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im,
A long drawn out ‘Is it worth it’ sort of thing.
…………Suffering.
Every time you talk about how “uncomfortable” it is going to be, all I can think about is every time I was in labor w/ one of my babies & the doctors would tell me how “uncomfortable” this or that was going to be.
“uncomfortable” is a PC word for PAINFUL!
If you are going to dream, it might as well be in technicolour. The USA will respond after it crashes and burns. We will believe the roof could cave in, when it is on our heads.
Healthcare is about doing maintenance, on their property.
Thanks for that CR.
(I kinda guessed it was not `you`)
ideas for a healthcare plan?
quality food, clean water, good sleep & exercise.
people need to stop eating crap & learn how to take care of themselves…there ARE people who never get sick you know…
;o)
I would like to apologise. I fell off the wagon and made an utter fool of myself last night. So disrespectful to you. You don’t deserve that. My anger is awful. I am scared. Lashing out like that was a stupid thing to do. I make a habbit of it don’t I. So sorry MM.
@49Falcon, I am criticzing the elderly for expensive medical care. What I am talking about is a simple cost-benefit analysis. Take my Uncle for example, $200,000 tax payer money spent on Coronary bypass which he lived 9 more months. That $200,000 could have treated many children with developmental problems, spina bifada, malnutrion.
I am not saying euthanize the elderly, I am saying make them comfortable in the dying process & let nature take it’s course.
Oh well pat. Easy come, easy go.
It was nice while it lasted.
MM; I will tell you how this decision is going to be made; It will be much like the former USSR, that is the collapse of a Union(United) country…It will implode upon itself by a force that has become oppressive/tyrannical…end of story!!
“The San Francisco Chronicle” Feb. 06, 2010
“Anthem Blue Cross raises premiums:
For Jeff Sher of San Francisco….in the last year, his premium increased from $273 to $530 per month, or 94%. Sher, who is 59, says he hasn’t needed to see a doctor in seven or eight years.”
My wife and I (also in our fifties) saw our premiums jump 40% last year…and we have a high deductible. We will soon have to drop our health insurance and hope we don’t get sick….just die at home alone.
not so sure how much credability I would place on anything put out by cBS…..the BS part of “CBS” is hardly a coincidence. The report you are reading was produced by a politicians for a politicians and will be used for a political purpose, propaganda not being the least.
I see a kind of incidental triage developing: already, many MDs are refusing new patients and clinics are performing only diagnostics for emergency patients “covered” by Government health insurance and then “referring” them out to an ever more phantom elsewhere. Being “covered” doesn’t guarantee preventative health care at all as far as I can see.
I’ll agree partially with your point, they have paid in but its doubtful they paid even 30% of their medical expenses they will occur from 65- death..
Atm the gov spends $3 on Medicare for ever $1 collected.. But yeah gov has dipped their hand in the cookie jar leaving IOUs & they definately act like children.
Being rational is not very popular, but I agree with your premise.. Someone has to make the hard choices, the problem is no one wants to be the bad guy so there is the catch 22..
centerville, I agree but yet healthcare keeps going up. I thought imports were supposed to cut costs?
If one only has months to live perhaps a year or two, hospice care is appropriate. Not fair to have taxpayers spend much money on treatment that may only extend life by a few months. Make the patient comfortable with narcotics and some nursing care. I would want the same for myself.
When governments reach the point where they are borrowing to pay the interest on their borrowing they are coming dangerously close to running a sovereign Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes have a way of ending unhappily. To get out of the Ponzi trap, governments will have to raise taxes, or cut spending, or monetize the debt–or most likely do some combination of all three. NOT ON MY WATCH!
Depression Mystic… let’s get it right! 02/2010 is just the end of the beginning.
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