{"id":335,"date":"2009-12-23T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=335"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:41:38","slug":"getting-your-moneys-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Getting Your Money’s Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my father’s traits that I inherited is a deep loathing of paying more for something than it is worth.\u00a0 I can spend a lot or a little on just about anything as it is not the amount that necessarily bothers me.\u00a0 I paid around $1,500 for my current computer and am absolutely in love with it as it is easily worth $3,000.\u00a0\u00a0 However, when Burger king offers a hamburger for $0.99 and a cheeseburger for $1.49, I am offended at the prospect of paying 50 cents for a &$%@ing slice of cheese!!<\/p>\n

Some of you may remember a couple of posts<\/a> I’ve made in the past<\/a> regarding our health care system in the USA.\u00a0 Everyone in the world agrees that we suck when it comes to health care.\u00a0 Well here we are with a bill in the Senate and our political wonder boys haranguing each other over exactly what the bill will say.\u00a0 This is good news, although bittersweet.\u00a0 Over the last year, Republicans and Democrats have traded barbs over this subject, using it as a club with which to beat each other bloody.\u00a0 Yay for politics in America.\u00a0 High five.<\/p>\n

One of the sticking points has been this notion of government involvement within a capitalist society.\u00a0 The Democrats say that health care is so screwed up in this country, the government has to get involved and be a sounding board of sorts for the health insurance companies.\u00a0 You see, while the rest of the company has lost their asses this last two years, with mortgages as much as twice as much of the value of their house; no work to be found anywhere; and foreclosure now a household word… the health insurance companies have made record profits.\u00a0 Kind of like oil companies.\u00a0 In the last decade, where your income has raised a paltry amount amidst intermittent years of salary freezes and union concessions, the amount you pay for health care has doubled<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Is our health care now twice as good as was a decade ago?\u00a0 Or did the health insurance companies finally figure out that although cheese only costs 3 cents, a cheeseburger will sell for 50 cents more than a hamburger?\u00a0 Actually, it’s even worse… it’s extortion in the worst sense of the word.\u00a0 Al Capone never had as a good of a racket.\u00a0 You say you don’t like the price of your health insurance?\u00a0 You aren’t getting your money’s worth?\u00a0 Heck, it’s a free country and you don’t have to buy insurance or you can just shop around for something better, right?\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

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Health Care Costs Compared<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the sort of thing that simply enrages<\/strong> me.\u00a0 Countries with the best health care in the entire world are paying HALF<\/strong> of what we do in the USA.\u00a0 Countries that our ignorant asses scoff at and proclaim as inferior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my father’s traits that I inherited is a deep loathing of paying more for something than it is worth.\u00a0 I can spend a lot or a little on just about anything as it is not the amount that necessarily bothers me.\u00a0 I paid around $1,500 for my current computer and am absolutely in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranting-and-raving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}