Posted on 06/25/2006 8:40:04 AM PDT by o_zarkman44
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=867&Section=Local
In 2002, McAllen Medical Heart Hospital reported $944.6 million in patient revenue, according to the state health department, with 78 percent of collections from Medicare and Medicaid.
Brownsville Medical Center collected $786.4 million in the same period, 79 percent of which was paid by Medicare and Medicaid.
The percentage of health care in the South Texas valley is approximately 75% to 80% paid for by American taxpayers. This is one thing the Chamber never reports.
How do I know that you aren't forgeting a second sarcasm tag and that your single sarcasm tag is really just sarcasm about...sarcasm?
/s/s/s
Choose your battles wisely.
Yep, you win in your mind because you get in the last stupid comment.
Please respond or my post will look dumb.
FYI this is the first time I have seen this subject on FR and is the reason why I decided to post the topic. I am just wondering if your ranting reaction was the same for the other nine related threads you say were posted?
Go have some milk and a cookie. Maybe some kool aid?
You are acting like a pro NAFTA fanatic. What is your business stake in the open border policy? Obviously your defense of the road to port concept targets you as one of the perpetrators of this insane policy, or as you want to call it, a conspiracy.
Were you being facetious or did you really mean that there's something unpatriotic and morally wrong about American ports being connected to publicly built roads?
Aren't we talking about toll roads, being built and owned by private entities ( That's OK) with expressed dedicated truck use only designation, that just so happens to be also using tax monies supply by our government? I'm getting tired of these unholy government-corporate alliances.
Isn't it great that the Kilo decision came about last year too? Makes it so much easier to accomplish the task. /s
You misunderstand. It's the people who think a freaking road is a threat to America that are the conspiracy nuts. That would be you, by the way.
I work in the oil industry, and NAFTA has no measurable effect on the domestic oil industry, so you can rule out some financial motivation for me not being a nut. But for some reason this "insane policy" is a threat to you.
Me too. In fact, when it comes to complaining about everything under the sun I can belly-ache better than anyone. Evenutally all good things come to an end and I'm forced to knock off all my fussing and get back to work.
Here's the route, and here's the legislation. Pick something specific that you can nail down that invalidates the entire project. Show me exactly where in this project there's something really horrible like say, Section so-and-so it requires ceding the state of Utah to the government of El Salvador or something.
Or maybe I just need more tin-foil to be able to see what's so bad..
Talk about learning something new everyday. I'd have thought that since most of our oil is imported, and the two countries that ship the most oil to us are Canada and Mexico, that NAFTA would have lowered oil costs. I must have missed something.
Just the same, even if NAFTA didn't lower the price of oil, revoking NAFTA sure as hell won't lower it more...
We weren't applying tariffs to imported oil before NAFTA and we aren't now, either.
The only effect that NAFTA could have on the oil industry is that imported oilfield equipment might have less taxes slapped on it, but I'm not aware of any coming from either Canada or Mexico.
Mostly it's steel from Germany and South Korea.
No need, everyone already taxes the hell out of gasoline whether it's imported or not.
At any rate, thanks for the info; talking with a fellow grown-up on these threads once in a while is downright refreshing. ;-)
LOL
In my recollection of the concept of interstate highways, they were developed as a rapid method of deployment and transportation of military hardware as their primary focus.
Although a military invasion of America is highly unlikely, security issues have not addressed the invasion of illegal immigrants from across our southern border.
We as a nation must be careful to not provide the means to encourage further abuse of the law. This highway corridor could be a tool of good intentions, but who controls the highway may not have the same good intentions as the original plan uses to rally support.
With illegal immigration at an all time high, and law enforcement and border security at an all time low, the only group we can blame for those issues is our government. The same government that is developing this transportation concept. Why should we not be mistrustful of our government given their past record of border security and enforcement??
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