First of all, what we can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. We will either pay those costs or not get the benefits. Moreover, if we cannot afford the quantity and quality of medical care that we want now, the government has no miraculous way of enabling us to afford it in the future.
If our government has a magical way to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse the question is why have we not done this before. If we cannot afford the doctors and the medical technology that we have now how are we ever going to afford, better care in the future, especially with the added weight of paying for government bureaucracy. Our politicans love talking about how much doctors get paid and how big pharmaceutical companies make tons of profit, but that truey is a small part of health care cost.
If our government wanted to truely lower health care cost the would start by iliminating careless lawsuits. A way to do that would be, if you lose your lawsuit you have pay for the other parties attorney fees. It would be amazing to watch how attonerys would then shy away from cases. It would also lead to more case actually going to trail because it would no longer just be cheaper for the defendants to just settle out of court. Now why has something like this never been done? Political donations, lawyers are major contributers for politicans and politicans now that if they ever took this away from them the contibutions would dry up quickly.
On the same line of thinking, if we ever limited how much a person could sue for over mal-practice health cost would surly drop. One of the major cost of doing buisiness as a doctor is Mal-practice insurance. The price of this insurance has risen at such a high rate that many doctors are leaving private practice to join hospitals and other medical centers so that they don't have to worry about it. I understand that it can be devistating to lose someone you love because someone made a mistake but does it hurt les because you get 100 million dollars. Lets be honest unless you are making an obsured amount of money your not going to earn that in your lifetime. Lets make it more like 10 Million or even 5. Your loved ones would still be taken care of and if there is a set amount of money that you are going to receive there would be no need to pay an attorney a third of what you get. The other thing that gets me about this is that doctors aren't perfect, we might want them to be but thier not. This insurance is suppose to be for when the doctor makes a terrible error in judgement not when a surgoen is attempting a very dangerous surgery and just can't fix it. By the way now surgeons are turning people away with tough cases for fear of being sued or dropped by their insurance. So a person that my have had a 20 percent chance of living if the had a risky surgery now have no chance becaue no one will operate.
This ideas are mine and I just wanted to share them with you, give you something to think about while your at work. Remember who you vote for and your ideals are your rights as an American. Just remember your vote an ideals can have an effect on not just you but future generations. It is our right and responsibilty to protect this country and what it stands for.
-TJ has not,cannot and will not ever be able to guard me, The Real Deal has seemed to have been getting away from the pump fake, if Morgan would ever shot a layup instead of trying to underhand flip it at the rim he shooting percentage would triple and I still cannot dunk
Thursday, November 5, 2009
I hate the Yankees
-I hate the Yankees, I hate the Yankees and yes I hate the Yankees. I am so sick and tired of watching the rich teams buy Championships, which is what the Yankees try to do year in and year out. Why would I watch a sport where I know that who is going to make the playoffs before the season even starts. I just can’t stand that the only competitive teams either come from the East Coast or LA. Baseball seems to have forgotten about the “Flyover” part of the country. I really just can’t stand baseball anymore I am just done with it. It’s slow annoying and none of the teams I like are ever competitive. Baseball sucks that’s it and now on to more important things.
-Ohio State has a monster game this weekend against Penn St, this is a must win game for the Buckeyes if they want to stay relevant across the country. With a win Ohio State would have a de facto Big Ten Championship game against Iowa the next week. Ohio State absolutely can and maybe even should win this game, but there will be a ton of pressure on the defense. There is no way that we can expect Terrell Pryor to make a major turn around in a week. The offense is going to struggle this week, Penn St has good team speed on defense and can really get to the Quarterback. The offense line is going to have to open up holes for Sane and Herron, because they cannot count on excelling in the passing game. It’s is going to be an interesting game that could really go either way.
-Ohio State had their season opener against Walsh. They did look good and the bounce pass from Lighty to Bueford was absolutely beautiful. The problem is that you can’t tell much about a team when they play someone with such an inferior talent level. I believe the only thing that we did learn was that we are better than Syracuse. It is bad enough to schedule a division 2 school when you’re ranked in the top 25, but to lose to them at home is just plain imbarressing. I guess we will just have to wait until November 19 to find out how good this Buckeye team is.
More Blogging later.
-Ohio State has a monster game this weekend against Penn St, this is a must win game for the Buckeyes if they want to stay relevant across the country. With a win Ohio State would have a de facto Big Ten Championship game against Iowa the next week. Ohio State absolutely can and maybe even should win this game, but there will be a ton of pressure on the defense. There is no way that we can expect Terrell Pryor to make a major turn around in a week. The offense is going to struggle this week, Penn St has good team speed on defense and can really get to the Quarterback. The offense line is going to have to open up holes for Sane and Herron, because they cannot count on excelling in the passing game. It’s is going to be an interesting game that could really go either way.
