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The Annoyed Man wrote:So democrats have been buying votes in Ohio for at least a year now....... Is anybody surprised at just how corrupt and criminal the democrat party is? Why aren't every single one of their leadership in jail?

baldeagle wrote:If consumers paid for their own health tuneups and "oil changes" and the government got out of the healthcare business, healthcare would probably cost one third (or less) of what it does today.

The reason people go to the emergency room every time they stub their toe is because it costs them nothing. But it costs us a lot, because we have to pay for highly paid professionals, expensive equipment and buildings and protective procedures that serve no purpose other than to comply with regulations and indemnify the practitioners.

Human beings are very predictable. They respond to incentives. If there is no incentive to be careful with money, they won't be. How many times have you heard someone say they went to the doctor or the hospital because "it costs me nothing - I have insurance"?

That is the reason healthcare is so expensive today.

P.S.: Stop the condescending statements.

baldeagle wrote:

2firfun50 wrote:In my opionion, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are not "entitlements". They are forced investments in the future.

That's a lie you were told by your government, and you chose to believe it. Those "investments" went into the general fund and served to enlarge the government and a favored few while you and I hoped to simply draw a measly paycheck of an "investment" that should have paid us at least four times as much.