lavy, here's how stupid liberals are economically, Keynes, spoons...? Pavlov's Dawg?

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I'm watching a special on MAG in Cambodia, a well-intention liberal-ass group devoted to clearing away anti-personel mines (a worthy cause, don't get me wrong, anything to help out rural people is what ol' A_J always says!).


I'm watching them use people to dig up a plot of farmland inch by fucking inch wondering, "How much is all this effort costing? How stupid can people be...?"







Because, lavy, I'm thinking, hey, I'm in Cambodia, there has to be an old Soviet tank or two lying around, you just take one, strap logs behing it and just drive over the fucker until you've plowed up the top 12 inches of soil...

No more Bouncing Betties! Now you can afford to buy them A TRACTOR!

 

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Name any health criteria, and Louisiana is probably scraping bottom. According to one national ranking, the state was 49th in health outcomes in 2007 and worst overall in 2006. Even though about a quarter of the population is enrolled in Medicaid, another quarter is uninsured. Even though the federal government's "matching rate" pays out 71% of state Medicaid costs, state spending has doubled to 16% of the general budget over just the last two years. That share is projected to rise to 22% by 2011, swallowing funding for schools, police and other priorities.

Governor Jindal plans to steer working-poor Medicaid recipients out of the current "fee for service" program, where the state pays a set rate for all health-care charges (some 54 million this year). Instead, they'd choose among private managed-care plans, with Louisiana paying a fixed per-patient amount, adjusted for health risks. Essentially, Mr. Jindal wants to use Medicaid dollars to fund something like private insurance. That way, physicians and hospitals will be compensated for outcomes -- rather than volume of visits and procedures -- and get incentive payments for good performance.

Such a "defined contribution" plan is one way to wrestle run-amok health costs back under control and spend more responsibly. It isn't a new idea, but it is a good one. Congressional Republicans passed a similar reform in 1995 for Medicare, which Bill Clinton vetoed -- only to have his own bipartisan commission endorse it in 1999.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122748834975151953.html





The answer to your question, "What will be the Republican response..."

 

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Those "evil" Republicans

They tried to do the same thing for Fannie and Freddie (and SSI which will soon collapse) when they had control of the Congress but your girl Barney and his buddy Chris "Countrywide*" Dodd defeated the effort with Maxine Waters going so far as to play the race card when the answers involved Franklin Delano Raines...












* Remember the logic trap I said you walked into counselor? The one zippy lol'd?

PS - You have idiots for allies.