Pharmaceutical Companies
How true this is:
An American car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market.
An American toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market.
A major American bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.
We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico.
We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.
We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries.
BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy.That's called un-American! You think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!
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Sunday, September 5
Well wishes for President Bill Clinton
Your autographed picture hangs on the wall in our den. You hang in our heart and we wish you well with the upcoming operation. Thank you for eight great years.
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Your autographed picture hangs on the wall in our den. You hang in our heart and we wish you well with the upcoming operation. Thank you for eight great years.
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Saturday, September 4
Medicare increases - part 2
And we humbly ask why the cost of Medicare is raising 17 percent:
"The display in Rosemont, Illinois, (a five foot cutout of President Bush with a muslimsforbush.com) was funded by Muhammad Ali Hasan and his mother, Seeme, who recently created the group "Muslims for Bush." Seeme Hasan said in a phone interview that she and her husband Malik, a Colorado physician who earned his wealth in the health care industry, have donated more than $1 million to Bush and Republican causes since the 2000 campaign."
The foregoing was put on the wire today by Rachel Zoll, religion writer for the Associated Press.
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And we humbly ask why the cost of Medicare is raising 17 percent:
"The display in Rosemont, Illinois, (a five foot cutout of President Bush with a muslimsforbush.com) was funded by Muhammad Ali Hasan and his mother, Seeme, who recently created the group "Muslims for Bush." Seeme Hasan said in a phone interview that she and her husband Malik, a Colorado physician who earned his wealth in the health care industry, have donated more than $1 million to Bush and Republican causes since the 2000 campaign."
The foregoing was put on the wire today by Rachel Zoll, religion writer for the Associated Press.
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Medicare increases
The increase in Medicare premiums, announced late in the afternoon by an administration spokesman hoping no one would notice over the holiday weekend, will not escape the attention of most senior citizens. The raise is 17 percent, or about $12 per person. For a family of two this is $24 a month; $288 a year. This increase in insurance premiums is accompanied also by an increase in the deductible seniors and others in the Medicare program will have to pay if they go into the hospital. These increases are greater than the rate of inflation. On a personal level, the increases will not turn us out of our house and force us to live under a bridge, but for millions of Medicare subscribers already living on the edge, this could be the back-breaking straw. Some will undoubtedly be forced to opt out of the program and take their chances. There are many questions; here are just a few: why are critical drugs in America priced so high? why must Americans even think of sending prescriptions off to Canada to save a little? are insurance costs for medical practitioners justified by insurance payouts? why does an aspirin in a hospital cost $5 when you can buy 100 in a bottle at Wal-Mart for less than $4?
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The increase in Medicare premiums, announced late in the afternoon by an administration spokesman hoping no one would notice over the holiday weekend, will not escape the attention of most senior citizens. The raise is 17 percent, or about $12 per person. For a family of two this is $24 a month; $288 a year. This increase in insurance premiums is accompanied also by an increase in the deductible seniors and others in the Medicare program will have to pay if they go into the hospital. These increases are greater than the rate of inflation. On a personal level, the increases will not turn us out of our house and force us to live under a bridge, but for millions of Medicare subscribers already living on the edge, this could be the back-breaking straw. Some will undoubtedly be forced to opt out of the program and take their chances. There are many questions; here are just a few: why are critical drugs in America priced so high? why must Americans even think of sending prescriptions off to Canada to save a little? are insurance costs for medical practitioners justified by insurance payouts? why does an aspirin in a hospital cost $5 when you can buy 100 in a bottle at Wal-Mart for less than $4?
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Thursday, September 2
Guantanamo Bay Trials
The Greatest Generation tried Hermann Goering and Rudolph Hess at Nuremburg for being co-architects (along with Hitler et.al.) of the Third Reich. The current generation is trying Salim Ahmed Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay for being Osama bin Laden’s car driver. What has happened to us?
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The Greatest Generation tried Hermann Goering and Rudolph Hess at Nuremburg for being co-architects (along with Hitler et.al.) of the Third Reich. The current generation is trying Salim Ahmed Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay for being Osama bin Laden’s car driver. What has happened to us?
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