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November 09 Daily Private Enterprise Solution to the Health Care Crisis #1The doctor who orders a test never sees the bill and never knows what the hospital charges. The reason a $4.43 test costs $107 is that no one has power to challenge it. This is outrageous. Our President has demanded greater transparency in medicine, and there is a way to make that happen. Enact a law requiring ALL fees by hospitals and other health-care providers to be published and available to the public online. I estimate it will take a one-page bill and one day in Congress to do it. November 02 Term limits; throw the rascals out.Of the 15 states with legislative term
limits, California is one with a 6-year limit. I
guess it hasn't helped California yet. The President has a two term limit. Representative democracy has several other problems. One is corporatism, another is the
revolving door to the military. industrial, and health complexes. Another is
multiple failures by the US Congress to abide by the US Constitution. How about the 10th
amendment? Signing statements? Mandating insurance? Un-elected Czars? And who said we have a free market? Try buying health insurance out of state. Vote for Liberty; vote for the US Constitution. October 14 Some Good Books1. Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin 2. Men in Black by Mark Levin 3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 4. End The Fed by Ron Paul 5. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau October 01 Stop the Flu99% of flu at this time is Swine Flu (H1N1) 2. Avoid touching eyes or nose 3. Wash hands often. 4. Use alcohol based wipes on hands 5. Avoid crowds September 26 Happy New Year..today's sermon You missed Rosh Ha Shana, the Head (Rosh) of the Year (Shana): the New Year, the celebration of the beginning of the world, the world's birthday. when you say Shana Tova to everybody, like happy new year, ...it means have a good (tova..like in mazel TOV...good luck) year ...began Friday Sep 18th at sundown. Then God lets you have 10 Days of Awe (it's ends this coming Monday) to make up for any bad deals you did or people you insulted. And then he decides which book to write you in, the book of life or the book of death. It's like waiting for Santa. What a present! That's Yom Kippur coming next. Yom means Day..... Kippur means atonement. The Day of Atonement. Then you pray, I'll be good, I asked people to forgive me, please give me another year. (OK, ditto) And you try again. It's a fine tradition, just like Santa Claus is a fine tradition. Only one trick you didn't know about. You can get forgiveness only directly from the ones you sinned against. That's the fine print. If you kill somebody I don't know how you get out of it since the victim can't forgive you. Maybe God could forgive, but he might have left. Judaism is about this life, not some life we don't know about. But anyway, the Good Book says the righteous of all the earth will have a share in the world to come. Amen. September 23 Health Solutions All emergency rooms are mandated to care for all who enter so long as they are
of own species. It is our form of national health care. Our hospital collects 35
cents on every dollar charged. I asked our CFO why he didn't charge only the 35
cents, then he'd be even. He couldn't figure out the math. September 20 Don't shake hands with germs The one you shook hands with just blew his/her nose. The reason for influenza
and colds in the winter is schools and parties and church gatherings. And then
we have this silly idea of shaking hands with the germs. Who started that
anyway? It was a lot safer when knights saluted by raising helmet visors. Or how
about when I was in the Navy, I would have been demoted if I didn't salute.
Imagine an apprentice seaman shaking hands with the admiral! Saluting
in church would be safer! (ha). Come to think of it, the minister is the
terrorist: He/she stands in line after the service and gets the germs by
shaking hands with everybody in the church and passes the germs on to everybody
in line. September 12 Can they hear us now? TWO MILLION marched in Washington DC today with signs saying stop the stupid spending. Can they hear us now? It's the SPENDING, stupid! We're out of money! September 09 Proof of what? Gold bullion this morning: On 09/09/2009 at 9:09 a.m. gold was priced at $999.00 an ounce. That proves that the sun will
come up tomorrow morning again. September 04 Socialism for the Masses They say you should think out of the box, OK, here are two ideas out of the box: 1. Since lawyers want socialized medicine, lawyers should be socialized also. Isn't a fair trial one of the rights of man? How can you have a fair legal system if you can't afford a lawyer? 2. Drivers by law are required to have automobile insurance in case they have an accident. Likewise, patients should be required to have medical malpractice insurance in case they accidentally have the wrong doctor. Why should the doctor be the only one who has the insurance? There you are for the new health and law socialism for our socialized government. Really out of the box, right? September 03 No You Can't I'm going to write a book in opposition to Obama: NO YOU CAN'T. Want to help? Here's a beginning. Add a few more. 1. No you can't get that job. 2. No you can't get a lower mortgage. 3. No you can't get a loan. 4. No you can't avoid your income tax. 5. No you can't save any money. 6. No you can't sell your house. August 27 New Rules I know how to solve almost everything that's bedeviling our country: 1. Limit all bills brought for a vote in the US Congress to two pages. Nobody can understand a 1,000 page bill that contains fine print written by lawyers. If they can't explain a proposal in two pages, let them make two proposals. One at a time so you can think about it. Maybe even they would think about it. The clauses and hidden agendas in the Health Care bill are dishonest and dangerous. 2. Limit all representatives and senators in the US Congress to two terms. If we can't do that by law, do it by your votes. It's OUR country, not theirs. After all, these are the same people that got us into this mess. Fire them every two terms. Throw the rascals out. 3. Stop saying "1 trillion" The temptation is to say well, one is a small number, we can afford that. No, one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. We CAN"T afford that. July 18 The world according to meTelevision is not a vast wasteland. It's a vast freak show.
