Despite what you may think, I don't support the concept of a theocracy either; I believe in balance with all aspects working together. Idealistic?? Yes, but without some ideals, what do we have????
Now I'll put on my asbestos suit. The base issue in the US comes out of your policy of separation of Church and State!! 'Church', however you define it, for whichever religion or cult is, historically the basis of morality, giving, care, and originally, education. When you cut that out of the decision making process (gov't) and marginalise it in many people's lives, you can expect to have major issues.
Why I hate the whole medical care thing, part 906…
After months and months of wrangling with my "insurance" company they finally agree to start paying for things. They kept sending us these forms requiring us to verify that my wife and kids didn't have some other coverage. Why would I spend extra for them to be covered under my policy if she had her own insurance? And even if I lied when I signed up why wouldn't I just lie again? And after us sending in multiples before why did they keep on sending us more? This was a total waste of time on our part and money on theirs. Grrr.
Then on Wednesday last week the medical group where we go calls and tells us we owe them almost $4000. Huh? I missed the call (I was at work) and I couldn't make out their call back number but on Friday I was in their neighborhood so I stopped by. The nice lady at the desk said we owed $120. What about the $4000? She had no idea. So I paid and while I was there I signed up for their on line service so I didn't have to rely on mailed statements to figure out what was going on.
So tonight I signed on to check up on every and see that I still owe $26. Why? I have no clue with all the payments we made earlier and payments made by the insurance company and deductions and credits for various things. The charges make no sense; one was for -$8. I should have done that a bunch more times!
President Barack Obama's health care law, hailed as his most significant legislative achievement, seems to be losing much of its sweep.
On Tuesday, the administration unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until after the 2014 elections, in a central requirement of the law that medium and large companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
The nature of these unintended consequences changes dramatically when complex “solutions” turn out to be poorly designed and incompetently administered.
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act has provided many real-world examples of this, but perhaps none so “unintended” as the consequences discovered by the Seattle Times this weekend. Carol Ostrom, The Times’ health reporter, told the story of 62-year-old newlyweds Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn, who weren’t exactly the models of wild, starry-eyed romantics.
Perhaps, Ms. Pelosi-ov, you should have read the law BEFORE you passed it.Here’s where the law of unintended consequences comes into Obamacare. Thanks to the exchange programming, consumers are getting enrolled in Medicaid whether they understand what that means or not, and in much greater numbers than before. (In the first month, nearly 90 percent of all the enrollees in the federal and state exchanges were Medicaid applicants.)
Unless they look at the fine print in the paperwork in Washington and other states with similar asset-forfeiture regulations, any assets they own will not pass to their heirs but to the state instead.
Don't we have those issues? Really!?Then why aren't Sweden having these issues? Nowhere else is morality so separated from religion as in Sweden.
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