Posts by dancer42
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Message boards :
Politics :
Donald Trump for President?
(Message 1830578)
Posted 14 Nov 2016 by  dancer42
Post: N.O.T.A. PARTY maybe some reality can be forced back into the elections. have to come up with a simple platform. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Donald Trump for President?
(Message 1830361)
Posted 13 Nov 2016 by dancer42
Post: In sheer disgust I propose , that on t shirts bumper stickers and in the write in section of ballots, "vote none of the above". I think if none of the above should win that new candidates should be required in a vary short new election. any body have ideas or comments? |
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News :
Crowdfunding to support our undergrads
(Message 1777054)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by dancer42
Post: i think this is great, but in addition you need to set up a permanent fund for the same thing so that your students can come back and new students can join. now where do i donate i do not have 10,000 yet but i am working on it and will give what i can for this very good cause. |
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Politics :
Russia in the 21C
(Message 1731834)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by dancer42
Post: yes but the interest would be a killer! |
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Politics :
Another Mass Shooting in the U.S.A.
(Message 1731817)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by dancer42
Post: you are 5 times more likely to be killed by a doctors bad disision in a hospital 3 times more likely to be killed by someone elses car where is the outrage for that? |
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Politics :
Another Mass Shooting in the U.S.A.
(Message 1731794)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by dancer42
Post: it is not the number of weapons or there surculation it is the number of elegaly possed weapons in the hands of people that should never have been allowed to keep them that is the biggest problem. that and the police are constrained to not do anything untill a crime has been comitted. it is sad but well armed well trained teachers would likely end the school shootings. |
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Politics :
U.S. Presidential issues questionnaire
(Message 1731790)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by dancer42
Post: do not forget the 167 registered dependent soveren nations of Indian tribes! |
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Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1720701)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: It seems that the majority opinion in this thread is that the cause of the high price of prescription drugs and other medical expenses in this country is the capitalist desire for profit. The question to ask is health care to be an industry or is health care to be something else? ========================================================== as i said before there two types of free market the market of scarcity and the open market where there is competition for your business. all the mergers of pharmaceutical companies is supposed to not be allowed under anti-trust law, over seen by, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, these are the people that broke up standard oil. it is time again to break up the big companies so there are enough that at least some will offer their wares at a lower price to get more sales. as to the average person not knowing enough all i can say is that may have been the case when i started being ill but i would be dead now if i had not used the internet to learn,and too shop for what i need. |
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Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1720322)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: greedy companies in the US! ============================================================ you are right that it is not just the companies in the us and it is not entirely the company's fault for doing what the law tells them they can. the real question is how do we change the rules and practises in the us so that all the doctors work together to ensure best outcomes, the insurance company's actively involved in reducing medical cost while increasing care, and get the pharmaceutical companies to once again compete for our business. |
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Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1720317)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: the free market tends to operate in two modes competition to set a fair market value, and what the market can bear. the form what the market can bear requires a monopoly, a near monopoly or collusion. the merger of so many companies over the last 20 years has reached the point that near monopoly is basically a fact. India ignored the us patents for aids drugs because the licensing would have cost over 1800 dollars per patient per month the Indian pharmaceutical company provide this medication to patients for about 1.80 and still make a very modest also http://www.aravind.org/ now make the lenses for cataract for 2 dollars a pair the real cost of just barely making a profit. there is no market pressure or incentive for drug company to compete driving the prices down to fair market value. and the us government has failed to lead medical research in directions that will promote cures lowered cost and a general increase in wellness. this can be traced back to president reagan who stop a large part of government grants for pure research. the pharmaceutical companies were only to happy to pick up the slack because they would then own outright what they learned and that is when the focus became what can make me money now. also there is very little coordination between specialty's a surgeon sees surgical solution an endocrinologist sees hormonal solutions,an epidemiologist sees disease as the root cause. this is not surprising this is what they are trained to see. in very few places in the us does the heart guy talk to the surgeon and the endocrinologist to arrive at the best course of treatment. so yes the system is broken,but if you look world wide most of the research in medicine is done right here in the us so those wonderful socialize medicine countries have it good though they would have much less is the us citizen did not pay through the nose and play guinea pig for the rest of you. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1719693)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: we are a nation of shoppers after all shopping is the most important thing in the universe .lol let us shop and the market will take care of the rest. universal health does not fix the problem it shifts the burden. |
