BETTING ON THE HORSE TO LOSE

I spent part of my morning comparing health insurance plans.  Despite the fact that I’m not really interested in getting health insurance.  I haven’t had health insurance for six years, nor have I felt any desire to get it.  With the exception of an occasional cold, some muscle strains, chigger bites and wasp stings, I [...]

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE

Corporate America wins another battle!  HR3200l effectively hands over every one of us to the Health Insurance companies on a silver platter, creating a monopoly in an industry which we cannot live without, unlike telephone service or car insurance. The sheer lie of the title, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ is as Orwellian [...]

$35 MILLION A YEAR

Tsk. Tsk.  In the United States, we just keep right on throwing good money after bad, putting ourselves further and further into debt.  At this point in time, we owe the rest of the world more than $11.5 trillion.  That works out to $37,635.57 for every man, woman and child.

The United States military budget is [...]

SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Getting to the Bottom of our National Healthcare Crisis
This article in yesterday’s New York Times clarifies the Healthcare issue:

The Health of Nations

If selling flu vaccine were as lucrative as marketing Viagra, sports broadcasts and the nightly news would be flooded with commercials warning that “winter is almost here; ask your doctor about flu vaccine” – [...]

NATIONAL SICK CARE

I am still trying to find out whether either of the MAJOR candidates for US president supports National Health Care as opposed to Health Care INSURANCE. Of course it probably is a moot point considering that the REAL term should be National Sick Care.
Towards the golden glow of understanding I steadily plod. My latest self-assigned [...]