Posted on 08/08/2025 7:05:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
As we get older, I think the advantages of traditional medicare with the supplement will become more apparent. People on advantage plans will be fighting with bureaucrats for knee replacements and paying outrageous copays for hospital stays. We will be sailing through, getting our body parts worked on, with little or no out of pocket expenses. But we won’t get that free week of meals on wheels. Guess we will have to fork out for door dash.
Nothing wrong with it but borrowing money for school just never occurred to me so I worked, every opportunity I had.
I had a great job one year for a guy I really got along well with. Joe did all he could to help me and let me work all the overtime I could stand. When contracts ended he hired me as a welder to do maintenance on the barges and such. I was making more than my Dad, a regional manager. I thought I might lay out of school a year and bank a bunch then go to back having time for better grades. Dad frowned on such an idea so I continued to work nearly 40 hours a week at various jobs until I completed school.
It looks like hospitals and others are simply ignoring Trump. I have not seen but one price list by one clinic.
Perhaps getting rid of some of the illegals will relax the deadbeat loadings but I do not expect to see any dividends from that.
I too would like to see unbiased data, I can’t find it so settle for the best I think I can find on short notice.
Other countries have many of the same problems with drug and drink that we have. I see no reason to attempt aid or counseling to these people. I’d like to see their ilk just fade out of the gene pool.
Drug prices are outrageous and until medicare, insurance et al refuse to pay them they will go on.
Most defend the cost and what I see as the ineffective indifference of a lot of medicine by a string of excuses. They roll off of tongues like butter. The fact remains, our medical system is at least 50% more expensive than any other in the world and delivers only middle of the pack results by the metrics most use. You can try to make chicken salad out of chicken crap but it is still chicken crap and you need to look for better ingredients / solutions. Medicine in the US is broken and excuses don’t change that. All we are doing now is pointing fingers in a circular firing squad.
Edumacation, a train wreck brought to us by laziness and the NEA. I only caught the tip of liberal education in high screwl in a system that was still almost rural. The kids went to TAMU when it was all but a conservative bastion and majored in engineering and military science. They have protected the rights of people to be stupid, fat, lazy and liberal for nearly 20 years now.
An “open doors” audit of all of Congress, of their possible holdings in these companies would be interesting. ✖️👀
#48 In Britain and Canada they will kill you to save money.
Google: liverpool care pathway scandal, dailymail
Many articles. The NHS changed the name but the killing still goes on.
The hospitals here in the USA were paid to deny care for people who had the covid flu.
Money talks with some!
Hospitals bribed to put patients on pathway to death
Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223286/Hospitals-bribed-patients-pathway-death-Cash-incentive-NHS-trusts-meet-targets-Liverpool-Care-Pathway.html
Oct 25, 2012 — Hospitals are paid millions to hit targets for the number of patients who die on the Liverpool Care Pathway, the Mail can reveal.
They have been murdering 120,000 people a year. You are put on a death list unknown to you. This due to your age and medical history.
If you call for help they will not show up, if someone else calls and you are picked up then you could wait in the ambulance at the hospital or on a gurney in the hall. If you have relatives come with you and are put in a room, what the staff will not tell them is the patient will not get any medical care or water.
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How long does it take to die once you are in the liverpool care pathway
It usually involves the withdrawal of nutrition and fluids and increases the amount of sedative and pain relief administered to the patient. If the Care Pathway is initiated and progressed appropriately death usually occurs within 29 hours
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