January 9, 2008

U.S. Ranks 19th In Preventing Deaths

The United States is trailing industrialized nations in preventing deaths due to treatable conditions. The United States ranks a dismal 19th in the preventing deaths category. So much for the overblown U.S. healthcare lobby complex that has tied affordable health care to lobbied excess to the harm of the consumer. Prime health care is only available to the privileged government union monopoly and a the corporate elite jobholders

Most small business can’t afford health care for themselves or their workers. If they do have healthcare, they have to settle for such a watered down affordable version made possible with huge deductibles that prevent policy holders from seeking treatment. For instance, the first $2,000 come out of their pocket.

According to a London based study in the journal Health Affairs they found that 101,000 deaths could be prevented each year if the U.S. health care system provided timely access to effective care as France, Japan and Australia.
prevented each year if the U.S. health care system provided timely access to effective care as France, Japan and Australia.

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October 2, 2007

Update on Joe Arpaio

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Ar paio (In Arizona ) who created the ‘ Tent City Jail’:

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but ‘G’ movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He Wouldn’t Get Sued For Discrimination.

He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For Jails.

So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.

When asked why the weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It’s Gonna Be While They Are Working ON My Chain Gangs.

He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero Nutritional Value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, ‘This Isn’t The Ritz/Carlton. If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Come Back.’

He bought Newt Gingrich’ lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press Reports: About 2,000 Inmates Living In A Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment

At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued Pink Boxer Shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 Degrees

Inside The Week Before.Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS.

‘It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,’ Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year.

‘It’s Inhumane.’

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic.

He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: ‘It’s 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear, But They Didn’t Commit Any Crimes, So Shut Your Damned Mouths!’

Way To Go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders.

Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.

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Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona .

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July 16, 2007

Health Care Costs

Canada’s health care system is often attacked from the United States as having long lineups for medical attention. What do you say when Danielle Martin, board chairwoman of Canadian Doctors for Medicare writes a letter to the Wall Street Journal saying:

“In a systematic review of 38 studies published in Open Medicine in May, 17 leading Canadian and U.S. researchers confirmed the Canadian system leads to health outcomes as good, or better, than the U.S. private system, at less than 50 per cent of the cost.”

Studies sampling hospitals in Canada, Britain and France to answer the question, “Can you choose your own doctor?” Yes.
“Can doctors make a good living?” Yes.

“Was the United States the only country that discovered innovative new drugs?” No. It was found that the rate of European countries’ discovery of new drugs was proportionately equal to that in the United States.

The upholders-at-all-cost of privatized medical care are fear-mongering, today supported by greed and mis-information from powerful private sector interests.

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June 23, 2007

Health Insurance Woes

Health insurance is becoming an increasing liability for Americans. More and more companies are cutting back on health benefits … especially for retirees. Retires need to pay in a larger amount for health insurance since many companies cut back on their health care benefits. For retires who spent 20 dollars a month for their portion of self-pay now have to pay over 500 per month.

Many Americans who do not work for the fortune 2,000 companies are without health insurance. Those mom and pop self-employed fare worst. They have to carry the whole load.

The best way is to pay out of the pocket for heath insurance to insure against catastrophic occurrences.

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May 18, 2007

Health Insurance Hijack

One has to wonder if each illegal alien in our country costs over $19,000 a year in government services (over 60% have no high school education), what effect that has on our health insurance. That and the army of doctors and health services who price gauge as well as commit insurance fraud that goes undetected.

Our Federal and local governments are NOT enforcing the rules! If you’re here illegally, you need to be deported and should get in the back of the line for legalized immigration to our country. That’s what my father had to do.

If one excessively price gauges, performs unneeded procedures or games the health insurance system they should be in prison – doctor’s degree or not.

Laws on the books need enforcement. If Federal and local officials can not enforce the laws they should be fired and replacements hired. For the high pay and perks offered police officers and by judging the long waiting lines to get in, those jobs would be easy to fill.

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