Neither does Oklahoma. In fact, Oklahoma is one of the only, if not the only state where you are guaranteed the right to homeschool your children. You do not have to do ANY reporting or follow any plan of the states. We've homeschooled all of our kids clear thru high school without any issues and with no contact with the state whatsoever.

When I read articles of this nature, my blood boils. They can only give away when it has been or will be taken from others. The day is rapidly approaching when I withdraw my contribution to this madness.

You are so right. My daughter works for Kaiser. Management is thrilled with caca. (Yes, I added the extra c to the acronym). The providers within the system are divided. My own (independent) doctor retired early to save himself from this circus. Same for a lot of the independent practitioners.

I agree it's not the local providers like individual doctors and nurses or small businesses that are getting the benefits. They didn't provide the money to get Obama elected.

Uh. No. The people in the healthcare industry with whom I am in contact are terrified of Obamacare and government control. I think I could start a riot at most medical trade shows if I got up on a table and started chanting, "Get Government Out of Health Care!" Doctors do not want the government to tell them how to run their practices; providers of instruments and services are really aware that if we go in the direction of a closed system, the odds are that most of us are going to be closed out.

Jan

What a terrific story. Congratulations on your perseverance and independence.

Jan

Right! Do not believe that Obamacare will work. Republicans will ensure that it doesn't. They have our backs, knife imbedded in it and all!

Oprahmacare, who benefits? Why the people who manipulate government for their own profits. The insurance industry, owned by people like Warren Buffett, and, of course, Wall Street bankers. All those healthy young people who purposely chose not to pay for health insurance because they are healthy and young (and its a waste of money that they could apply toward buying a home, for example) are now forced to be customers of an industry that produces nothing and enriches people who are leeches on the productive.

Who else benefits? The medical industry, that is, companies who run hospitals, clinics, diagnostic facilities.... and the shareholders of those companies, the usual suspects. Before Obamacare, the medical industry had reduced and inconsistent profits because they treated people without insurance, and sometimes they did not get paid by the less affluent patients who had no insurance. Under Obamacare the medical industry gets paid every time. This makes profits higher and more consistent, at the expense of the poor and lower middle class who must pay for insurance they can't actually afford, and also the middle class who must pay higher rates for insurance than before Oprahmacare.

Who loses? Every other business and all their employees. All the money going into the cost of health insurance will not be available for buying homes, cars, furniture, appliances, computers, mobile phones, electricity, water, etc. Big businesses will survive by increasing prices and some by taking advantage of their slave laborers in China and other 3rd world countries. Small businesses will lay off people, and some will close, putting many more people out of work than are hired by hospitals.

Higher costs are the rational result of health insurance, which is a poor solution regardless of the source, government or private companies. When people get sick they are afraid. It's a situation thats out of their control. The medical delivery system has convinced people they should surrender responsibility for their health to "experts." Sometimes this is good advice, but sometimes it is not. Creating a delivery system that has little direct feedback between services and cost of service is a sure way to drive costs (and profits) of medical care higher and higher. Health insurance is a system doomed to failure. As usual government is misguided in forcing it on everyone.

Replying to fivedollargold.

not sure who dinged ya herb. I don' t think anyone here is not a fan of art-heck, we're here BECAUSE of the movies. But even Miss Rand figured out a way to create and get paid. I run the other way every time a politician tries to list the benefits while having a gun pointed at my head

A good friend of mine runs a home schooling program in a local, yet isolated gated community. I have noticed that even the neocons there have bought the lie that homeschoolers are nuts. Nothing could be further from the truth. Homeschooling is a gift and it is certainly under growing scrutiny from the State.

Ah, the freedom of enslavement. Who could ask for anything more?

She said that!? OMG! OMG! When I was a kid I was a musician and purposely put that on the back burner to go to school and become an engineer. Now who's the dummy? Me.

I actually feel physical pain in my gut from this kind of statement, this kind of leadership...

It sure seems like it doesn't it.

I just re-read this. Sorry about the typos. I either need to proof read better or get the cat off my arms when I type.

John Locke

Good guess but no. It's Linkershim, book 6 in the Sovereign of the Seven Isles series by David A Wells: http://sovereignofthesevenisles.com/

I like his Old Law: You have a right to your life because you are alive. You have a right to your liberty because you have free will. You have a right to your property because it is the product of your labor. Your forfeit these right when you take them from another."

Where have I heard this before ;)

"Obama's Hope and Change"

The job of a free press is to be the guardians of the truth. For the most part, we no longer have a free press so much as a government organ.

Calm down. Being a musician is more than just banging on a drum. The arts are as essential to humanity as is science, for without them, we are less than human. By her pronouncements, we recognize that Pelosi is so locked into the left's agenda that it has turned her into an idiot. But let's not let her idiocy cause us to get as blind as she is in our opposition to her.

This sounds like a book I have read. Will you please give the name of the book?

Not every state takes that stance. Right now, there are at least 3 states that aren't subject to state inspections: Texas, Florida and New Mexico.

I guess you haven't taken any art education courses. Graffiti on railcars is a valid form of expressing racial identity (if you can block out the fact that we are really one race, homo-sapiens.). Colleges and universities are the final nail in the liberal coffin. Don't you know that is why they want to extend public education to the 4 year college degree?