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No end in sight for rising health care costs

Written by: Joe F on Jun 23, 2009 4:44 PM EDT

By Joe Frandino

As health care and health insurance prices continue to grow more and more unaffordable to the average American family, many are nervous that there is literally no end in sight in terms of how high prices may go.

 Various reports by Health Care for America Now show that while health insurance coverage continues to shrink, the actual price of health care continues to rise across the board.  American families are paying more and more for health care and health insurance, yet the amount of medical services covered by their insurance companies continues to decrease.

By 2016, the increase in the cost of health insurance as a share of the median income will increase by 115% or higher in some states.  Do you think your family income is safe?  Check out this interactive map to see how your state will fair.

 

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- U.S. Economic Equity Made Easy!

By David Reed on Jun 29, 2009 2:57 PM EDT

Face the fact that U.S. citizens are plagued by high prices and low pay as well as robber baron employers triggering the revolving door of employment (getting rid of employees that got their pay raises through seniority and replacing them with starter wage employees that get no benenfits during the probationary period) which triggers the revolving door of homelessness!  In the case of U.S. Health Insurance; all citizens should be given national health insurance for life and all medical personnel should have their wages and expenses set by the federal government and paid for by tax dollars allocated and distributed by the federal government.  The same method would eliminate dispairities in the public schools.  The same method would eliminate homelessness.  The federal military already has these monetary arrangements as should all public institutions and employees!!  Remember that it is the gross national product and not money that runs all economies!!!  Why not switch employees to a four day work week with the unemployed used to eliminate unemployment?  We never needed to balance the budget; all we ever needed was to develop strategies to tax and spend responsibly!!!!

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- Republican economics creates the wealthy...

By Lou Cipher on Jun 29, 2009 3:15 PM EDT

Greetings from the Prince of Darkness!  Please keep in mind that ancient Rome had approximately one slave for every free man at the height of their empire!  There cannot be haves unless there are have nots!

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- Illinois UTU and Indiana UMWA Locals Endorse HR 676

By Susan Rowe on Jun 30, 2009 12:22 PM EDT

In Salem, Illinois, Paul Byars, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 0979 of the United Transportation Union (UTU), reports the local has endorsed HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).

In Booneville, Indiana, Roger Anderson, President of United Mine Workers (UMWA) Local 9926, reports that his local has also endorsed HR 676.

Roger Anderson said: ‘The UMWA has been at the forefront of health care. It was one of the first unions to negotiate health care for its working members and retirees and the only union to build hospitals in rural areas to guarantee access to health care for its members and their families.
With the present system in place, the members of Local 9926 understand that the health care they have fought for and were promised for life can be taken away overnight.’

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By on Jul 1, 2009 5:29 PM EDT

this article is absolutly true, every year my health care costs keep going up.

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- Religion on Healthcare

By on Jul 1, 2009 9:11 PM EDT

I believe every major religion talks about how it is the responsibility of the wealthy to care for the needy. Just because there are haves and have nots, doesn't mean that the have nots can't have basic health care.

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By bapwa on Jul 2, 2009 1:03 AM EDT

If those Democrats cannot pull their collective heads out of the asses of the people who pay for their campaigns long enough to give us universal single payer health coverage, I may very well give up all hope on Obama and the rest of the party elite.

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By dan r on Jul 5, 2009 4:55 PM EDT

 

By-the-mile road tax could replace by-the-gallon federal fuel tax

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STEVE EVERLY
The Kansas City Star
July 1, 2009

 

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The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.

 

What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the University of Iowa to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted.

Besides the technological advances making such a tax possible, the idea is getting a hard push from a growing number of transportation experts and officials. That is because the traditional by-the-gallon fuel tax, struggling to keep up with road building and maintenance demands, could fall even farther behind as vehicles’ gas mileage rises and more alternative-fuel vehicles come on line.

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By dan r on Jul 5, 2009 4:56 PM EDT

RESOLVE TO CONQUER OR DIE!
"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether
Americans are to be free men or slaves, whether they are to have any
property they can call their own, whether their houses and farms are to
be pillaged and destroyed and themselves confined to a state of
wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of
unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this
army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of
brave resistance or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to
resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington

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By dan r on Jul 5, 2009 5:07 PM EDT

Obama’s Health Care Fascism

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John Hoefle
LPAC
May 19, 2009

In October 1939, Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler issued an order, written in his own hand, ordering the extermination of those who were considered “unworthy of life.” The order, entitled “The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life,” stated that patients “considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, be accorded a mercy death.”

Hitler’s murder spree started with the mentally ill, the terminally ill, invalids, and the disabled, and eventually spread to millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirables”—worked to death or exterminated in concentration camps.

This monstrous program was initially sold as an economic measure: “The economic burden represented by people suffering from hereditary diseases is a danger for the State and society,” Nazi Dr. Gerhard Wagner said at the Nazi party congress in 1934. The Nazis required all state institutions to report on patients who were chronically ill, and used those reports as the basis to decide which patients should be killed.

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By dan r on Jul 5, 2009 5:10 PM EDT

Obama Paving Way for Health Care Rationing, Say Budget Committee Republicans

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Matt Cover
CNSNews
February 27, 2009

The ranking Republicans on the House and Senate budget committees see President Obama’s proposed fiscal 2010 budget as a first step toward health-care rationing in the United States.

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The budget includes $634-billion that the administration is calling a “down payment” on a health-care reform plan that Obama wants to enact this year. Obama wants to set aside the money before announcing how the plan will work.

“It could lead to rationing,” said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, who was initially nominated by Obama to be Commerce Secretary before he withdrew his name.

Obama’s budget assumes that the government will recognize nearly $700 billion in projected “savings” on health care spending, and it plans to use that money to expand health-care coverage for uninsured Americans.

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