[Healeys] cash for clunkers (OT- For those sensitive souls among us, hit the delete button NOW.)

[Tracy Drummond]

Rant rants

No proposed solutions.

Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Michael Hartfield
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 6:44 AM
To: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE; healeymanjim at hansencc.net; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] cash for clunkers (OT- For those sensitive souls
among us, hit the delete button NOW.)

Wow, what a rant.

I agree with every word.

Michael
BJ8


WILLIAM B LAWRENCEynotink at msn.com

> Jim,
> You made me do it!
> For a couple of generations the whole world has been telling us how
primitive
> we are and how we could better organize our healthcare systems and now it
> looks like we, slow learners that we are, have finally caught on and may
> actually be joining the civilized world in medical Nirvana. But it brings
a
> couple of questions to mind:
> 1. When our healthcare system looks just like theirs, where are Canadians
and
> Europeans going to go for a heart surgery or cancer treatment or a joint
> replacement when they can't afford to wait 18 months?
> 2. When the government dictates the price of pharmaceuticals and destroys
the
> evil drug companies by confiscating all of their "excess profits" who is
going
> to develop the new generations of drugs to cure the diseases that haunt
> mankind? On the other hand it probably doesn't matter since the
president's
> standard prescription is go home, take a pain pill and die.
> I suppose new medical research will be planned and financed from DC, in
which
> case I foresee quantum leaps in technology in penile enhancement, breast
> enlargement, hair regeneration, weight loss and aesthetic dentistry since
that
> is the level of seriousness evident in the congress. I also foresee a new
> maquiladora industry springing up in Juarez (thankfully not too far away)
and
> Tijuana as medical professionals move south of the border and set up
latter
> day Mayo clinics to serve all the gringos who can't get the care they need
> under the new plan. Now we will really be "exporting" the "jobs Americans
> won't do". Viva Mexico!
> Slap me now.
> Bill Lawrence
>
>> From: healeymanjim at hansencc.net
>> To: healeys at autox.team.net
>> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:49:50 +0000
>> Subject: [Healeys] cash for clunkers
>>
>> with the new health program coming down the pike, maybe we are looking at
> "cash for codgers".  time for me to hide out in bali.   hjim
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