You are not addressing the problem of the unnecessary massive middleman that gobbles up an extra $300 Billion each and every year. Every other developed country in the world have streamlined their payment and cover EVERYONE while spending 50% or less per capita.

This isn’t exactly blowing me away… though I suppose those in their 20s would appreciate the help thirty years later.

There’s no way I can support McCain’s “health care plan” of which I question all three words and their quality. But I do think the young and healthy deserve low premiums and, guess what, they can put the “savings” in a 20-year investment at a bank or elsewhere, plus they earn more at 50 (hopefully with the way things are going).

We need to get profit out of healthcare, just as we don’t charge for police and fire extinguishing assistance (besides taxes). I’m not aware of executives for firefighters getting millions for being terminated, but I know quite a few in the medical and insurance fields.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/10/news/economy/tully_healthcare.fortune/

…The problem with McCain’s approach – and it is a huge problem – is that McCain ventures so far toward total laissez-faire liberty that he risks leaving the poor and sick behind. Here’s why. Perhaps his most drastic proposal is allowing the same insurance products to be sold across state lines. That seems to make sense, and maybe it does: Look what interstate banking has done for pricing and choice in financial services. But in health care, the upheaval would be so brutal that it scares even the most ardent free-marketer. Many states have some form of what policy wonks call “community rating.” Under pure community rating, insurers must charge all customers the same premium no matter whether they’re 20 or 55, or whether they have cancer or are models of good health. McCain is targeting community rating for good reason. It forces the young and healthy to pay far more than their actual cost by making them subsidize the elderly and sick. Like the mandated benefits, it’s pushed millions of Americans in their 20s to drop their health insurance.

But under the McCain plan, states with no restrictions – Pennsylvania, for example – could sell policies for 25-year-olds that cost around $1,200 a year, one-third the price in New York. Young New Yorkers would drop their plans in favor of Pennsylvania providers, forcing New York insurers to jack up premiums for people in their 50s or early 60s, who need those rich, community-rated plans that cover as many procedures as possible – but who no longer benefit from the excessive premiums paid by the youngsters. It gets worse. Anyone with cancer, diabetes, or other pre-existing conditions will see their premiums multiply too.…

They have no concern for human life only the dollars they can profit on.

Scar, Mika, et al accept money to shill.
They are PAID PROPAGANDISTS and NOT journalists.

That was an outright lie, even before the autopsy showed that she was blugeoned to death.

She was attacking Iron Jawed Ladies who are trailblazing into No (wo)Man’s Land.

And attacking them by ANATOMY. Vile. But I guess you have stockholm syndrome down there in Good Ole Boy land. You need some leeway.

He’ll be lucky to get an invite to Bill O’Reilly’s 4th of July party.

Joe’s just one more satisfied customer at Ol’McMaverick’s Weiner Shack. Bet he swallows, too.

We’ll see how hard you’re laughing when Morning Joke goes the way of Tucker Carlson’s crappy little show from the same channel……….

Actually, that is what the collegue was trying to convey. The numbers are growing so large, so quickly we may not have time to turnaround the momentum. This truly could get very ugly, very fast. He told me that when the average (not most expensive, but average) price of gas hits $4.00 in America, all bets are off. The immense volume of gasoline we use, coupled with the high price per gallon, will have a domino effect on the prices of many other staples (fruits/veggies, milk, meat, etc…) which need to be transported. I think it is time to start learning how to feed you and your family, using your own land. Its getting scary folks.

Unless the Dems win and we change course.

They spend 50% or less of what we spend.

I mean, we have three people that are vying for the most powerful position in the country and we still don’t know what the f!ck they are going to do about health care. (And that is different than health insurance.)

And that is one reason we are the laughing stock of the industrialized world.

I had a conversation with a european collegue the other day about doing business with the US in the future. He asked: “Well, how long in the future are we talking about?” I remarked the next 10-20 years, maybe. He laughed and said most of his professional associates believe we will be too fat, too lazy, and too uneducated to respond to any need that Europe might have. He finished by asking me “why don’t the voters care about what the candidates are saying?”. I had no answer for them, except to say that the MSM and Bush has beaten them down so badly, they aren’t strong enough to care. They (Europeans) are taking a very pro-active approach to avoid needing the US for anything.

Yeah, that is kinda my point, she is pretty damn raw all the time, she must have really gone over the top. Funny thing is, she strikes me as the sort to go “the hell with you then”…not the sort to admit she went too far. I wonder if she’ll be back.

She’s passionate, she’s extremely well-informed and insightful, but she’s just too abrasive for me, and too willing to rudely dismiss opinions from people essentially agreeing with her but expressing themselves poorly.

That said, she’s been doing this job for years and I suspect she’s not independently wealthy–she’ll be back.

I mean, we have three people that are vying for the most powerful position in the country and we still don’t know what the f!ck they are going to do about health care. (And that is different than health insurance.)

C’mon, Joe, grow a set or get some college student to ask the questions.