Ah crap.
I can't find my U.S. No Healthcare thread.
Anyway here is more reports showing the decline of the U.S. into third world status because of the U.S. No Healthcare system.
Ironically the answer is Government intervention. Not like you think right away.
Not by starting Government provided Healthcare like Canada.
By cutting off all the Government flow of money into the private Medical coffers.
Yes, it will be painful. But no pain, no gain
8-21-2005 Health insurance costs dog would-be entrepreneurs
Kushner, recently laid off from a tech job, is such a reluctant entrepreneur that he's only committing to self-employment for six months while he continues job hunting. Why? It's going to cost him $1,145 a month for health insurance for himself, his wife and two kids.
"A big shock," he says after hunting for better deals.
As health costs soar, more would-be entrepreneurs are reluctant to quit Corporate America and its blue-chip benefits to start businesses, entrepreneurship experts say.
That raises alarms about the impact on innovation and job growth, when both are of growing importance to the U.S. economy.
These concerns come as self-employment rates continue a decades-long slump.
About 8.8% of non-farm, private-sector workers were self-employed last year. That was up slightly from 2002, when rates sank to a record low of 8.5%. Overall, however, rates have fallen in 30 of the last 50 years even as the workforce mushroomed, Labor Department data show.
That's worrisome because start-ups and other small firms have historically created most innovations and as much as 75% of new jobs.
In Cincinnati, for example, health costs have slowed Wendy Hunt and her husband, Brian Germ, from starting a dog day care business that would employ up to 10 workers.
That may not sound like much. But multiplied across thousands of start-ups, these new jobs would replace many lost when mature companies such as Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard are slashing payrolls.
The reluctance of budding entrepreneurs comes as President Bush promotes entrepreneurship in his vision of an "ownership society," in which the nation would prosper as workers seek self-employment.
"The more people who own something in America means this country is better off," Bush told the Black Expo last month in Indianapolis. "I want more people from all walks of life, including African-Americans, to have a chance to own their own business."
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No surprise, more of the President and the Republicans saying one thing when clearly
what atmosphere they have created is the opposite.
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Wow, just wow
8-21-2005 Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border
TIJUANA ? Thousands of Latinos who live near the border are taking advantage of a benefit increasingly offered by their U.S. employers: cheaper healthcare in Mexico.
About 160,000 California workers ? farm laborers as well as working-class Latinos employed at hotels, casinos, restaurants and local governments in San Diego and Imperial counties ? are getting their annual checkups and having surgeries through health networks south of the border, insurers say.
The arrangement is cheaper for both employers and employees. In Mexico, healthcare costs are about 40% to 50% lower than in California, freeing some employers to offer services that they couldn't otherwise afford.
The trend has generated some misgivings among doctors and consumer advocates north of the border.
Some worry about the quality of care in Mexico and limited regulatory control.
Others say the cross-border plans represent a sad commentary on the limited access that immigrants and the working poor have to treatment in California.
They represent a "positive turn of events for cross-border health coverage ? but are another reminder about how sick our health system is in the U.S.," said Dr. Robert K. Ross, president of the California Endowment, a healthcare philanthropy.
I can't find my U.S. No Healthcare thread.
Anyway here is more reports showing the decline of the U.S. into third world status because of the U.S. No Healthcare system.
Ironically the answer is Government intervention. Not like you think right away.
Not by starting Government provided Healthcare like Canada.
By cutting off all the Government flow of money into the private Medical coffers.
Yes, it will be painful. But no pain, no gain
8-21-2005 Health insurance costs dog would-be entrepreneurs
Kushner, recently laid off from a tech job, is such a reluctant entrepreneur that he's only committing to self-employment for six months while he continues job hunting. Why? It's going to cost him $1,145 a month for health insurance for himself, his wife and two kids.
"A big shock," he says after hunting for better deals.
As health costs soar, more would-be entrepreneurs are reluctant to quit Corporate America and its blue-chip benefits to start businesses, entrepreneurship experts say.
That raises alarms about the impact on innovation and job growth, when both are of growing importance to the U.S. economy.
These concerns come as self-employment rates continue a decades-long slump.
About 8.8% of non-farm, private-sector workers were self-employed last year. That was up slightly from 2002, when rates sank to a record low of 8.5%. Overall, however, rates have fallen in 30 of the last 50 years even as the workforce mushroomed, Labor Department data show.
That's worrisome because start-ups and other small firms have historically created most innovations and as much as 75% of new jobs.
In Cincinnati, for example, health costs have slowed Wendy Hunt and her husband, Brian Germ, from starting a dog day care business that would employ up to 10 workers.
That may not sound like much. But multiplied across thousands of start-ups, these new jobs would replace many lost when mature companies such as Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard are slashing payrolls.
The reluctance of budding entrepreneurs comes as President Bush promotes entrepreneurship in his vision of an "ownership society," in which the nation would prosper as workers seek self-employment.
"The more people who own something in America means this country is better off," Bush told the Black Expo last month in Indianapolis. "I want more people from all walks of life, including African-Americans, to have a chance to own their own business."
==================================================
No surprise, more of the President and the Republicans saying one thing when clearly
what atmosphere they have created is the opposite.
=====================================================
Wow, just wow
8-21-2005 Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border
TIJUANA ? Thousands of Latinos who live near the border are taking advantage of a benefit increasingly offered by their U.S. employers: cheaper healthcare in Mexico.
About 160,000 California workers ? farm laborers as well as working-class Latinos employed at hotels, casinos, restaurants and local governments in San Diego and Imperial counties ? are getting their annual checkups and having surgeries through health networks south of the border, insurers say.
The arrangement is cheaper for both employers and employees. In Mexico, healthcare costs are about 40% to 50% lower than in California, freeing some employers to offer services that they couldn't otherwise afford.
The trend has generated some misgivings among doctors and consumer advocates north of the border.
Some worry about the quality of care in Mexico and limited regulatory control.
Others say the cross-border plans represent a sad commentary on the limited access that immigrants and the working poor have to treatment in California.
They represent a "positive turn of events for cross-border health coverage ? but are another reminder about how sick our health system is in the U.S.," said Dr. Robert K. Ross, president of the California Endowment, a healthcare philanthropy.
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