Did you bother to read the part that said....

The Bush Administration admits there could be no oil production in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge until 2018 and production would not peak until 2027. [U.S. Department of Energy]

• Unbelievable! - Just the big bad
  • Not that old surplus crud again....lol - sam
  • To bring in an oil well........ sm - m
    • Please note sources within this article... - Just the big bad
      • This is referring to an off shore rig..... sm - m
        • Did you bother to read the part that said.... - Just the big bad
          • Yes, I read that........ sm - m
            • Here's the deal...sm - Just the big bad
              • Just some thoughts...... sm - m
                • LOL....sm - Just the big bad
                  • It may be a start.......... sm - m
  • Again I will say it. Clinton and his - Backwards typist
    • Clinton Administration. - Clinton and Bush
    • Oh no! More facts (sm) - Just the big bad

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

nm

"The French system is also not inexpensive. At $3,500 per capita it is one of the most costly in Europe, yet that is still far less than the $6,100 per person in the United States."

Their system costs less per capita than our system.  You bring up a good point about the doctors making less money, but should our doctors' main objective be getting rich or providing excellent care to patients?  I'm sure many doctors would be happy to be able to help patients without having to beg insurance companies to cover the only cholesterol medications to help someone with severe CAD or not having to write letters pleading with insurance to cover a much-needed MRI or surgery.  I transcribe letters like this all the time.  Doctors are constantly taking time out of their day (and money out of their pockets) to jump through insurance companies' hoops.  They are also often frustrated by patients with no insurance who refuse to pay for a potentially life-saving echocardiogram or colonoscopy.  They might be happy with lower paychecks if they knew they could just go to work and help patients without having to stress about whether or not their patients can afford the medical help they need.  I know some doctors are probably in it mostly for the money, but that is not the kind of doctor I want to go to!

However, I want to find out more about how France transitioned into their current program, as I imagine here it would be quite difficult to make so many changes.  I believe we can do it eventually though, and anything this important is worth the effort.  I do think we can learn a lot from their system though, because they have not done away with private health insurance and choices, and I think that system would be much easier for Americans to swallow.

I won't be back to read it.

I hope you will see what is truly going on in your viewing this morning.  I hope you will also see all the good Americans who are walking around the astrodome giving out water and supplies.  I hope you see that the Southern Baptists and Samaritan's Purse and other groups  are setting up kitchens, mobile showers, and counseling stations.  I hope that you see how the gangs, rapists and murders are making this difficult on everyone.  I hope you can get your index finger out of the pointing position and roll up your sleeves with the rest of good Americans are doing and do what you can do.  There will be time to dissect this all later as far as whole failed who etc., but that is after all these people are taking care of.  I agree that government has been slow in acting for reasons I'm yet to understand, but I also know that we don't need the government to take care of these people.  If we all pitch in and sacrifice these people will get the leg up they need to start putting their lives together.

Sam, surely you know that these libs have nothing but empty emotion in their replies.  They're mad that Hillary wasn't chosen (but so are we!), mad this, mad that, just bitter people who do exactly as the drive-bys do. 

They won't debate you openly and fairly because they can't.  If they bring forth something worth discussing I'll reply.  These people aren't acting like adults.

While I applaud your initial efforts, I have to wonder why you continue the abuse.  They don't absorb what you say.  All they do is just hurl something back at you.  And why?  Because Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder.

Why stoop to that level?

xx

????????