The cold fact is that he lied; and he continued to lie. It does not matter how trivial the lie was. This will be a big story, and it will be devastating. There is blood on the water.

Dr Carson was not my choice as a candidate; but, I had great respect for him. That will continue, but there is a level of disappointment.-O

Good job “not buying into that conspiracy” over there, Old.

People who constantly fall for the Left’s cons, are the last people who should be talking about conspiracy theories.

And people wonder why I have a low view of average human capability… just look at what’s going on here, in this century.

The fact that people don’t know about it, but do know about the 1 million dollar priced surgery…. is perhaps a sign of the times.

Your response is filled with strawmen. I am talking about price fixing. You are talking about the need to squash 19th century magic elixirs sold by hucksters.

Time that is also given to the enemy, and they have been rather more efficient at using this time than most would have expected when FDR created his social welfare system.

That’s the problem with these old generation types. They are used to obeying the FDRs and the LBJs. They’re used to conspiracies like the JFK assassination not panning out, so they think the next generation should be exactly the same.

Well, it’s not the same.

Old should have asked himself, why if he wasn’t buying conspiracy theories, he was so easy to fool and con into believing Leftist propaganda about Republicans. That’s not the independent minded image the old generation likes to portray, but it is the truth nonetheless.

“Dennis,
The healthcare system is rigged, prices are fixed, it is the playground of racketeers.”

You are absolutely correct, that health care is very highly regulated, but the question is would you have it any other way?

1. Do you want your physician to have a license or can just anyone hang up a shingle and practice medicine.

2. Should the government set standards for hospitals which they must meet in order to care for patients or are you willing to go to a privately owned hospital which sets its own standards for cleanliness and standard of care. Would you be happy if the hospital owner billed capriciously so that someone who went in for an emergency appendectomy which went without a hitch were receive a bill for $1,000,000.

3. What about drugs, do you want to take drugs which haven’t been screened for side effects or effectiveness.

I would guess that most people want regulations in the health care system. The problem is that the regulators are themselves largely unregulated and have grown into a massive corrupt bureaucracy.

chuck Saysat 7:12 pm

“The problem is politicians. The limited plan would slowly grow over the years until it was another monstrosity.”

Correct.

What we have now is already a monstrosity. So what I suggest that we do is to replace an existing monstrosity with a usable alternative which would last for some years until the left gained enough power to turn it back into the monstrosity which already exists. It other words we would be buying time before some future generation would need to cut the new monstrosity back to size once again.

You must be old enough to remember healthcare in the 1950s.

There are huge political divisions in this country; and I have great disdain for some of the positions, and some who espouse them. Nevertheless, I do not believe that most people in medicine, pharma, oil, or other bigger businesses are corrupt. I believe that many politicians, both those on my side of the issues, and even those on the other, are true to their beliefs.

We have a messy poiltical system–by design. I would not have it any other way.

The healthcare system is rigged, prices are fixed, it is the playground of racketeers. There is no competition; only collusion between politicians, lobbyists, big pharm, physicians, hospitals, and the insurance companies.