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OT: American Politics

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Despite State Senator Wendy Davis’ impressive 12-hour filibuster, the Texas legislature was able to push through new stringent abortion restrictions in special session. Under the provisions of SB5, doctors performing abortions must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and clinics must be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers. Since only five of the forty-two clinics offering abortion services in Texas can meet those standards, without relief from a federal court, thirty-seven clinics will have to close their doors, or no longer offer abortions.

Governor Rick Perry has signed SB5, and it is now the law in Texas. But the stroke of Governor Perry’s pen did more than take away the freedom of many Texas women to plan their own families. It put the doctor-entrepreneur clients of his older sister, Milla Perry Jones, in a position to make millions.

Milla Perry Jones is Vice President of Government Relations of United Surgical Partners International, which runs surgery centers co-owned by doctors. She lobbies for doctor-owned clinics in Washington and Austin, and she teaches trade groups how to do the same. She is described in “Who’s Who in the Ambulatory Surgery Industry” as “a true advocate for the physician-owned healthcare model.” In fact, when Obamacare was first passed, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, one of the trade groups Milla Perry Jones worked with, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over a provision that barred new doctor-owned medical facilities. The restriction was seen as a way to rein in healthcare costs, because services at doctor-owned clinics cost an average of 20% more than traditional clinics, since doctor-owners have a financial incentive to order more tests.
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... and now you see the actual reason for the push against abortion in the U.S. How much money can we make off of this procedure if we force it to go through us?
That's what it's truly all about, despite what some flaming convenient conservatives would tell you.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

theREALkoreaboy said:
I think that number is complete BS.
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You think, therefore it must be!

theREALkoreaboy said:
Look at pg. 13 here, numbnuts. The part about what "ERIP" is. Focus on the "early" part.......

http://www.controlyourfuture.ca/wp-content/uploads/ETFO-MOU-June-12-2013.pdf
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... and when you read it, you'll note, (or at least, everyone else will), that the ERIP is a fallback measure to be implemented ONLY IF two other measures don't provide enough savings first; namely, one unpaid day in December and changes to the structure of a PD day in October.
In other words, totally irrelevant to what Cork posted.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

blacksheep said:
You think, therefore it must be!



... and when you read it, you'll note, (or at least, everyone else will), that the ERIP is a fallback measure to be implemented ONLY IF two other measures don't provide enough savings first; namely, one unpaid day in December and changes to the structure of a PD day in October.
In other words, totally irrelevant to what Cork posted.
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Never mind that nothing it states there contradicts anything the rest of us said. It's an early retirement incentive - what KB doesn't understand is the vast majority of people retire early. It's not a program that reads your mind to determine when you would have retired had it not been in place, and only pay you if this causes you to retire earlier.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

UWHabs said:
Never mind that nothing it states there contradicts anything the rest of us said. It's an early retirement incentive - what KB doesn't understand is the vast majority of people retire early. It's not a program that reads your mind to determine when you would have retired had it not been in place, and only pay you if this causes you to retire earlier.
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He chooses to not understand how most who could retire early would do so, because he himself never will. I mean, why should he? Look how much he gets paid to sit behind a computer and post here on FI? Why give that up early?
 
Oh, and what do you think GOP house members are doing other than what they said they would do and what they were sent there to do? They were elected to a thumping majority in the house by millions of voters who wanted to stymie hopeychange's spending. But in your world only hopeychange is allowed to do what he was supposed to do, is that it?
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

blacksheep said:
You think, therefore it must be!



... and when you read it, you'll note, (or at least, everyone else will), that the ERIP is a fallback measure to be implemented ONLY IF two other measures don't provide enough savings first; namely, one unpaid day in December and changes to the structure of a PD day in October.
In other words, totally irrelevant to what Cork posted.
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You're too stupid to even realize why your post is ridiculous. Either the ERIP is some huge factor causing hundreds if not thousands of teachers to make certain decisions, or it is completely irrelevant. You are completely out of your depth commenting on teacher issues. You don't understand even the most fundamental principles of our business or our contracts, and your entire motivation is to try to cook up ridiculous and totally irrelevant "gotchas" that you think make us look bad.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

UWHabs said:
Never mind that nothing it states there contradicts anything the rest of us said. It's an early retirement incentive - what KB doesn't understand is the vast majority of people retire early. It's not a program that reads your mind to determine when you would have retired had it not been in place, and only pay you if this causes you to retire earlier.
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It's a waste of my time arguing with someone who again demonstrates total ignorance of the issues in this case. As I have explained to you, it is exceedingly rare for someone in my business to retire early. It's almost unheard of. In my entire career, I haven't taught with a single teacher who has retired early. Not one. Never. Ever. Teachers don't retire early. When our main benefit is a pension, and when most of us can retire by our late 50s, it is lunacy to retire early, and almost no one does. Because you don't understand that, you have no idea how ridiculous it is to suggest that a piddling one time payment is going to make teachers retire early.
 
theREALkoreaboy said:
Oh, and what do you think GOP house members are doing other than what they said they would do and what they were sent there to do? They were elected to a thumping majority in the house by millions of voters who wanted to stymie hopeychange's spending. But in your world only hopeychange is allowed to do what he was supposed to do, is that it?
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after gerrymandering ridings to ensure they get elected
 
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