Do we like where America is headed?
I have just finished watching the movie “THE GREAT RAID’ which is the true story of the rescue of 611 American POWS who survived “THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH.”
My emotions are a little high right now but this isn’t the first time that I have reflected on where we were and where our country has been going, and to the many who have sacrificed thru the years. I don’t believe that the sacfrices that have been made and are being made were for a country such as we see today.
We are seeing an ongoing effort to change the culture of this country to an anti-God anti Christian country; a loss of industry to other countries; a financial position in the world that has been weakened with great losses by our financial instutions; the acquistions of bedrock U.S. companies by foreign interests; and funds loaned by Chinese and Singapore financial intersts to shore up great American companies; and the beating that many Americans are taking because of the mortgage crsis; and the high price of gasoline which is something that we can do somethihng about if our government were truly looking out for the American people and decided a long time ago to play a little hardball with OPEC and the gasoline producing companies.
It is a joke to have the CEOS sit in Congressional hearings and come out with their BS. It is quite clear what needs to be done when their companies are making their greatest profits in history and the consumers are paying the highest prices ever.
It is a shame that the people we elect go off to Wahsington and end up doing a very poor job in so many cases.
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!
Angelo Dendrinelis
Ballwin
I don’t know Angelo, sounds like your perception of the situation might get you listed as a “right-wing” radical, ripe for terrorist indoctrination.
If you don’t like the leftist march to a third-world socialist “utopia”,
you better be careful who you tell!
Report concludes uninsured are costly for all
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer Thu May 28, 12:49 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Health insurance premiums for an average family are $1,000 a year higher because of costs of health care for the uninsured, a new report finds.
And private coverage for the average individual costs an extra $370 a year because of the cost-shifting, which happens when someone without medical insurance gets care at an emergency room or elsewhere and then doesn’t pay.
The report was released Thursday by advocacy group Families USA, which said the findings — which it calls a “hidden tax” — support its goal of extending coverage to all the 50 million Americans who are now uninsured. Congress and the Obama administration are working on a plan to do that.
Families USA contracted with independent actuarial consulting firm Milliman Inc. to analyze federal data to produce the findings.
“As more people join the ranks of the uninsured, the hidden health tax is growing,” said Ron Pollack, Families USA executive director. “That tax hits America’s businesses and insured families hard in the pocketbook, and they therefore have a clear financial stake in expanding health care coverage.”
The report found that, in 2008, uninsured people received $116 billion in health care from hospitals, doctors and other providers. The uninsured paid 37 percent of that amount out of their own pockets, and government programs and charities covered another 26 percent.
That left about $43 billion unpaid, and that sum made its way into premiums charged by private insurance companies to businesses and individuals, the report said.
The major government insurance programs — Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor — are structured in a way that doesn’t easily allow payments to insurers to adjust upward. And somebody has to pay.
In the case of people who are covered through their employers — most insured people under 65 are — the extra costs from the uninsured would be spread between the employer’s health plan contribution and what the employee pays, but the report didn’t attempt to quantify that division.
Ronald A. Williams, chairman and chief executive of Aetna Inc., gave the example of a local community hospital that provides care to someone without insurance who arrives at the emergency room. When it’s not paid for, the hospital has to raise its rates to insurance companies, and they pass that on in higher premiums, Williams said.
“Our members then say, ‘Well, why is health insurance so expensive?’” Williams said in an interview. “And the answer is because you’re paying for your own care as well as for the care of some of the uninsured in the community.”
Aetna was not involved in writing or funding the report but Williams appeared at a news conference Thursday with Families USA officials to release its findings.
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http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/publications/reports/hidden-health-tax.html
Quotidian—
—Libs should like this system. The rich and well-off paying for the poor and uninsured…just like your beloved welfare…just like the transfer payments that Barry wants to mandate…
—Why the disconnect?
Mr. Dendrinelis -
You also forgot the insidious efforts made to erode great ‘Murrican sports like baseball, football, and basketball to promote - (Gasp!) - that furrin sport of soccer!
Why, we even have a professional team in St. Louis!
I’ll bet it is a Godless sport as well! Ain’t it played in heathen non-Xtian countries?
In answer to the headline question, “do we like where America is headed ? ”
Most Americans support Obama’s policies, Most Americans support Obama, the stock market is showing signs of life, the optimism index is headed up, unemloyment figures are turning the right way ( at least less folks are new on the unemplyed roles) so the short answer , for MOST Americans is yes.
Are we happy with where we are ? No, but at least and at last, we are moving in the right direction.
So says MOST of America.
Sounds to me like we are headed in the right direction.
Nationalization of banks
Obama Motors take over of GM and Chrysler
Highest defeict of the previous 43 presidents COMBINED
Enemployment increasing
Intrest rates increasing
Hyper inflation will be starting
Sounds good to idiots.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-28-debt_N.htm
Sure unemployment is going down. What a laugh.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Sure everything is getting better.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Economy-dips-at-a-57-percent-apf-15380814.html?.v=15
QuotidianOne,
Great post! Too bad the reality of how the insured pays for the uninsured will not penetrate through the Right Wingers that refuse to accept how it is.
Dr. De-Bunk,
The rich and well off paying for the poor and uninsured. I am not rich or well off and INSURED but cannot afford to pay increasing deductibles, co-pays, and drug prices to cover the the 50 million plus UNINSURED. We all pay for the UNINSURED, not just the rich or well off.
“Just like your beloved welfare”. Do you consider anyone without health insurance a welfare candidate? What does “Welfare” have to do with not having Health Insurance?
Welfare consists of section 8 housing, food stamps, day care assistance, and Medicare for the uninsured children. You may want to review the “Welfare Reform Bill” passed by a bi-partisan congress and signed by Bill Clinton in the 1990’s. Welfare Reform changed the system to create independence from the government subsidies while enabling the Mother to go to school or training to better themselves to join the work force. Every person collecting “welfare” has so much time to comply or subsidies are lost. Period! The days of staying home and having as many children as you can while INCREASING your monthly check IS OVER! HAS BEEN FOR YEARS, SO PLEASE READ UP ON WELFARE REFORM AND HOW IT IS WORKING.
The eligibility for these “WELFARE PROGRAMS” in Missouri are one of the strictest of any state in this Country. So you need not worry too much about Welfare Leaches in this State.
Medicare Fraud is only commited by Doctors or Administators not the recipients. It is so easy to lump all unfortunate people in one loser catergory like you do, but if you actually listened or got to know them you might change your mind about how you feel about them. Not everyone is out for a free ride but circumstances out of their control put them where they are today. They should all be judged as individuals on a case by case basis, not lumped together as Welfare Leaches that are lazy and want a handout. Please try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes for once and open your heart and realize that not all chose to live this way.
I think the direction we are headed in is great. I’ve always wanted to live in a bankrupt country and in a few years I’ll get my wish.