Do you not read? "Most of the cost of that visit came out of my pocket because of the deductible." The patient paid the bulk of the $900 fee, $500 of which was the boot you say the doctor gave for "free." Had the patient purchased the boot on their own, it would have cost $75. The provider billed more than SIX times what the boot was worth. "And here you are complaining about it." I don't know the original poster, but i sure would complain too!
For such harsh critism over the content of this article, your rebuttal doesn't add up.
First, you state that "reducing our national debt is a sound thing to do". This is incorrect right now. It is advantageous to borrow at this time as treasury rates are lower than the rate of GDP growth for the predictable future. Basically that means it is a good investment to borrow money at such low rates because our rate of return on any money we invest off of the borrowed money is almost certainly to be greater than the rate of return on treasury bonds. So no, reducing the debt right now is actually a bad decision.
Second, while yes the economy will heal naturally and is currently doing so, the rate at which this is happening in respect to jobs is horribly slow. Yes, government spending is only one part of GDP, but what you fail to understand is the government spending portion of GDP also has a higher rate of job expansion compared to the other parts of GDP, which has been shown again and again in data.
He is friends with someone who owns private halfway houses where there have been many complaints...if he signs this I will be very surprised.
http://www.care2.com/causes/christies-ties-to-private-halfway-house-industry.html
Resistance can be active or entirely passive, like just sitting there, not cooperating. That can be effective if enough people do it at the right time and place.
But pushback means you resist <i>actively.</i> Organizing, lobbying, petitioning, demonstrating loudly, filming the cops, the whole works.
Besides, a Latin-based word like "resistance" doesn't pack quite the same punch as "pushback" IMO.
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