"I don't care if the project is viable. I'm getting you the money, and you damn well better spend it."
I've seen this quote attributed to some US senator, speaking to a civil engineer. It is much the same the world over, I think. ETA: cellar cookie jar just threw up this: "If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation." |
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Representive Anthony Weiner discussed health care reform with Bill Maher on Sept. 11 on Real Time. It was awesome. He wants a single payer system though, and he explained that if we went to single payer, the thing would pay for itself through all the money saved from premiums and profits, and of course those high salaries costs hundreds of millions of dollars. I honestly don't know why democrats didn't argue for that. As Bill Moyers said recently, "I think...too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed." |
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Honestly, all these politicians working in government who hate the government and think it can't do anything right? Maybe they shouldn't be in government. After all, they are the ones running it, if it's broke, it's their damn fault, right? *edit to add* And the proof that private corporations work better is proven, I guess, by all the shenanigans those contractors were up to in Afghanistan when they were supposed to be gaurding the embassy. :eek: |
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And hey, even fucking RWANDA has universal health care now, with home visits. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/537/index.html |
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I take that back. There are plenty of Americans working for slave wages as well. |
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People are, however, villifying insurance companies, and rightly so. Look at it logically, all they do is collect money and then pay for the things they think they should pay for. They deny many claims, even though people have been paying in good faith, and many of those people either die while fighting the insurance company, or they end up going bankrupt because the costs are so high. They are glorified middlemen. If the government was the payor, you would just go to the doctor and never see the bill. The doctor would bill the government, and the government would pay the bill. Pretty simple. |
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One more thing about big pharma not mentioned, most of the money going into r&d comes from the government anyway, through the NIH. They fund most of the research in this country, NOT big pharma, although they would have you believe otherwise. |
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