Posted on 07/18/2006 5:47:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
What's the cost of having your sphincter sewed back up nowadays?
"$200M / 744,000 (population of SF) = $269/person in medical expenses... uh huh..."
Need to change the divisor. This is not for all SF resident's only those without health insurance. Even with that change, it's not enough.
Laugh. If I remember correctly, Medicare was only going to cost $6billion when it was implemented. There was NO way the Dem senators could see it going higher than that.
What is it now? Last I heard, several years ago, it was $135 billion?!?!?
Thats where this brain-dead maroonitude is heading.
Standard old Dem tactic. Low ball it to get it started, then blame others for cost increases.
"These psychopaths are really over the edge. What this means is, that every rotten, disease-ridden, mentally deranged, drug infested bum that stumbles into town will now be taken care of in grand style by the already overly taxed business interests in this once nice, but now rotten, city. The only silver lining is that the rest of California will now be able to watch the bumbling morons (like Ammiano) run San Francisco into the bankruptcy courts. I pity the over-worked medical personnel in San Francisco General. I predict the place will go belly up within two years."
Possibly, but SF has had conservative mayors, like Frank Jordan. He did a great job cleaning up the city, cleaning up the parks, getting the homeless off the streets, and brought business back...which was promptly destroyed under the reign of Willie Brown and the pansy.
We may see the pendulum swing back the other way, with the way the City Council is acting. A lot of very pissed off homeowners and businesses have a way of getting rid of these idiots every once in a while.
These idiots have talked about doing away with private ownership of property, too. I expect that's next - and if they are stupid enough to try it...it could get ugly.
You're a Mexican in Tijuana. You've got diabetes or heart disease, but not much money. You hear through the grapevine that you can get American hospital care even for non-emergency treatment if you can make it to the city limits of San Francisco.
How much debate do you put into your future travel plans?
...and when the crunch comes, it'll be somebody else's fault. Probably George Bush's.
In your dreams SF. It's going to cost a lot more than that. The homeless will spend that much. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. OK, I'll guess I'll laugh.
SF is as good a place as any for a test case of this system. It should be interesting watching the resulting meltdown. Let's hope SOMEONE takes notes and learns from it.
>>>>We may see the pendulum swing back the other way, with the way the City Council is acting.
It isn't often a social program gets phased out once the can of worms is open.
Small businesses are all preparing to divide their companies into 19 or less.
1) Make businesses pay more.
2) Make Doctors/Hospitals charge less.
3) Increase property/other taxes
4) All of the above.
5) Recruit more illegal immigrants to over bill Medicaid and collect monies from the rest of us.
You ALWAYS get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you tax.
Lots of sick people, less businesses.
BINGO!
My understanding is that federal law prevents state and local governments from mandating what health insurance employers must provide their employees. As such this law would presumably be thrown out under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
You forgot that liberal programs never fail. They just get underfunded...
True. When I was practicing law in another western state, we always knew to check California cases and regulations to see if some scheme proposed in our state had already been tried there. Usually it had. We joked that California was the Life Cereal "Mikey" for the nation: we could get Mikey to try something we didn't dare ourselves. Saved us a lot of money and grief, letting CA take the plunge first. Now that I are a Californian, it ain't so funny.
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