Thread: Health Care Bill - predictions

Well why didnt the republicans fix it under Reagan, Bush 1 or Bush 2? None of them were Fiscal conservatives?

Again, they can do something that no other private company can do for the same price. How would we know? Private companies aren't allowed into that market. The USPS isn't subsidized by the government, it's required to not lose money (which is one reason that postal rates go up constantly). It's because the guy(s) who make(s) the decisions now isn't going to benefit from that 20-year payout. I don't blame the...

Thymiak wrote: Care to explain how having like 5 post offices within a 5 minute drive from where I live is efficient? I could walk to 3 different ones in an hour's time in the middle of the country here. That's rhetorical right? Obviously cutbacks in government services are almost impossible. Between turf wars, over protective elected types and union protection, a cut back is nearly impossible.

As for the single program that could be considered efficient: USPS. Private enterprise, for all the capitalist hoorah can't get a small pack of paper across the country in the same time at that price. You've got to be kidding. You call the Post Office efficient? Fedex has avoided layoffs by reducing pay, limiting overtime, freezing hiring, and it's still hurting too. I don't think an entity has to be in the black at the...

We're quibbling over the word "efficient". This is one of those pointless definition arguments like deciding what "MVP" means in sports. My point was that the USPS does something any other private company is unable to do. I'll concede that might be a narrow view on the term efficient. Sure, it's not unreasonable to consider profitability as one measure of efficiency, but it wasn't my...

>> pays for health care for the elderly. We already have a government system (Social Security disability) that pays for health care for the disabled. And end stage renal disease patients...don't leave us out!!! Why don't they just make medicare availlable to all. Costs me $100/month (no prescriptions), and its about as good as my BCBS, and between both of them, I dont have to pay any medical costs and I got lots..

The USPS is woefully inefficient, overburdened by regulations, and beholden to unions. While I was home on R&R, one of the morning news shows did an interview with the head union rep at a USPS facility in Houston. His problem was, despite repeated protests, the post office where he worked kept anywhere from 6-20 people in the break room all day doing absolutely nothing. They wouldn't/couldn't fire them, yet they had no work...

I know a guy who works for the USPS and brags how he finishes his route in 4 hours, then sleeps for 3 more before going back to the post office. From what he says, this is fairly common. I realize it's only an anecdote, but I find the thought of the USPS being a lean, efficient, machine highly doubtful.

And wouldnt a doctor and nutrition advise on and individual level work bette than telling people "Just say no... to fat"? Heck, how about grade school health assemblies... Shoveling fast food down the gullet is not healthy. Shoveling too much food down the gullet is not healthy. Parental and personal responsibility could go a long way to fighting obesity in my opinion. -Ed

What do you think your link shows, other than that the most QOLY enhancing thing you can do is buckle your seat belt? We must make not wearing your seat belt while driving a/riding in a vehicle illegaler!