^^^^Why do so many posts have no humor these days? Anyways, I think she will only base her decisions on emotion instead of logic and common sense, and I find that frightening and sad.

The thing about the Internet is you can always find articles that support both side of any subject,..

About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That's according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization

In recent years, credits for low- and middle-income families have grown so much that a family of four making as much as $50,000 will owe no federal income tax for 2009, as long as there are two children younger than 17, according to a separate analysis by the consulting firm Deloitte Tax.

Brought to mind a friend of mine in the BC area whose husband needed a pace maker last year ...Due to lack space at the hospital where the procedure could be done he was 6 weeks in intensive care at his home town hospital prior to finally being transferred.

Once he was transferred, the surgery was performed within that week, I think actually within 24 hours of her husband arriving at the hospital.

She said that care at both hospitals was great, but the stress from her husband's condition while he was waiting for his surgery was overwhelming. There were a few times her hometown hospital did not know if he would last until the other hospital would be able to take him in for surgery.

Her husband is home now and doing quite well.

If they smoke,same thing. Not a cent of assistance for a smoker.

Yet last week, as its opposition to reform grew increasingly futile, the GOP Noise Machine dedicated lots of time and energy to mocking and attacking cancer-stricken patients, as well as a motherless 11-year-old boy who had the audacity to speak out in favor of health care reform.

Limbaugh's immortal words to the boy: "Your mom would have still died, because Obamacare doesn't kick in until 2014

No one in the US has been without healthcare. Everyone that shows up at a hospital must be treated.

Why is it then everyone is crying about all our jobs moving overseas? Do you think they are moving because of the culture? The view of a different ocean? This is where I think democrats thinking is flawed (not saying you are or aren't). They refuse to admit that it is taxes and government restrictions and obstructions of doing business in the USA that is the reason these big corporations pick up and leave.

In an era when one-sixth of children over ten worked for wages, child labor became a central concern of social reformers. Many states enacted legislation to give some protection to children, such as limiting them to a 10-hour day. The National Child Labor Committee proposed a Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution, which passed the Congress in 1914, but ratification by the states was blocked by an alliance between manufacturers and farmers spearheaded by the Southern textile industry. During Roosevelt's New Deal, the Fair Labor Standards Act incorporated provisions regulating child labor, and the child labor amendment was not revived.

Because Dr's are now scared to NOT do all these tests because of sue-happy patients, as well as all the regulatory agencies, as well as insurance requiring certain tests before paying for certain proceedures. The public has themselves, in part, to thank for all of this.

Posted: 1/6/2010 420 PM
Two solutions: Open up the health insurance market to nationwide, not state by state. Although on most issues I support "state's rights" (that doesn't make me a 1960's southern racist, just in favor of less federal power) I think that companies should be able to do business across state lines.

The next is bringing down individual rates so that they are competitive with corporate rates. COBRA doesn't need to cost a fortune either.

I have a story about government health care that touched a friend recently. Her son tried to commit suicide. She was distraught and didn't know what to do, so she called a psychiatrist she passed going to and from work everyday and he got them right in. As a sidenote, she is divorced and her children (but not her) are on medicaid. She took him to see this doctor and he recommended he be put in a program right away. She did. Her son is better shape now, but a few days ago she got a bill from the psychiatrist, she opened it and to her horror was a bill. She immediately called her medicaid office and demanded to know what the deal was. She was told that she didn't have prior approval to see the guy so she would have to pay it herself. Now the bill was a bit expensive (in consideration of her living situation) and the psychiatrist knowing that situation, gave her an 80% bill reduction and a payment plan for as long as she needed as long as she gave him a dollar or two a month. But, if she would have taken him to emergency, instead of a specialist, her child would have been paid for completely. The emergency room bill, I'm betting, would have been 10 times what this doctor (a specialist in the field, who had the connections to all the right places, and got him into a program immediately that may have saved his life) charged, but medicaid would have paid that without question (just like they do for all the people who go there with the sniffles and paper cuts who could wait to see a doctor but refuse to).

This is what is wrong with healthcare run by government and this is what you can all expect. Enjoy it.