Comments on: Health-care reform – reloaded http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2010/03/11/health-care-reform-%e2%80%93-reloaded/ Thoughtful, intelligent, entertaining, progressive discussion about politics, sports and whatever Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joe http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2010/03/11/health-care-reform-%e2%80%93-reloaded/comment-page-1/#comment-63659 joe Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:35:45 +0000 http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/?p=12316#comment-63659 Please explain to me how spending more money in HC reform, not inflation adjusting your budget projections is any way to prove to those of us that pay the taxes that will pay for these proposed subsidies is in any way going to curtail the increased healthcare spend.<br><br>And if I sound cynical, look at all the concern for the other social safety nets, SS and Medicare/caid, whose finances aren't exactly Fortune 500 worthy.<br><br>If I ran my checkbook like the US runs its budget, I would be charged 20-30% rates to borrow if I was lucky (more likely I'd be filing Ch. 7). Perhaps you should consider what that could foreseeably do the US currency, and thus inflation (did I say please inflation index your projections?). <br><br>So don't tell me about another bill that spends money, especially one that is NOT about stimulus but about fixing the system. If we had cash to spend (not borrowed dollars) I would go ahead and say help the needy, but WE DON'T. So save costs and show that you can keep the same levels of quality -- a small step, and we'll support another small step. Please explain to me how spending more money in HC reform, not inflation adjusting your budget projections is any way to prove to those of us that pay the taxes that will pay for these proposed subsidies is in any way going to curtail the increased healthcare spend.

And if I sound cynical, look at all the concern for the other social safety nets, SS and Medicare/caid, whose finances aren't exactly Fortune 500 worthy.

If I ran my checkbook like the US runs its budget, I would be charged 20-30% rates to borrow if I was lucky (more likely I'd be filing Ch. 7). Perhaps you should consider what that could foreseeably do the US currency, and thus inflation (did I say please inflation index your projections?).

So don't tell me about another bill that spends money, especially one that is NOT about stimulus but about fixing the system. If we had cash to spend (not borrowed dollars) I would go ahead and say help the needy, but WE DON'T. So save costs and show that you can keep the same levels of quality — a small step, and we'll support another small step.

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