Mass Gov.: I Support Sen. Kennedy's Vision

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday that he supports a plan allowing him to appoint an interim Senator, until a special election takes place. Kennedy, just days before his death, wrote a letter advocating a similar plan. (Aug. 27)

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[L0gic86]

Instead of using the money to create more debt to complain about the problem why not eliminate all the debt with stimulus funds, in contrast to creating more projects. If my debt to credit ratio on my cards are all close to the limit and I request more credit, most likely banks will not approve me until the debt is paid, so how do you get aid and waste 174 million ignoring the Federal prevailing wage?

[charlessmyth]

This is because there is a misplaced expectation over what insurance can provide for. There is no silver-bullet answer to this. But there is a free market solution to the extent that the current situation can be hugely less distressing. Americans and Europeans have a choice: They can accept that a certain degree of distress is the blood-price to be paid for liberty, until technology, via ingenuity and work, has improved in its scope. Or they can accept tyranny, until they all go bankrupt.

[Smartassawhip]

That would be a huge help. However something still needs to be done to help those who are insured and fall short when they get ill. The majority of bankruptcies in this country are due to overwhelming medical bills and sadly most of those are insured.

[charlessmyth]

So I see :-) A common complaint is: 'coverage is denied to millions'. I would counter this by suggesting that if the American medics who 'donate' their services to so-called developing countries, applied themselves to offering their services to US citizens, the problem would be very much reduced, and the developing world would have less of a subsidy with which to fund their civil wars. Charity begins at home, is not a bad maxim.

[Smartassawhip]

I have designed my profile to help people do that very thing.

[charlessmyth]

The real world, as it is propagated and home and abroad, is that you vote for those who will be voting for, or voting against, this bill. So you need to make it clear to whomever your Congress and/or Senate representatives are, that their position is contingent upon your democratic wishes. Otherwise, you might just as well have a 21st century dictatorship.

[Smartassawhip]

I live in the real world and that is not going to happen so people may as well learn the facts.

[charlessmyth]

Actually you don't need to know what's in the bill, for the reasons I cited. If you want more affordable healthcare, you first have to get government out of all aspects of its provision.

[Smartassawhip]

Actually people do need to know what is in the bill because there is a very real possibility that we will see a public option plan in the near future.. Ignoring the facts would just be stupid regardless of which side of the aisle you are on.

[charlessmyth]

All that you need to know about the healthcare bill, including any Public Option Plan, is that it will create a new credit bubble via healthcare payments, to replace the already failed, tech and housing bubbles. Government healthcare/fiat-healthcare has been the dream of government since the time of Teddy Roosevelt and the creation of the Federal Reserve.