10.14.2009 1:25 pm
How about free food, too?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
While eating breakfast and reading the paper this morning it occured to me that as important as free health care is free food is even more critical. Millions of americans suffer from poor nutrition and the government does little to help. There should be government provided grocery stores where any american can get nutritious food to feed their children. The commercial supermarkets charge too much so they can make their outrageous profits while children go hungry. A government store would save money by not charging a profit and they could be paid for by taxing fancy food like steak at grocery stores. The rich people who eat steak can afford it.
Gary Duff
Granite City
Seems pretty logical to me. Those evil rich Shnuck and Dierberg family need to be brought under control. Just last week, they wanted 2.49 a pound for ground chuck. Can you believe that?
Help me Obama!!!!!! Help Government!!!! Help me Oprah Winfrey!!!! Help me Tom Cruise!!!
Gary
Great idea.
We can climb into our guberment car, go the guberment doc, then drive our guberment car to get a guberment RX. On the way back to our guberment home, we can stop by a guberment grocery store to pick up our guberment food. We can then load all that free guberment food into our guberment car and take it to our guberment home.
What about guberment electric and guberment gas?
Always touching to see such concern for the the insurance cartels in the health care debate, and the many, many millions of dollars spent by said investment corporations on lobbyists and sowing fear in the population
bear out their success…
What part of ‘getting juked by the insurance industry’ do you gentlemen not understand??
A-German-in-1937
Insurance reform and oversight yes. Government take over NO.
The only reason we would consider free food is if the nation’s grocery stores and dining establishments decided to exclude millions of people from being served due to their obesity, obnoxious politics or some other reason. So far as I can tell, that’s not likely to happen.
But if it does happen, we could give people apples and oranges to find out how many can distinguish them from each other.
A-German-in-1937:
“Always touching to see such concern for the the insurance cartels in the health care debate, and the many, many millions of dollars spent by said investment corporations on lobbyists and sowing fear in the population
bear out their success…”
There is a simple solution to the evil, lobbying insurance cartels, everybody who believes in your class warfare crapola can join financial forces and start their own insurance company that pays their executives a pittance, doesn’t advertise or lobby politicians and always puts the welfare of their clients ahead of profits. Hold back a little for a bankruptcy lawyer, a company like that is headed for the rocks, taking investors and employees with it. Don’t you have any damned sense? Are you a Democrat?
But the government already does provide free food for some people–through SNAP (used to be called “food stamps”)and WIC
And Gas. I think we pay too much to those money grabbing Oil Companies. How about Govt. owned Gas Companies. We could get 32 cents a gallon gas. And housing. I think we pay too much for housing. Govt. run housing. In fact I think we should just make everything free. Come Obama help us out.
Sage, it is good to see a senior citizen standing four-square for the insurance industry’s unfettered ability to increase costs far beyond
the over-all inflation rate. Good for you; think of yourself as a volunteer shill for these corporations, sort of a pro-bono grassroots
lobbyists for their concerns.
As someone who employees more than 25 people(and provides health coverage for my full-timers), you can trust my concerns in this matter go beyond mere ideological debate with a scold from Maryland Heights.
By the way, you might find it instructive how I responded to my provider
3 years ago when I was faced with an increase in ONE year for exactly the same coverage and number of employees being covered: 53%. My yearly costs soared to close to $77,000.00 for the upcoming 12 month period. This is not unusual for small businesses such as mine in these times.
My answer? I bid my carrier goddbye, went shopping, and I reduced my cost of coverage significantly by rolling the dice—-I agreed to a much, much higher deductable for catastrophic illness costs. So far, so good, and I’m thankful my crew is a pretty healthy bunch of men and women.
A sophisticate such as yourself should also acknowledge Big Insurance took quite a blow at their casiono seats last year on Wall Street. Now, HOW shall they make this up?? Why, but having the insured cover their speculations and bad bets, aided by the likes of polticians in their pockets, lobbyists, and voices such as…yours.
And no, I’m not registered to either party. Some years, I cannot even hold my nose and punch the voting card, although the last time was rather effortless. Only ONE of the benefits of an Obama presidency is hearing the whining/pis*ing & moaning of those such as yourself—in modern capitalism, this is what we call ‘Added Value’…
Sorry for several typos above—somehow, when thinking about the insurance racket in this nation, it makes me get a little ruffled.