I don't understand why Arizona is at the bottom of the heap as far as State finances go. There are other States that have no income tax and/or no sales tax yet provide more services for the people of their States than Arizona (has both) does. They may have higher property taxes, but that much higher? I doubt it. It makes me wonder just where the money is really going.
To add insult to injury our governor is going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to sue the federal government in a hopeless attempt to get the new health care plan repealed.
Fifteen other States are suing, also. Why should we waste our money also?
They are claiming that it is unconstitutional to require people to buy health insurance. And yet those same States require people to buy automobile insurance. It seems to me that if one is okay by the Constitution then the other is, too.
I know some are going to say they are not the same because you only have to buy automobile insurance if you own and/or drive an automobile. However, some people don't have a choice, they live far enough away from stores, including grocery stores where they can buy food, that a powered vehicle is required for their survival.
Our governments, federal and state, already require us to buy many things. A passport is a good example. As citizens of the United States we have the right to re-enter the United States, but if you don't have a passport you may not be able to do so. Until recently a birth certificate would do it, but the G.W. Bush administration changed that.
So here we are with the State in such dire financial straits that education funds have been cut to the bone, along with others, and our "illustrious" leaders are throwing money away on a lawsuit that even I (a layman with no financial or legal education at all) can see is a lost cause with no chance of winning.
Enjoy paying your taxes because our rulers (representatives, public servants?) are just throwing them away.
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Health Care Reform Revisited
I am getting real tired of politicians claiming that 'the citizens have spoken', 'the American people are angry, uneasy or frustrated', etc.
I am a citizen, an American person, and I disagree with a lot of what they attribute to us. If they want to be truthful they would say some citizens or some American people. I don't know how they can claim to know what the American people want when so many of us want something else.
Most of the people I talk to are in favor of a government run health care plan. I know there are a lot of people that are not. But how can some of our Senators claim 'the American people' don't want it. From where I sit the majority do want it.
Since it is obvious (to me anyway) that the primary problem with our current health care system is the health insurance industry. The first thing to do to reform it is to eliminate the health insurance industry.
Health insurance companies are businesses that have only a single purpose, to make money. Our health care should not be based solely on profit motives. No problem with making money but what ever happened to customer service?
The patches most Republicans want to use to "fix" the health care in this country are just that, "patches". Like a hole in a tire they want to patch it. Sooner or later the tire still needs to be replaced. Our current health care system is broken beyond patching. It's time to replace the tire.
In order to "reform" the health care system we must replace it completely with another system. Otherwise it's not reform, it's just patching up a broken system thereby making it more complex and still in need of reform.
Another thing, why do some of our politicians keep claiming the U.S. has the best health care in the world? If that is true why do so many people go overseas, to places like Singapore, for their surgeries?
Both Senators from my State have made these claims. I don't know how many other Senators and Representatives have. I do resent them, though, especially when the politicians that claim to represent the people of my State make these untrue statements.
I am a citizen, an American person, and I disagree with a lot of what they attribute to us. If they want to be truthful they would say some citizens or some American people. I don't know how they can claim to know what the American people want when so many of us want something else.
Most of the people I talk to are in favor of a government run health care plan. I know there are a lot of people that are not. But how can some of our Senators claim 'the American people' don't want it. From where I sit the majority do want it.
Since it is obvious (to me anyway) that the primary problem with our current health care system is the health insurance industry. The first thing to do to reform it is to eliminate the health insurance industry.
Health insurance companies are businesses that have only a single purpose, to make money. Our health care should not be based solely on profit motives. No problem with making money but what ever happened to customer service?
The patches most Republicans want to use to "fix" the health care in this country are just that, "patches". Like a hole in a tire they want to patch it. Sooner or later the tire still needs to be replaced. Our current health care system is broken beyond patching. It's time to replace the tire.
In order to "reform" the health care system we must replace it completely with another system. Otherwise it's not reform, it's just patching up a broken system thereby making it more complex and still in need of reform.
Another thing, why do some of our politicians keep claiming the U.S. has the best health care in the world? If that is true why do so many people go overseas, to places like Singapore, for their surgeries?
Both Senators from my State have made these claims. I don't know how many other Senators and Representatives have. I do resent them, though, especially when the politicians that claim to represent the people of my State make these untrue statements.
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