Healthcare, the economy, and life
I've got into a political binge as of late. I think it was because i got a chance to read through Mike Huckabee's book (which was an excellent read). It was nice to read something conservative yet totally compassionate with the toils of the common people. He had lot's of plans and ideas for how to fix this mess the country is in, and it kind of struck a chord with me. I've also been watching some stuff from Peter Schiff on youtube(who is some kind of economic soothsayer).
The economy is showing fake blips of recovery . Of course, the national deficit is skyrocketing to catastrophic proportions. The government, completely oblivious to warning, continues to make the situation worse by propping up bad businesses with taxpayer dollars, spending lot's of money they don't have, and lowering interest rates to 0%, only encouraging more bad investments and making what would be a bad recession (at this time) into something worse (think hyperinflation in the future).
They're also set to pass a pretty crummy Health Care bill through the senate, which includes tons of pork designed to buy Senate votes (the most obvious one being the fact the federal government will pay for all medicare expansion in the bill for the state of Nebraska forever). Did I say the government was paying for it? I meant the American taxpayers (and China until they wise up). After all, government doesn't earn any money at all, they just collect money from it's citizens, use it, and then give breadcrumbs back to the American people in the form of failing programs (which they always claim need more money since they suck). There's a ton of reasons why it won't actually help fix the growing deficit (or help lower the cost of health insurance for most people), but I won't go into details now. I volunteer at a Free Clinic now, and I expect the number of people that come in to increase in the future.
I could talk about what's wrong with the health care system right now for a while, but I'll keep it brief. They need to overhaul it and shift the focus through which it is run to preventative care. Insurance programs are designed primarily to treat people once they need serious help instead of focusing on making simple preventative checkups more widely available so that people won't require such costly services as often. In this way, it would also make it really risk free to cover people with pre-existing conditions (since any possible serious complications would be spotted quickly and treated without wasting lots of money--making it virtually identical to covering a relatively healthy person). they should also include incentives for exercising and staying healthy, eating well, and being healthy and productive at work. People might want universal government health care, but at this time, the government isn't in a position to offer something as comprehensive as that (and they wouldn't do a great job anyways given their track record). Tort reform is something that should have bipartisan support (it's truly a good idea), but lobbyist for attorney's are clearly influencing politicians at this time.
In life, MPC was way easy. I'm gonna go back to work at INO while I look for a chemistry/pharmaceutical job in the meantime (I'll end up doing both jobs most likely). I have a PCAT to study for in January, as well as a commitment to going to the gym and being healthy. Hopefully I can do something on the test that might impress the University of Texas or somewhere else I'm looking into for Pharm school. Until that time, I just want to help my dad (who is struggling financially) and prepare for a possible economic shock by investing whatever I have well. That and help people who have no health insurance and need help by volunteering.
It's a long post like usual, but until i get back into the habit of posting more frequently, I can't help it. :P
The economy is showing fake blips of recovery . Of course, the national deficit is skyrocketing to catastrophic proportions. The government, completely oblivious to warning, continues to make the situation worse by propping up bad businesses with taxpayer dollars, spending lot's of money they don't have, and lowering interest rates to 0%, only encouraging more bad investments and making what would be a bad recession (at this time) into something worse (think hyperinflation in the future).
They're also set to pass a pretty crummy Health Care bill through the senate, which includes tons of pork designed to buy Senate votes (the most obvious one being the fact the federal government will pay for all medicare expansion in the bill for the state of Nebraska forever). Did I say the government was paying for it? I meant the American taxpayers (and China until they wise up). After all, government doesn't earn any money at all, they just collect money from it's citizens, use it, and then give breadcrumbs back to the American people in the form of failing programs (which they always claim need more money since they suck). There's a ton of reasons why it won't actually help fix the growing deficit (or help lower the cost of health insurance for most people), but I won't go into details now. I volunteer at a Free Clinic now, and I expect the number of people that come in to increase in the future.
I could talk about what's wrong with the health care system right now for a while, but I'll keep it brief. They need to overhaul it and shift the focus through which it is run to preventative care. Insurance programs are designed primarily to treat people once they need serious help instead of focusing on making simple preventative checkups more widely available so that people won't require such costly services as often. In this way, it would also make it really risk free to cover people with pre-existing conditions (since any possible serious complications would be spotted quickly and treated without wasting lots of money--making it virtually identical to covering a relatively healthy person). they should also include incentives for exercising and staying healthy, eating well, and being healthy and productive at work. People might want universal government health care, but at this time, the government isn't in a position to offer something as comprehensive as that (and they wouldn't do a great job anyways given their track record). Tort reform is something that should have bipartisan support (it's truly a good idea), but lobbyist for attorney's are clearly influencing politicians at this time.
In life, MPC was way easy. I'm gonna go back to work at INO while I look for a chemistry/pharmaceutical job in the meantime (I'll end up doing both jobs most likely). I have a PCAT to study for in January, as well as a commitment to going to the gym and being healthy. Hopefully I can do something on the test that might impress the University of Texas or somewhere else I'm looking into for Pharm school. Until that time, I just want to help my dad (who is struggling financially) and prepare for a possible economic shock by investing whatever I have well. That and help people who have no health insurance and need help by volunteering.
It's a long post like usual, but until i get back into the habit of posting more frequently, I can't help it. :P