Medical Coverage Cost

Oh, I don't know why we need to do anything about health care cost. I have very good coverage through my employer and I have family coverage. I do pay for the family coverage which includes prescriptions and I also have the dental plan I use the flexible spending account to pay for office visit co-pays. Let me see, that adds up over a year for medical coverage, dental, office co-pays, and prescription cost. Seems I'm paying much more than the typical 30% of the average annual premium of 13,000 for a family of 4.


Based on Federal Poverty Guidelines that is about one third of the poverty level income for a family of 6. No wonder the poor are not covered by medical insurance. They can't afford it! It also sounds like the Federal poverty guidelines significantly underestimate the real cost of survival.


The real answer is quite simple but sounds rather Un-American as it rubs against "Capitalism." Profits are the reason medical, drug, and dental insurance are so high. Why can't doctors and hospital staff be put on reasonable salary scales with merit pay rise for advanced in procedures, improvements in survivability, reductions in infection rates, etc.


Shouldn't it be abhorrent to profit from someone else's pain?


Shouldn't the oath to "do no harm" include financial considerations?


I know that it isn't the fault of doctors, it is the acceptance of the large dichotomy in wages. No one is worth a multi-million dollar contract for playing sports, No CEO can do enough to earn millions of dollars in compensation.


We have become a nation of excess. We eat too much. We covet money too much. We accept grossly inflated salaries for finance, sports, executives, lawyers, doctors, hospital administrators, and the like.

Perhaps what harms our society the most is not where we set the mark for the minimum wage but the lack of a maximum wage.

Okay, rant over.

Oh, and don't get me started on ACORN and the lies that have been "reported" about them. Just look for MSNBC Maddow and ACORN for a clue.

Sometimes I dislike the Internet.

Chain Email and Weather

Ah, if only...

If everyone with an email address had at least ten friends that would soundly disabuse them of the idea that forwarding chain letters was harmless...

Then...

We would be living in a much better world. Same goes for all those advertisements we receive in the snail mail. Catalog publishers caught on to the idea; likely because their publications were often many (100) times larger than those one page fliers. Internet email is not without weight. I think most of us here have an idea of that with our member portraits being limited in size. That size is not just width and height but also a so called "weight" (measured in kilobytes or KB of data). **wanders off on a tangent about Lego blocks being an excellent analogy for bits, nibbles, and bytes....**

Next time you get a chain email, ask the sender the following question:

"Would they take a piece of junk mail (advertisements by post) that they receive, run off ten or more photo (xerographic) copies at 25 cents each and then put a 40 cent stamp them and send them to their friends by mail (post)? I think that should illuminate some of them (at least those that have "half a brain.") </RANT>

Here the weather is cooling off and we've had some rain in the past few days. It certainly seems like the season is changing. I'm glad to be out of the unbearable summer heat.

A New Experience

Welcome. Don't mind the empty space. I've just started moving in and haven't arranged the furniture yet. I did want to put something is this post just in case someone should wander in for a visit.

I am currently spending most of my free time with my dear wife and children, visiting the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum, Knitting Help Forum, or actually enjoying my hobby (I both knit and crochet). I don't know when I'll really have any time to post on a blog. I stumbled into this blog site sign up and said, "why not?"

Sometimes it is just those types of innocent questions that lead to trouble. LOL

If your interest include Harry Potter and discussions about the series with other well behave and intelligent people, then you may like to visit The Harry Potter Lexicon Forum. And if your apt to want to look up some HP detail or other minutia then that link will also serve. Just click the Lexicons logo at the top left of the page and see all the details you might ever want to know about the Harry Potter series.

If you are learning to knit or crochet, then visit Knitting Help and watch the excellent videos they have there or post a question on their forum.