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Well if Medicare is underfunded and taxpayers won't pick up
the tab there just might be a connection.
it refers only to the
current problem Medicare is having WRT providers dropping
out of the system.
Because of the lack of payment. See above.
Health care and other 'fringe' benefits to employees are
holdovers from WW II. Because of wage and price controls,
employers could not offer more money to employees to
attract or keep them so they started giving the employees
'fringe benefits' that were not subject to government wage
and price controls.
It's more than that. It's part of a long term world wide
trend in social programs that started in England with old
age pensions in 1909.
Anybody can juggle statistics to support whatever position
they hold, this is especially true for organizations that
have agendas - such as any government agency or the WHO -
and it's why I don't pay much, if any, attention to them.
In point of fact the US government has been 'cooking the
books' on the statistics it provides on its various web
sites for years.
So what you are saying then is the other 29 of the world's
30 wealthiest nations:
-1- have lousy programs that aren't as good or as cheap as
they appear
-2- are spending more money on health care that they admit
to
-2- are engaging in a gigantic co-ordinated cover-up to make
themselves look good
And that the American system is better, except for the
Medicare part, even though your doctors charge more, your
drugs are more expensive and 15% of you have to pay cash
for everyting and then declare bankrupcy in droves if they
get seriously ill?
Oh yeah, and on top of it all, your government lies too.
How do you know the "the US government has been 'cooking the
books' on the statistics it provides"? Who has the real
figures and how do we know we can trust them?
Our drugs are more expensive because countries such as
Canada don't allow the drug companies to recover their
costs - and the US customers pay tose costs for the people
of those countries.
I don't buy that. Canada has 50 pharmaceutical companies
that do research. 21 of them are publicly traded on the
Toronto Stock Exchange. The largest one, BioVail, has $1B
in sales, spends $100M (10%) in R&D and earned $200M
profit.
How do you know the "the US government has been 'cooking
the books' on the statistics it provides"?
One example. The US government claims there was no
inflation in the US in 2009. The price of dry dog food
alone
In the US, like Canada, the cost of food went up a lot and
the cost of energy (gasoline, home heating oil, natural
gas) went down a lot,
with other components of the Consumer
Price index remaining fairly stable. Your cost of housing
also dropped from lower home prices; ours dropped from
lower interest rates. The overall index went down in 2008
and early 2009; ours started recovering six months ago -
yours has not yet.
The unemployment numbers are cooked, too. Among other
reasons they ignore people who have given up and are no
longer looking for jobs.
That part of your statement is true. Here too. And it is
very difficult to get welfare role rates or labour
participation rates.
Cheers
YK Jim
... Have you considered applying to re-join the
Commonwealth?
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the cost of energy (gasoline, home heating oil, natural
gas) went down a lot,
Not around here. Home heating oil went from $1.81/gallon
last February to $2.49/gallon this past December
That's truly odd. Oil and gasoline prices generally trend up
and down with the price of crude. I saw heating oil peak at
$1.32/L here when crude oil peaked. It since went down to
$0.83 and rose again in recent weeks to $0.93. And I track
it weekly as part of my job.
I don't believe government statistics
Then who do you believe?
I read a lot of newspapers from around the world and this
morning's column in the Miami Herald highlighted what the
rest of the world sees as problems with current US health
care.