Jon Engel
Intaki Security and Intelligence
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2011.09.29 19:04:00 -
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Cypermethren wrote:
Also in Australia, defending yourself is not a human right. If someone breaks into you're home and assaults you - the police orders are to retreat and call them for assistance. If you fight back, wound or kill you're attacker - YOU will end up in jail.
I cried the day a burglar broke into someones house via removing roof tiles - and fell thru the roof of the house and became stuck there. The owners eventualy got home, called the police and had him removed. The burglar then SUED the home owners for damages done to him when he fell thru the roof - and he won the case. This was many years ago, and the world has degenerated further since :(
Move here to America, I'll send you a gun as a welcome to freedom present.
Also, the problem with Healthcare in America is that the public sector drives up the costs for the private sector so more and more people have to rely on Government funded healthcare. Now to break it down further. In America we have several ways and levels of funding our healthcare.
There is of course a few programs at the Federal level which is regulated and funded and overseen by Congress. Than the bulk of our Medical Welfare programs are funded at the State and territorial levels. All 50 states and the freak non-states like Guam or Puerto Rico all have some form of medical assistance to the poor people.
Large urban areas of both City and County have forms of this as well. Los Angeles, New York city etc.
Now here is the kicker ladies and gentleman. Poor person walks into a hospital with a broken arm. Real costs of broken arm treatment are around a few hundred dollars. Hospital upsells it to around 10,000 bucks and sends bill to Government or Insurance company. Why? Because they can.
Pharmaceutical company spends millions of dollars lobbying FDA and Congress to get a new drug passed that does the same thing as 50 other pills already on the market. FDA beauracracy keeps costs high, no competition in pharmaceutical market allows them to charge what they want.
I'll offer some simple advice friends. You don't need pills for everything, if you got a headache go to the corner store and get a 5 dollar box of storebrand aspirin and move on. You got a cold, take some vitamin C and the other cheap stuff you get at walgreens and move on with your life. Got the flu? Stay in bed and do the same for the cold.
Despite what you may think. Medical Insurance is not the same as pre-paid medical care which is essentially what all western nations have applied and still call it insurance. Medical care should not be expensive, which is what I am trying to sya here. Doctors and physicians should work for what the customer (or market) is willing to pay them. Hospitals ought to be competing for business, they are not.
More competition would drive down costs, and I'm sorry but the FDA needs to go and we need to get Government out of Healthcare as much as possible. Unless you think they are doing a fine job of it now? Look at the UK. Hand over your healthcare to parliament and all you get is politics. Not better healthcare.
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