Healthcare debacle

And now health care reform. Well I actually read it. Half of it refers back to other regulations and as usual its legalese. It seams that nobody in Washington can write in plain English. And yes provisions are made for end of life care and funding for planed parenthood, i.e abortion clinics. Don’t get me wrong I am NOT in favor of abortions. However I am in favor of letting everybody decide for themselves. Just like guns, I don’t have one, never will. But I will stand right beside you for YOUR right to have one. I might question you why do you need an Uzi to go hunting, but that’s your business. I have a little insight into the National health care debacle.

In the 70’s I lived in London England a National health care country. I worked at all places for AMI, American Medical International the owners of the Harley Street Clinic and princess Grace Hospital and some more “up country” all off them private Hospitals. They did a thriving business, taking on the “cast offs” from the national health care service. At that time a arthroscopic knee operation was about 1200 sterling. With a waiting list of 18 month. Of course you could not work during that time. So you were relying on welfare to keep you afloat. It was the bare minimum. So the Marketing dept of AMI offered the operation on a payment term starting one week after you went back to work, instead of a long waiting period. In the 70’s there was no other health insurance available. I remember at that time we had a lot of problems with far eastern people arriving at the airport passing through costumes and immigration and falling on their face in the airport with major illnesses like cancer etc. those people didn’t even had to book a hotel room and were carted of to a hospital. A waiting list was created because of instances like that. Under a National Health Care system emergency medical help will ALWAYS be applied. Accident or emergency medical help is always taken care off. And if a bed is available you will be admitted, thus moving “selective” surgery down the list. National health care will NOT remove the backlog in the ER, most likely increase it, because sometimes that’s the only way to get a bed. Does America need a NHC? No anyway we have one already, Medicare and Medicaid fix that first by putting ALL federal employees including congress and the senate on it

They will fix it then

Here we go again

Human nature is something else. We are all different and we make totally different t decisions every day. Some we regret some we just live with and some we even can reverse sometimes. I have made plenty I regret most I can not redo ever. Some I work on to rectify now. Some 20 years ago in my “middle age” I started a business big time under funded as usual for a start up adventure. It was way more successful then I or anyone else anticipated. So money was quick becoming an issue. Meeting payroll that is. And of course collections. I sometimes needed to use money from my personal account to supplement the payroll account. Which got me in trouble a few times, meaning that action resulted in bounced checks on my personal account. Which I took care of most of the time however sometimes it took me all the way to a magistrate office to be reminded to take care of it..

All this took part in the Mid 80’s No big deal I thought, all taken care off. Some checks were like for $3.85 in the end costing me over $50.00. During the second term of the Reagan administration the Amnesty Bill was introduced and both my wife and I applied. My application was denied on the grounds that I had 3 or more misdemeanors on my record, regardless of their disposition. So I got myself an attorney who for one reason or another got me a pardon and expunge of some of them. And appealed the decision. I am aware of the appeal however for some reason unknown to me I was not aware of the outcome. Next thing I remember is getting a Voter registration card in the mail. Thank you whoever.

Fast Forward to 2008

After an accident in 2004 and 4 years of treatment I was finally declared to be disabled.

Filling out the paperwork for disability was not that easy and of course the social security administration denied the claim at first. So I appealed and won. Cool. Right? Well when it came to calculating my benefit we run into a little snag. It seemed that my legal status was sort off “pending” which translated into me not getting ANY benefits. So I instigated to receive a request of all my paperwork relation to my immigration status under FOI. Easy enough right you read that newspaper always get whatt they need and rather quickly before the story gets cold. Apparently in my case there is no story so FOI took their sweet time to find the 107 pages relating to my case some 18 month actually. I requested it to be send to me on CD just to save a tree or 2 and make it easier to duplicate. Well I got pages some even blank with nothing on it. So now I am back to square one. I need to find an attorney who will first of all remove the rest of the misdemeanors from my record. Then reapply for residency. Remuneration? A share of the 21,000.00 the Social Security Administration owes me in back pay as of right now. Any Takers?