-Ohio State had their season opener against Walsh. They did look good and the bounce pass from Lighty to Bueford was absolutely beautiful. The problem is that you can’t tell much about a team when they play someone with such an inferior talent level. I believe the only thing that we did learn was that we are better than Syracuse. It is bad enough to schedule a division 2 school when you’re ranked in the top 25, but to lose to them at home is just plain imbarressing. I guess we will just have to wait until November 19 to find out how good this Buckeye team is.
More Blogging later.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Still Don't know what an Aggie is.
-How much is the loss of Petry going to hurt the Buckeyes? Who knows but if recent history tells us anything, this could be one of the biggest losses for a team like this. In close games you can’t afford to give up points and with a backup kicker you never know. We know that Jim Tressell loves to play close games and he always says any drive that ends in a kick is a good drive. How much do you think that Tressell would love to have had his scheduled by week now.
-Texas looked really strong this weekend and is well on their way to a BCS Championship game. Speaking of the BCS wow what a mess this could end up being again this year. The Top 7 ranked teams are undefeated right now and look like most will stay that way, (I know that Alabama and Florida will meet in the SEC championship game). I am really tired of hearing how every week is a playoff in college football. No it’s not; if we had a playoff in college football we would have more big time regular season games. We would see USC play people and Penn State might actually schedule some buddy in 1-A. No big time school is going to play a tough out of conference schedule when all they have to do is go undefeated in their conference and schedule the New Mexico State’s of the world. I would kill for a least a plus one so we could find out who is the best team in college football. What if Boise State ends up undefeated and doesn’t even get to play in a BCS game. College football’s system is broken and someone needs to fix it.
-Oh this part of the blog only for a select few, oh wait this whole blog is for a select few. So I have been watching old reruns of Star Trek Enterprise and I definitely think that this series was way under rated. They did a very good job incorporating the older Star Treks, but still keeping the episodes fresh. I do wish that they would have done more episodes to advance the overall plot but I want all shows to do that. Jonathan Archer might have moved up a few spots too as most badass captains. I believe my list now goes: Picard, Kirk, Archer, Janeway and then the Black dude on deep space nine.
-Now that I am on the TV subject, I am going to keep going with it. I now realize why I like shows like 24, Flashforward and Lost. They don’t waste time doing the cliché shows, like learning to trust someone of a different species/ race or the you’re growing up episodes. You know which shows that I am talking about, the ones that every show does no matter what the genre. I want the stories to keep going. I have very little that I truly look forward to, Basketball, seeing Beth, and watching my shows. Do you know how disappointing it is to sit down start watching one of your favorite shows and realize that this is the learning a lesson from a character you would never thought would have helped. I just want my shows to keep coming, like little movies every week.
-TJ still can’t guard me, Morgan can take a church league basketball player to the hope, Steele just pump faked you out of your jock and I still can’t dunk.
-Texas looked really strong this weekend and is well on their way to a BCS Championship game. Speaking of the BCS wow what a mess this could end up being again this year. The Top 7 ranked teams are undefeated right now and look like most will stay that way, (I know that Alabama and Florida will meet in the SEC championship game). I am really tired of hearing how every week is a playoff in college football. No it’s not; if we had a playoff in college football we would have more big time regular season games. We would see USC play people and Penn State might actually schedule some buddy in 1-A. No big time school is going to play a tough out of conference schedule when all they have to do is go undefeated in their conference and schedule the New Mexico State’s of the world. I would kill for a least a plus one so we could find out who is the best team in college football. What if Boise State ends up undefeated and doesn’t even get to play in a BCS game. College football’s system is broken and someone needs to fix it.
-Oh this part of the blog only for a select few, oh wait this whole blog is for a select few. So I have been watching old reruns of Star Trek Enterprise and I definitely think that this series was way under rated. They did a very good job incorporating the older Star Treks, but still keeping the episodes fresh. I do wish that they would have done more episodes to advance the overall plot but I want all shows to do that. Jonathan Archer might have moved up a few spots too as most badass captains. I believe my list now goes: Picard, Kirk, Archer, Janeway and then the Black dude on deep space nine.
-Now that I am on the TV subject, I am going to keep going with it. I now realize why I like shows like 24, Flashforward and Lost. They don’t waste time doing the cliché shows, like learning to trust someone of a different species/ race or the you’re growing up episodes. You know which shows that I am talking about, the ones that every show does no matter what the genre. I want the stories to keep going. I have very little that I truly look forward to, Basketball, seeing Beth, and watching my shows. Do you know how disappointing it is to sit down start watching one of your favorite shows and realize that this is the learning a lesson from a character you would never thought would have helped. I just want my shows to keep coming, like little movies every week.
-TJ still can’t guard me, Morgan can take a church league basketball player to the hope, Steele just pump faked you out of your jock and I still can’t dunk.
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