yes on the bailout stuff.
it's a joke how so many dollars were handed over to companies that then also went on to pay their execs huge bonuses to boot. it felt like a smack in the face when it happened in the UK. there seemed to be a lot going on behind closed doors, though i know that each bailout appeal was presented to committee and examined thoroughly, with some degree of independence.

unfortunately, i say no to just about everything else.

doctors can certainly earn as much as they like, but kickbacks from pharm companies and charging more for treatments are no way of going about that. i'd like to think that my doctor, as with my local politicians, do what they do for the sake of helping people. any artist paints for arts sake, and any kitten kittens for kittenings sake. the moment that the money becomes more important than the care is the moment you should stop working as a trusted and licensed medical practitioner. should a soldier switch sides if he gets offered more money?

by 'competition would drop the prices', you mean that prices may be in competition with each other, but the market value is set by the industry, which is self protecting. they do have shareholders to report to after all. hence the privatised price of care/insurance is always going to be higher than the socialised cost.

meds in canada can be cheap. one of the ones my wife takes is quite reasonable, but the generic edition of another is $50 a month, down from $80. when we lived in the UK, there was a flat rate of $10 a prescription, regardless of the drug.

state taxes are way more than federal taxes.

i genuinely hope nothing else happens to you until you get your insurance back. if not, then good luck, because you're a car/stair/kitten accident away from being in debt for the rest of your life.
( the brass moustache putting the ass moust in brache since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 22:03, 1 reply)

I do worry about the cats. Prostibulae!

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 22:13, closed)