[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[David Froble]

Doug Phillips wrote:
> On Aug 8, 10:02 am, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article <jvrpgj$j9... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... 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.
> 
> I just got a nice rebate check from my former health insurance
> provider. The Affordable Care act requires insurance companies to
> spend at least 80% of their premium receipts on health care services.
> They were spending only 70%. Funny, though, the premiums increased
> every 6 months "due to the increased cost of healthcare" and maybe it
> was just a coincidence <g> but executive compensation also increased
> during that period.
> 
> I recently watched a PBS TV show (don't remember the name) about
> Norway and their social-democracy. Afterwards I did a bit of on-line
> looking. I realized that like many other Americans I was pretty
> ignorant about how things actually work in some other countries. I've
> always been for national healthcare and now all of the FUD being
> spewed by our PAC-controlled Republicat politicians pisses me off even
> more.
> 
> In the US, voter apathy is an obstacle. "I'm doing OK so I don't
> care." As more people feel the pain of Congress' special interest
> based legislation maybe more people will stand up and decide to vote
> the vultures out. I doubt it, though. It takes some effort to wade
> through the political war of FUD and if someone is occupied with
> keeping food on the table and a roof over their head they just don't
> have time to do that, so the best FUDslinger usually wins.

You got that right.  Even worse, the Democrats like political contributions 
about as much as the Republicans do.