Yeah, they have negotiated rates - and the difference between those rates and what they claim as cost becomes "bad debt" and that amount gets rolled into everyone else's rate thereby escalating claimed costs.  The next time the difference between the contracted rate and their claimed cost is even bigger and that is use...more

Gee, you know a well meaning politician - wow!!!  Seriously, though, the Professional Bodies such as the AMA & whatever nurses call their national body, all have control over the accreditation process in Universities.  They drive up the cost of training and limit the numbers admitted into practice, thereby driving up a...more

When Health Care Reform was passed,  Hospitals, to gain their support or at least passive neutrality, were given the right to peg their costs or fees at current levels without any review.  Hospitals and other providers do not have to provide information on how they establish costs and their audits don't illuminate anyt...more

That's what we tried to tell FDR & his "New Dealers" 80 some years ago.  It has been repeated every year since then; but no one wants to listen.  Even when it was the great Democratic Progressive Senator Patrick Moynihan  (whom Hillary followed) his fellow Dems shot down the idea of investing SS dollars in the market. ...more

You weren't even born when they created their "success".  I doubt that you ever went without any meals or worked two jobs in order to get through college.  Whatever opportunities you have and whatever success you have will have been built on the backs of many who went before you and went without for the sake of their c...more

"At the expense of younger people?" - You should be barred from writing anything that will be made public. You have the right to free speech but that doesn't guarantee that people should be forced to listen to garbage.  Lets see, 1)totally without logic, 2)inflammatory without cause, 3)incorrect, and 4) total Bull****!...more

Its called machine politics and Illinois has perfected the Art - Most of the time they only have one ex-governor at a time in Prison.

What total drivel.  And people wonder why gun owners don't trust him.  He has lied - yes, lied - about  mexican guns from day one.  Look at the pictures of confiscated weapons- you can't buy RPG's, mortars, full auto machine guns in this country.  Even our law enforcement can't get these weapons.  They are smuggled in ...more

Well said cheerpul - Wearing or displaying pink to show continuing support is worthwhile.  I liked seeing a local highschool football team (the first) don pink to honor their mothers, grandmothers, sisters, etc.  Sometimes it is difficult for the young to find enoug ways to be supportive.  As a money or fund raising de...more