London Police Say "Oooooooooooooooops!"
We'll get back to the London Police in a minute.
The Dumbocrats are at it again. It’s hard to say just which of their two talents are coming to the forefront in their latest bit of political trickery. It could be their talent for being really stupid, or their talent for being a giant pain in the a@#. Of course, one of the biggest dummies in the Dumbocratic party is of course leading the way, none other than Charles Schumer of New York. It seems the Dumbocrats want the President to turn over all internal memorandums written by John G. Roberts while he was with the Solicitor General’s Office. The White House is of course taking the common sense approach and saying no.
Haven’t these fools ever heard of attorney client privilege? Not only that, what possible use could they be? Do they think he wrote some memo that demanded all people in the opposition party paint their ears green or something? The sheer gall something like this takes is staggering but the scary part is they just may be stupid enough to believe they can get away with it.
Here’s what I propose to do. In order to keep the Dumbocrats from loosing face, but still allow them to have sufficient paperwork to go through, let’s all send them our used Charmin! Be sure to get their home address and send all of it there. It will make it much easier for them.
Here’s something that will really make your day. It seems that under Medicare’s rather bizarre payment schedule, if a hospital or doctor does a bad job, they will end up receiving more money than one that does a good job on the same procedure. Here’s how the scam works. At hospital number one patient A has surgery on their heart. At hospital number two patient B has the same type surgery on their heart. At hospital number one patient A gets an infection and needs another operation. At hospital two, patient B has an uneventful recovery and goes home in a few days. Hospital one is paid for two surgery and many more days of care. Hospital two is paid for one surgery and a minimum number of patient care days.
How bad is it? The state of Louisiana ranks at the 50th position when it comes to overall patient care quality and number one in dollars taken in for medical care. A study done over three decades by Dartmouth Medical School showed that one dollar out of every three is spent on inappropriate or unnecessary treatments. It is things like at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center performed 24 heart surgeries and out of that number 13 of the patients had post operative infections requiring further surgery that is driving health care cost through the roof.
Medicare has standards and is supposed to enforce minimal levels of competency in patient care. However, they seldom if ever actually enforce these standards. One case a hospital was inspected and should have been assessed $323,800 in fines. The amount was reduced to $95,000 to “avoid what could be a lengthy appeal.” It is attitudes like this that account for the fact that Medicare spends less than 0.01% of its budget on maintaining or improving medical care.
A survey was recently done in both Japan and the good old U. S. A. that showed that while 60% of Americans believe there will be a third world war in their lifetime, on 33% of Japanese citizens hold the same belief. Not exactly earth shattering news but I thought it was interesting. One Japanese citizen stated that “……… the Japanese people are not interested in things like war.” Yeah, their history shows that. Samurai, military dictatorships, and life philosophies that translate “the way of the warrior.” Sure, I feel much better now.
Japan is still interested in war. The difference is that now they wage it through economics and not battles. Just look at the number of cars on the road that are Japanese made. Sure, they’re made here in American right? Put an embargo on importing Japanese auto parts and see how long the plants stay open. They are assembled here from what amount to little more than “car kits.” They are MADE in Japan!
Yesterday I wrote about he “bombing suspect” the police in London shot and killed. I had even heard on one news show that one witness claimed he had a gun. It turns out that this poor man was from Brazil and not linked to the bombings (according to current reports) in any way. My sympathy goes out to his family and my apologies to my readers for the misinformation. Guess you just can’t trust some national news agencies.
See you tomorrow, I’ve got to go wipe some egg off my face.
The Dumbocrats are at it again. It’s hard to say just which of their two talents are coming to the forefront in their latest bit of political trickery. It could be their talent for being really stupid, or their talent for being a giant pain in the a@#. Of course, one of the biggest dummies in the Dumbocratic party is of course leading the way, none other than Charles Schumer of New York. It seems the Dumbocrats want the President to turn over all internal memorandums written by John G. Roberts while he was with the Solicitor General’s Office. The White House is of course taking the common sense approach and saying no.
Haven’t these fools ever heard of attorney client privilege? Not only that, what possible use could they be? Do they think he wrote some memo that demanded all people in the opposition party paint their ears green or something? The sheer gall something like this takes is staggering but the scary part is they just may be stupid enough to believe they can get away with it.
Here’s what I propose to do. In order to keep the Dumbocrats from loosing face, but still allow them to have sufficient paperwork to go through, let’s all send them our used Charmin! Be sure to get their home address and send all of it there. It will make it much easier for them.
Here’s something that will really make your day. It seems that under Medicare’s rather bizarre payment schedule, if a hospital or doctor does a bad job, they will end up receiving more money than one that does a good job on the same procedure. Here’s how the scam works. At hospital number one patient A has surgery on their heart. At hospital number two patient B has the same type surgery on their heart. At hospital number one patient A gets an infection and needs another operation. At hospital two, patient B has an uneventful recovery and goes home in a few days. Hospital one is paid for two surgery and many more days of care. Hospital two is paid for one surgery and a minimum number of patient care days.
How bad is it? The state of Louisiana ranks at the 50th position when it comes to overall patient care quality and number one in dollars taken in for medical care. A study done over three decades by Dartmouth Medical School showed that one dollar out of every three is spent on inappropriate or unnecessary treatments. It is things like at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center performed 24 heart surgeries and out of that number 13 of the patients had post operative infections requiring further surgery that is driving health care cost through the roof.
Medicare has standards and is supposed to enforce minimal levels of competency in patient care. However, they seldom if ever actually enforce these standards. One case a hospital was inspected and should have been assessed $323,800 in fines. The amount was reduced to $95,000 to “avoid what could be a lengthy appeal.” It is attitudes like this that account for the fact that Medicare spends less than 0.01% of its budget on maintaining or improving medical care.
A survey was recently done in both Japan and the good old U. S. A. that showed that while 60% of Americans believe there will be a third world war in their lifetime, on 33% of Japanese citizens hold the same belief. Not exactly earth shattering news but I thought it was interesting. One Japanese citizen stated that “……… the Japanese people are not interested in things like war.” Yeah, their history shows that. Samurai, military dictatorships, and life philosophies that translate “the way of the warrior.” Sure, I feel much better now.
Japan is still interested in war. The difference is that now they wage it through economics and not battles. Just look at the number of cars on the road that are Japanese made. Sure, they’re made here in American right? Put an embargo on importing Japanese auto parts and see how long the plants stay open. They are assembled here from what amount to little more than “car kits.” They are MADE in Japan!
Yesterday I wrote about he “bombing suspect” the police in London shot and killed. I had even heard on one news show that one witness claimed he had a gun. It turns out that this poor man was from Brazil and not linked to the bombings (according to current reports) in any way. My sympathy goes out to his family and my apologies to my readers for the misinformation. Guess you just can’t trust some national news agencies.
See you tomorrow, I’ve got to go wipe some egg off my face.
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