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Tort reform as Health Care reform?
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Political Insanity on March 3, 2010
My brother-in-law had to have a double heart catheterization yesterday. He has to have at least one a year since his heart transplant. Besides spending more than 15 hours there, he was allowed to leave the hospital only after:
- I signed a discharge form, since he had been mildly sedated during the procedure.
- The nurse read an extremely long list of “do’s” and “don’ts” to him.
- He and I acknowledged the list.
…which took some 15 minutes or so. My brother-in-law and I then headed down the elevator and then toward the garage. The same nurse came running up, breathless, to recite a forgotten part of her script before we got out of the building. We left the 5th floor, crossed a large lobby and walked down a long hallway before she caught up to us.
Why? Because hospitals and doctors, nurses, aids, janitors, etc. are sued every day for every form of supposed infraction. Who pays for these lawsuits? Of course in the end, we all do. However, those “greedy” insurance companies are first in line to pay, not that I’m a big fan of insurance companies. There are certainly many things that need fixed in that industry, but it’s hard to lay the blame for this insane desire of our elected officials to control your health care completely at their feet.
I won’t go into the rigamarole he had to go through **while he was in the O.R.** the last time he had one of these, all in the name of helping prevent lawsuits… (think recorded disclaimers, ad-infinitum)
Wanna help control health care costs? Spend some effort focusing on the insane number of lawsuits that are filed each second of every day. Will that “fix” health care in America all by itself? No. But imagine what a difference it could make.
A few axioms for your enjoyment
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta on September 4, 2009
In no particular order…
- “Politics is the enemy of good government.”
- “Bureaucracy endures.”
- “Mediocrity is normalcy.”
- “Nothing simple is ever easy.”
- “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
- “There’s a reason; There’s ALWAYS a reason.”
- “Sometimes the answer is ‘No.’ “
- “If you hang around long enough, eventually you will become an expert at something.”
- “The biggest detriment to public service is the public.”
- “The second biggest detriment to public service is the service.”
Have a happy Labor Day!
Moral? You’re joking, right?
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Political Insanity, You gotta be kidding! on August 31, 2009
So amidst the cries from (internet inventor) Al Gore that America has “… a moral duty to pass health care reform…“, now we see the other Democrats shamelessly using Ted Kennedy’s death as a bludgeon to strengthen that same ridiculous “argument”.
How “moral” is it to use this guy’s death this way?
For those that have forgotten, let’s recap:
1. Teddy had the best health care his and the government’s money could buy. Funny, but his plan is not now, nor would it ever be the same plan that the Demothugs would force down your throat.
2. I seem to recall those fabulous fans o’ the “public option” voting to exempt themselves from it.
3. Let’s see, Ted was well over 40, with a diagnosed illness that was in all practical terms terminal. So, under the plan being proposed he would have been a perfect candidate to simply be refused care (or at least be offered reduced benefits) in favor of a younger, more “appropriate” candidate.
So I think it’s pretty stinking immoral to use Ted Kennedy as an imperative for the Obamacare health plan. They’re in two different universes and trying to tie them together is inexcusable. The real imperative here is to stop allowing these guys to keep redefining terms to suit their political agendas.
I’m never happy to see someone suffer and die due to the ravages of disease, but you just cannot mention Ted Kennedy’s situation and universal health care in the same breath and be serious…
You decide…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Political Insanity, You gotta be kidding! on August 21, 2009
My wife and I have been looking at replacing my aging vehicle (11 years old). Between chatting with folks at dealerships and reading on the Internet and newspapers, it’s quite clear that dealers who are participating in the “Cash for Clunkers” programs are having trouble getting paid. For some, this has left them with a severe cash-flow problem that could lead to bankruptcy.
The program ends tomorrow (8/22/) and from all appearances, the government that wants to run a single-payer, “public option” health care plan can’t even take a few billion dollars and distribute it properly.
How in the world could anyone expect them to handle something as massively complex as a nationalized health care system?
Lest you had any remaining doubts…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Political Insanity, Politics on August 18, 2009
…take note of Obama’s continuing assault on traditional values here.
Is this not the most liberal, anti-Judeo-Christian values president we’ve ever seen, or what?
Please people, it only takes a second to see the path this POTUS and Congress are dragging us. Are you willing to let the government decide what your values should be?
Are these the folks you want governing…?
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Political Insanity on August 13, 2009
From http://twitter.com/geek:
Please, you must read this. The stupidity is palpable from this woman. She can feel the effects of “global warming” when she’s flying? Are you kidding me?
I have never seen a more inept and fact-ignoring crew in all my years…
I guess I had it all wrong…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life, It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Politics on August 11, 2009
More nonsense from Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of thugs…
I was under the impression that free speech was a Constitutionally guaranteed American right. However, according to some of our Congress-critters, that’s simply not the case. According to Ms. Pelosi and lapdog Steny Hoyer, if you disagree with the Obamacare debacle at more than a whisper: You. Are. “Un-American”.
I’m pretty sure that these uninformed bozos don’t have a clue what things were like in the founding fathers’ time. Shouting and burning foes in effigy was quite common leading up to the revolution and beyond. I’m also completely sure that without this kind of dissent, America as it came to be, would never have been. Plus, isn’t it a relief that (for the moment) in the USA, you can shout, protest, and burn someone in effigy? Imagine living somewhere like say, Iran, Iraq or any one of dozens of other places on the globe.
Where were the howls of “Un-American” behavior during the MoveOn.org days or when Acorn sent folks to shout down various town-hall meetings? I guess it’s ok if you’re shouting down those that disagree with the Socialist-sect…
While I’m in favor of intelligent, considered discussion and dissent, it’s simply re-defining a term to say that protests are Un-American. It’s yet another attempt to turn the focus *away* from the issue: That Obamacare is a disaster waiting to happen and “real” AMERICANS DON’T WANT IT! According to this crew, if you’re a 77-year old woman shouting that you don’t want the crap they want to force down your throat, you’re:
a) A terrorist
…and…
b) Un-American
What other new definitions for those that disagree are forthcoming? Wait for it, ’cause it’s on its way.
Folks, your mandate should be quite simple: Shout at the top of your lungs. Write your Congressmen. Fax them. Email them. Call them. Go to town-hall meetings and let them know you don’t want this junk. Vote out those who promote these things.
Do the truly American thing.
You don’t suppose…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Politics on August 10, 2009
…that Congress is in such a hurry to pass the Obamacare package because they don’t want massive public outcry putting a damper in their grand plans, do you?
I’m just astounded…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Our Country, Politics on August 6, 2009
Somewhere along the line, I missed the point that if only Congress is allowed to take control of your health care, the entire economy will recover…
Amazing economics.
If you like “retro” electronics…
Posted by The Big Kahuna in It's Just Life...Sorta, Technology on August 4, 2009
In my advancing years, I like old and “old style” electronics, etc. At the moment, I have a few antique radios and cameras. This clock, while not antique, certainly has a cool mix of the old and the new.
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