Posted on 09/17/2011 4:14:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Okay, I guessed at the number of federal taxpayers there are...
I believe its around 100,000,000.
$500,000,000 / 100,000,000 is $5.
And I said “about $5” to allow for my less than exact guess at 100,000,000 federal taxpayers...
So please, go ahead and correct my “error” doctor.
As far as medical costs go I think we would be VASTLY better off if there had never been any government involvement, no medicare, no medicaid, no watchdog agencies etc. I remember when a week in the hospital without insurance was a major blow but a working man could survive it even if he had to make monthly payments for a while. Now if you spend a week in the hospital without any insurance or any help from anywhere you are ruined financially, probably for life, unless you are wealthy. I don’t buy the excuse that health care costs so much now because of all the advances in medicine. In any other field great technological advances result in lower costs not higher costs. I think the same would be true in medicine without the hand of government ruining everything.
Surgery that used to involve a long hospital stay is now often done on a one night or even an outpatient basis, why should it cost more rather than less?
Agreed, and thanks for overlooking my horrific typos, yikes!
Agreed. My father and I were talking about this very idea two days ago. When my dad was a kid, doctors still made house calls. I totally understand that the health insurance (subsidy, really), has skyrocketed the cost of health care, in addition to medical malpractice suits and insurance.
There have been many advances in the fields of medicine, and they are costly, but they always come down in price as the supply (availability) goes up. You make a perfect example of government getting into things and ruining them. All socialism must GO.
tell him to apply for the army and navy rotc as well as air force. The army scholarships are easier to come by and provide better benefits. You must work very hard in high school to fill out all paper work (on time)for the 4 year scholarship. In the army rotc almost nobody gets a 3 year scholarship after spending a whole year as freshman as a non scholarship student.
I’ll tell him but he likes the Air Force, which is the only ROTC program offered in his high school. He’s a great student and in the AICE program. Upon completion, he’ll be eligible for a Bright Futures Scholarship.
Thanks to Uncle Sam, I’m flat broke.
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