The Origin of Man?

The Origin of Man

All this argument about evolution vs intelligent design has good points on both sides. However the go hand in hand on many points. Both sides are so entrenched in their own theory that they are not able to look over the fence so to speak and look at the common points objectively. Humankind today is more advanced then ever. We have tools available today where we can “Create life”. We also know that in ancient times things were “created” which by all scientific evidence were not possible to create in those days. Nevertheless we have artifacts from earlier periods which we can “place” to that timeframe. I am not just talking about the perfect blocks weighing many tons at the pyramids. Or the integrated detailed artifacts from South America. Or the mountain sculptures which can only be seen from miles up in the sky. Everything even in religion points to the heavens. To “God”?

Just for the sake of arguments let’s assume this scenario. Lets assume there are “Gods” all Gods reside in heaven, that’s a given. Today we know that the heaven is a vast collection of stars and most of them have planets. I am a firm believer that we are NOT alone. So is it not possible that we are somehow n related to a species from a different planet or galaxy even?

Some space traveler encountered earth in it primitive state. The closest life form to them by statue might have been our own ape. So let’s further assume those “gods” were scientist the liked the planet earth and they decided to use this planet as a laboratory. Is it so hard to assume that someone else might have made genetic experiments some 100 million years ago? All that would explain a lot of things. Things like why we can find skeletons dating further back then “eve” the Pygmalion woman in Africa. Then there are the Neanderthal the Mongoliths and other unspecified apelike creatures. But all of them recent (as far as earth history is concerned) nothing like 65 million years old. Homosapien just “decided” to walk on 2 legs. Not just a single branch but multiple species and guess what….the most perfect one (species) survived. Evolution? I don’t think so. As a scientist you want to create something which has the stamina intellect and power to survive. So why not Eve? Probably a first attempt she turned out to small and frail. There were probably more then one. This one escaped from whatever lab there was. Neanderthal man a lot bigger and bulkier a good start perhaps. Maybe they created 3 or four generations still confined to see if the brain and intellect would catch up beyond surviving skills. Let’s assume further that the “breeding” of neandethatlers was running sort of smooth. Until one day a group decided the look what’s outside the confined area, staged a revolt and left the area. This by that time was not heavily staffed. By the time help arrived, the escapees were nowhere to be found. They made it so far north that it took their “creator’s years to follow their trail to capture the majority, leaving just a few behind still thinking they got them all. Hence the reason for just a few specimen. We find thousands of specimens from other life forms all the time. Even the tiniest ones from 65 million years ago. We can follow their evolutionary linage all the way to the murky waters of the primal ocean. Except Human. We just “Appeared” did e “gods” created us? Probably but not like religion tells us. That’s very unlikely. But it is a good and simple way to explain a lot of things. God (s) made us in their image? Probably. Where there others experimenting? Most likely. Size doesn’t always have the advantage there were larger species of humanoids on this planet during the “formative” years. The bible tells of Giants walking among us up to 3 times our size. Nothing says were the come from except that they were messengers from God. Angels so to speak. Remember Christ went to heaven in a fiery carriage, a Space vehicle maybe? Imagine 2000 years ago and you are in ancient Jerusalem, riding around town in a Harley Davidson. You have never seen one before. Now try to describe it but so that your fellow man can picture it. Good luck

