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August 15, 2007 at 1:22 AM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75465
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ParticipantThe funding problem of Medicare is accurate – but has nothing to do with how the program runs…
Basically – it works – and it doesn’t cost a lot to administer. Our current system is one of increasing costs, obscure rules, arbitrary decisions, all motivated by greed and profit. Also – as to the prescription benefit… We pay huge prices for drugs, so our drug companies can give discounts to every other country. The lobbyists say that without America paying full price for drugs, the drug companies wouldn’t be able to develop new drugs…. Wow…
Anyway the thrust of your response was about the funding of Medicare, and the prescription problem… My point is that Medicare runs efficiently, (like most single payer systems)… The American people are being effectively robbed by big Health Care – and they lies they express which are parroted…
By the way sdnative… “I still equate it to Socialized medicine. Bureaucracy, the governmental version of anarchy.” But the point is that it works far better for other countries than our system is working for us… Too bad most Americans don’t actually look at the scorecard in almost every category to see that we are getting a horrible, raw deal. When you say “Socialized medicine” most people (me included) have been taught to look at that as a terrible thing… It’s advertising… Actually socialized medicine works far better than the system we have here.
I would also like ANYONE else to comment about Emergency rooms…. Please chime in… I’ve been to about 10 in my life, 8 were horrific. I hear stories all the time… Anyone? Have a good experience with Emergency rooms?
August 15, 2007 at 1:22 AM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75582ParticipantThe funding problem of Medicare is accurate – but has nothing to do with how the program runs…
Basically – it works – and it doesn’t cost a lot to administer. Our current system is one of increasing costs, obscure rules, arbitrary decisions, all motivated by greed and profit. Also – as to the prescription benefit… We pay huge prices for drugs, so our drug companies can give discounts to every other country. The lobbyists say that without America paying full price for drugs, the drug companies wouldn’t be able to develop new drugs…. Wow…
Anyway the thrust of your response was about the funding of Medicare, and the prescription problem… My point is that Medicare runs efficiently, (like most single payer systems)… The American people are being effectively robbed by big Health Care – and they lies they express which are parroted…
By the way sdnative… “I still equate it to Socialized medicine. Bureaucracy, the governmental version of anarchy.” But the point is that it works far better for other countries than our system is working for us… Too bad most Americans don’t actually look at the scorecard in almost every category to see that we are getting a horrible, raw deal. When you say “Socialized medicine” most people (me included) have been taught to look at that as a terrible thing… It’s advertising… Actually socialized medicine works far better than the system we have here.
I would also like ANYONE else to comment about Emergency rooms…. Please chime in… I’ve been to about 10 in my life, 8 were horrific. I hear stories all the time… Anyone? Have a good experience with Emergency rooms?
August 15, 2007 at 1:22 AM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75587ParticipantThe funding problem of Medicare is accurate – but has nothing to do with how the program runs…
Basically – it works – and it doesn’t cost a lot to administer. Our current system is one of increasing costs, obscure rules, arbitrary decisions, all motivated by greed and profit. Also – as to the prescription benefit… We pay huge prices for drugs, so our drug companies can give discounts to every other country. The lobbyists say that without America paying full price for drugs, the drug companies wouldn’t be able to develop new drugs…. Wow…
Anyway the thrust of your response was about the funding of Medicare, and the prescription problem… My point is that Medicare runs efficiently, (like most single payer systems)… The American people are being effectively robbed by big Health Care – and they lies they express which are parroted…
By the way sdnative… “I still equate it to Socialized medicine. Bureaucracy, the governmental version of anarchy.” But the point is that it works far better for other countries than our system is working for us… Too bad most Americans don’t actually look at the scorecard in almost every category to see that we are getting a horrible, raw deal. When you say “Socialized medicine” most people (me included) have been taught to look at that as a terrible thing… It’s advertising… Actually socialized medicine works far better than the system we have here.
I would also like ANYONE else to comment about Emergency rooms…. Please chime in… I’ve been to about 10 in my life, 8 were horrific. I hear stories all the time… Anyone? Have a good experience with Emergency rooms?
ParticipantI sent the poster the spell-checked version of her advertisement. She thanked me for correcting her English (I didn’t realize how little she spoke, her email was much worse), but just checked to see if she used my corrected version to update it… (She didn’t!)
ParticipantI sent the poster the spell-checked version of her advertisement. She thanked me for correcting her English (I didn’t realize how little she spoke, her email was much worse), but just checked to see if she used my corrected version to update it… (She didn’t!)
ParticipantI sent the poster the spell-checked version of her advertisement. She thanked me for correcting her English (I didn’t realize how little she spoke, her email was much worse), but just checked to see if she used my corrected version to update it… (She didn’t!)
ParticipantLOL – I should have brought my kids (10 and 13)… They would have cleared the place out just as fast!
