Health Care Bill

We are looking a Sen. Harry Reid's claim - "reduce the federal budget deficit by $132 billion over its first decade". That sounds good to me but I want to see the private insurers pay the premium, not because I want to punish them. No, they have the collective purchasing power (leverage), not the leverage that we know in the 21st century (syn. debt) but the classical leverage used in the beginning of the 20th century to operate markets. I want proof that they are smart enough to see this and act accordingly - Why? Simply because they have say in what gets delivered, they pay out on life, quantitatively and qualitatively. We should all want to know that the best minds are in this business, they hold the purse string of how we come into this world and how we exit, it's that simple.

Wishful Thinking

I also want to see price elasticity in the main ingredients (drugs), oops - "Drugmakers such as New York-based Pfizer Inc. escaped some of the most profit-endangering provisions such as a proposed loosening of the rules on importing cheaper medicines from Canada and other nations"

I hope we can see trivial medical technologies abbolished so our pool of talent will focus on prevention and treatment of diseases like Parkinson, autisum, ... that afflict significant portions of our productive population. Nope - "The bill dropped plans for the tax on cosmetic surgery, which had been dubbed the “Bo-tax,” in favor of a 10 percent levy on indoor tanning salons."

I hope your pissed-off, you've just been sold, and now they are going to send the sucker (us) away feeling good about it with the claim from above:

"reduce the federal budget deficit by $132 billion over its first decade".

Two series are looked at one includes the 10 year projected deficit and the second removes the 10 yr. project and looks at Reid's claim as a percent of reduction YOY. Series 2 is absurdly conservative because it assumes no expansion but illustrates the point.



This is why we (USA) are baked, anymore porn surfing moron, with a 3rd grade degree has access to the tools and background to see this.

Oops we have (2) different scales - I can't see Reid's contribution, that's because the ratio of the two is 0.000994725. It may be the case that Reid does not understand orders of magnitude - that sucks he is a US Senator.

On to Series 2: Look closely (it's all in the zeros)



Opps again - that's a ratio: 0.00010671, hum what does that look like ...




check out the scale that 1/500, and we get in return what, no rules to increase competition in the price of drug, and fat youth chasing cougars hedons get a pass? Nothing for the sick, nothing for the poor and paid for by the middle class who won't take 5 minutes with a spreadsheet. Come-on ......


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