Do you believe in wealth redistribution?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2008
Do you believe in wealth redistribution?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:27pm

Do you believe in wealth redistribution?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 2:56pm

not necessarily janet.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 2:59pm

FYI:


http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/6/825?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT =&fulltext=illegality+of+private+health+care&searchid=1141074978157_4633&FIRSTINDEX=0&volume=164&issue=6&journalcode=cmaj


The illegality of private health care in Canada

Colleen M. Flood and Tom Archibald


Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 3:19pm
yeah...look what the profit motivation did for our investment banking friends on Wall Street? Along with profit comes greed; and too often along with greed comes corruption.

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 4:14pm

greed and corruption comes with most everything...


I'll wager the percentage of greedy and corrupt government employees is every bit as high as in any other sector of the economy.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 5:06pm

Great info Sopal. Thanks for posting it.


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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-25-2006
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 6:07pm


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 7:22pm

Well, that's a change in subject--I thought our exchange had to do with administrative costs.

If you want to discuss fraud, we can do that, too. Was it the patients who were defrauding the government, or was it the DME suppliers in the article you posted? It looks to me like it was some of those small businesses that can do no wrong in the Republicans' eyes. Or, it could have been a large corporation that committed the fraud--the ones we need to keep giving tax breaks to, right?. Do you think the DME suppliers do not defraud insurance companies, as well? Are the insurance companies going to self-report on the rates of fraud within their corporations and then make that public knowledge for their shareholders?

I agree the government agencies need to do more to prevent fraud, and they certainly should not be covering it up. Seeing how my family's claims are processed, I can tell you that if private insurance companies' rates of fraud are any lower than the feds', it's only because they deny, deny, deny to the point of creating more stress and illness in the beneficiaries they supposedly insure.

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-25-2006
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 8:06pm

I doubt that fraud was accounted for in the study which


iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 8:11pm

"Wealth distribution is when the government takes money from person "A" and gives it, without regard to receiving any goods or services in return, to person "B".

So, if the government provides crop subsidies, or export subsidies, or food stamps, they are redistributing income.

roads, defense, police, etc., are not "redistribution", because those services are being provided to everyone."

Wrong on two counts.

1. What do you call the bailout? Huh? You know the $700 billion one McCain supported plus the $300 billion dollar more one he wants to do? The Republicans support wealth redistribution. You can't have it both ways.

2. Our tax policy itself reflects wealth redistribution. The rich pay more, even under the Republicans. You are getting confused by focusing on what our government spends on versus how it takes money from us.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:40pm

I call the bail out "criminal".

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