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Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1719678)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: my point is in the us if you are well off and have good insurance you do not care what it cost. if you are poor as i am and poor being a relative thing in most of the world i am well off you also do not pay. and because of this we do not see the real cost of these things. the only people in the us who do see the cost are the working poor comprised mostly the middle class with bills that can't be counted to reclassify them as poor. because of this there is no real check on the balance. |
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Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1719672)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: i am disabled retired and have been since i was 48 i use lantus pens there 1500 dollars for a box of 5 i also use humulin-r also about 1500 dollars a month the pain med's i am on come to twice that and i am on several other meds including metformin the only drug i pay for is the tetracycline which costs me 10.80 a month cash with a goodrx coupon. when i found out how much the pens cost i had 4 boxes when i run out i will be going back to the vial which is cheaper i have controlled my type 2 diabetes with diet but having been mostly bedridden this is hard. because i do not pay there is very little incentive for me to shop for the best care at the best price. this and and countries like those in the uk and europe dictating what drug companies can make shifts the burden to those who will pay. this is why if you go into a hospital with no insurance an aspirin costs 20 bucks.the only fix for this is for people like me or the insured to start shopping for services. the one thing that the government might be able to do in this is to provide a way to assess the expected cost of treatment and reward those that found their services for less and let those who went way over share some of that cost.the average american will not shop unless it hits his or her pocket. |
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Politics :
Ephebiphobia
(Message 1719657)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: Jann your only as old as you act, keep it up and you will continue to do well. ======================================================== if you haven't earned the right to be who you are by 75 then when do you have the right? |
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Politics :
Racist? [yes you are]
(Message 1719555)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: i got a post from change.org to sine a potision for background checks on gun purchases sighting this, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/wdbj7-virginia-journalists-shot-during-live-broadcast.html?_r=0 a fired black newscaster shoots two white newscasters live on air. now am i supposed to think the black newscaster was racies, or the white newscasters were racist or the station was racist. i see a tragedy were 2 white people were gunned down by a black man who also tragically committed suicide and i do not see how a background check could have helped. so i find the whole thing sad does that make me a racist? please explain it to me because i do not understand! |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1719334)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: most drug company have some plan if you go to their web sight to help you get your meds if you are truly financially stressed by their definition. so definitely check their website,but there is no substitute for shopping your med needs around to get the best price. the dependence on insurance to companies to manage the cost that they get a piece of is how we got here. shopping and forcing them to take less is the only real fix. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Big Pharmaceutical companies price gouging
(Message 1719331)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: try searching goodrx coupon for the type of insulin you use. http://www.goodrx.com (your brand) will get you a coupon this is for cash purchase only and verys by drug but the tetracycline that use to cost 6 buck but is now 1380 buck a month costs 10.80 cash as you can see i like paying 1\35 even if it is not covered. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
download to flash drive
(Message 1719211)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: it is pointless to install seti on a machine that does not have web access so go to the seti home page and install it. if on the other hand you want to be able to run seti from a memory stick when you plug it into a computer any computer there are ways to do that too. so what in a lot more detail do you want to do? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Windows 10 - Yea or Nay?
(Message 1719200)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by dancer42
Post: because os's crash it is always wish to install the os on 1 drive and every thing you might want to recover on 1 or more others. i have been running the evaluation copy of 10 for several months now and as far as i can see the lilo multi os loader and the registry involving licensing seem to be very sensitive but other than that windows 10 runs robustly and smoothly and i have found solutions to any driver or install problems i have had with the exception of very old games. i have crashed 10 a couple of time requiring reload thought both times were my fault so win 10 like all of its predecessors fixes so problem causes so more and generally move thing on. unix works well to it just takes a lot more hands on while setting up. as to machines that are only running seti the less you load the faster it will run so a minimum install of something like linux mint could work well. |
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Politics :
Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: DENIAL (#3)
(Message 1546338)
Posted 23 Jul 2014 by dancer42
Post: since the grain absorbed co2 and what is left over after consumption will become plane food wouldn't beer be at least carbon neutral if not carbon absorbent in fact would not the production of much more beer for local consumption be a possible solution. Wiggo has it right brew your own. |
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