Your essay is right on, as they all are, but I want to make a request of you. It will help you frame the problem better.
The largest expense in this country is the military. It is so uncontrolled that the Pentagon cannot even pass audits. Part of the government's reason for finding reasons to find wars is to reduce the backlog, so they can buy more armaments, some of which don't work well, because Pentagon contractors pay off Congress to keep the sales going.
The second largest expense in this country is the thing you mistakenly call "healthcare." We have an American medical industry. Real countries have healthcare. The American medical industry commonly has little of nothing to do with anyone's health. It is about moving money from wherever it is to providers, other vendors, and insurance companies.
Two fundamental, and repeatedly demonstrated, facts should never be forgotten. This country spends far more money on the American medical industry than real countries spend on actual health care, and our results are at or near the worst of any civilized country in the world. The reflex is to explain the inflated cost as a result of rampant overcharging, which does, without question, occur. But that doesn't explain the poor results. It's a complicated and very dysfunctional system, but it involves wrong diagnoses, "treatments" that aren't going to work, because the diagnoses are wrong, and a fundamental, if not entirely conscious, intent not to improve problems.
So, when you talk about this problem, please refer to the American medical industry. Please do not use the term "healthcare." It's deceptive, and will lead you on the wrong path. And once you realize that this is about money, and not about health, you will understand better the choice that is made not to support it in a serious way.
I have been a medical doctor for over 48 years. I have quit fighting about this, because it's vastly bigger than I am. I do my thing the way I was trained, and believe, it should be done. When I started out, doctors were more modest, if not less greedy, than they are now. It took me decades to stop feeling self-conscious about what I do. And longer than that to take various people's advice to "go public" on google. You can look me up as Alfred G Jonas MD, and you will see what my patients say: what it's like to be downwind of me.
Thanks. I've listed my numbers before, and I don't get or worry about prank calls. Anyone who wants to call me, to express agreement, tell me I'm out of my mind, or tell me I'm the antichrist, is welcome to do it.
We have people like you who give us something to talk about, and the rest of us talk to each other about it.
Sadly, this is true. Just months ago they refused to extend healthcare subsidies. I'd like to know the cost to our government for that compared with this war we did not need to start. Why do we have money to invest in our military and to wage war abroad, but not for programs to help Americans, or to run and staff Departments that serve Americans? What happened to the importance and urgency of DOGE cutting government spending? This isn't about helping the Iranian people, because destroying their homes, businesses, economy and infrastructure is not helping them. Neither is injuring and killing them. This isn't about nuclear weapons because President Obama already negotiated that deal and trump undid it. With trump, it is always about power, control and riches/natural resources. He wants the uranium. And maybe, he wants to maintain control over the people in their government. His greedy lust is neverending, and he's satisfying it at the expense of the American people.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the campaign contributions he gets found their way into his pocket. Of course he is extra careless with other people’s money. Like you said, he can always get more.
They don't find their way there. That's his single-minded focus and intent. He's a two-bit con man. He has the advantages of being male, which some people find persuasive, large stature, which studies have shown lead to advancement, and formerly good-looking. Other than that, he's anybody's version of two-bit thief.
I was being snarky about the campaign funds finding their way into The Fapweasel’s (Trump) pocket. Of course he is a crook, like his father. He was raised that way.
Germany and Great Britain already had universal health care when I lived there in the 1970s. Is Congress too dumb to figure out how to establish universal health care in the United States? If so we need to vote the bums out. Election coming up this November.....
We have no clue what is happening in our Treasury. There is absolutely no real oversight or regulation occuring. One day we will open Pandora's box and find it MT.
NO $$$ for war; dammit
!!!!!!!!! In addition to financial, there is the VERY IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE OF WARMONGERING.
Your essay is right on, as they all are, but I want to make a request of you. It will help you frame the problem better.
