Thune: An End to the Schumer Shutdown Is Finally in Sight

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1. Dairies around South Dakota are working with landowners and farmers to knife the effluent from the dairy lagoons into the soil. Granted it’s a ton of crap going into the dirt, but it is still more valuable to South Dakotans than you are, Senator Thune. Thanks for nothing, schmucko!

   1. What, exactly, are you upset about?

      1. He’s one of those people who think the government is supposed to take care of him so he won’t have to look after himself.

2. Now is the time that Patriots come together and end the ACA, the Real I.D Law, the Patriot Act, and End all the Chamber-led Economic policies. Continue to fire federal workers, get rid of the Department of Health, Homeland Security, Energy, Social Security and Medicare, placing all those welfare programs back under the Treasury, while closing the Department of Commerce, while repealing the Uniform Commercial Code, the Federal Reserve, and any law that contradicts the Constitution. Ending the deep state is a must, and returning back to the original framework that was the United States of America before 1860 repealing amendments 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, which now allows Trump to become a candidate for a third term.

3. the best solution to ease the “health care crisis” is the total repeal of the Affordable Care Act..

   1. Agree.

   2. Curious, so you believe insurers should be able to:
      * deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions
      * impose lifetime limits
      * deny cover preventative care like cancer, diabetes, and other screenings, well-child visits, immunizations, etc.
      * remove young adults from their parents’ plans prior to age 26

      What do you propose those with pre-existing conditions do? What does someone do if they get cancer and hit a lifetime limit? Who will pay the increased costs when we don’t identify and treat various health conditions sooner? How will young adults afford coverage on their own, or pay out-of-pocket if they end up with a hefty medical bill?

      1. I dont believe in insurance of any kind. Insurance is a scam, they are immoral companies and fraudsters

         1. Actually, I can’t disagree with you on this.

            Now I’m very curious about how you propose people access healthcare?

            1. with cash.
               i have that discussion with my dentist all the time. If the insurance won’t cover it, how much will it cost? How much is it worth to me?

            2. Exactly, with Cash. Locate local hospital you trust, create a pre-paid medical account at the hospital, begin investing in your own healthcare, depositing money into the hospital. This not only gives them resources to help expand their business, but you work out an arrangement for all your future medical expenses to be pre-paid. Also, set up a HSA trust account in not only your name, but your spouse, your children investing in each others future healthcare. This not only helps you in the future, but also earns capital gains/interest income. And lastly, don’t be afraid to pay the Hospital cash for any medical transaction of $500 or less, this allows you to maintain full balance in your pre-paid account, let alone HSA accounts longer, for more emergency type services.

               Would you rather pay an insurance company $500 per month, or would you rather invest $500 directly into your own Healthcare?

               When you look at it as such, this is an easy decision to make.

               Look at Denny Sanford, he has self-insured himself and his family for years to come by investing, or should I say donating to Sioux Valley Hospital, now Sanford. His medical expenses are paid in full.

               1. It helps that T Denny was also filthy rich.

      2. do you buy auto insurance before or after your car is wrecked?
         Do you buy homeowner’s insurance before or after your house burns?
         Do you buy crop insurance before or after a storm?

         Where did anybody ever get the idea that health insurance would be a viable business model if people could wait and buy it AFTER they get sick???

         Insurance is a business, designed to be profitable. If they can’t make money selling health insurance, the investors will take their capital elsewhere. When the capital goes elsewhere and the companies can’t meet their financial obligations, the business goes into bankruptcy..
         Democrats showed they had no understanding of business when they passed the ACA. This is what you get when you elect politicians who have never held real jobs.

         1. That’s why the ACA initially had the individual mandate. Without that arm, there is not a large enough pool of people paying into the system to help it be sustainable.

            I don’t get how people don’t understand that the insured are still paying for the uninsured. People get ill and need healthcare, contrary to what Anonymous at 12:45 believes, you’re not going to be paying cash when you’re diagnosed with a chronic health condition. Not many people have those kinds of resources. The costs for the uninsured are passed onto the insured through higher negotiated rates with insurance and through Medicaid.

            1. but the individual mandate didn’t actually apply to the healthiest segment of the population: young adults aged 18-26. They got to stay on their parents’ family plans, which cost the same whether the parent has one child or 19 and counting.
               That demographic did not have to buy their own insurance until they were 26 and the bloom of youth was off the rose.

4. All Schumer did is prove how low the GOP will go, how far they will go, to abandon and rob the poor and middle class on behalf of the ultra rich. No other way to see it, in the same week Musk is poised to be a true TRILLIONAIRE.

5. All of the Democrats calling it a “Republican shutdown” seem pretty mad that 8 Democrats voted to open the government.

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