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Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

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I haven't paid much attention to the actual health care bill but I probably know as much about it as any here.

I can say that the atrocious amount paid for my monthly health insurance meets or exceeds the amount of federal with-holding out of my check, a shocking ratio.

Now I will maintain that I earn this "benefit" because I, and my actual boat-rower worker kind, earn every nickel that my company makes, including pay for the management guys calling cadence, freeloading stockholders riding in the boat and government guy sitting in the back regulating us all. We earn it by doing 100 percent of the rowing that moves the packed rowboat.

With the real and only creation of wealth firmly established, we can concentrate on the ratio I first mentioned up above.

My health insurance, therefore healthcare, costs as much as is needed to run the entire rest of the country. Either running a country is an incredible bargain or healthcare is way, way overpriced.

Which leads me to wonder where all the health money is going. I wonder if some of it is being used to buy the pricy abysmal lying ads on TV that tout, it is better to leave things the way they are? In that case I'm being tricked into paying for my own rectal assault.

I can't help but think that if I paid just a little more, I could have vaseline. I bet they get free vaseline in Canada.

John Q. Public
aka Wes

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Good one.

A few weeks ago, I went into my doctor's office for a physical. He is really a great guy. He jokes around and is pretty laid back. I asked him if he could bring the physical in at under $500 because that is all my company will pay. He said no problem...then I joked..."with all the huge money you guys are making, I thought the double digit raise you get every year would kill that idea". I thought he was going to keel over with laughter. All the doctors in this hospital system work for the hospital. There are no private practices. He showed me a letter he had just received the day before asking for a 9% cut in salary. He said the rest of the staff was soon to get theirs. So..I asked..my health insurance has increase by double digits for close to 10 years now...where is all the money going? He said he had no clue. The stories..at least in Ohio...about malpractice suits are full of bs. He did tell me to watch the bonuses the hospital execs get. They seem to increase yearly by huge amounts.

After that, we moved on and he did use vaseline. As least he has a bit of sympathy for the average guy...LOL