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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chartseer who wrote (68889)	7/18/2009 3:55:22 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 224705

My personal experience says to avoid the emergency room. Over labor day weekend last year, I was having some chest discomfort so I went to ER. They knew I wasn't having a heart attack because the enzymes were normal but they admitted me over night for a useless stress test. The cost to Medicare was about $14,000 when they could have just adjusted by BP medicine and sent me home. This is the kind of nonsense running up the costs.

To: chartseer who wrote (68889)	7/19/2009 12:32:54 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

Did you know that if you took the 165 million dollars in bonuses paid to AIG executives and divided that by the 306,077,003 people in the United States it would come out to 54 cents per person? It is not that this is an insignificant amount, but it helps to use this figure in comparison to the 9.3 trillion dollars in deficit that Obama is requesting to start up all his social programs. You see, that 9.3 trillion divided by the 306,077,033 people in the United States comes out to a staggering $30,384.51 per person. People were threatening the lives of the AIG executives over 54 cents, but, they don’t blink an eye at the madness of what Obama is suggesting.