Tag Archives: Health Care

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Jack Curtis

Your weekly assortment, sans aspirin: A naked man jumped into a lion enclosure seeking suicide but survived. (Cruelty to animals?) A woman was jailed for child abuse after allowing her 11 year old to drive a golf cart down a … Continue reading →

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GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING SCENE …(Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Jack Curtis

Our weekly accumulation of sensed, dissents and nonsensical news nuggets: The Eurozone’s failing “Spend Yourself Rich” policy fix: More of the same … (Well, you put politicians and bankers in charge of the money, right?) Oil countries’ Doha meeting ended … Continue reading →

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Gleanings From The Passing Scene…(Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Jack Curtis

Another week having evaporated somehow, we present you some of the leftovers in search of significance. Mall shooting: 3 dead. We seem to be getting used to piles of corpses in malls, movies and schools. Our parents would have been … Continue reading →

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Gleanings From The Passing Scene…(Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Term Limits,Our nation’s Capitol leads us; D.C. has decreed that its residents who have ‘transitioned’ their birth gender to another one, may request a replacement birth certificate with the gender info ‘corrected’. Obstetricians may have to start entering that information … Continue reading →

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Government, Health Care and (Gasp!) Competition…

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Have you noticed that when the government becomes interested in something for you and works to be sure that you get it, whatever that is tends to become unaffordable? When only the brightest students went on to college, a lot … Continue reading →

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Can Private Sector Health Care Take Hold in the U.S.?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Jack Curtis

$600 toilet seats became famous in WWII, so are tuition and health care today along with everything else provided through government…famous for out-of-reason costs. Obamacare costs are now falling right into that line along with the rest. This still being … Continue reading →

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Signposts Along the Week: Key Reports

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Jack Curtis

The World Economic Decline To the recently reported events in Argentina, Venezuela and Germany, you may add:Japan’s Economy is Terminal. The Japanese have been plodding their road to nowhere longer than any, but their end is in sight, the same … Continue reading →

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We’ve Ordered the Banquet; Who’s Going To Pick Up the Check?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Jack Curtis

Funny how nobody seems to be talking about the financing of ObamaCare when that’s the most salient point. Yeah, some say it’s unaffordable, especially the expansion of Medicaid involved; some of the states (mostly red states) are refusing to pursue … Continue reading →

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To Repeal ObamaCare, You Must Repeal Republicans!

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Jack Curtis

ObamaCare repeal isn’t wanted by either Democrat or Republican leaders. Both prefer the government (them) in charge of as much as possible. A Republican Illinois Congressman, Robert J. Dodd, recently wrote his constituents that he would fix the bad parts … Continue reading →

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