The worst thing about electricity are the commercials.
5 to 4 decisions should be unconstitutional. If a decision were just, it
would be 9 to 0.
At my age it looks dangerous that we have turned the world over to a bunch
of kids.
It was not bad that a 50-year old child molester died.
Polygyny would solve the problems of infidelity and divorce.
Some wives want a wife to do the housework.
The automobile industry problem is that cars don't rust out anymore.
The new health system will save us from bankruptcy by letting you die like
we used to.
When I consulted at the reform school I learned a definition of perfection
is when you shoot someone right between the eyes.
Most of the people I know well are dead.
There used to be immortals. They were Jack Benny, Graucho Marx, Clark
Gable, and Bing Crosby. They weren't.
June 23 The Cure for Health Care I want everybody to comment on this. The cure for the health care Crisis has started. It's called free enterprise. 1.) You can go to Walmart and buy a month's supply of your prescription for $4.00. 2). You can go to a drugstore clinic and get medical care. 3.) You can barter with your doctor if you try. How about some comments from readers on what they have discovered in the free enterprise system of health care? June 15 Do your genealogy?I hope you realize that you will mired in interminable genealogical and historical research that no one else will care about but is highly important for a reason that only Einstein could appreciate. You will notice that people tend to go to sleep when you tell your latest ancestral tale. I was lucky, I transmitted the sickness to my son, who as a tenured mathematician actually emulated and invented original techniques, one of which was to interview everyone on his mother's side and write a huge professional genealogical narrative for posterity. Actually, for me, the value of genealogy is encapsulated by the notion of identity. Just as when we identify with fictional literary or media characters, I identify with each ancestor and then study the historical context of the person. Unfortunately, when I discover their deaths it makes me sad. I persuaded a history teacher that he should have his students do their genealogy, for example, and relate to the times. I muse that I am my great grandfather Lt. Andrew Jackson Grayson marching up the banks of the Tennessee River at the Battle of Shiloh or my great grandfather Ephraim Hambujer who I boast had 5 wives and 11 children. I tell this to guys asking for GU/sterilization referrals to try to talk them out of it. And I ponder whether I am burdened or blessed with myths and traditions or cerebral disturbances that I don't recognize. Is there a universal unconscious? Are there archetypal universal myths? What about instincts? The neurologists say that all is in the neurons and neurotransmitters. Really? Oh well, I will lean back and be Fiddler on the Roof for a while, I think May 10 Corporatism I forgot to mention a few other pejoratives: how about plutocracy or congressional-industrial complex? How about government of by and for crooked corporate managers? I was thinking a counterfactual thought; suppose the Fortune 500 managers were all jailed and water-boarded. Picture that in your mind's eye. What would happen to Western civilization, I wonder. I suppose we would all die of famine and pestilence. It is entirely possible that the planetary overpopulation of 6.5 billion is corporate-dependent. It's as if there is a secret written corporate mission statement somewhere that for the sake of profit the planet must have ever-increasing population growth. For example, where would the Mafia be without victims? They would be destitute. Likewise, corporations need more and more business. I wonder if they have corporate-free countries anywhere. Cuba? Antarctica? Just musing ------ May 08 A Pearl of WisdomThe Hamas
'Peace' Gambit
By
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, May 8, 2009 "Apart from the time restriction (a
truce that lapses after 10 years)
and the refusal to accept Israel's existence, Mr. Meshal's terms approximate the Arab League peace plan . . ." -- Hamas
peace plan, as explained by the New York Times
"Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how
did you enjoy the play?"
--
Tom Lehrer, satirist
May 06 Nations and CollectivismYou rail against collectivism and statism as if nations by nature could
ever be free of collective action. Nationhood and statism are tautologies. They
are one and the same. Some nations are more collectivist than others, but the
difference between a strike by assembled textile workers against their employers
is of no essential difference than a war against an enemy by a larger collective
of people, better organized as a nation.
The better question is to inquire as to the etiology of nationhood. The
cause of nations is Darwinian. He who gathers the most power survives. It is a
law of population growth and in particular, industrialization. Collective action
is like oxygen to fire. You cannot extinguish fire by eliminating oxygen without
eliminating life. The Edomites and Moabites and Hittites are not with us due to
evolution. And the Jews might be next, along with the Babylonians.
The Declaration says it well: " That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men." We have rights all right, but it takes collectivism
to secure them. I saw a nice young fellow interviewed on TV the other night.
Turns out he was a convicted serial killer who was obsessed with eating his
victims' hearts raw. He had no idea what caused his strange compulsion. My
point is, sometimes we need to join together to secure our rights against the
Devil incarnate himself. If men were angels, we would need no laws and no
nations. Amen. March 25 Utopia is hereViewpoint: Real Preventive Medicine is Around the Corner “DALLAS--(Business Wire)-- U.S. Preventive Medicine®, the leader in disease prevention services, todayapplauded U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for modernizing the health caresystem by investing in prevention initiatives aimed at controlling costs andimproving the health of Americans.” (24 March 2009) What a marvelous idea! All we have to do is to prevent sickness, injury, and death, I must admit, I have been a spectacular failure at curing chronic alcoholism, binge If the President would instruct us old-timers on these matters, maybe the overcharging by |
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