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IS the Missouri Public Service Commission actually for the people? People have lost your jobs, and if you're lucky to have one you've not received a raise in years. AmerenUE sent out letters comparing usage and how to save. How much electricity and ink did they use to do this? We had no ice storm this year, and Ameren is pushing for a rate increase? That's ridiculous. Sportsmanship I would like to comment on a recent basketball game I attended. This was a tournament with fifth- and sixth-grade girls. I was most impressed with the team from Trinity Lutheran School. This team not only finished second in the championship game, it showed great sportsmanship. The girls played hard and always showed sportsmanship. They had a coaching team that never argued with the ref. While the players cheered for their team, they never jeered the other team. Trinity Lutheran School should be commended on its sportsmanship, hard play and success. A lot of schools could take a page out of Trinity Lutheran School's participation in this tournament. Health support VERY recently, I have had the occasion of receiving extensive medical procedures. I thought as I went through the tunnel for a CT scan, how could I not support a health bill that might save someone else's life as mine was being saved? Voting record I would like to thank the Southeast Missourian for putting in the paper how our federal legislators vote. Anyone representing us who votes for the health care bill will not get my vote. Financial regulation KARL Marx was correct. Capitalism really does contain the seeds of its own destruction. Of course, Congress could fix it with proper financial regulatory reform that would allow a more carefully regulated capitalist system to survive and thrive. However, business as usual will carry the day, and Congress will do nothing. |
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Balmy, So if you were not one of the millions died/killed in the Soviet Union, you had health care.
..a person works their whole life only to have some idiots come along and take it all away ...
..when all of Congress and the POTUS are required to use the same HealthCare that i am , then it might be fair ..
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I also had a medical procedure (pacemaker implant) and my hospital bill not including ekg's, echograms, x-rays, blood tests, doctor's fees, etc was over $75,000. Medicare paid just under $18,000 and disallowed the rest. I am sure you will be happy to chip in and pay the other $57,000 to prevent the hospital from going out of business and/or passing on these losses to those covered by private insurance which in turn will increase the premiums.
I would be most pleased to accept your check for $57,000 to pass on to the hospital. They would be happy to get it and you would generate a big savings to the people paying insurance premiums.
There are no free lunches...you will pay either in increased costs or restricted medical care. Amnesty for millions more illegals will ask you to pay for their health care along with their extended families.
The following is taken directly from the Constitution of the former Soviet Union. That worked very well. LOL
Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection.
This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic and health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic measures; by measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the rising generation, including prohibition of child labour, excluding the work done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing research to prevent and reduce the incidence of disease and ensure citizens a long and active life.
Article 43. Citizens of the USSR have the right to maintenance in old age, in sickness, and in the event of complete or partial disability or loss of the breadwinner.
The right is guaranteed by social insurance of workers and other employees and collective farmers; by allowances for temporary disability; by the provision by the state or by collective farms of retirement pensions, disability pensions, and pensions for loss of the breadwinner; by providing employment for the partially disabled; by care for the elderly and the disabled; and by other forms of social security
gurusmom , but i don't feel like a Socialist...
Interesting link, Wheels; some I knew about, some I didn't.
As incomprehensible, convolted, lengthy and full of 'mystery' as this has all turned out to be, it's surprising that any average American could support the health care bill ... regardless of which party.
"... But you don't all have to agree at once." Okay, I'll reserve my vote for later, if you'll do the same for me.
We Old Folks who remember a time when people depended upon themselves (or sometimes their families) really are kind of passe', aren't we? We need to move into the present maybe ...