The largest expense in this country is the military. It is so uncontrolled that the Pentagon cannot even pass audits. Part of the government's reason for finding reasons to find wars is to reduce the backlog, so they can buy more armaments, some of which don't work well, because Pentagon contractors pay off Congress to keep the sales going.
The second largest expense in this country is the thing you mistakenly call "healthcare." We have an American medical industry. Real countries have healthcare. The American medical industry commonly has little of nothing to do with anyone's health. It is about moving money from wherever it is to providers, other vendors, and insurance companies.
Two fundamental, and repeatedly demonstrated, facts should never be forgotten. This country spends far more money on the American medical industry than real countries spend on actual health care, and our results are at or near the worst of any civilized country in the world. The reflex is to explain the inflated cost as a result of rampant overcharging, which does, without question, occur. But that doesn't explain the poor results. It's a complicated and very dysfunctional system, but it involves wrong diagnoses, "treatments" that aren't going to work, because the diagnoses are wrong, and a fundamental, if not entirely conscious, intent not to improve problems.
So, when you talk about this problem, please refer to the American medical industry. Please do not use the term "healthcare." It's deceptive, and will lead you on the wrong path. And once you realize that this is about money, and not about health, you will understand better the choice that is made not to support it in a serious way.
I have been a medical doctor for over 48 years. I have quit fighting about this, because it's vastly bigger than I am. I do my thing the way I was trained, and believe, it should be done. When I started out, doctors were more modest, if not less greedy, than they are now. It took me decades to stop feeling self-conscious about what I do. And longer than that to take various people's advice to "go public" on google. You can look me up as Alfred G Jonas MD, and you will see what my patients say: what it's like to be downwind of me.
I am not very knowledgeable in this area but I would love to talk to you about it. I think,this would make a great article.
I copied the numbers and will delete the post sonyou don't get pranks
Thanks. I've listed my numbers before, and I don't get or worry about prank calls. Anyone who wants to call me, to express agreement, tell me I'm out of my mind, or tell me I'm the antichrist, is welcome to do it.
We have people like you who give us something to talk about, and the rest of us talk to each other about it.
Sadly, this is true. Just months ago they refused to extend healthcare subsidies. I'd like to know the cost to our government for that compared with this war we did not need to start. Why do we have money to invest in our military and to wage war abroad, but not for programs to help Americans, or to run and staff Departments that serve Americans? What happened to the importance and urgency of DOGE cutting government spending? This isn't about helping the Iranian people, because destroying their homes, businesses, economy and infrastructure is not helping them. Neither is injuring and killing them. This isn't about nuclear weapons because President Obama already negotiated that deal and trump undid it. With trump, it is always about power, control and riches/natural resources. He wants the uranium. And maybe, he wants to maintain control over the people in their government. His greedy lust is neverending, and he's satisfying it at the expense of the American people.
Being a rich man's son and a spend thrift as an adult, The Fapweasel (Trump) doesn’t understand how to budget or save up for anything.
He doesn't have to. He either steals, or he asks his stooges to send him money, which they do.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the campaign contributions he gets found their way into his pocket. Of course he is extra careless with other people’s money. Like you said, he can always get more.
They don't find their way there. That's his single-minded focus and intent. He's a two-bit con man. He has the advantages of being male, which some people find persuasive, large stature, which studies have shown lead to advancement, and formerly good-looking. Other than that, he's anybody's version of two-bit thief.
I was being snarky about the campaign funds finding their way into The Fapweasel’s (Trump) pocket. Of course he is a crook, like his father. He was raised that way.
And what his daddy didn't teach him, Roy Cohn did.
Yep. 😡
Germany and Great Britain already had universal health care when I lived there in the 1970s. Is Congress too dumb to figure out how to establish universal health care in the United States? If so we need to vote the bums out. Election coming up this November.....
We have no clue what is happening in our Treasury. There is absolutely no real oversight or regulation occuring. One day we will open Pandora's box and find it MT.