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To: koan who wrote (783010)	5/1/2014 1:54:16 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1577867

roflmao! I post facts, you call it trickery. Truly you are one deluded soul. here's more 'trickery"…. ObamaCare Clusterfuck: “Medical Homelessness” in CaliforniaPosted on May 1, 2014 by Lambert Strether *By Lambert Strether of Corrente.* KPIX (CBS local) in San Francisco: While open enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act is closed, many of the newly insured are finding they can’t find doctors, landing them into a state described as “medical homelessness.” Rotacare, a free clinic for the uninsured in Mountain View, is dealing with the problem firsthand. Mirella Nguyen works at the clinic said staffers dutifully helped uninsured clients sign up for Obamacare[1] so they would no longer need the free clinic. But months later, the clinic’s former patients are coming back to the clinic begging for help. “They’re coming back to us now and saying I can’t find a doctor, “said Nguyen. Thinn Ong was thrilled to qualify for a subsidy on the health care exchange. She is paying $200 a month in premiums. But the single mother of two is asking, what for? “Yeah, I sign it. I got it. But where’s my doctor? Who’s my doctor? I don’t know,” said a frustrated Ong. Nguyen said the newly insured patients checked the physicians’ lists they were provided and were told they weren’t accepting new patients or they did not participate in the plan. Now, to be fair, “many” is not a number. But since when have we gotten good numbers on ObamCare from the administration? And since California is a Democratic state, top to bottom, we’re not likely to get any good numbers from Covered California, either. Dr. Kevin Grumbach of UCSF called the phenomenon “medical homelessness,” where patients are caught adrift in a system woefully short of primary care doctors. “Insurance coverage is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to assure that people get access to care when they need it,” Grumbach said. Those who can’t find a doctor are supposed to lodge a complaint with state regulators, who have been denying the existence of a doctor shortage for months. Meanwhile, the sick and insured can’t get appointments. “What good is coverage if you can’t use it?” Nguyen said. Experts said the magnitude of the problem is growing, and will soon be felt by all Californians. But those on the front lines, like the free clinic, are feeling it first. More than 3 million Californians are newly insured. At the same time, a third of our primary care doctors are set to retire. Well, of course they’re going to retire. ObamaCare’s ACOs are just HMOs all over again. And who wants to go in debt to for an M.D. to end up as an employee in a hospital, with some administrative drone making all the medical decisions? I don’t think so. NOTE [1] The latest category of good-hearted people Obama has betrayed. NOTE Now that the “ZOMG!!! 8 million kinda sorta!!!” euphoria is over, we are coming to find out how ObamaCare actually delivers care. This story will be the first of many.

To: koan who wrote (783010)	5/1/2014 1:57:07 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1577867

The straw that did it for me with you, was when you refused to admit that it was all Republicans that voted for citizens United and instead showed me where dems voted for those Republican justices. How is that obfuscation koan? It is fact. The FACT is this: when it comes to corporate water carrying, both parties are equally guilty. Neither party gives a shit about the working man.

To: koan who wrote (783010)	5/1/2014 2:30:08 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577867

Hey look koan, your glorious idol Buffet getting set to financially rape the poor. Isn't he Obama's good buddy? With 1 In 3 Homes Unaffordable, Freddie Mac Prepares To Enter The Trailer Home Loan Market Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/01/2014 12:32 -0400 Berkshire Hathaway Carlyle Freddie Mac Housing Market Real estate Warren Buffett Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, I can’t say this is surprising. After all, with average peasants, I mean citizens, now priced out of the domestic housing market (Zillow recently showed 1 in 3 homes are unaffordable) due to billionaire financiers and foreign oligarchs buying up all real estate in cash purchases, American serfs now will find out where the “elites” think they belong. In trailer homes, naturally. Oh, but the story gets better, a lot better. As is generally the case in the USSA these days, crony capitalist oligarchs have perfectly positioned themselves to benefit financially from the final transition of Americans to neo-feudalism. Recall that in my post from last October titled, Carlyle Group’s Latest Investment…Trailer Parks, it was noted that trailer park owners share the following attractive quality: Our customers have no alternative shot at homeownership, nor do they [normally] even have the credit scores and quality to seek anything better…They never leave the park they are in, and the revenues are unbelievably stable as a result. Sure, we know from the Dark Ages that peasants on the land stay put. Same concept here. However, it gets even better than this. America’s number one hypocritical, crony capitalist, Warren Buffett is also positioned to benefit. From Bloomberg: Want to buy a trailer park? Freddie Mac wants to give you a loan. *The unit of the government-owned mortgage giant that funds apartment buildings is set to begin financing manufactured-housing communities, the company said in a statement today.* The firm is broadening its reach in the multifamily segment of the housing market as it seeks to fulfill its mandate to provide affordable options for low-income families. The McLean, Virginia-based lender will work with established companies in the industry across the U.S., said David Brickman, the head of multifamily operations at Freddie Mac. “It’s rounding out our ability to touch the affordable housing space,” Brickman said today in a telephone interview. “Manufactured housing is a big piece of rural affordable housing.” Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., lamented the punitive rates charged to purchase factory-built homes in his 2009 annual letter to shareholders. Berkshire owns Clayton Homes Inc., a builder of manufactured housing. Serfs up! Full article here.