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To: louel who wrote (133421)	4/30/2017 1:31:50 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217575

I certainly think Universal Medicare would bring big cost savings to the US medical system. In California health insurers can only spend 20% of their premium on overhead and profit, but in many states 40% of premiums paid never pay for medical care. Until ObamaCare we were each paying $1,900 a month for an HSA policy which had a $2,200 annual out of pocket. When the Affordable Healthcare law passed our premiums per person declined closer to $800 a month for roughly the same coverage - what's not to like about an $1,100 a month savings in premiums? People with lower incomes have these monthly premiums subsidized down to $200 to $400 a month, or even free - and these are the Trump voters complaining they can't afford the back-breaking $200 a month premiums! It's just madness. It's like these people have never been required to grow up and be adults. The latest deal the Tea Party has agreed to is dumping all Americans with pre-existing conditions from the insurance system leaving them without any healthcare coverage. With that deal their premiums will be zero because they won't have health insurance. While this deal is pleasing to the 27 Tea Party Congressmen, this dealing has lost about 1/3 of the other Republican members, so they're even further away from a deal. Ryan wanted all Congressional Republicans to line-up and vote for this horseshit which would have lost many of them their seats in the House in the next election - knowing all the while that this symbolic vote would mean nothing as it would never pass Republicans in the Senate. So House Republicans rebelled and told Paul Ryan to stuff his planned vote in his ass and maybe Republicans needed a new House Speaker. As former Republican House Speaker John Boehner said, "I started laughing,” when Trump promised to repeal and replace ObamaCare. “Republicans never ever agree on health care and they never will.”

To: louel who wrote (133421)	4/30/2017 8:09:11 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217575

I didn't write the article only posted it. Not sure how the lunch bucket crowd left in the Millenial generation today is incentivized to work harder in Vancouver when they can never afford to buy a house and have some skin in the game to build equity throughout their life. How comparable is it to prop 13 in CA where home prices also sky high in the largest metro areas? Red Texas is the opposite they don't give much in way of real estate tax subisidies for housing. Obviously they do their best to not limit supply like they seem to do in most all the liberal areas at least for single family. Big money from home building in fast growing areas as well as from inflating home values in low growth areas. But is quite depressed in low growth low value areas throughout much of US rustbelt, ghetto's and small town rural areas where land residuals are below zero and builders build at a loss without incentives. Not many places like this in the western US anymore outside of New Mexico. So would think home building will be growth industry for several more years. BTW I've been in business 25 years started with nothing..