Anyone have anything say about Healeys. At least cash for clunkers was
car related.........
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On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:16 AM, WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com> wrote:
> Jim,
> You made me do it!
> For a couple of generations the whole world has been telling us how
> primitive
> we are and how we could better organize our healthcare systems and
> now it
> looks like we, slow learners that we are, have finally caught on and
> may
> actually be joining the civilized world in medical Nirvana. But it
> brings a
> couple of questions to mind:
> 1. When our healthcare system looks just like theirs, where are
> Canadians and
> Europeans going to go for a heart surgery or cancer treatment or a
> joint
> replacement when they can't afford to wait 18 months?
> 2. When the government dictates the price of pharmaceuticals and
> destroys the
> evil drug companies by confiscating all of their "excess profits"
> who is going
> to develop the new generations of drugs to cure the diseases that
> haunt
> mankind? On the other hand it probably doesn't matter since the
> president's
> standard prescription is go home, take a pain pill and die.
> I suppose new medical research will be planned and financed from DC,
> in which
> case I foresee quantum leaps in technology in penile enhancement,
> breast
> enlargement, hair regeneration, weight loss and aesthetic dentistry
> since that
> is the level of seriousness evident in the congress. I also foresee
> a new
> maquiladora industry springing up in Juarez (thankfully not too far
> away) and
> Tijuana as medical professionals move south of the border and set up
> latter
> day Mayo clinics to serve all the gringos who can't get the care
> they need
> under the new plan. Now we will really be "exporting" the "jobs
> Americans
> won't do". Viva Mexico!
> Slap me now.
> Bill Lawrence
>
>> From: healeymanjim@hansencc.net
>> To: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:49:50 +0000
>> Subject: [Healeys] cash for clunkers
>>
>> with the new health program coming down the pike, maybe we are
>> looking at
> "cash for codgers". time for me to hide out in bali. hjim
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