Guest guest Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Because of greed, graft, and a sense of " Me Rich First " and " To Heck with You " , that's what it's all about. Human caring seems to have gone out the window. To a tender heart, it seems inconceivable that there is a devious plan in all this to make the wealth even more wealthy, but that is exactly what has been happening. It's the mafia all over again, this time wearing a lab coat and claiming that they " care " , but this time it's so subtle that it's sort of like turning the heat up slowly on the froggy in the hot tub. We didn't notice until the strangle hold was already there. Like termites in the woodworkings, you don't see it exactly til the walls fall in, and then you say " Oh, looks like we need an exterminator cause the walls have fallen down " . We had to study the book " Animal Farm " in high school, very deliberately, I might add, and I never understood it until now. Re: MYRXFORLESS > > > Hi, > I live in Canada and it surpises me that there is such a problem > south of the 49. Our gov, is very far from perfect but one thing > that they seem to be able to do is control prices with regard to RX > drugs. Perhaps one of the reasons is that they do pay for the > larger portion of the drugs for the retired, (which I am rapidly > approaching), the disabled, those on welfare and those that have > very high medical bills because of transplants etc. Not sure that I > am in total agreement with all of it but nothing is perfect and at > least they do keep the costs down for those that have to have meds > and have no plans of any kind. Not sure that what is happening here > is the best as we do pay out of our paychecks somewhere between 2% & > 5% but when it helps a friend who has had kidney transplants and the > cost for him to stay alive is around $1500-2000 Cdn. per month. If > our country can do it why not yours when it is so much richer. Just > my thoughts on the subject. > Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Because of greed, graft, and a sense of " Me Rich First " and " To Heck with You " , that's what it's all about. Human caring seems to have gone out the window. To a tender heart, it seems inconceivable that there is a devious plan in all this to make the wealth even more wealthy, but that is exactly what has been happening. It's the mafia all over again, this time wearing a lab coat and claiming that they " care " , but this time it's so subtle that it's sort of like turning the heat up slowly on the froggy in the hot tub. We didn't notice until the strangle hold was already there. Like termites in the woodworkings, you don't see it exactly til the walls fall in, and then you say " Oh, looks like we need an exterminator cause the walls have fallen down " . We had to study the book " Animal Farm " in high school, very deliberately, I might add, and I never understood it until now. Re: MYRXFORLESS > > > Hi, > I live in Canada and it surpises me that there is such a problem > south of the 49. Our gov, is very far from perfect but one thing > that they seem to be able to do is control prices with regard to RX > drugs. Perhaps one of the reasons is that they do pay for the > larger portion of the drugs for the retired, (which I am rapidly > approaching), the disabled, those on welfare and those that have > very high medical bills because of transplants etc. Not sure that I > am in total agreement with all of it but nothing is perfect and at > least they do keep the costs down for those that have to have meds > and have no plans of any kind. Not sure that what is happening here > is the best as we do pay out of our paychecks somewhere between 2% & > 5% but when it helps a friend who has had kidney transplants and the > cost for him to stay alive is around $1500-2000 Cdn. per month. If > our country can do it why not yours when it is so much richer. Just > my thoughts on the subject. > Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Because of greed, graft, and a sense of " Me Rich First " and " To Heck with You " , that's what it's all about. Human caring seems to have gone out the window. To a tender heart, it seems inconceivable that there is a devious plan in all this to make the wealth even more wealthy, but that is exactly what has been happening. It's the mafia all over again, this time wearing a lab coat and claiming that they " care " , but this time it's so subtle that it's sort of like turning the heat up slowly on the froggy in the hot tub. We didn't notice until the strangle hold was already there. Like termites in the woodworkings, you don't see it exactly til the walls fall in, and then you say " Oh, looks like we need an exterminator cause the walls have fallen down " . We had to study the book " Animal Farm " in high school, very deliberately, I might add, and I never understood it until now. Re: MYRXFORLESS > > > Hi, > I live in Canada and it surpises me that there is such a problem > south of the 49. Our gov, is very far from perfect but one thing > that they seem to be able to do is control prices with regard to RX > drugs. Perhaps one of the reasons is that they do pay for the > larger portion of the drugs for the retired, (which I am rapidly > approaching), the disabled, those on welfare and those that have > very high medical bills because of transplants etc. Not sure that I > am in total agreement with all of it but nothing is perfect and at > least they do keep the costs down for those that have to have meds > and have no plans of any kind. Not sure that what is happening here > is the best as we do pay out of our paychecks somewhere between 2% & > 5% but when it helps a friend who has had kidney transplants and the > cost for him to stay alive is around $1500-2000 Cdn. per month. If > our country can do it why not yours when it is so much richer. Just > my thoughts on the subject. > Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 , You know, the Animal Farm reference is exactly right. I never thought about it until I read your post. Only in real life, the pigs are the bad guys in lab coats. Deb :-) <--Off to buy our Turkey Day food. wrote: Because of greed, graft, and a sense of "Me Rich First" and "To Heck withYou", that's what it's all about. Human caring seems to have gone out thewindow. To a tender heart, it seems inconceivable that there is a deviousplan in all this to make the wealth even more wealthy, but that is exactlywhat has been happening. It's the mafia all over again, this time wearing alab coat and claiming that they "care", but this time it's so subtle thatit's sort of like turning the heat up slowly on the froggy in the hot tub.We didn't notice until the strangle hold was already there. Like termitesin the woodworkings, you don't see it exactly til the walls fall in, andthen you say "Oh, looks like we need an exterminator cause the walls havefallen down". We had to study the book "Animal Farm" in high school, verydeliberately, I might add, and I never understood it until now. Re: MYRXFORLESS>>> Hi,> I live in Canada and it surpises me that there is such a problem> south of the 49. Our gov, is very far from perfect but one thing> that they seem to be able to do is control prices with regard to RX> drugs. Perhaps one of the reasons is that they do pay for the> larger portion of the drugs for the retired, (which I am rapidly> approaching), the disabled, those on welfare and those that have> very high medical bills because of transplants etc. Not sure that I> am in total agreement with all of it but nothing is perfect and at> least they do keep the costs down for those that have to have meds> and have no plans of any kind. Not sure that what is happening here> is the best as we do pay out of our paychecks somewhere between 2% & > 5% but when it helps a friend who has had kidney transplants and the> cost for him to stay alive is around $1500-2000 Cdn. per month. If> our country can do it why not yours when it is so much richer. Just> my thoughts on the subject.> Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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