Of course this is not scientific…smiles just something to think about

A look at Immigration Reform

Do we need Immigration Reform? it seem to be the hot topic this year. I can tell were we need reform, and it is not Immigration as such. For starters we need to stop generalizing. In my humble opinion the Immigration issue is still very much a racial issue. We are trying so hard to be political correct that we end up doing nothing, because we might offend somebody. Explain me something and I am serious. Why is it when you go into a federal or state building the only other language you see posted is Spanish? don''t say because the majority of immigrants is Hispanic. That might be true, however that should NEVER be the reason. In my neck of the woods there are just as many Germans due to BMW manufacturing, however you will see nothing posted in German. Anyway the reform should be in how to handle and proceed with Immigrations applications After they have been filed. Filing means you want to become a useful citizen of this country. Establish a Home here and participate in the life and lifestyle of common folks. This is the greatest country in the world after all or is it? (YES it is!!!) In America you can basically do what you want so long as it doesn't interfere or harm someone else, right? You can disappear if you like, or even be forgotten. like with the INS an Application from the Reagan years some 18 years ago has still not been resolved. Originally it had been denied for some really screwed up reason. Then those were straighten out and the decision appealed. The Case is "pending" since 1991. Can you imagine what would happen with another 12 million cases? give you another excample. The person in question requested with a FOI request to get copies of all documents relating to HIS case and relating to INS documentation. The Reply was " this will take up to 18 month" bearing in mind that the request was made for delivery in electronic form which should be readily available with a few key strokes this time line is totally un acceptable by any standard. because you and I know that Law enforcement would have everything available within 24 hours ifg he would commit a major crime. Do we need an Immigration Reform? No we don't but we need to reform the process and maybe stop wasting time discussing it

Another Big Deal On the job injuries

There are Same out there faking it I'm sure. This blog is not about that at all. All states have different WC Laws but all of them have the same underlying message. If you get hurt on the job your job should be secure and regardless who's fault it was unless you tried to comit surcide there should be NO financial disadvantage for you. So your weekly compensation is about what you normally would take home. and they say it is tax free. Fair enough. Or is it?
imagine this. You are injured the treatment and recuperation takes years. You get your pay every week. 4 years later the tell you that's it you will never be working again
they give you a settlement which you use to mostly pay of bills which they didn't paid because believe it or not work on your house you could normally go yourself you have to get them done by someone else now. The job you got injured on was the best you ever had, great money. I would be a Boost to your SSA account even over the last 4 years but then you find out that while you were on WC no contributions were made at all
how is that of Not being disadvantaged?

There is something else which is in Most WC statues a little phrase which most of us don''t even understand. "Random Act of Violence."
basically what this means to all you Criminals out there. If you rob a convenience store and beat up the clerk please tell the police you have been staking out the place. Because if you don't the poor clerk will have to pay his own hospital bills he is NOT covered by workers Comp against Random acts of violence. So just walking in the place because it was handy and shooting him in the knee will not do. by you casing out the joint it isn't "Random" anymore.

What about Social Security?

Is Social security in peril? apparently everybody thinks so, however if the goverment would leave it alone or even pay some sort of interest when it borrow from the SSA we would be just fine. But I do have a sure fire way to take care of it. How about we take all of our elected officials and lets say put their retirement and healthcare under Medicare and not some fancy system which is only available to them. All shortcoming would be taken care of real fast I am sure of that. hmm while we are at it. is there any jobs out there were you can go and work for 4 or 6 years and be fully Vested in the retirement system? if you find one let me know please.

ever wondered what happen to political Math?

When Oil was at $30 dollars a Barrel gas was at about $1.15 a gallon. Now it is at about 3.60 in places. a 300% increase and big oil is making all that money, right? hmmm...... crude oil is now 120 a barrel thats a 400% increase. Gasoline should be like $4.75 a gallon to break even if we accept that equation. I agree its expensive don't get me wrong. But I don't want you bitching about the price of gas while you go and spend $1.25 for a 20 oz bottle of water which you can get free at home!!!!
It is totally wrong for Politician to use scare tacktics and talk about gas prices. a tax relief wouldn't really help much. What we should be asking is "how much of the 120 a barrel actually goes to whoever pumps it out of the ground". This situation (high crude cost) is Man made, someone is making money on our backs.interesting part is that the cost of gasoline has not increased that much in europe pennies compared to dollars over here. I thing we should remove Crude oil from the open market and have the oil companies drill, transport refine and pay a royalty to whoever owns it. Take the middleman out of it. If that doesn't work, make the deposits like with any other comodity 50% instead of 5