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 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010 9:16 pm |
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HEALTH CARE Medicine, business are contraindicated I voted for Barack Obama and I laud his determination to provide affordable medical care for everyone, but I fear that goal cannot be met within the current framework of the medical care business.Medical insurance, medical equipment, medicine itself, and scores of hospitals and clinics are all for-profit businesses and most of them are traded on the stock exchange where maximization of profits is a requirement in the pursuit of investors. In this atmosphere, especially with the inevitability of massive lobbying by these business interests, the politics of the real world predict uphill battles and many failures in this pursuit of universal medical care. It's third grade arithmetic. If you are waiting for the words "socialized medicine" and these words scare you, try to imagine your fear as this escalating money-hungry monster overcomes your budget and drug prices go up, and co-pays go up, and deductibles go up, and premiums go up, and your procedure isn't covered, and of course your salary isn't really keeping up with inflation. Opponents of socialized forms of medical care like to scare you with dire predictions of poor care but the reality is that several countries much less wealthy than ours have put us to shame with just such programs that haven't seen any of these horror stories come to pass. The promises of the wondrous rewards of unfettered, unregulated, pure capitalist competition are not a good standard in the protection of health and life -- just in case you haven't noticed that they have been driving it downhill at a frightening pace for the past few years. The business of government is the protection of the people and I think it's high time we demand that they get down to business. Write your new president. Harold R. Pettus Everett |
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- Fire breaks out at Everett car dealer
- Everett rethinks boutique wineries
- A tidy lawn could be law in Lynnwood
- Snohomish County's bargain housing won't last
- Boeing's 747-8 takes off after weather delay
- Plan for I-5 closures this week
- A new bowling alley for Monroe?
- Lake Stevens man homeless after fire
- I-5 bridge joint may give you a jolt, but it isn't damaged
- Vote on school levies by Tuesday
(11) - A tidy lawn could be law in Lynnwood (10)
- State Senate votes to toss I-960's tax-raising hurdle (9)
- Lynnwood sets height limit on grass: 8 inches (8)
- Everett rethinks boutique wineries (5)
- Everett police officers cleared in 2008 shooting death (5)
- 1949 travel aid shows how few places blacks were welcome in Washington (4)
- I-5 bridge joint may give you a jolt, but it isn't damaged (4)
- A new bowling alley for Monroe? (3)
- Toyota has powerful D.C. friends (3)
- Edmonds educator, famous announcer dies
- Mill Creek to appeal ruling on annexation
- Through the air, with the greatest of ease
- E-W thriving under new coach
- The path to citizenship
- EUUC puts on ‘Pants & Shoes’
- Wolfpack wins the ‘Battle'
- Lynnwood’s annexation plans OK’d
- Arlington's Cascade Valley Hospital celebrates expansion, national award and 100 years of service
- Business Licences Feb. 2010
- Technology tips for launching your own business
- Business Events Feb. 2010
- Tech Talk: No excuse today for going without a Web site
- State already raising fees and rates that restrict business growth
- Some legislators again targeting people’s initiative petition rights
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