literally the ONLY thing that can keep costs down is the fact that we all “pay for each others’ insurance”. That’s the only way it succeeds. That’s how all insurance works, has ever worked, since the invention of insurance.

Might I introduce you to Orca: The Killer Whale, a 1977 film starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling that features a score by Ennio Morricone? It is a splendidly bad film.

If they could go for the whaling vessels first, I think I could find room in my heart to forgive.

And after that they go on the critically endangered list.

Sorry you’re off by several orders of magnitude.

I blame FaceSpace, which counts videos as “viewed” after 3 seconds, and has thus trained all its users to watch video content for that long and no longer. We’re going to be getting Blipverts in no time.

Even the ABC evening news does this crap. In the time it takes to do the previews they could tell half the story.

Yup. Unless LA construction firms are going to go into overdrive in the next two years, clearly LA won’t look anything like it does in the original film, so the films are clearly in alternate timeline territory.

More of a Marie Antonionette thing mixed in with some Elena Ceausescu

If she actually wanted to get out, she has him over a barrel right now and should take advantage of it. More than half of the country will be rolling with laughter, but the other half will be all, “Poor Donnie! That bad woman left you and took your son.” He could give her alimony and child support (over and above the…

She deserves every bit of this after the racist bs she pulled with the birther movement