Argentinian-style Inflation in the US: Global Warming for Right Wingers?

[agricola]

Is it me or do things Argentine seem especially popular in your government about now?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7047405.ece

 

[Nick1911]

My insurance company use to offer HSA as an option.

Then they figured out that if they dropped it, and offered FSA accounts instead, whatever the member doesn't spend in a given year = profit!

Yay!  Capitalism!

[MicroBalrog]

And many, if not most, have no idea what it means to be conservative, IMO.  It's just the latest fashionable thing to call themselves.

This. How many people are actually conservative on the issues?

[sanglant]

My insurance company use to offer HSA as an option.

Then they figured out that if they dropped it, and offered FSA accounts instead, whatever the member doesn't spend in a given year = profit!

Yay!  Capitalism!

the FSA account is still a good deal for people that KNOW they will spend all the money. those that don't, well hopefully they will learn in the first year.

[drewtam]

This. How many people are actually conservative on the issues?

Depends which issues. You can't combine all unrelated complex issues into 1 bag and say "you have to accept the whole bag or your not a conservative"

Does abortion and embryonic stem cell research have anything to do with NASA policy or funding the NEA?
Does gun rights have any bearing on reducing deficits and cutting taxes?
Do the wars in Iraq and Afghan have any relation to the purchase of GM and Chrysler to prop them up?
Does drilling for domestic oil have any affect on LGBT marriage?

No, no, no, and no...

Yet every single one of these is considered a part of the conservative issue bag. Some of these issues, people are conservative about and some aren't. Its not an all or nothing proposition.

Furthermore, in the scheme of things, the NEA is so far down on the list compared to fighting National Healthcare and Social Security. If someone agreed with killing NHS and SS, but disagreed on NEA; I would still consider them conservative.

[Perd Hapley]

Righties love the debtors' story of our government because it allows them to attempt a rational justification for the way they want to govern.

 

What is the "debtors' story"?

How do righties want to govern? 

[Perd Hapley]

Never mind.  I guess I need the secret decoder ring.   

[sanglant]

drewtam, how much reading have you done on embryonic stem cell research? everything i can find says it's really the wrong road. adult based seems to work better faster and with less trouble.

almost related link because i can't find any of the on topic links now. i gotta get rid of these headaches.

[RevDisk]

My insurance company use to offer HSA as an option.

Then they figured out that if they dropped it, and offered FSA accounts instead, whatever the member doesn't spend in a given year = profit!

Yay!  Capitalism!

 

Think that should be "Yay!  Quasi-Capitalism response to restrictive government intervention into the markets!"

[Nick1911]

Think that should be "Yay!  Quasi-Capitalism response to restrictive government intervention into the markets!"

Well....

Actually, yea, it should.

[Nick1911]

I actually work in the health insurance industry.

It's insane, the number of laws and restrictions we comply with.

Just a few weeks ago, we got word that a new law was passed, and we now have to electronically submit all claims data, in a identifiable way to the state of Minnesota for anyone we insure who lives in that state.

[red headed stranger]

And many, if not most, have no idea what it means to be conservative, IMO.  It's just the latest fashionable thing to call themselves.

Agreed.  Many people I know claim conservatism mainly because they have bought the idea that liberal simply means "birkenstock wearing, sushi eating, latte drinking, prius driving weenie." 

[RevDisk]

I actually work in the health insurance industry.

It's insane, the number of laws and restrictions we comply with.

Just a few weeks ago, we got word that a new law was passed, and we now have to electronically submit all claims data, in a identifiable way to the state of Minnesota for anyone we insure who lives in that state.

How is that not a violation of HIPAA?

[Nick1911]

How is that not a violation of HIPAA?

Cause it's the government, man.  Our requirements person and legal team is still sifting through it.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpsc/dap/cdireports/grppurch/index.html

[RevDisk]

How is that not a violation of HIPAA?

Cause it's the government, man.  Our requirements person and legal team is still sifting through it.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpsc/dap/cdireports/grppurch/index.html

I will laugh hysterically when an MN hospital gets fined/sanctioned/raided/closed for violating federal law because they were following state law that threatened to fine/sanction/raid/close if they did not comply.

Welcome to modern law, eh?