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  • Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 08. 2011 07:12


A101stAD


Do you think Ron Paul is the only chance U.S. has for the near future? I'm not sure if political gander is aloud in NF 
forums as I hadn't been here in a long time, but I just wanted to share that. 

The speech is given by ron paul in 2007. 

 

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 30. 2011 04:40


MrClueLess
Wow.

Reading through these comments the US sounds like a great place for extremely rich and healthy people.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 30. 2011 07:43


Arrgh
Originally Posted by MrClueLess

Wow.

Reading through these comments the US sounds like a great place for extremely rich and healthy people.


And THAT is the problem.

Not to sound like a "radical Liberal" but the United States needs a revolution, but there are so many weak people here that would rather just stand around and do nothing, and a staggeringly high number of those who are completely oblivious to whats going on, and they will remain that way until it's too late. when everything they worked for or their daddy worked for will be worth nothing.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 30. 2011 17:57


scvbari
In all honesty, nothing is going to get fixed until we fix the political system. When things are being reduced into simple black and white in which you are either "with or against us", good ideas and compromises are neglected. This is a problem with not just the extreme right, but also the extreme left.

The moderates have lost their voice over the past couple years and they are becoming fewer and fewer because only those that are vocal and extreme tend to stand out and win. We have lost all notion of having a moderate candidate, instead we want someone who is extreme and willing to say things we want to hear instead of being willing to listen and work together.

The climate of America politics is nasty and I want to see the rise of the moderate voice. Sure, people will call you them not of strong faith, but I rather have people work together than further inflame the already craptastic political climate.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 30. 2011 19:52


Charles87
the system is this -
People go to the Doctor they need care -

Insurance pays doctor - what their allowed '%" is (% subject to change - based on doctor, location, service and "need")
People pay doctor rest.
Doctors pay the government - (IE - Medical reform)
Government pays insurance companies -

Tuition goes higher for doctors - because schools want a peice of the pie - BUT it gets better. ...

sure doctors get paid alot - but here is the funny thing - Doctors dont regulate the cost of work at a hospital/ medical office.

In fact they are sworn by law against it. - because its a doctors "primary" care to provide for health and stability of a human - no matter their circumstance and cost. - they are sworn to protect life at its fullest.

So - its not the doctors - its really the hospitals and the office managers who set their cost based on what they will get the most money out of.

Dont believe me? try going to a dentist these days - I dare someone to come back from a dental office and tell me they dont have a gum disease that requires extensive deep cleaning -

MY DENTIST office manager pulled out a sheet - and it was word for work - my diagnosis - and she said "this is what we normally do for all patients"

Makes you wonder.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 31. 2011 13:30


Stormvanger
Pretty much.

Opening your own practice is prohibitively expensive, so most doctors work for someone else. And increasingly, that "someone else" is a health insurance company that treats the office like it's a franchise to be milked for profit.

Want to fix that? Make it so that doctors are not 300,000 to a half million in debt by the time they get out of medical school.

Other countries governments pay the school costs FOR the doctors, and in return the doctors work for the state for X years. And they make a lot more money in that stage of their career than they would here in the US because they don't have to worry about malpractice insurance.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 31. 2011 15:55


Valefar
Malpractice insurance isn't the worst expense physicians face when it comes to rising medical costs.

Originally Posted by Stormvanger

Want to fix that? Make it so that doctors are not 300,000 to a half million in debt by the time they get out of medical school.


Certain states already do that; in Wyoming, for example, you get up to 75% of your medical school paid for through certain programs (the amount might be more now) if you agree to work in the state for X amount of time. Not all states do that, but that are a few, at least; the goal is to retain qualified professions, and not to lower medical costs, but it still works.

  • Re : Armed Chinese Troops In Texas

    10. 31. 2011 18:54


Stormvanger
Originally Posted by Valefar
Certain states already do that; in Wyoming, for example, you get up to 75% of your medical school paid for through certain programs (the amount might be more now) if you agree to work in the state for X amount of time. Not all states do that, but that are a few, at least; the goal is to retain qualified professions, and not to lower medical costs, but it still works.

If it was more universal, costs would go down. That's one thing that leaving it to federalistic policies isn't the best for, though individual state systems are definately worthwhile for the benefit they provide smaller communities.

My uncle graduated dentistry from OSU back in the 60's and spent 12 years working as a dentist on indian reservations in New Mexico to pay for the tuition coverage. Best thing he ever did. Did his service there, met his wife there, and opened his own practice afterward with another dentist free of any debt.

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