Coronavirus:

[gregj410]

Do you offer free treatment Neil?

[Neil]

"And yet it was Trump the was freeing blacks that had been incarcerated under the Clinton/Biden anti crime bill."

Hence his psychotic delusion that he's the greatest friend of black people since Lincoln. Doing one right thing doesn't make up for the dozens of evil things he's done. Now he's trying to disenfranchise the populations of Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Milwaukee because they don't want him as president. Wisely so, in my opinion, since he thinks there were good people on both sides of the Charlottesville dustup. There were no good people carrying Confederate flags, anti-semitic signs and Nazi symbols. Those are Trump's biggest fans and he has done little to separate himself from these crazies.

[robert.]

When did trump support anti semitism ? Did an armed group takeover in Portland courthouse ? Did they also take over a law enforcement building?

[Neil]

"Do you offer free treatment Neil?"

I'm salaried. I treat (actually mostly advise other practitioners on treatment) anyone who shows up. I let the hospital worry about billing people. I get paid whether I do nothing or get woken up in the middle of the night every night on-call.

If I were in a small practice, I wouldn't have that luxury, but there still is a professional responsibility to make sure people get appropriate care.

In our country, those covered by Medicaid or having no insurance get poorer care for various reasons. Including the lack of adequate or any insurance. Hence, the enormous importance of some sort of universally available health insurance, as in every other developed nation in the world.

Hence the importance of the ACA. It isn't providing health care to 20 million criminals, but to ordinary working class and lower middle class Americans, as well as some very poor people through Medicaid.

A lot of, perhaps all rural areas would not have any doctors and hospitals except for government subsidies paid almost exclusively through taxing people in cities. Give that some thought when you bitch about being taxed. My taxes are paying so that your rural area has doctors and hospitals. You aren't supporting the urban poor, they are supporting your healthcare, by and large.

[Neil]

"When did trump support anti semitism ? "

He said that the Charlottesville group defending the Confederate statues had some good people amongst them. Some were carrying anti-Semitic signs. Maybe he didn't mean them .

[HONDO74]

Christianity is a rather good religion that suffers from a lack of Christians.

But it doesn't suffer from a lack of HUMANS that have corrupted it to there own benefit. fake Christians,

Christianity won't last much longer. ISLAM will displace it. Islam is now the fastest growing religion in the world

[gregj410]

Please Father Neil entertain us some more with your teachings of Jesus. At this point I’d be more inclined to hear what Rufus has to say on the topic than anything you can come up with.

[Neil]

"At this point I’d be more inclined to hear what Rufus has to say on the topic than anything you can come up with."

Fine by me. At least you're listening to someone with some sense. . Unlike Steve Bannon or Rush Limbaugh who think that if monarchy returned they'd be the Dukes of Toledo and Yo'Mama respectively.

[Neil]

"But it doesn't suffer from a lack of HUMANS that have corrupted it to there own benefit. fake Christians,"

I assume you are referring to our President and his predecessor as Fake Christian of the Year, Newt Gingrich. Wasn't Gingrich the chap who told his wife he was leaving her while she was in labor with his child?

I don't think you can made the case that Obama and Biden are fake Christians. They seem quite sincere to me.

[E7]

Better be careful Neil! With all that HOT air you're putting out, Ocrazio Cortez will be naming you as a MAJOR cause of global warming!

[HONDO74]

"But it doesn't suffer from a lack of HUMANS that have corrupted it to there own benefit. fake Christians,"

I assume you are referring to our President and his predecessor as Fake Christian of the Year, Newt Gingrich. Wasn't Gingrich the chap who told his wife he was leaving her while she was in labor with his child?

I don't think you can made the case that Obama and Biden are fake Christians. They seem quite sincere to me.

I am referring to anyone that has used it for their own benefit. Just because people carry a bible and go to some building called a church doesn't make them a Christian. I don't care what their name is.

[E7]

Biden helped pass the ACA, which provided health insurance to about 20 million people who wouldn't have had it otherwise.

Last time I checked that was called Obummacare, not Biden care. Obviously there (sadly) are people who legitimately need help, but the only two people I knew that took advantage of it had credentials (machinist and engineer) that they could have easily gotten a job, but were just too stinking lazy to go out and do so. If this legislation is so great and wonderful, why doesn't it exclude those kind of parasites.

[Neil]

"If this legislation is so great and wonderful, why doesn't it exclude those kind of parasites."

I don't recall Jesus being quoted in the Gospels "Honor the poor and treat them as you would me, but be sure that you don't do this for the parasites, as protection from potential parasites is my father's highest priority."

And "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Perhaps your judgment of these people is incorrect? Perhaps they harbor some secret sorrows, family obligations or illness preventing them from working, which they are too embarrassed to share with you?

[gregj410]

Local news station just said covid lines every where across the country. Followed up by if you test negative doesn’t mean you don’t have it So does it then stand that if I test positive I don’t really have it either? What a joke

[robert.]

Elon musk tested four times. 2 positive two negotiate.in the sane day