Healthcare
Let’s Cut It to the Bone
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
In the movie Dave, Kevin Kline is told he can have the money for a child care program if he can cut the budget to cover it. He enlists his accountant friend, played by Charles Grodin, to actually cut the budget which they do and they keep the child care program. I never thought I would ever say this but we need Charles Grodin.
I want a good healthcare bill and I think we can manage it if we cut some things. First we should get rid of our Police Force, no not the local one. I mean the one that has been policing since the end of WW II. The one that is in Iraq and Afganistan. The one that had those missions in Korea , Viet Nam and Kuwait. I’m not suggesting that we do away with our Armed Forces, just the policing part.
We have been engaged in police actions since WW II and I can’t think of one success.It seems that all of our interventions have just made the people we were trying to help hate us more.
Let’s do away with the minimum wage. We can no longer pretend that we are not part of a global economy. How are we goiung to compete if our minimum hourly wage is the weekly wage for an other country’s worker? Besides money is just a piece of paper. the value of money is what you can buy with it. I think of it as the loaf of bread theory. If you are getting paid $.10 an hour and you can buy a load of bread then you are better off then the neighboring country that gets $100 an hour but bread costs $101.
Besides the wage is unfair, it didn’t raise everyone’s wages just the ones making the minimum. If I’m making the Federal Minimum wage of $7.25and my co worker is making $7.30and they raise the minimum to $7.29 I just got a raise but my co worker didn’t. Worse than that is the fact that the raise was probably caused by inflation. This means that the loaf of bread that used to cost $7.25 now costs $7.29 which means that my co worker will not be showing up at $.05 beer night.
I have more ways we can cut but I’m saving that for next week cause I am typing this. I literally started personal typing in High School at 25 wpm and ended at 15 wpm so if I type too much my fingers bleed and mess up the keys. Till next week
PS I know that you are wondering if I forgot or maybe I am going by an Aztec calendar( if I am then none of this will matter in 2012) but wasn’t yesterday Tuesday? Yes it was and I have to apologize.
The good news is that everything still has positive and negative effects. Let me explain. When I finish my blog I normally ask my wife to check it out for errors, cause she is smarter than me in everything but picking mates. Once or twice when she was extremely busy I actually posted without her review. Last night I told her I was finished and I expected her to check it and post it. She took it to mean that I had finished and had posted it.
So now the good and bad news, The bad news is that you the reader may have been disappointed and have lost all faith in me. the good news is that my wife now feels guilty and being a typical male I will parlay this into something that is beneficial to me. with any luck I may be busy next Tuesday too.
Shout! Shout!
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | Healthcare, Politics | 2 Comments
Once again, the healthcare czars are enlisting the uninformed to do their work. Their latest tactic is to try to stop information by shouting at anyone who actually wants health care.
According to the numbers, the majority of Americans want a public option for healthcare. I can’t for the life of me think of why anyone, other then the healthcare industry, would not want a public option.
There was a time, a few years ago, when I didn’t have healthcare and I went to a doctor for a checkup and he charged me $125. Three months later I went again and he charged me $89. The difference was in that three months I had obtained healthcare. So when I didn’t have healthcare and I needed a break, one of those people who used to charge according to a person’s ability to pay decided that I was more able to pay the higher rate than the multi million or billion dollar health insurance company. So it seems that the bigger the organization the bigger the savings. Think how cheap healthcare will be when we have the largest organization paying the bills
You could argue that the government couldn’t do as good a job as the private sector but that ’s why it is called an option. If it doesn’t work for you then go back to your company paid plan. I only hope that with the economy still in trouble that you won’t need the public option when you lose your job. When I left a job they offered me the option of continuing my healthcare on the COBRA plan, all I needed was an extra $1000 a month.
I realize that many people think that the Government can’t run anything efficently but these people have obviously never heard of the IRS. So I would suggest that the people shouting have nothing to shout about. The healthcare bill does not endorse killing the elderly or any of the more outrageous ideas that they are shouting about,although it might include care for the emotionally or mentally challenged so maybe I stand corrected.