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on RX: Health Care Costs
You can get a license without automobile insurance. You can use a motor vehicle on private property without insurance. If you own your own vehicle you need not insure it. The only insurance you must have is to cover damages to other people and their property while using your vehicle on public property.
I believe that any insurance a state requires of it's citizenry should be the responsibilty of the state to implement. Surely if our government can run as great a military as we claim, our government is more than capable of running a fantastic insurance program for we citizenry. If we elect officials that believe that government is good and do not allow the intentional sabatoge of programs that benefit real human people (not corporations) this issue of health care coverage need never arise. Don't believe me; ask any Republican if Medicare or Social Security should be eliminated and then ask them why they have been actively attempting to destroy both since the Reagan Devolution.
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on RX: Health Care Costs
If we eliminated all the suing of Doctors we would not see any change in premiums or medical costs -- look at the numerous studies including those done by the GAO and various insurance companies.
Doctors should have the option to offset the cost of their training by agreeing to practice for x number of years in areas that have shortage of physician -- eg. Eastern Oregon. Trading service for education has worked well in this country ever since the GI bill. My doctor worries enough about his patients; my doctor should should not have to worry about paying off his school loans or insurance bills or...
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on RX: Health Care Costs
Insurance dates back over 2000 years in the Western world and probably further back then that in China. Our big insurance company problems date to the Reagan Devolution when insurance companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shied were allowed to demutualize thus insuring that policyholders had no say in their insurance company.
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on RX: Health Care Costs
The vast majority of those that claim satisfaction with their health insurance have never really needed their health insurance.
When those that have never needed their health insurance are removed from the equation, the vast majority (of those that lived and their loved ones) are furious at our current crop of insurance companies.
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on RX: Health Care Costs
"The real problem is that we have two Americas. " This is wrong -- there is only one America. The young and healthy are paying ahead for the time when they will need health care; the potential cost of health care is spread over a lifetime so there is no devestating financial blow. By including the young and healthy we are lowering their health care costs when they get old or get ill. What the young and healthy are actually doing is paying for the care they will receive in the future, not giving away their hard earned money to pay for their parents health care.
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on RX: Health Care Costs
The medication I am on, Provigil (Modafinil) costs about $20 per pill at Costco's pharmacy. Even though my doctor prescribed Provigil for me and it significantly helps me my insurance company refuses to cover this medication. As I can not afford the medication, I get the medication through Canada for $1.47 per pill. The medication comes from India; the package states "Maximum Retail Price Rs. [Indian rupees] per strip of 10 Tablets Inclusive of all Taxes" of 126.00. This works out to about $0.28 per pill. How can this type of price difference be justified when Cephalon (the developer) has more than recouped all developement costs and made $2,192,308,000 in 2009?
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on Curbing Gang Violence
Our gang problem is currently being driven by illegal drug money just as the gang problem was driven by illegal drugs (alchohol) during prohibition. Eliminating prohibiton eliminated the gang problem. Why don't we decriminalize drugs in the same manner as they have in Portgual; Portugal's decriminaliztion has led to lower crime rates, lower rates of drug usage, and allowed focus on those to whom drug usage creates problems?
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on Taxing Questions
Why are we not going after the profits made by the people that created this financial mess? We know which people and companies were involved in the financial engineering of the housing bubble and the Wall Street bubble, yet we are allowing them to retain their gains.
Before we talk taxes, we should be working on recovering any and all funds gained by the financial manipulators. This is not the poor and middle class against the rich, this is the return of funds gained through fraud.
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