Mar 1, 2008
So, as medical costs increase in the US, the actual benefit declines.
We have the most expensive medical care in the world, yet one of the
poorest quality health systems of any industrialized nation. Pay more,
get less; THAT'S the American way!
http://www.westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2006fa.html
Man do you ever got that right!!!
It will really get hilarious watching all the free market crazies
start paying out $20 - 60k per year for their family coverage as the
next huge wave of people drop out of the system!! Maybe $100k will be
the magic number! Hell they need to get reamed anyway. If they are
that dense, clueless, or selfish that they can't see what is happening
to the less fortunate people in this country maybe they need to be put
in that position and get their wallets lightened sufficiently so they
can get a good taste of they have been scoffing at. Yep. it's the
American way alright...thru and thru
But what nation has given more to the world in terms of advancement in
all of the sciences - medicine included? But then what does politics
have to do with the truth.
Alacrity
Oh...and what about the new technologies other countries have given
us?
You have been duped with more ethnocentric BS by America's public
education system thinking we have a commanding lead in everything we
set out to do. No more. You can kiss those days good-bye forever.
Compliments of our beloved traitor corporations, Wall Street, and that
goddamned reeking dungheap east of the Patomac that provides
slithering grounds for the most vile strain of inbreeds that ever
infested what was once our nation's capital.
why do Americans have to learn everything the hard way,
>
> The Clinton/Obama health plans are no good. No plan that includes
> the private insurance industry will work. They are not stupid and
> they know that. Only a single payer government run system will work.
> But it is not politically possible to push that because the people
> have been brain washed.
We absolutely need to keep private insurance companies *out* of any
health care solutions.
We are already paying enough taxes to fund 10 national health plans.
We need to close overseas US bases, bring home our troops and quit
playing (massively corrupt) policeman to the world. It makes zero
sense to keep proping up a dying empire when we are so close to
collapse (by design).
We need to pare down the pentagon to 20% of it's current budget. We
need to take care of our people and rebuild our manufacturing and
educational base. We need strong unions - especially in the big box
stores like Walmart. We need fundamental reform to keep foreign
PAC's and giant corporations from influencing our government.
And lastly, we need to prosecute criminals in government to the
extreme. Those who represent us should be held to a much higher
standard than the common man.
they need to get on National TV, with charts, and explain it to Americans in
language they can understand,
get a hillbilly to translate it for the gomers
Experience is the best teacher...and fools learn no other way??? I
have NO clue whatsoever. But, here's my best guess...Americans don't
learn. They are programmed by the public school system and they rely
on rote memory to see them through life??? Cognitive abilities and
reasoning seems to started making its exodus in the mid 70s. Your
call.
Go to the head of the class... You're right.
You're right as well--on all counts. Look at the money going down the
crapper just in administrative and billing. Moreover, they do a lousy
job of it to boot. So it stands to reason that a lot of hospitals up
for getting audited sanctioned by the government is more than
justified.
We need EQUAL justice for all. I am sick and tired of some poor
bastard down on their luck trying to eek out a living for themselves
by selling pot, getting busted, convicted and getting sent to general
population while some flashy mid town Manhattan broker who screws $
millions out of unwary investors hard earned savings and the piece of
shit gets a slap on the wrist or gets sent off to some minimum
security country club prison. A theif is a theif is a theif--period.
In reality, I'd judge the rottten bastard with greater impunity simply
because most brokers are educated and know better as to when they are
crossing the line. The same goes for any other white collar crime.
No more country clubs--period!
Not just health care:
despite the fact that the U.S. spends the largest amount of money per
pupil in the world, standardized international achievement tests
reveal that U.S. public schools achieve mediocre scores.. For
example,
according to the 2000 Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA) for 15-
year-old students, the U.S. ranked 15th in reading, 18th in
mathematics, and 14th in science literacy among 27 OECD countries
(U.S. DOE, 2001).
http://www.uwm.edu/~kim/papers/Accountability_Final.pdf
if "we the people'' must pay for a "money pit'' we obviously don't
want, does that not make us accountable to government?
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/Accountable.shtml
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/Education.shtml
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/ReportCard.shtml
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/Fleeced%20Again.shtml
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/Schools.shtml
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/PerformanceGap.shtml