What are you doing with the remaining microseconds as they tick away?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Your hard-earned tax dollars - going to pay the doctor bills of criminals
The socialist takeover of American health care passed last year is being interpreted to include a provision that will set up health centers that won't check the immigration status of those who walk into them for treatment.
Gov. Rick Scott, a critic of the federal health care overhaul, is paying less than $400 a year for health insurance for himself and his wife.
While Scott is accepting no salary for his job as governor, the multimillionaire and former hospital chain executive chose to enroll in the taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plan offered by the state of Florida.
I might also mention that he spent 73 Mil of his own $$ to get elected. He also headed a co. that incurred the largest medicare fraud fine in history up to that time for shady dealings and bought his way out of that too, with a reverse Nuremburg defense in which he apparently successfully claimed that he was unaware of the activities of his underlings.
Why does it matter what Scott is paying for health insurance? He chose his particular path through life, you chose yours< I chose mine and so on. But as to the topic of the post, if I'm going to bust my tail to send money to the IRS, I at least want it to go for measures that conform to the law.
He is a harsh critic of health care reform, that's why. You seem to ignore the fact that, chosen or not, even employer-sponsored health care plans have eroded and of course we have substantial unemployment. Do you know what the private market charges older Americans who are out of work? The system is broken. I don't think anybody knows how to fix it either. We do have a new law effective in 2014--one year before I personally will qualify for Medicare which you seem to be cheering on the demise of as well. Wow, that is profound. He chose his particular path through life. And I chose mine and you chose yours. So what? I am talking about creating a system that works for EVERYBODY and all you do is carp about socialism. It used to be communism, now it's socialism you fight. It is not socialism, it is social insurance which can be the most effective way to cover the most people. Then again, a serious weeding of the population of al its deadwood might sound appealing to you. Can we all choose to live, can we, can we please? Or do we all have to get medical degrees?
My point about choosing one's particular path through life is central to the discussion. A person decides to get or not get particular training and education and pursue or not pursue a particular educational path. Also chooses a particular lifestyle. All of which either makes it easier or harder to pay for whatever health care he or she in interested in obtaining. And all of the above is that person's business. No one else's. Certainly not the government's.
Question: Is enough health care to go around? For all? If not, why not? And what can we do to ensure and insure that there is. Is the private market doing this? Of course not, it has only its self-interest at heart that is a matter of creating the Kingdom here on earth, which is the only thing we have for certain, Judan who we will back to the ends of the earth certainly don't believe in that, but perhaps that it's coming. After this, nothing, darkness....
Thta depends entirely on how you define "health care."
No one can make people be doctors, nurses, therapists or pharmacists. And there will damn sure be a shortage of them if there is not sufficient economic incentive for them to go into those fields.
It once was such a selfless profession. Remember all those charity hospitals founded by the sisters of this and the sisters of that? They're still operating in many places. Another bastardization of the modern age, late in the day as you so say.
Does anyone have a right to make people go into those fields even if they have decided it's not an economically worthwhile thing to do with their lives?
Tea Party darlings make sure they get theirs though. $400/year? Sheesh, my spouse and I pay 1K a month! Of course you will call me class envious.
ReplyDeletehttp://htpolitics.com/2011/08/10/scott-pays-400-a-year-for-health-coverage/
TALLAHASSEE
Gov. Rick Scott, a critic of the federal health care overhaul, is paying less than $400 a year for health insurance for himself and his wife.
While Scott is accepting no salary for his job as governor, the multimillionaire and former hospital chain executive chose to enroll in the taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plan offered by the state of Florida.
I might also mention that he spent 73 Mil of his own $$ to get elected. He also headed a co. that incurred the largest medicare fraud fine in history up to that time for shady dealings and bought his way out of that too, with a reverse Nuremburg defense in which he apparently successfully claimed that he was unaware of the activities of his underlings.
ReplyDeleteWhy does it matter what Scott is paying for health insurance? He chose his particular path through life, you chose yours< I chose mine and so on.
ReplyDeleteBut as to the topic of the post, if I'm going to bust my tail to send money to the IRS, I at least want it to go for measures that conform to the law.
He is a harsh critic of health care reform, that's why. You seem to ignore the fact that, chosen or not, even employer-sponsored health care plans have eroded and of course we have substantial unemployment. Do you know what the private market charges older Americans who are out of work? The system is broken. I don't think anybody knows how to fix it either. We do have a new law effective in 2014--one year before I personally will qualify for Medicare which you seem to be cheering on the demise of as well. Wow, that is profound. He chose his particular path through life. And I chose mine and you chose yours. So what? I am talking about creating a system that works for EVERYBODY and all you do is carp about socialism. It used to be communism, now it's socialism you fight. It is not socialism, it is social insurance which can be the most effective way to cover the most people. Then again, a serious weeding of the population of al its deadwood might sound appealing to you. Can we all choose to live, can we, can we please? Or do we all have to get medical degrees?
ReplyDeleteMy point about choosing one's particular path through life is central to the discussion. A person decides to get or not get particular training and education and pursue or not pursue a particular educational path. Also chooses a particular lifestyle. All of which either makes it easier or harder to pay for whatever health care he or she in interested in obtaining. And all of the above is that person's business. No one else's. Certainly not the government's.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is enough health care to go around? For all? If not, why not? And what can we do to ensure and insure that there is. Is the private market doing this? Of course not, it has only its self-interest at heart that is a matter of creating the Kingdom here on earth, which is the only thing we have for certain, Judan who we will back to the ends of the earth certainly don't believe in that, but perhaps that it's coming. After this, nothing, darkness....
ReplyDeleteThta depends entirely on how you define "health care."
ReplyDeleteNo one can make people be doctors, nurses, therapists or pharmacists. And there will damn sure be a shortage of them if there is not sufficient economic incentive for them to go into those fields.
It once was such a selfless profession. Remember all those charity hospitals founded by the sisters of this and the sisters of that? They're still operating in many places. Another bastardization of the modern age, late in the day as you so say.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have a right to make people go into those fields even if they have decided it's not an economically worthwhile thing to do with their lives?
ReplyDelete