Comments on: Health Care Costs To Keep Rising

Economists Say Health Care Will Account For $1 Of Every $5 Spent In U.S. By 2016

[anopinion1]

agreed

[neojoker]

I wasn't aware of the apricot kernal, DRinUK. I'll have to do a search.

[drinuk]

Yes apple2pie, they are a business ! they are in the business of "s c r e w i n g" the sick, ably assisted by Big Pharma.

[drinuk]

anopinion1 is quite correct, there 'aint no cash in a cure, Big Pharma make money on dependency and comfort whilst at the same time filling us full of poisons like Aspartame and Splenda so that we get sick and ask for more of their junk.
They have turned cancer into a massive highly profitable industry, whilst a simple effective and natural cure, The Apricot Kernal as been banned by the FDA at thier suggestion and bogus report. I do believe however that they are being judged as of now, both they and those helping them to financially rape us and knowingly harm us, will soon suffer because of their evil deeds.

[tuckerndfw]

Doctors, hospitals and drug companies are some the most influential (wealthiest) lobbies in Washington.

And that is the primary reason congress & the White House will ensure Americans pay more for less health care than the people of any other nation on earth.

[eggy1620]

The big 3 welfare gigs, social security, medicare, and medicaid, should be optional, not forced. If you don%u2019t want to collect future benefits, you should not have to pay present taxes. Converseley, if you do not think you can manage your money well enough to support your retirement, you can pay current taxes. But you would be betting on enough workers to voluntarily pay into the system presently and in the future.

Personally, my wife and I do not enough consider future welfare for which we pay current taxes as part of our retirement equation. Our personal retirment accounts will sustain us, and if the big 3 welfare gigs still exist in 30 years, great!

Universal health care should not be the only option. Private insurance will always have its place. After all, I demand the right to purchase better services than YOU!!!! And believe me, no MD facing down 100K or more in student debt worth his salt is going to work for a universal health care system. A universal system will undoubtedly get the docs who graduated last in their class.

[anopinion1]

here is a good idea..
quit and ban everything to do with slowing the effect aids has on a person. let it do its course.
the longer someone wiht aids is kept alive the more and more it will be spread..

probably the same with alot of things.
put the money to finding ways to prevent these diseases.
this will never happen tho because the drug dealers (aka pharmacuticals) can make a raping on this countrys citizens.....and anyone that has ever ( and i am sure their are ) found a way to cure or prevent letst just say aids or cancer will be scilenced if at all possibly. because their is no money in this.

[drinuk]

I will repeat what I wrote earlier, the cause of all the financial mess are the Drug Companies and their incestuous relationship with the FDA and Politicians. These crooks are S C R E W I N G everyone and killing many thousand, with the help of those in Washington to whom you rely for your well being. We are having the same problems in Europe, these companies are evil parasites, the time as come to Run'Em Out Of Town

[tuckerndfw]

If they do change Social Security or Medicaid etc...they need to write us a check for what we have in it,

Posted by Neojoker at 01:27 PM : Feb 21, 2007

No one has money in a Social Security account. Social Security is a name given to an obligation (tax) US employers & employees pay and employees receive from the federal government.

It is an employers' & workers' tax and benefit only paid to workers.

But, it is not an actual account in which anyone has money. There is no "social security trust fund" except as an accounting entry.

The US government borrows money from China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and many others just to pay the bills each year, including Social Security or Medicaid/care. There are no "trust funds."

[neojoker]

If they do change Social Security or Medicaid etc...they need to write us a check for what we have in it, then they can change it. I don't think they should just, STEAL it, lol, but do we really have any power as citizens in this country anymore, against the money grubbers?