[Spridgets] Was: California Ammunition Restrictions NO Spridgetcontent

[David Riker]

The problem is very simple.  In 1950, you smoked, you got cancer, you died 
at 50.  You're knee quit working, so you got some crutches.  You had high 
blood pressure, you had a heart attack, you died.  Health insurance wasn't 
that expensive because there wasn't that much that could be done.  Today, 
you eat right, you don't smoke, so you live longer.  New, hi-tech 
(expensive) treatments have become available.  Of course amortizing the 
expense of a bunch of 81 year old people with problems that weren't 
treatable 50 years ago is going to drive the  of health care up.  Simple 
health care, like putting a cast on a broken bone, amputating a finger, 
prescribing a couple of antibiotics now and then IS affordable.  Multiple 
MRI's, exotic rare drugs, micro lazer surgery with nuclear image cameras; 
that isn't cheap.  You can't wish it cheap, you can't tax it cheap.  So, you 
can spend 30% of your income on insurance, or 60% of your income on taxes, 
pay higher prices for everything else to cover the HIDDEN taxes, or you can 
accept that there are some treatments the insurance companies won't pay for 
that will be reserved for the rich.  To remove costs you have to reduce 
layers of complexity, not add them, you need to reduce non productive 
payroll, not increase it.  Adding government is adding layers of complexity, 
adding government is adding non productive payroll.  It's mathematically 
impossible that government regulated health care will cost less.

David Riker


Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Billy Zoom" <billyzoom at billyzoom.com>; "Spridgets" 
<spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Was: California Ammunition Restrictions NO 
Spridgetcontent


> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Billy Zoom" <billyzoom at billyzoom.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:24 PM
> To: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob at webtv.net>; "David Riker"
> <davriker at nwi.net>; "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Was: California Ammunition Restrictions NO
> Spridgetcontent
>
>> I'm able bodied. I spend approximately one third of my gross income on
>> healthcare, and it keeps going up every six months. I think there's a
>> problem here somewhere.  BTW, I had to beg and scheme to get what 
>> coverage
>> I
>> have.
>> BZ
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> BZ, that "there's a problem here somewhere" may be the understatement of 
> the
> year.
>
> Sorry to hear of your dilemma.  You aren't the only one.  Hopefully, a
> solution will come out of this.  It better because this can't keep on 
> going
> this way.
>
> Larry
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