Lorr47
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From Friday night to Monday morning I am usually locked in a facility with a firearm behind a double row of barbed wire topped chain link fences and have a lot of time on my hands (or "hand" whichever the case may be). I watch, or attempt to watch digital TV with rabbit ears (that digital TV is another business ripoff of the public is a topic for another thread). I end up watching the damnedest programs. I have just been informed that there is a new site called "tweet a prayer" during the "Inner Compass" program. I cannot answer my x's cell phone because I cannot turn it on so tweeting is out of the question.
However, my head turned so fast that I now have whip lash. The religious program took off on the health care issue like a saber saw. It is evident that even the religious zealots get what is at stake and they did not pull any punches. If they have an associate membership for atheists, I will join.
Every year.....in regard to just elder care......in Dade County alone.....there is over $2 billion in fraud. If you want funding for a new system, the religious folks have a starting point. I realize that we would be dealing with only the entry level republicans exercising the profit motive in fraud situations, but it is a start throughout the country. Once we get used to prosecuting fraudulent types the funding of a plan will fall into place. There is an easy $100 billion savings per year nationwide and that is just in regard fraud in elder care in per year. Start investigating and prosecuting fraud in other areas by looking for those who are reciting the mantra "remember that your health is our business, not our concern" and the bill will be paid in full.
In Dade County the last two years of elder care costs about $16,000. Here the religious say the same thing as the CEO of Mayo Clinic said. The amount is entirely too much; $5,000 is the approximate cost of planned care usually necessary. Other areas of the country supply the same amount of service with better quality for $5,000. Nationwide the savings of properly caring for the elderly might support a system that has been actively sought since Harry Truman campaigned on a health care platform in 1948. Institute systems like the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic and the Mountain (?) system out west that show more money is not needed but rather better use of the current funds. An interesting phenomenon is that in Massachusetts cost controls and the delivery controls are coming into line as the system matures; the better use of money is coming on line.
In the Bill Moyer's program it was again stated by two experts (Angell and Leiberman) that more money is not needed but rather the intelligent use of the current funds. The US spends 2 1/2 times what other countries do and we get a substandard level of care. Why? Private insurers are the problem; for example, paying just one corporate CEO $30 million a year puts a dent on the ability to cover health care costs.. The experts claim that the private insurers and pharmaceutical companies are now backing the plan wanting a share of more funds coming into the so called system. Obama had better watch out for the motives of his new found republican friends. Several of the experts want Obama to take the issue away from the congressional delegation. Then, put his original plan on the table and if necessary go down swinging so they can educate the public later and point our the deceit of the republicans and the health care industry.
More and more people are starting to understands why this issue is so important. The CEO of Mayo Clinic said the US will be bankrupt by 2015 if we cannot pass health care. Today's experts say we will soon reach the point where the economy spends one of every three dollars on health care. Not surprisingly no one is citing the republicans as proposing anything remotely constructive. All the republicans want is for the health care industry to make more money. You almost get the feeling that republican congressmen are paid by the insurance industry. Oh, yeah, that is what is exactly what is happening. If you add up the payments made to republicans by the banking industry and the health care industry, no republican legislator is making less than $5 million a year. Havn't we allowed them to steal long enough? Since 1935 or 1948 are the years commonly cited.
I cannot remember all the statements made but Moyers played portions of the Savage, Boortz, Beck, and O'Reilly's rantings. They are advocating that liberals and democrats be killed in the rantings I heard. We are considered just cattle by the republicans.
< Message edited by Lorr47 -- 7/26/2009 7:57:00 AM >
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