The other nations spend less because they rely on our more free economy to generate innovation.
Now the idiots want to kill the golden goose.
Price fixing is not a real "strategy", i hope you know.
We need health care reform now because:
The US will spend over 2.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2009, totaling 17.6 percent of GDP. 17.6 percent of GDP for health care is dramatically more than other industrialized nations spend - and they have universal health care.
Wasteful and inefficient spending in the U.S. health care system adds up to roughly $700 billion a year - costing nearly as much as the recent recovery package.
Health care costs for small businesses have grown by 30% since 2000.
A study published in the Journal of Labor Economics found that a 20 percent increase in health care costs for U.S. employers results in 3.5 million American jobs lost.
U.S. manufacturers spend more per hour on health care than their competitors in Canada, Japan and the UK combined.
When the uninsured can’t pay for doctor and hospital visits and have no where else to turn, the cost is shifted to those who have insurance coverage.
As many as 1.5 million families lose their homes to foreclosure every year due to unaffordable medical costs.
America can’t afford to wait on health care reform.
We can act. The president and Congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKJi...layer_embedded
The other nations spend less because they rely on our more free economy to generate innovation.
Now the idiots want to kill the golden goose.
Price fixing is not a real "strategy", i hope you know.
funny we need to spend more now because we spend to much. Try that at home.
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
http://www.680news.com/news/more.jsp...16_080036_4700
Health care system imploding according to Canada's top doctor
680News staff with a report from the Canadian Press 2009-08-16 15:45
The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says the health-care system is imploding and doctors have to develop a plan to cure it.
Dr. Anne Doig says the care being provided to patients right now is less than optimal.
Doig says doctors, who are gathering in Saskatoon for their annual meeting, recognize that changes must be made.
The pitch for change starts today with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the association's outgoing president.
He has called for a patient-centred system.
Ouellet has said that could mean a role for private health care delivery within the public system.
It could also mean changes so health facilities get money based on the patients they treat, instead of an annual lump sum.
Doig says she doesn't know what blueprint will emerge when the meeting wraps up Wednesday, she says there are some good things about health care, but Canadians will see evidence the current system is not sustainable without change.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Obama has lots of good ideas to reform health care.
Problem is his linchpins aren't among them.
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Last edited by NOVA; 08-17-2009 at 10:48 AM.
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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