What's up Doc?
After my surgery, the doctor peeked in on me and said; "Don't worry, we'll have you walking before you know it"! Sure enough, as soon as I got his bill, I had to sell my car, and now I'm walking. When I was a kid, and candy bars were a nickel, I remember my grandmother staying in a nice big private hospital room which cost $5 per day. Now, that candy bar is $1, which means that hospital room should be $100. Good luck trying to find a shared room in a hospital for under $250 a day. Why is there such a discrepency?
The government isn't regulating and subsidizing the candy industry - yet! Also, lawyers don't have as much incentive suing a candy manufacturer because someone broke their tooth on a Payday candy bar verses a hospital nurse who inadvertantly tweaked the wrong dial or dispensed the wrong meds. It's true that one is a life and death issue and the other is not.
Now when you substidize something, you'll get more of it. Congress has been gradually increasing the subsidies for medical care since the 70's. Now we have a lot more medical care, and the prices have escalated disproportionatly from the rest of the economy with people running to their doctor for a hang nail. People want a sex change operation, and the government gives it to them.
Lawyers, under the liberal judiciary and legal system which scratches each other's backs, have worked asiduously to jack up jury awards way out of proportion to the reality of the situation, and they always go after the deep pockets. The deep pockets have to pick the pockets of the little people to make it all work. We need to have tort reform and quit subsidizeng medical care which is not a Constitutionally authorized duty.
George Lilly
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and pick up the trash
Let the feds provide a strong defense
and that's it