| #5 Well, BP, thatÂ’s whatÂ’s in store for everyone in the end. No one gets out of this life alive. Unfortunately, like the Pharaohs of old, the newly empowered population has been sold a bill of goods that they too can obtain immortality simply by robbing everyone else. So we end up with a black hole of a health care system in which more is spent on the last 6 months of our lives that buys those 6 months than is spent on the first 16 years which would buy literally many years. Medicare was zero percent of the national budget in 1960 cause it didnÂ’t exist. Look at it today as percentage of the federal budget. ItÂ’s not going to get smaller. It wonÂ’t even see real control till we accept the fundamental fact that death is as natural as birth and, once a lot of stupid human tricks are removed from the calculation, largely determined by genetics. |
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday that he will veto a universal health care bill that is headed for his desk, claiming the measure would set up a "vast new bureaucracy" that would be too expensive. The Republican governor said the single-payer system proposed by Sen. Sheila Kuehl would "cost the state billions and lead to significant new taxes on individuals and businesses, without solving the critical issue of affordability. "I won't jeopardize the economy of our state for such a purpose," the governor said in a statement.