07-03-2012, 06:22 PM
Courtesy of the latest internet black-hole I've found:
British Teeth - TvTropes.org
The health care reform seems to be more of a short-term band-aid then anything. The bill assumes that if everyone has insurance, then the price of care and insurance will go down. In reality, the privately-owned companies will go "Look at all this money! We can make more!"
Recently on NPR, they were talking about the cost of College in the US, and how we got to the current place of high tuition and fees that we are now. The logic went something like this:
Govt: "Everyone should go to college, let's make more money available."
Uni: "More money's available, let's raise rates!"
Govt: "Fees went up, let's make more money available."
Uni: "More money's available, let's raise rates!"
Repeat ad naseum.
Until a) Congress is held accountable for the corruption inherent in the system ( aka lobbyists ), b) "Socialism" quits being equated to Fascism and Communism, and c) The gov't realizes that they need to grow a pair and start cracking down on some of industries that are running rampant and ruining the quality of life for the citizens, nothing is going to change.
British Teeth - TvTropes.org
The health care reform seems to be more of a short-term band-aid then anything. The bill assumes that if everyone has insurance, then the price of care and insurance will go down. In reality, the privately-owned companies will go "Look at all this money! We can make more!"
Recently on NPR, they were talking about the cost of College in the US, and how we got to the current place of high tuition and fees that we are now. The logic went something like this:
Govt: "Everyone should go to college, let's make more money available."
Uni: "More money's available, let's raise rates!"
Govt: "Fees went up, let's make more money available."
Uni: "More money's available, let's raise rates!"
Repeat ad naseum.
Until a) Congress is held accountable for the corruption inherent in the system ( aka lobbyists ), b) "Socialism" quits being equated to Fascism and Communism, and c) The gov't realizes that they need to grow a pair and start cracking down on some of industries that are running rampant and ruining the quality of life for the citizens, nothing is going to change.