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Congressman Alan Grayson questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on $550B of loans to foreigners:
Congressman Alan Grayson asks Ben Bernanke:
“Half a trillion dollars and you don’t know who got the money?”
“One of the arrangements is for US$9 billion for New Zealand. That works out to US$3,000 for every single person who lives in New Zealand. Seriously wouldn’t it have been better to extend that kind of credit to Americans rather than New Zealanders?”
This UNBELEEEEVABLE!!!!!!!! See the short video at [ http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23114.htm ]
There certainly seems to be a rapidly rising tide of very angry Americans contacting me…
Last year I wrote an article entitled: Is Your Pension Plan Safe? Or is it the next big ‘surprise’? Which you can see at: [ https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/1952.cfm ] and it’s a whole lot worse now than when I wrote that article…
In fact, it’s so important that our VIP Members check their pensions that I will republish that article later this week …
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comInteresting information. In addition, we U.S. disabled veterans have to wait six months to two years for the Department of Veterans Affairs to adjudicate our service-connected disability claims. Then to add injury to insult, most claims are denied, and the appeal process can take from two to three years. There are currently about a million disability claims pending before the VA. We disabled veterans believe the VA mindset is “delay, delay, deny and hope they die.” We bail out banks with billions of dollars, millions of dollars for foreign aid and billions of dollars to fight two wars; yet the U.S. denys, nickels and dimes veterans disability compensation. I am leaving the U.S. and retiring to Costa Rica, good riddence to an ungreatful United States.
Government run health care will be the same scenario soldier!
I am simply flabbergasted why the government has adopted such a arrogant attitude that they can run programs more cost effectively and efficiently than private business when most of the upper level administration hasn’t a clue what business is about because they have never held “real” jobs or had to make payroll and stay out of your line of credit. They cannot even account for their own expenditures. Currently, direct and indirect government employment is the fastest growing job market in the US. Scott: I am one of those that is fed up. My plans have been accelerated.
grb…
Just a quick addition to your post…
With “Universal” Health care the way it is being proposed in the US… How many hospitals will close because of insufficient funding, or the lack of Doctors who have “moved” on…?
GRB, private business is the big problem. Corporate control of our government is so deep and profound that any national health care program we get will just be a disguised version of what we have now.
Edited on Jul 23, 2009 18:16
What is really need first is tort reform with a cap on medical malpractice suits. With 75% of Congress being attorneys, this is highly unlikely. As far as hospitals with insufficient funds, we can at least partially thank the Clinton administration for passing the law that does not allow any hospitals to refuse care to anyone, regardless of citizenship. California spent $1 billion on health care for non-citizens last year and look what state they are in. Texas passed tort reform in 2007. Since then, medical malpractice premiums have decreased 50% and there is such an influx of doctors that the liceinsing board cannot keep up. In most states, you will not even find on OB/Gyn in a town with a population of 10,000 because they can’t afford to practice when their malpractice premiums are $100,000/year. Again, our government is attempting to legislate the symtoms and not the root cause.
Edited on Jul 24, 2009 07:22
My doctor in Miami has a sign in his office informing patients he does not carry malpractice insurance. Is this not an option for all doctors?
Perhaps doctors should just be given a sort of “divine right” to be incompetent and then we’d have plenty of them. Hell, I’d become one myself. It’s easy money and you don’t even have to be any good. If you took your car to a mechanic and he could not fix it but still wanted you to pay $500.00 dollars, you’d be shocked. But that is essentially what doctors do. I have been to several doctors with a skin condition, none know what it is or how to fix it, they all scratch their head and say they don’t know anything but then bill me for $500.00. I spent a long time in Canada with national healthcare, and it worked well, the doctors were the best paid people in our town, and I never had to wait to see one or go to a hospital. I don’t understand why the boogeyman of national healthcare creates such a kneejerk reaction in some people.
No physician in private practice in the U.S. is REQUIRED to carry malpractice insurance except that not to do so would be financially suicidal. One adverse outcome by a patient who is credible and the jury would be putting that patient forever on that physician’s payroll.
Unless and until state licensing and regulatory agencies begin to do their duties with regard to incompetent practitioners, the only recourse against the incompetent is a lawsuit.
Good point… but perhaps this doctor is ahead of the curve on things…. without deep pockets (Insurance or other hard assets) there isn’t a lawyer out there that would take the case of someone wanting to sue the doctor. Asset protection is an up and coming field that’s seeing a lot of attention the last few years. I followed some basic planning that has, for the most part, made me “judgment proof” in the US. I can think of several ways a doctor could structure this “business” to protect himself from lawyers looking to feed on him or his insurance.
As for doctors and the lawsuits they have to deal with… no doubt there are some bad ones out there. But remember… life itself is a fatal condition that we can only manipulate to a minor degree. And sometimes… not at all! And as unfair as that is at times we shouldn’t look to blame the doctor. Not every outcome is going to be good, not every result is what we want… but does that mean we have to blame those doctors that do their best and have to deal with surviving family that want to second guess (or get rich) on a negative result?
Perhaps if more doctors took the approach of dropping the insurance we’d see a drop in the suits seeking compensation for outcomes beyond their control!
So you’re favoring structuring things so that no physician can be held liable for his or her own errors, right? Okay, we can no longer sue for money damages. And the licensing boards won’t govern. So what’s left?
Maybe we should just make mayhem legal for everyone. Then you, or I, if injured by a physician, could just put out a hit on him or her. Sounds reasonable . . .
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