ParticipantLOL – I should have brought my kids (10 and 13)… They would have cleared the place out just as fast!
ParticipantLOL – I should have brought my kids (10 and 13)… They would have cleared the place out just as fast!
August 14, 2007 at 9:09 PM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75346ParticipantActually sdnativeson we have a government program for medical care… It’s called Medicare. It has something like 2% administration costs – operates very efficiently. Our current system has about a 25-30% administration cost (pays for the Bentleys, etc. for the healthcare execs) – and it also delights in keeping our health care system below the other first world countries.
We could easily just add all the population to medicare. Almost all doctors take medicare and those who don’t can. Problem is that the healthcare companies have lobbyists. Medicare doesn’t.
Funny how you poke fun at ‘socialized medicine’ and a ‘bloated healthcare’ system… what we have now sucks, is anarchy, and is the reason that we are ranked 34th in the world for healthcare.
Luckily for me, I have a PPO, and a health savings plan which pays pre-tax money for my deductables, non-covered, ect. Unfortunately for the rest of America, the ones with HMO’s which deny everything, etc.
I liked some of your comments previously, but you have just parroted what the healthcare cartel has sold you…. All while supporting one of the worst health care systems.
By the way – don’t try going to an emergency room. It is filled with all the uninsured. If you do go (because it’s an emergency – or that the US healthcare system is only Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm – oh and by the way your doctor can’t see you for 11 days (unless you are in big trouble) – oh yeah and you should go to an emergency room if you need an appointment that badly, good luck to you!
It’s a shame that our system is the laughingstock of the rest of the world….
August 14, 2007 at 9:09 PM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75463ParticipantActually sdnativeson we have a government program for medical care… It’s called Medicare. It has something like 2% administration costs – operates very efficiently. Our current system has about a 25-30% administration cost (pays for the Bentleys, etc. for the healthcare execs) – and it also delights in keeping our health care system below the other first world countries.
We could easily just add all the population to medicare. Almost all doctors take medicare and those who don’t can. Problem is that the healthcare companies have lobbyists. Medicare doesn’t.
Funny how you poke fun at ‘socialized medicine’ and a ‘bloated healthcare’ system… what we have now sucks, is anarchy, and is the reason that we are ranked 34th in the world for healthcare.
Luckily for me, I have a PPO, and a health savings plan which pays pre-tax money for my deductables, non-covered, ect. Unfortunately for the rest of America, the ones with HMO’s which deny everything, etc.
I liked some of your comments previously, but you have just parroted what the healthcare cartel has sold you…. All while supporting one of the worst health care systems.
By the way – don’t try going to an emergency room. It is filled with all the uninsured. If you do go (because it’s an emergency – or that the US healthcare system is only Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm – oh and by the way your doctor can’t see you for 11 days (unless you are in big trouble) – oh yeah and you should go to an emergency room if you need an appointment that badly, good luck to you!
It’s a shame that our system is the laughingstock of the rest of the world….
August 14, 2007 at 9:09 PM in reply to: Bush addresses the nation on the economy and the stock market tanks. Irony #75467ParticipantActually sdnativeson we have a government program for medical care… It’s called Medicare. It has something like 2% administration costs – operates very efficiently. Our current system has about a 25-30% administration cost (pays for the Bentleys, etc. for the healthcare execs) – and it also delights in keeping our health care system below the other first world countries.
We could easily just add all the population to medicare. Almost all doctors take medicare and those who don’t can. Problem is that the healthcare companies have lobbyists. Medicare doesn’t.
Funny how you poke fun at ‘socialized medicine’ and a ‘bloated healthcare’ system… what we have now sucks, is anarchy, and is the reason that we are ranked 34th in the world for healthcare.
Luckily for me, I have a PPO, and a health savings plan which pays pre-tax money for my deductables, non-covered, ect. Unfortunately for the rest of America, the ones with HMO’s which deny everything, etc.
I liked some of your comments previously, but you have just parroted what the healthcare cartel has sold you…. All while supporting one of the worst health care systems.
By the way – don’t try going to an emergency room. It is filled with all the uninsured. If you do go (because it’s an emergency – or that the US healthcare system is only Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm – oh and by the way your doctor can’t see you for 11 days (unless you are in big trouble) – oh yeah and you should go to an emergency room if you need an appointment that badly, good luck to you!
It’s a shame that our system is the laughingstock of the rest of the world….
ParticipantI read the article…was amazed… There is still a lot of money out there and a lot of people who like to be stroked.
When someone spends 500$ per person on a party, a lot of shallow people feel obligated to buy a 800K condo. Look – they like me… they really like me!!!!
ParticipantI read the article…was amazed… There is still a lot of money out there and a lot of people who like to be stroked.
When someone spends 500$ per person on a party, a lot of shallow people feel obligated to buy a 800K condo. Look – they like me… they really like me!!!!
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