ROFLOL!!!I had no idea you are such a comedian, LL! REAL TV stations and newpapers in "OREGON"? Moscow on the Willamette??? I digress. This is a good start: www.larslarson.com (KXL radio, Portland)and www.brainstormNW.com. I've heard there is a viable newspaper giving the Oregonian a run...can't remember the name...Robert, do you know of stories about the Oregon Health plan mess? I understand the Feds are ready to inject another 50 million into it soon. I've complained to my legislators about this being a gigantic waste of tax money. For a time the state was hiring prisoners in the state pen to answer the phones for the OHP. Customer "service" anyone?? I know a bunch of Oregonians who are not CRIMINALS who could use those jobs.
All I know about Oregon is that strippers there have a lot of money. Had to bail out of some commerical property in Arizona, needed an unheard of 35% cash down and the manager of a strip club in Oregon had the money in her hot little hands. Your medical plan can't be too bad, she looked very healthy to me :-)
Where to start?
Kitzhaber would give a salmon a heart transplant, before he got a dying girl one. What a joke.
I don't want a "plan" I don't want a CREDIT. I want to eliminate so many taxes, that I can affort to BUY what I WANT. I want to be able to pool with other business people so we can BARGAIN with these frigging gangsters in the health care system... nurses going on strike because 35-40 dollars an hour is NOT enough for the greedy little greenback grabbers.
I want government OUT of healthcare, so REAL competition emerges. And life saving treatment centers and regimens get rewarded, instead of subsidized. I want foreign, unqualified quacks from third world countries OUT of medicine... and OREGON with its attempt at socialized coverage and fixed remuneration for proceedures is driving competition and innovation out of the state.
I heard the stories... they make me sick, something that I cannot afford to do, because I LIVE here.
By the way, California's "lower income" health program, where the resident pays a reduced premium for socialized health care, ain't much better.
We need to once again, privatize the health care system. Senior health care as well.
Oregon and health care, in the same sentance... oxymoronic indeed. Pass me the salmon.
From the same people who want to make it illegal to wash your own car?
Or rinse down your driveway after mowing the grass?
Or kill gopher and rodent infestations, that carry rabies and plague, to placate the greenies?
Sure, let 'em have a whack at health care... the bigger the government program the better!!!