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I was happy to pay taxes before, and I'm really, really happy to pay taxes now to provide that level of care for those that really need it.
That says it all.
We're all pretty strange one way or another; some of us just hide it better. "Normal" is a dryer setting.
by david78209 on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:46:32 PM PDT
Halliburton, et al.
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by LindaR on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:06:38 PM PDT
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I wonder if the French healthcare system is supported by taxes on everyone or if it is supported by taxes on smokers alone.
In the wisdom of our politicians and non-smokers alike, the tax burden of our latest tax supported health care initiative, SCIP, was intended to be placed on the backs of smokers alone.
I wonder if France does the same or if they have a more progressive concept of how taxes for the common good should be shared?
by Jagger on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 06:24:41 PM PDT
The increase in the program's funding was to be supported by cigarette tax increase.
Not the whole program.
Everyone is talking about crime... Tell me who are the criminals. - "Equal Rights," Peter Tosh
by Nastja Polisci on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 08:58:02 PM PDT
I said the initiative not the whole program.
Of course, you are not focusing on the primary point of my comment anyway. Smokers alone would have paid for the new Scip iniative.
Totally unprogressive with little to no protest from progressives.
by Jagger on Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 07:18:49 AM PDT
that politicians miss.
It's NOT the taxes that people get upset about. It's the BENEFIT they get for the taxes they pay.
It's about VALUE. If I feel that that $35000 car is worth every penny, I don't mind the cost of it. If it breaks down 3 days after I get it, and continually breaks down, and I get told that there's NOTHING that can be done about it, I'm going to be highly pissed.
I'm going to be even MORE pissed when I see my neighbors driving the same type of car, but THEIRS works fine, rarely breaks down, and when it does, the dealer fixes it at a much lower cost.
I'm also beginning to think that our doctors are NOT as well trained OR as open to taking responsibility for their patients as doctors in Europe or Canada. Why take the time to learn the new treatments, or work with new procedures, when nobody will pay for them? Better to learn the cosmetic or low-cost things, since those you'll get reimbursed for. And time with patients? Can't have that...you'll lose money that way.
How many European doctors want to come HERE? I can't think of too many.
by mmacdDE on Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 03:58:05 AM PDT
doctors often get paid much better for doing new procedures than old. With new procedures, there's no historial precedent for "usual and customary" fees. By now there's lots of incentive to price a new procedure very high, because it's not likely to get more than 1-2% annual 'inflation' increases for decades, if ever.
by david78209 on Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 05:35:05 PM PDT
wide narrow
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