Posted on 09/09/2009 11:21:08 AM PDT by freespirited
...For the past eight years Democrats have been voting against and filibustering two important reforms that would help all Americans. First, allowing you to buy your health insurance from any of the 50 states. Right now you are stuck buying insurance from businesses in your state, often with expensive mandates pushed on you by the state legislators and lobbyists for special interests This reform alone, known as the Shadegg bill, would drop the cost of health care an average of 15%. Not bad. Democrats have spent years opposing this fix.
Second, we need to reform tort law—stop the trial lawyer billionaires from suing your doctor and hospital to push up the costs of your health care. Obama, Reid and Pelosi owe the trial lawyer billionaires a great deal. They cannot say no to them. So no reform there. Some suggest that such reforms would save billions in legal fees but also tens of billions in lower costs of so called “defensive” medicine forced by the trial lawyers.
And lastly, Republicans are putting forward legislation that would require all hospitals to post their actual prices for operations on the Internet so we can shop around—like we do with everything else in life. That would generate real price competition that does not exist in today’s highly regulated health care.
Health care is too expensive in America. That is because it is taxed, regulated and sued too much. We need less government in between us and our doctors. Fewer parasitical trial lawyers and more competition free from government created monopolies.
One government run post office is already too many.
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I <3 Norquist. There aren’t enough true fiscal conservatives in government.
Yes the Post Office is a huge joke. They just changed things in my area, get this-we get TWO mail deliveries a day now and it has been going on for 2 weeks! In the morning we get ads and catalogs and in the afternoon we get the rest of the mail. They removed a carrier who was on the route for like 20 years, he was really good,and now our service SUCKS BIGTIME. So they are paying two carriers to do the job of one. They wonder why they are bankrupt?
Lady who works at the Post Office, just called Rush and said they were supposed to get paid last Friday, but there were no checks for them to hand out. They ended up being issued Money Orders instead.
The mind boggles.
You'd best report this to Headquarters so they can cut it back!
I have often wondered if the Zip code system was devised to accommodate any postal workers who can’t read.
Some of this I did not know. Bump.
Personally, I think the public school system is the better analogy. Think about the cost of our public school system over the past 30 years on a per pupil basis: it’s skyrocketed as the quality of the output (educated students) has declined precipitously. Among the many reasons for this:
Union control of almost all of the public school systems;
Huge and growing administrative bureaucracies;
Virtually no competition from the private sector;
Users (students, parents) have no/little control and usually competitive options.
The cost of college education has also soared thanks, largely, to government involvement with grants and lending institutions that have allowed colleges (driven by high-paid tenured teachers and administrators) to over-charge for less quality while allowing their students/graduates to leave college burdened by monstrous debt.
These are examples of what happens when government takes over or gets intimately involved in very important institutions in American life. It makes a mess of things!
Edit: make that “no competitive options” in that last bullet point.
They also made it possible to quickly move to OCR based systems.
No, the Trilateral Commission had nothing to do with it, but I can assure you the Bilderbergers were against it and fought it wherever it popped up until finally they were exhausted.
Even today you find old bilderberger's whining about it.
I know. We often sit around with our after dinner Remy Martins and Cohibas and talk of the good old days.
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