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Palin In A Bikini. For Real.

This one’s for real folks. The 100% legit footage of the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant featuring Sarah Palin.

If this was 1984, I’d be all over that. Hell, it’s 2008 and the offer stands.

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  1. Delray

    That’s not a bikini….lol.

    9:37 AM on 9/29/08
  2. RacerX

    Talk about a shock to the system. Has anyone bothered
    to notice the radical changes that John McCain and
    Sarah Palin are planning for the nation’s health
    insurance system?

    These are changes that will set in motion nothing less
    than the dismantling of the employer-based coverage
    that protects most American families.

    A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia,
    Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million
    Americans who have employment-based health insurance
    would lose it under the McCain plan.

    There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-
    reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much
    attention because the chatter in this campaign has
    mostly been about nonsense – lipstick, celebrities and
    “Drill, baby, drill!”

    For starters, the McCain health plan would treat
    employer-paid health benefits as income that employees
    would have to pay taxes on.

    “It means your employer is going to have to make an
    estimate on how much the employer is paying for health
    insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to
    pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an
    economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy
    and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School
    of Public Health.

    Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just
    completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their
    findings are being published on the Web site of the
    policy journal, Health Affairs.

    According to the study: “The McCain plan will force
    millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the
    private insurance system – the nongroup market – where
    cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and
    people will lose access to benefits they have now.”

    The net effect of the plan, the study said, “almost
    certainly will be to increase family costs for medical
    care.”

    Under the McCain plan (now the McCain-Palin plan)
    employees who continue to receive employer-paid health
    benefits would look at their pay stubs each week or
    each month and find that additional money had been
    withheld to cover the taxes on the value of their
    benefits.

    While there might be less money in the paycheck, that
    would not be anything to worry about, according to
    Senator McCain. That’s because the government would be
    offering all taxpayers a refundable tax credit – $2,500
    for a single worker and $5,000 per family – to be used
    “to help pay for your health care.”

    You may think this is a good move or a bad one – but
    it’s a monumental change in the way health coverage
    would be provided to scores of millions of Americans.
    Why not more attention?

    The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families
    out of employer-paid health coverage and into the
    health insurance marketplace, where naked competition
    is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in
    the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman
    Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the
    unfettered marketplace has been working.)

    Taxing employer-paid health benefits is the first step
    in this transition, the equivalent of injecting poison
    into the system. It’s the beginning of the end.

    When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional
    taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many)
    will opt out of the employer-based plans – either to
    buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without
    coverage.

    That will leave employers with a pool of older, less
    healthy workers to cover. That coverage will
    necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage
    more and more employers to give up on the idea of
    providing coverage at all.

    The upshot is that many more Americans – millions more
    - will find themselves on their own in the bewildering
    and often treacherous health insurance marketplace. As
    Senator McCain has said: “I believe the key to real
    reform is to restore control over our health care
    system to the patients themselves.”

    Yet another radical element of McCain’s plan is his
    proposal to undermine state health insurance
    regulations by allowing consumers to buy insurance from
    sellers anywhere in the country. So a requirement in
    one state that insurers cover, for example,
    vaccinations, or annual physicals, or breast
    examinations, would essentially be meaningless.

    In a refrain we’ve heard many times in recent years,
    Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market
    of these “needless and costly” insurance regulations.

    This entire McCain health insurance transformation is
    right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological
    playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and
    send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.

    You would think that with some of the most venerable
    houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right
    before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading
    this toxic formula even further into the health care
    system.

    But we’re not even paying much attention.

    2:45 PM on 9/29/08
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  4. Peeved Guy

    Way to stay on topic.

    We’re about to take one giant step toward socialism with the bailout, might as well go all in and give Obamas healthcare plan a go. In for a penny in for a pound.

    12:43 AM on 9/30/08

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