Whose better suited to make your healthcare decisions; You, or the State?
Friday, October 30th, 2009Obnoxious American asked: Since unlimited “perfect” healthcare is prohibitively expensive, even for the world’s richest people, any healthcare, public, private, or self financed will inherently have to be rationed in some way.
The question is; who do you want making those rationing decisions for you?
This question becomes even more important when you realize that these rationing [...]
Should public pensions be privatized?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009under_fire53 asked: Finance guru Earl Matthews (founder of aid4families.com) has set his sights on revolutionizing the pension plans of several countries. Like many of his brethren, David Filo and Jerry Yang (founders of Yahoo), Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of google), and Chris Dewolf & Tom Anderson ( founders of Myspace), a generation [...]
Why offer “free” health care for all?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Mr. LOL asked: I have a pretty good insurance through my company that I partly own.
It’s a health savings account type insurance with $2,500 deductible.
I have about $17,000 in the HSA
I think this kind of insurance would be ideal as it forces me to lead a healthier life style, and not to frivolously go [...]
Does the CEO of Whole Foods have a better Health Reform plan than Congress?
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Lance asked: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
8/11/09
By JOHN MACKEY
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Highlights:
•Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). [...]
Is this what we want for our health care system?
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Tommy asked: One of the side effects of bringing in millions of people with no education that can’t speak english is that a lot have diseases or are at high risk for injury. Also, a lot of them go to the emergency room all the time because it’s “free”. In addition to costing [...]
Corrective Medical Braces for our Daughter’s Legs?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009rattwagon asked: My 8 year old daughter suffers from a genetic condition that has resulted in abnormally bowed legs. However, our family has a limited medical budget and we won’t consider ‘elective’ or ‘experimental’ surgeries to correct such a condition, especially when the surgery to correct her leg issue is clearly defined as cosmetic [...]
Are these some of the hidden ‘costs’ of Obamacare (per the Wall Street Journal?)?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009DAR asked: Here are some of the groups on the menu if anything like the existing Senate or House health plans become law:
•?Young people. If the government mandates that everyone must have health insurance, healthy young people will have to buy policies that don’t reflect the low risk they have of getting sick. The [...]
Should I BUY or Rent a house? I need an opinion?
Saturday, October 17th, 2009kamran k asked: I just graduated from college and I have a debt of close to 50,000 dollars that I owe to the US DEPT of Education. I have 3000 dollars take home pay. I also have 50,000 dollars in my savings account. Zero credit card debt. I am looking to [...]
Should the US, UK and Canada turn over their pension schemes to aid4families?
Saturday, October 17th, 2009under_fire53 asked: Finance guru Earl Matthews (founder of aid4families.com) has set his sights on revolutionizing the pension plans of several countries. Like many of his brethren, David Filo and Jerry Yang (founders of Yahoo), Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of google), and Chris Dewolf & Tom Anderson ( founders of Myspace), a generation [...]
Speaking of health care?
Friday, October 16th, 2009prancinglion asked: Why is it that I can have pretax dollars set aside in a savings account from my pay, but if I don’t use it by the end of the year, my money is confiscated by the government…?
Who’s idea is this and why can’t I roll it over each year to a total of… [...]













