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this cockeyed blog is so entertaining, i read every post myself at least ten times. it's all fun and no play...no dull boy...i write about no dull boy. DRY WINE!
Sights I Often See On Sites I Sometimes Cite
- Cooking for Assholes is a ridiculous recipe resource
- Alcademics
- Rachel's new site was almost named Legless Until I Have My Consciousness Transplanted Into the Brain of a Clone of Myself with Genetic Enhancements So I’m Like a Superhero
- Excessive Mastication
- Barack Obama's Facebook Site
- Tucker Max might have been my role model if I'd stayed in the States and never grew up (Warning: Very Sick)
- Merkley is a long lost blog that I couldn't remember how I got there till I saw a book by Merkys and knew it was something like that
- The Best Page in the Universe will keep your entertained for a while
My Top Five Favorite Books I"m Currently Reading
Other books I"m currently reading
- Doctor Sax
- We Are Not Alone
3 comments:
I don't see what the problem with death panels is. Obviosuly nobody should say that a person is no longer allowed to get health care, but there's nothing wrong with saying at some point the state will no longer pay for it. That is a relevant point whether we adopt some sort of health care reform, or just keep going with medicare. The problem is that there is crystal ball to look into that says this person will live for 1 year and it will cost 150,000 to keep them alive for that one year. at that point the state could say this is no longer cost effective, we are going to spend that 150,000 on improving school systems for children. In fact i very much believe that it would be better for society if the government drastically scaled down on money spend on seniors ( i don't remember, but i think it's around half the budget between social security and medicare) and increased spending on children.
that's the whole problem, you goof. if you have private insurance you can choose a more expensive policy that will guarantee you coverage no matter the cost--or not, it's up to you. if you are forced to pay for government insurance maybe you can't afford an additional policy anymore, so you're subject to a death squad.
My point was that medicare already exists for the elderly, and the federal government already spents huge amounts of money on the healthcare of the elderly, whether or not any healthcare bill goes through. I don't know how many elderly people have insurance through something other than medicare, but i would guess it's a low number.
Also nobody is going to be forced to choose a government option instead of a private option. The concern about the existence of a government option is that it would be subsidized, and possibly undercut private options forcing them out of business. Nobody suggested that somebody would be forced to pay for government insurance in addition to any private insurance you want. (except in the sense of taxes, but United states citizens aren't paying for nearly what they consume in government services already.)
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