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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Ok, the reason it's not TRAGIC that 15% of hospitals could close might be hard to imagine, but not hard to explain. There is a lot of money in the bill/law to make MORE community medical clinics. This is for all the 34 million people more who will now be able to go for regular checkups and visit WITH insurance cards INSTEAD of needing to go to.... hospital emergency rooms.
Thats why it can be MADE to look like a horrfying number, but generally the people playing it that way dont bother to explain anything further.
The economy grew by another 3.2% according to the report out today. Every news network should be at least running that headline in their wire scroll-crawl thingy. If not, google search for 3.2% economy, or here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/bu...on.html?src=mv
Or here's a snippet to illustrate:
"The broadest measure of the overall economy grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2010, after gains of 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 2.2 percent in the third quarter." |
"The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors."
I got to ask, do you jump in a pile of horse shit looking for a pony? Nothing in this statement from the Health And Services Department says anything good.
"During 2010-2019, however, these effects would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage," wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare's chief actuary. "Also, the longer-term viability of the Medicare ... reductions is doubtful." Foster's office is responsible for long-range costs estimates.
The economy grew, yeah I saw that, unemployment is still at 9.7% and going to get worse after the temp jobs of the census are over. And with the money employers will have to pay out for increased health insurance, it's in their best interest to keep the employee numbers down. That's why productivity numbers are up!
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that