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“Meg Sheehan” today (with all due respect to her person) should stay in Wisconson and deal with it  OR study the Oregon environment, timber and logging, its obivious she has never seen a slash pile, doesn't understand how forest fires polute and cause damage.... we really do need to figure out how to use all this stuff that has been waisted for years....

John Asbury

Sweet Home Oregon

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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On the sore subject of Insurance

Insurance was a good idea in the beginning, but they have become big powerful leaches, have now ruined the concept and the system.  They have squandered our money on big ivory tower buildings, corporate jets, fancy cars, political lobbying, CEO bonuses etc.  

"THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS BROKEN" WE HAVE TO MANY "FREELOADERS"  in the system, earning a lot of money and producing nothing.

Health reform bill is not  going to fix it.... doctors, pharmaceutical companies , insurance companies and attorneys are ALL OUT OF CONTROL do you know a poor doctor?, or insurance  company owner or executive?  TOO MUCH FAT, not enough money really goes toward  health, because of too much "Litigation"  doctors have to do to much testing, TO COVER THEIR "blanks" from lawsuits and to generate billions of dollars to pay steep malpractice insurance, they have to charge heavy and create more business. 

The insurance companies are collecting on both ends  

  This is not hard to figure out.... as a Nation or as a person  everyone needs to cut back and quit charging too much. 

This is not a new problem. the last 3 or 4 government administrations have not come up with an answer, and I am pretty sure this one won't either...   or it would have been done by now.  or we will end up like the price gouging mortgage companies and banks.

 I learned from a wise business man, "any business deal has to have benefits for both partners,or the deal will be to hard and overload one side, if he goes broke or something goes wrong with his health because of stress the deal will go bad in the long run"

Lucky for me I am healthy now,   if I get sick before our "healthcare system" gets back to"affordable"   

  I'M dead          J.A.   :o) 

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posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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