"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Desparados: As the baby boomers enter old age, we can expect healthcare costs to continue to escalate, although the rate of that escalation slowed a little this year. We can expect this escalation to be more of an issue as the baby-boomers get older and older. (Imagine what spending is going to be when they're of nursing home age!) Unfortunately, the usual response of insurers and government is to just pay less for services. They believe that doctors and hospitals and nursing homes can make up their losses in volume. But one nurse can only care for so many people at any one time. Ditto doctors. It doesn't bode well for healthcare -no matter what the system.
Meanwhile, this elderly couple took an innovative approach to financing their healthcare. They robbed a bank. But before you feel too much sympathy for them, consider this:
James Clark has a significant federal criminal history dating back to 1954, Kameg said. Charges include bank robbery, mail fraud and conspiracy to grow and distribute marijuana, officers reported. He also had been sentenced in 1992 to 12 years in a federal prison on bank robbery charges. posted by Sydney on
2/12/2004 08:27:00 AM
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