How to Cure Health Care (Milton Friedman Plan)

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[Beagle8U]

Before you run off on a nut about someone being a dimwit perhaps you should reread my posts?

I never said I was for it, not even close!

[John Lenin]

Explain how you will convince people that they should pay for their own healthcare when all their life they never have?

Explain to me how people who have been getting their health care for free or almost free from their employer are going to buy into a new 17-21% payroll tax? This is why health care reform is a third rail just like social security reform is a third rail. Hitlery got slammed down so hard on Free health care once people found out that to pay for it they were going to get hit with an additional 17% payroll tax that the RATS lost control of the congress.

[Beagle8U]

We are on the same side on this issue. But you have to understand that we are talking about voters that claim no deductions so they can get a big tax refund. I have tried for years to explain the stupidity of that to no avail.

The RATS that push it through will lie about the cost and who will be paying it. They will pass it off as a tax shift to business. Which anyone with common sense knows gets passed back to consumers in prices.

Unfortunately the people that voted the RATS into office don't have common sense.

[John Lenin]

17-19% payroll tax was the cost back in 93, helathcare has been going up double digit rate hikes per year ever since, the new payroll tax will be in the 19-21% range now. And it will be a crime to not buy a policy and try to opt out. Free health care sounds good until you get the bill to pay for it.

[Beagle8U]

Again, you are dealing with morons that think getting their own money back in a tax refund is "free" gov. money.

[John Lenin]

I don't think it's possible to enact national health care without throwing out our current tax system and starting over. Romney just enacted the plan that the Feds are going to try to pass off on the rest of us in Mass, of course he will not be around for the fallout from his policy and instead the GOP is going to back him for the Presidency. I've about had it with both parties and will be looking for an alternative.

[John Lenin]

There is something really, really wrong with this picture, guess what it is?

We are being scammed from both sides ....

[Beagle8U]

Its definitely a mess and about to get much worse. Millions of boomers a set to retire soon. The company paid insurance they thought they would get for life is going broke.

Once retired they pay very little in taxes so they don't care who is taxed to pay for it. The Grey Panthers will vote for all kinds of social programs and make sure nobody gets elected that will reform SS.

SS will likely have the max cap removed and then they will make it "needs based" when that don't fix the problem.

Those that payed the most into the system may wind up getting nothing back from FDR's pyramid scheme.

[John Lenin]

The Patriot Act is going to end up being used on natural born US citizens once the sheet hit the fan over what the pols have in store for us.

[glorgau]

Report.

Just went to QuickHealth today. No appointment, walked in and they said 3 people were in front of me, come back in 30 minutes. Came back at said time and talked to a doctor for 15 minutes, got two prescriptions, a kidney function blood test, and was out the door in under 30 minutes for $68 cash total. No bills, no paperwork (save the prescriptions) .

Went and filled the generic prescriptions at Target with a $10 off coupon for "new prescription" and walked out that door for $9 total.

This is how health care should operate.

[BartMan1]

PJ O'Rourke has a great paraphrase of Friedman There are four ways people spend money:

1. You spend your money on yourself. You're motivated to get the thing you want most at the best price. This is the way middle-aged men haggle with Porsche dealers.

2. You spend your money on other people. You still want a bargain, but you're less interested in pleasing the recipient of your largesse. This is why children get underwear at Christmas.

3. You spend other people's money on yourself. You get what you want but price no longer matters. The second wives who ride around with the middle-aged men in the Porsches do this kind of spending at Neiman Marcus.

4. You spend other people's money on other people. And in this case, who gives a s**t?

Note # 4 is ALL Government spending....

Priceless !!

[aquila48]

Time to bump this to the top again!