Re: Revised to: They Didn't Tell What It Would Be Like....
- From: Jim Beard <jdbeard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:34:47 -0400
Mouse wrote:
Jim Beard wrote:Ed wrote:Thanks for that article, jim. I have been, more or less, of the opinion that any change would have to be an improvement over the $15K my wife and I spend each year for almost nothing but insurance 'just in case' (and that doesn't even kick in 'till we're out another $6k in deductible), but this article has presented another side I hadn't seen.A nanny-tax on junk food is being bandied about. The following link
is to a story in the Sun Sentinel, a major newspaper in the Fort
Lauderdale, FL area.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/la-sci-junk-food-tax23-2009aug23,0,5963700.story
I know there were some predictions here long ago, but I really didn't
think it would happen. Maybe the junk food eaters (doesn't that mean
practically everyone?) will come to our side.
As the above pertains to "health care" that the Demograts have made a centerpiece of their efforts, some my find it useful to see what "health care" is like when the USG is fully in charge of it. Watch for line wrap.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376981533298534.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
No cheers.
jim b.
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Once again.
Mouse
Well, the Government's programs to encourage medical insurance have so skewed the market that it is hard to see how any change could make things worse, but if you look carefully, it can and most likely will. Currently, about $1 of every $6 of gross domestic product goes for medical expenses, and I cannot see that Americans are getting service that would justify even half of that. If the Government starts picking up the entire tab, or forces its pricing policies on all, that cost will continue to go up without restraint. I do not see prospects for service to improve, musch less match increases in costs, until those getting the services start having to pay a large fraction of the cost of them. At that point, they will start demanding value for money, and the cost/benefit ratio will improve over time. But will this ever happen?
There is yet another side, Veterans Administration health care, for those wounded or disabled in line of duty, and veterans unable to pay their own medical bills. The latter applies only for those eligible due to service in a combat zone; routine peacetime service does not qualify.
Search the web for information on it, and you will find lots of information on how much the system has improved, and how happy patients are. What you will not see is data on real medical support provided vs needed, and a patient population so used to getting virtually nothing that anything seems to be welcomed with great happiness.
Straying from health care, U.S. Government provision of education to Indian tribes likewise shows what government is capable of when it owns the whole program. 'Fraid that is not much.
Still no cheers.
jim b.
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