And the point of my talking about trimming the military budget is that the numbers are not needed. The military system has created the need for more and more.
For the 2008 budget, our illustrious military wants to spend $6.1 billion on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is an increase over the 2007 budget of 23%. They want $4.6 billion for the F-22 Raptor, and increase of 15% over 2007. They want $3.1 billion for the Carrier Replacement Program, an increase of 117.7% over 2007.
You don't see a way to fund healthcare would be by trimming some of THAT??
Maybe if we stop trying to run other countries we wouldn't NEED as much of that hardware?
And maybe, just maybe, if we focused on the problems at home we could actually solve some? Instead of focusing billions and billions of dollars on nations that we have no business meddling in.
I brought up that red herring because it is a huge chunk of my tax dollars. You brought up funding, so I brought up a way to fund it.
Those sheister lawyers may be screwing people over, or they may be causing pharmaceutical companies to make sure something is safe BEFORE they send it out there.
Here are some tasty facts for you.
Fact: as many as 98,000 people will die each year as a result of medical errors.
Fact: less than 3,000 total serious sanctions will be given to doctors each year.
Can you see a descrpancy there? (hint:unless each Dr sanctioned has killed 32 people. there are lots of Drs getting away with murder)
"Harvard researchers found that 1% of a representative sample of patients treated in New York state hospitals in 1984 were injured, and one-quarter of those died, because of medical negligence.Nationwide, that would have translated into 234,000 injuries and 80,000 deaths in 1988 from negligence in American hospitals. Most of this involves physicians. There is no clear evidence that there has been significant improvement since then."
(from http://www.medicalmalpractice.com/Na...tice-Facts.cfm)
"Just 5.1 percent of doctors account for 54.2 percent of the malpractice payouts, according to data from the National Practitioner Data Bank. Of the 35,000 doctors who have had two or more malpractice payouts since 1990, only 7.6 percent of them have been disciplined. And only 13 percent of doctors with five medical malpractice payouts have been disciplined."
(from the same link)
And you think protecting them even more is going to help?? I am thinking that 98,000 people is enough, how about you?
Drunk driving kills about 45,000 to 50,000 each year, and we are so outraged we created organizations, classes, and stricter laws to combat it.
Twice that many people die in hospitals from medical errors and you want to stop the Drs from getting sued???
No, part of the problem is the Drs have become mythical in their stature and can get away with murder. (often times literally)
So you are projecting your anti-war views of foreign policy onto 'fixing' health care, which is not really broken! That's just great! While the world around us goes completely to hell, we can rest comfortably knowing that every single person who has a hangnail, can get free medical care here in America. No one has any money, we don't have the ability to defend our nation, but Joe Poor can damn sure know he will get free meds! Typical Liberal Idiocy on full display!Maybe if we stop trying to run other countries we wouldn't NEED as much of that hardware?
And maybe, just maybe, if we focused on the problems at home we could actually solve some? Instead of focusing billions and billions of dollars on nations that we have no business meddling in.
Again, your liberal reading comprehension problem come into play here. I never said that doctors should be protected from lawsuits. I think we need some comprehensive reforms in TORT laws, to prevent some of the ridiculous and frivolous lawsuits being filed daily! Liberal judges are awarding people astronomical amounts of money for the most stupid shit you can imagine, left and right, and this is driving the cost of overall health care through the roof. I have no problem with shitty doctors being held accountable for negligence and incompetence, but there should be some middle ground here! You apparently don't believe there is! If someone can dream up something to sue a doctor or pharmaceutical company over, it's all fine and dandy to you! It has gotten to the point of absurdity, that ANY side effect of ANY drug, is libelous and open to judgment and award of money damages by the courts, and THIS drives the cost of drugs through the ever-loving roof! Yet, you don't bat a liberal eye at this problem, it's all good, just let it ride! Again, drug companies have a responsibility to provide good medicine, and should be liable for negligence or incompetence, but there should be some fucking middle ground! There should be some consideration given to common sense and what is reasonable, and currently, there doesn't seem to be any of this at all.Twice that many people die in hospitals from medical errors and you want to stop the Drs from getting sued???
I am not anti-war. I am anti-unwarranted war.
But now that you mention it, are you actually PRO-war? Are you FOR sending our young men to die?
But Dixie, by passing Tort reform you are making it tough for the victims to sue the assholes that injured or killed someone.
Tort reform is not the answer - neither is government health insurance.
Real competition is needed in health insurance in order to reduce costs. The link between insurance provider and employer needs to be severed (transitionally, and not how McCain proposed). Once individuals and families begin shopping around for their own health insurance (as opposed to taking whatever their employer offers), the market will begin to cater to them. Other forms of insurance (such as catastrophic coverage only) will suit others. Doctors might even respond by only accepting catastrophic coverage and take payments at fee-for-service, like they did before HMO's began to dominate health care (via government mandate).
Real competition is what is needed because lower costs are needed. Universal health insurance would guarantee higher costs due to higher demand. This happens when people can get something they perceive as being free. Do liberals really want someone like Dick Cheney to have access to their health records? That is what you will get with government health insurance.
I really do not give a crap if Cheny sees my medical records or not.
What about pre existing conditions ?
for people with pre existing conditions employer health insurance is often the only viable option.
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True competition as the answer for healthcare is a pipe dream, will not happen.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ROSETTA-STONE-HI...742.m153.l1262
is this a good price?
I seriously doubt Dollar Tree would carry this item.
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