RunTheBall Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 If the government were to take over healthcare, you will see the biggest, quickest, exodus of physicians out of the field of medicine. This country's medical system would resemble something out of the third world because very few people with the intelligence to get into and through medical school would be stupid enough to actually do it. You're already seeing serious problems with access to care in many states - don't bonk your head outside a major metro-area because there aren't any neurosurgeons close enough to operate in a timely manner and you're dead. There will be no access to care if the government takes healthcare over and that's a fact. RTB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 "But the $5k hammer is on the GSA schedule, so we know we saved money." Another true story: remember the BS about the Air Force's tanker lease deal with Boeing? How Congress decided that DoD was getting ripped off because the $120M/plane deal wasn't bid competitively and amounted to "corporate welfare"? Five years later, the Air Force is getting ready to accept bids from Boeing and Airbus for the planes...at a cost of roughly $200M/plane, never mind the $5+ billion the Air Force has had to spend keeping old KC-135s in the air an extra five years. Way to go Congress! In a bid to save the taxpayer money, you've managed to increase the program cost by some 60%. Maybe if they'd let the original deal go through, they could have found an extra $4M to buy paint for Walter Reed... All the while Darlene Druyun sits in jail Looked like a good deal at the time, as well, considering the options for an american manufacturer of a jet that size would go to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 All the while Darlene Druyun sits in jail Looked like a good deal at the time, as well, considering the options for an american manufacturer of a jet that size would go to... Well...she does deserve to be in jail. Doesn't make the deal any less good. And now Airbus is having problems and cutting 10k jobs...so it's far more likely than not that Boeing will get the deal anyway. So an uncompeted deal that makes them money is corporate welfare...but an open competition that makes them more money and costs the Air Force less isn't. Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Could someone pin a thread for HA, Tom and Ramius? !@#$ing please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So that they can continue to beat each other to death, for !@#$ing Christ sakes. Darin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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