Posts Tagged ‘ health care ’

Skyscrapers and Senators: Help Wanted

January 5, 2010
By ghowe

I was reading the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, two rags upon which I base my illogical views of the world, and something struck me odd.  It was not an epiphany by any means, but an irony that screamed loudly. The folks in Dubai, the people who cannot afford to buy shoe...
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Cost: One Hundred Million Just to Talk

November 23, 2009
By ghowe

November 23, 2009 On Saturday, November 21, the U.S. Senate voted to allow the health care bill to reach the floor where it could be discussed.  Not voted on.  Not passed. Just for debate, just to talk about it.   Some of the costs to talk are hidden.  One was not so hidden.  Senator Blanche Lincoln...
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You’ve got to be kidding….

November 3, 2009
By ghowe

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Just read reviews on the Congressional Budget Offices report…on the effects of the proposed HEALTH CARE Legislation.  Great.  The contemplated legislation will affect two (2%) percent of the population a generation from now.   The result is a net benefit to the insurance industry.   What it doesn’t do:   It doesn’t lower the...
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