Posted on 07/23/2007 4:57:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
at the rate we’re going michael moore could have waited a few years and filmed his movie in this country.
Consider how difficult it is to find a doctor who will take patients with low “reimbursement” (payment for work done) from CHIP and Medicaid vs. finding doctors on private insurance plans, which usually at least cover office overhead. Now, consider what happens if 50% more families switch from private employer based insurance to CHIP.
10 years ago, when I accepted Medicaid, I used to have families switch and I didn’t like seeing my payment for prenatal postnatal care and delivery dropping $400-800 for families who could afford more children because I got paid less for the same work, for the same family. For the rest of the family’s healthcare, I lost $20 dollars or so per visit.
Our State Rep pointed out that with the 3X poverty level cut-off and his 7 kids, his family came very close to qualifying, with the family allowable income at nearly $80,000 for a family of 9.
Congress will just pass a law mandating that physicians participate in Medicaid. (Then when nobody wants to go to medical school anymore, they'll just pass a law mandating that so many people are forced to go to medical school--they'll make it free to go.) Problem solved.
Gasoline. But one reason why it has not gotten cheaper is because of the taxes levied on it and government regulations regarding its production and delivery. So it's debatable whether it's actually delivered in a free market.
our congress: don't worry, someone will hire a quack
Given the restrictions on where we can smoke and who cannot purchase tobacco, this may be difficult. I’d have to smoke my three packs almost entirely on the weekends (the ones I don’t have to fly on), and frankly kids or no I don’t think I could do it.
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What you say is true, but because gasoline is a commodity it follows the laws of supply and demand more than other goods and services.
Demand is increasing due to the rising affluence of China and India. These countries are purchacing gasoline at an increasing rate. This coupled with some of the refining capacity being cut do to hurricanes and floods supply has been restricted.
The current upward trend in gasoline prices I believe is temporary. As has been said rising prices are their own solution. As prices rise exploration and development will increase supply and prices will fall again.
What do education and health care have in common? The price is going up, and they are both subsidized by government.
Every time the government gets involved, the price goes up. But hey, the bureaucrats need to feed, too.
I can see the billboards now, Help a child, Smoke three packs a day.
Nothing here about the $10 per cigar tax that he talked about.
No, he was talking about that the bill included adults up to age 25. He gave an example for instance that if a couple age 23 and 24 have two children then all four are included
It's not, beginning at the source, with OPEC.
It does not take too many brain cells to figure this socialist plan out. It’s by the book.
Use a group of people that are currently demonized to finance your program in order to get people on board. “After all, we can get people to go along with this because they hate the smokers and it makes them happy to see them pay. Gee, its all for the kids too.”
They know this tobacco tax will not be enough, when the money gets tight, you raise taxes to all citizens to finance it or else the poor kids will suffer.
The socialists purposely love splitting and demonizing groups of people to play against each other for their plans. They count on us being stupid.
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Michael Moore and the Democrats are working together.
We are spending too much on entitlements already. The Democrats are taking the money of all taxpayers to buy votes for themselves. This is a form of corruption. We have a useless, self-serving political class in Washington.
In nominal terms gasoline is not cheaper than it used to be, but in real terms gasoline has gotten cheaper in spite of increased government regulations and all the excise taxes imposed on it.
“Michael Moore and the Democrats are working together.”
Really???
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