To: Jim Noble; wolfpat
With prices we are in a never ending circle, spiraling upward. Not only are premiums high, so is what you are charged at the doctors and hospitals (the cost that is paid by the health insurance). My Dad said it years ago ... Doctors are in a practice alright - practicing on you and me.
Prices in general need to be brought down. I.E., an aspirin costing $50 in a hospital. Please. But the doctors/hospitals charge it and the insurance companies pay it. And your premium rises. Answer - Reduce Prices! Greed runs cost ... getting back everything you can on your investment as fast as you can. How did we live 40, 50 even 60 years ago?
Something that may go to help this is a fairer tax system. Not an income tax, especially the one we have, but something SIMPLE, EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND FAIR. I don't know if it is the 'Flat Tax' or the 'Fair Tax' or some other plan. What ever rate is initially set at it should be low and would have to be stipulated that changing it (raising it) can only be done by a vote of the citizens and not Congress on a special ballot election.
That would be a start ... couple that with a 'Balanced Budget' amendment and a freeze on elected officials salaries until the raise is voted on by the given electorate (local and state and federal) on a special ballot election.
Just my opinion though. "If I ruled kind-a thing." [Don't worry ... ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.]
15 posted on
12/09/2006 11:56:56 AM PST by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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16 posted on
12/09/2006 12:28:03 PM PST by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: K-oneTexas
Prices in general need to be brought down. I.E., an aspirin costing $50 in a hospital.You DO understand that hospitals are not allowed to charge for most things they are required to provide, don't you?
For example, if you offer open-heart surgery, you must pay a full team (or two) to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
The cost of these teams is only reimbursed when they are operating.
The overhead cost, which is typically 150-200%, is built into the price of the aspirin.
18 posted on
12/09/2006 1:25:48 PM PST by
Jim Noble
(Chairman, FR Rudy for President 2008 Caucus)
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