That is part of the problem, but the other issue is life expectancy, aging population and healthcare cost skyrocketing faster than wages.

That is why the only way this can survive is a combination of tough love cuts and increase in fess. Also indexing to life expectancy and or higher fee for younger retires. Also we cannot afford to pay out the amount of healthcare dollars for procedures we do on the last 6 months of a person’s life.

That’s a question to which I don’t want to know the answer. I don’t know.

I think there’s a huge difference in general corpse abuse – “A former crematory operator accused of dumping 334 bodies and passing off cement dust as ashes has agreed to a plea deal requiring him to serve no more than 12 years in prison, the Associated Press learned Tuesday.” – and necrophilia. Dumping bodies can be a health hazard. Also, those cases of corpse abuse probably didn’t have any consent of the dead person before they died, nor did they have any consent from the spouse or someone who would have had power of attorney for that person. Necrophilia can still occur before allowing a proper burial of a body. I don’t believe any of those people that you know whose relatives were victims of corpse abuse were victims of a necrophiliac, were they?

You have my thanks for helping explain the finer points of the LP platform. While necrophilia, as far as I know is not common, I have known people whose deceased relatives were victims of the crime of abuse of a corpse. I live 4 miles away from Noble Georgia, home of the Marsh crematorium.

“Yes it should. Social morays trump individual rights in some situations. Abuse of a corpse is a crime in Georgia, regardless of if the deceased gave permission before passing or not.”

So let me ask you this then… how does making this a crime protect any living human being? I personally don’t see the harm in it… what you call abuse, someone that gave consent or permission before death may not. However, I also wouldn’t think this is an issue very often. Either way, I’ve got better things to do than argue the legality of necrophilia. I’ll let the necrophiliacs argue that one for themselves.

Let me rephrase, NCLB and the seniors bill of rights are not part of the GOP platform, and I am discussing platforms in this part of the thread. If you can admit that you were wrong to state that big Ben admitting to a crime, perhaps I’ll answer your question.

Good points, ByteMe. Perhaps these observations will address:

First, there is not any linkage between SB330 and increases in rates. If you pay more to get more, that’s OK. The way things are going, doing nothing is going to get you a 30% rate increase.

We both know buying ‘extra insurance’ is usually pretty cheap. I would expect the same actuarial logic to prevail here.

Though the elimination of caps raises SOME risk, I don’t that will lead to a 20% cost increase. Maybe 1%, or some smaller fraction of all claims will approach the cap.

Every bit of legislation has blowback or unintended consequences. As well, the cost of ‘decisions in progress’ is high. What would be YOUR best idea?

So far, the insurance companies, to my knowledge, don’t have access to genetic data. I hope they never do.

Representative Deal supported the interests of Planned Parenthood 0 percent in 2008

Representative Deal supported the interests of the National Right to Life Committee 100 percent in 2007-2008.

Representative Deal supported the interests of the National Council of Agricultural Employers 100 percent in 2007. (the Ninth District produces a lot of chickens in addition to carpet.)

In 2008 Sportsmen and Animal Owner’s Voting Alliance gave Representative Deal a grade of 100.

Representative Deal supported the interests of the Americans for the Arts Action Fund 0 percent in 2006.

Americans for Fair Taxation considered how each congressional representative stood on the FairTax, illustrated with +3 as a sponsorship, +2 as a co-sponsorship, +1 as support, 0 as does not support, and -1 as against. In 2008, the actions of Representative Deal is represented by 2.

In 2008 National Taxpayers Union gave Representative Deal a rating of A.

Representative Deal supported the interests of the National Tax Limitation Committee 93 percent in 2007-2008.

Representative Deal supported the interests of the Americans for Tax Reform 95 percent in 2007.

Representative Deal supported the interests of the FreedomWorks 100 percent in 2007.

I could go on and on and on…but you can look for yourself. All info was taken from project votesmart and I only put up the last 2 years work of ratings. I don’t agree with everything he does, but going by these ratings, he votes the way I prefer about 80% of the time. Granted some of the 20% is important, but he wasn’t going to beat in a primary for congress and the Dems running against him had no chance. Even if they did, I would still prefer Deals overall voting record over theirs.

I am not endorsing him for Governor but I’ll say he’s been a better congressman than Indy and others would give him credit for.

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=26824

Yes it should. Social morays trump individual rights in some situations. Abuse of a corpse is a crime in Georgia, regardless of if the deceased gave permission before passing or not.

If I understood you correctly, if an animal is not biting or scratching, it has more intelligence than I give it credit for and it can consent to sex with a human?

IMO, the GOP stands with laws preventing bestiality and necrophilia. If I have correctly interpreted your responses, the LP is OK with those very unlikely situations.

He is in the business world, but you don’t get to call the shots for him. You stated he admitted to committing a crime. I have shown you three different sources that state that he has not admitted to a crime.

YOU STILL CAN’T ADMIT THAT YOU WERE WRONG AND THAT HE HAS NOT ADMITTED TO A CRIME!

He’s not my hero, I don’t care that much for the Steelers, you still haven’t learned your lesson in assuming you know what I think or feel. My point is not that I am pro big Ben, but that you are wrong to assume some is guilty just because they are accused! That is not the county we live in; that’s Mother Russia!

The man may be guilty or he may not. I don’t know but neither do you. Let the wheels of justice turn and put down your pitchfork.

I could tell you a story of someone I have heard of who loves to judge most people guilty of anything at the slightest whisper of a rumor. He demands that the subject of a rumor be fired, or be banned from running for office. The appearance of impropriety is much to harsh for him to bare. The story has a ring of truth, no?

Medicare was once well funded until members of Congress decided to borrow against it, then decided not to return the funds under the terms agreed upon.

The doctor said she no longer sees military patients because of the poor payment schedule and she now will stop seeing Medicare patients if the payments are cut. She also does not see Medicaid patients.

How will the government implement its plan if the doctors refuse to abide by it? I see a shortage of medical professionals in the near future.

But there is in China and India right now. Go figure.

Real wages have dropped faster than any price gain on products from China. The problem is if wages do not go back up we cannot pay back China. And wages will go back up until we start producing more. We have no choice or it will be a race to the bottom.

The numbers Indy uses…

Either way, results don’t come from blogging…