[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <jvrpgj$j9h$2 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>> Bob Koehler wrote 2012-08-07 19:17:
>>>     And, I assume, you pay taxes?
>>>
>> Of course, we all do. Don't you ?
>> But that is not something I have to focus my life on.
>> And I/we pay enough to not having to worry about
>> medical expenses either. Quite nice.
> 
>    My point, exactly.  Republican'ts say we're not allowed those taxes.
> 

And why is that?

It's all about the money.

As for the medical issue, it is a condition created and maintained by the 
insurance companies.  Again, it's all about money.  Hugh political contributions 
attempt to maintain this condition.

They started with rather inexpensive HMO plans.  Then paid the providers a 
fraction of that billed.  The providers know what to do, raise the costs until 
they get what they need, and then some.  The HMO costs then go up.  In time you 
cannot afford to be without insurance, which is exactly what the insurance 
companies want.

So then where do all the medical insurance premiums go?  To provide medical care 
for the policy holders?  Get real.  There is the hugh political contributions. 
And in Pittsburgh, just about all the major construction projects are for the 2 
major medical insurance companies.  I have several things on good authority.  A 
mahogany board room table.  $400,000.  Their initials placed on the US Steel 
building.  $1.6 million.  All while limiting what they provide to the policy 
holders.

Can't say that I trust the government to ever do anything well, but in this 
case, they would have to work very hard to be worse than the medical insurance 
companies.