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Friday Rant

As always, if anyone has a dissenting opinion, and it is presented fairly and in good taste, I will share it with you. Today, I will share one from G. Hamilton, who lives in Canada. I do reserve the right to comment on any opinion offered, which I will do at the end of the article.

As a Canadian, I can’t resist a comment on your rant about health care reform. Americans seem to believe socialized medicine means a five year wait for substandard care. This is utterly false and part, I suspect, of misinformation pumped out to scare Americans away from such schemes.

When someone I know was found to have a brain tumor, she had major surgery within two weeks.  Others diagnosed with cancer start treatment right away.  When I dragged myself to the emergency room, feeling bad, I was admitted to the hospital within an hour with pneumonia.  I spent nine days receiving the best of care.

All of this didn’t cost a personal penny.  Nor do Canadians have to scrape up money for health premiums or stay at outworn jobs because of the insurance plan.  Business and industry aren’t burdened with coverage for employees.  No one, no matter what their income, need fear they will be without health care.  No asset is seized to pay a medical bill.  No one can be ruined by medical debt.   Our children inherit our hard-earned wealth, not some medical corporation.  Our system gives each of us indescribable peace of mind.

We gladly pay through our taxes.   As a US justice famously stated, taxes are the price of civilization. If we get good schools, universal health care and a strong social safety net to prevent the worst ills of poverty and ignorance, it’s worth every dollar. . Goodness knows, our system is far from perfect.  There are cost pressures, service gaps, inter-governmental wrangling, inevitable blunders and a gigantic country to cover. Wait times can sometimes be long when everyone is in line, not just those who can pay, though a concerted effort is doing much to resolve this issue.  For instance, you now get cataract surgery within 3 weeks and a joint replacement within 11 weeks.   Anyone needing immediate help, gets it immediately.

Whenever “for-profit medicine” tries to establish itself, alarm races through the land. We are warned about doctors growing obscenely rich off the sickness of others.  We are given the specter of lying deathly ill in a hospital eyeing us as a source of profit and bent on earning as much from our misery as possible while our insurance company plots equally hard to provide as little coverage as they can; neither much concerned about what is best for the patient.  We would emerge either denied treatment or thousands of dollars in debt, headed straight into bankruptcy.  We are grimly told half of all personal bankruptcies in the US involve medical debt.

This scare picture probably isn’t true any more than our “five year” wait times. Our system is private, by the way, but it has a single payer - the government.  A Canadian doctor spends about an hour a week on billing as opposed to the 20 hours a US doctor needs.

Without insurance companies in the middle, money goes directly to medical support. Our system was begun half a century ago by Tommy Douglas, premier of Saskatchewan.  Tommy, appalled by the dreadful suffering he had seen during the Depression in families unable to afford doctors, fought the “for-profit medical” establishment to a standstill, including their American reinforcements determined to stamp out the idea lest it spread south.  And guess what!  In a 2006 national poll to decide who is the greatest Canadian, this scrawny, long-dead politician won, hands-down, beating out founders, explorers, inventors, war heroes, sports giants and rock stars.  I love him too.

Yes, a modern health care system is expensive to run, but how much better to bear the cost together, as a compassionate community, rather than abandoning individuals to pay with everything they have for life-saving treatment.  Canada manages to provide good universal care at significantly less cost per capita  than is spent in the US, yet we have a lower infant mortality rate and a life expectancy higher by two years.

I hear so many absurd statements from the US about “socialism” and “communism” that I feel compelled to speak up.   If you want another opinion, please pick anyone from the Canadian phone book and give them a call.

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Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us on this most important matter. Yes, it is true, currently the US does spend about 50% more per capita, than you do in Canada. But this still leaves about 40 million people without coverage. My response to this unfortunately is rather long as well, and I will share it next week.

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Safe Browsing

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with the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic. With this you can type a Web address into your browser's address bar and get a report from Google, telling you whether the site is safe or not.

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First, you will need this address: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.adv-marketing.com

The address above is what you can use to get a report. If you copy the exact address from above and paste it into your Web browser, you will get a report about www.adv-marketing.com - if you with to see a report about any other site, simply use the exact same address as above, but change the end of it. See the part at the end that says “www.adv-marketing.com?” Just erase that and type in any other Web address. For example, if you changed it to: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.aol.com, you would get a report for AOL's safety rating.

The Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic is very nice to use for checking a Web site before you visit it. If you want, you can bookmark it and use it whenever you need it.

Are you overweight and sick and tired of the way you look?  Have you tried those so called "Miracle Plans", that just don't work?  it might be time to get serious.  You can have the body you want.

You need the proper diet and exercise program to accomplish your goals.  Anyone can do it!  All you have to bring to the table is the ability to follow simple instructions, and the desire to change.

Union Shop
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A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels.

When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, 'Is this a union house?'

'No,' she replied, 'I'm sorry it isn't.'

'Well, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?'

'The house gets $80 and the girls get $20,' she answered..

Offended at such unfair dealings, the union man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable, hopefully

unionized shop. His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the Madam responded, 'Why yes sir, this

is a union house.  'We observe all union rules.'

The man asked, 'And if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?' 'The girls get $80 and the house gets $20.'

'That's more like it!' the union man said.

He handed the Madam $100, looked around the room, and pointed to a stunningly attractive green-eyed blonde. 'I'd like her,' he said..

'I'm sure you would, sir,' said the Madam. Then she gestured to a  92-year old woman in the corner, 'but Ethel here has 67 years seniority and according to union rules, she's next.'

NOW  YOU Know what's wrong with the AUTO industry

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#1: "Last Sunday I found a wallet packed with money down by the church."

#2: "Did you give it back?"

#1: "Not yet. I'm still trying to decide if it's a temptation from the devil or the answer to a prayer."

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"Well," snarled the tough old sergeant to the bewildered private. "I suppose after you get discharged from the Army, you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and spit on my grave."

"Not me, Sarge!" the private replied. "Once I get out of the Army, I'm never going to stand in line again!"

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A man is giving a speech at his lodge meeting. He gets a bit carried away and talks for two hours.

Finally, he realizes what he is doing and says; "I'm sorry I talked so long. I left my watch at home."

A voice from the back of the room says, "There's a calendar behind you."

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Fun Quiz - Click the link below.

Going for the Green

Did you know that when you buy your kids a car, that car has a pretty good chance of ending up as a statistic?

Cars given by parents get junked at least three years earlier than cars purchased by kids.

A suggestion would be to have the kids save for the down payment, then go to the bank with them and cosign the note. If you do this, you are giving your kids pride of ownership early in their young lives.  They will experience owning and the responsibility that goes with it.

Remember. You can and must give your children your love, your respect, and your wisdom. That's how you earn their love and respect.

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That's it for now.

Best Wishes - Have a Great Weekend
Bob

Copyright - 2009

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