I say to the author of that: "That's a cop-out."Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
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I say to the author of that: "That's a cop-out."Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I say to your mother: You like that? Huh? Yeah... you a nasty girl, ain't you?
I say to you sir: GOOD DAY.
To respond to Yoshi finally,
From some cursory research I personally believe that Japan has a model that we could follow. If every one pays (i.e. both people and the government) and we don't have the hideous issues of taxing the piss out of people so the government can pay (which causes problems in itself) for everything and costs are held lower because every one is contributing to the pot, we wouldn't have problems like say a delivery boy working for a ma and pa pizza chain getting in a car wreck and needing 40k of surgery that the hospital will never see and take out on others because he's paying into the system the whole time. Japan does not have a perfect system but with some tweaking the US may be able to find a happy medium or something.
We also need far better competition between doctors and insurance providers and hospitals etc. but that's a regulation issue and not a cost issue. Anyways,
A couple links,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=89626309
http://www.nchc.org/facts/Japan.pdf
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/rodwin/lessons.html
For some reason the last link is sort of messed up but has some decent info.
Health care really is damned good here.
Quote:
Mr Clarke, 68, said the British economy is headed for a "catastrophic crisis" that will be "far worse than anything that has occurred in my lifetime".
"There will be a very serious recession next year," he said in an interview with Telegraph TV. "I think the big problem in 2009 will be the catastrophic fall in consumer spending demand, spending in shops will get worse."
Mr Clarke, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1993 and 1997 led Britain's recovery from Black Wednesday, called for a temporary cut in VAT to boost spending.
Speaking as the Office of National Statistics revealed unemployment has reached an 11-year high of 1.82m, Mr Clarke said the number of jobless could soon reach three million.
"We are not yet in a state where we can be absolutely certain we are not going to have something close to meltdown next year", he said. "You do have to see what can be done with taxes."
He cautioned that Britain has "mounting debt, which is unsustainable" but said policymakers should bear in mind the effect a "full-blown depression will have on public finances".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...-meltdown.html
Why the heck are we bailing out Citibank? Weren't they trying to buy out Wachovia last month? Apparently, being in deep trouble doesn't preclude a company from trying to buy up one's competitors. :wtf:
We should let everything just do what it needs to do: Banks, GM, Ford, etc... No amount of bailout money is going to save anything, it just might prevent it for a little longer to the tune of thousands of dollars per household that most households don't have.
I paid $1.87/gal for gas this morning. Why the hell hasn't this trickled down into anything else yet?
Seriously, I don't think gas was under $2 when I started driving some 16 years ago.
Do you pay for your own health insurance or does your employer? If healthcare were reasonable (ie... not similar in cost to a $200,000.00 home mortgage as it is today @ $900+/mo. family) I would agree with you. But, it isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon