Why the cost increase?

Man people toss around trillions like it no big thing. If I started counting out loud I  couldn’t get to a billion before the end of my life.

Ah what the heck. They just reinstated a fire chiefs pension in Danville CA to over 20,500.00 per month. They had reduced it to 14,000.00 because of the way he stacked his last years.

One court representing the actual workers sued to have it reduced (his co workers) and won in a lower court. Only to be overturned in a higher court with back pay to the tune of 1.5 million dollars. The real kicker his retirement is greater than the salary he made when he was working full time.. PRISON!!! and whoever supports this type of thieving from the people.. Absolutely NUT

In Danville CA. The worst thing to ever happen was the hills would catch fire and that would wedged in the cattle. They new where to go in the basins where there was no grass..

250,000.00 a YEAR plus benefits.. For a fire chief in a COW TOWN converted to yippyville when the sprawl started.. When I was a kid You couldn’t give that land away.. 2 million an acre now in some places.. 20,000,000. For a 5 acre hobby farm..

BROKE doesn’t even get close to what’s wrong it’s not REDS or the BLUES.. IT’S BOTH.. No concept of DEBT.. NONE.. ZERO... They ALL spend like there is no consequence.

Raise the debt Ceiling.. NO LOWER IT NOW. Spend less than what you bring in.. Period. AND put people like this idiot who screwed EVERYONE he could, everyway he could, in a GD prison, forever along with the Judge and the lawyers that overturned the lower court decision.

Every month the spending exceeds the GDP, how is that ok? They're raising the limit. Not reducing the spending and paying OFF the interest.  All the while skimming the interest off SS for anything BUT SS and spending it like it has any place in the hands of people, who REFUSE to pay and fund retirement plans and reduce the nutso out of control spending OUT of our country alone..

Didn’t the Athenians try their leaders after their terms in office.. After all it was the cradle of Democracy..

If I had my way this type of stealing would get the worst of punishments.

The reduction in retirement payments of 6,000.00 a month to THIS fire chief is greater than the combined SS of me and my wife. His REDUCTION. for god sakes! 30-35 MAX working years.. MAX

We worked almost 90 years between the 2 of us paying social security. Glo and Me.. 90 F*&^ing years to read this CRAP.. about a THIEF Fire chief and a broken system letting him get away with it..

Regards

I had to turn on the O2 machine after that one.. Bogart the O2 machine.. LOL.

51 hours in the hospital.. 81,000.00 dollars.. Last year at this time I got the bill.. AFTER coming home and having 16 more heart attacks behind a hard clot they missed.. 12k more BTW. ALL behind a bruised thigh..

I’ll bet money it’s 110k now. Not a worker ONE getting paid a dime more..

My insurance paid all but 117.00 of a 7k ride to the hospital. Sure great people though.. God sent those Nurses, X-Ray techs and Doctors. The X-Ray Tech found the clot, that was missed.. Sharp cookie..

Regards

In any other advanced nation (and there are MANY), you wouldn’t have paid a dime more than what you’d pay through your taxes and some small copay for all the treatment you needed, if that.

Check out Moore’s old documentary, Sicko and your blood pressure will rise enough to get you readmitted. In one scene, a guy cut off his ring and middle finger with a table saw. $60,000 to reattach his middle finger and $12,000 for his ring finger. He chose his ring finger.

Moore then asked another doctor (I believe it was either in Canada or Germany) how much they would charge. The look on the doctor’s face was priceless. Both fingers would be reattached and cost the man nothing since he’s already been paying into the system.

It’s all a matter of priorities as to how you’re going to do things. Nothing more. It’s just that here, stateside, there are those who don’t want them to get any coverage. It goes all the way back to the Civil War.

All the best,
Nonoise

Healthy people needing to pay extra for the obese, people who smoke, people who don't take care of themselves, etc.

Waiting forever to get a procedure done, waiting forever an emergency room, reaching a certain age to where you're no longer needed in the community so your medical procedures aren't as important as others.

There's no competition for lowest prices in the healthcare industry so everyone pays an exorbitant amount.

Oh yeah, sign me up.

And Moore is a Leftist nutjob, btw.

That leftist nut job had all the problems you just enumerated solved by showing the absurdities of our present medical system, designed to enrich a few at the expense of the many.

By the way, your comment on the aged is absurd and that statement about competition in the healthcare industry is just why it’s not working, or haven’t you been paying attention?

No one decides, one day, to get cancer and go out and see what his health care payments can buy at the health care competition rally. It’s not like buying your stereo. It’s a necessity. Economies of scale would expect one to pool resources and have the buying power to force down health care costs, like one would in any capitalist endeavor.

Did you notice how socialism and capitalism worked so well together in that scenario? Other, advanced countries have been doing it for over half a century and are all the better for it. We could too, if only people would not cling to those absurd zombie notions that refuse to die.

All the best,
Nonoise