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Originally posted by belial259
I'm not nit picking here, this is a genuine question. Can sovereign nations actually declare "Bankruptcy" ?
Originally posted by civilchallenger
Caterpillar, Inc recently claimed their health care costs for their company will increase by $100 million as a result of the reform which people who voted for the legislation claimed would lower health care costs. What this suggests of course its that more jobs will be exported overseas as a result of the increase and those that are not shipped overseas will result in higher prices for consumers for most or all products. The reform makes insurance a mandatory product purchase and therefore companies will be required to insure all their employees. Its very likely this may work to create a black market for products which don't have excessive burden due in part to employees who do not need or want the insurance simply starting "underground" businesses that don't have such frivolous overhead.
Roughly half of doctors in the US in various studies have claimed they would consider quitting if health care passes. There are a large number of articles about this but none of them that I have seen have indicated specifically why this would be. More research into that area is surely warranted now!
This is part of today's blog. I'm posting it to ATS to bring attention to my blog.civilchallenger.com website, which I put enormous research efforts into but since I've never tried to promote it until just now, gets about one reader a week.
[edit on 22-3-2010 by civilchallenger]
Originally posted by civilchallenger
When I use "bankrupt" I usually mean #3, so I'm using the most rare case. I can see why you'd have that question.
Originally posted by whoshotJR
Originally posted by civilchallenger
Caterpillar, Inc recently claimed their health care costs for their company will increase by $100 million as a result of the reform which people who voted for the legislation claimed would lower health care costs. What this suggests of course its that more jobs will be exported overseas as a result of the increase and those that are not shipped overseas will result in higher prices for consumers for most or all products. The reform makes insurance a mandatory product purchase and therefore companies will be required to insure all their employees. Its very likely this may work to create a black market for products which don't have excessive burden due in part to employees who do not need or want the insurance simply starting "underground" businesses that don't have such frivolous overhead.
Roughly half of doctors in the US in various studies have claimed they would consider quitting if health care passes. There are a large number of articles about this but none of them that I have seen have indicated specifically why this would be. More research into that area is surely warranted now!
This is part of today's blog. I'm posting it to ATS to bring attention to my blog.civilchallenger.com website, which I put enormous research efforts into but since I've never tried to promote it until just now, gets about one reader a week.
[edit on 22-3-2010 by civilchallenger]
Its sad t hat you put that much effort into it and then talk about false things like 50% of doctors would quit if this passes.
Here is some cool stats from my last mens health that were fitting I thought.
Number of hospital bills that have an error 4 in 5.
Have a heart attack in a hospital and you have a 1 in 3 chance of living. Do it in a casino and it becomes 1 in 2.
Percentage of bankruptcies causes by medical expenses? 62% Number of who is insured out of that group? 78%
I'm not saying that this will fix the problems 100% or even 90% but stuff needs to be done. Why are people more upset about getting every person proper health care services instead of bailouts and wars/corruption? Because the medias tells you to be and people are a bunch of sheep.