[cdynaco]

Originally Posted by quicksilverdon

Completely agree. The insurance companies have some democrats as well as republicans completely in their pocket.
There should be term limits on politicians - MANY have outlived their usefulness.

BTW - did you scream over the "medicare prescription drug plan"? That was a HUGE give-away to the drug Cos, and the bill was written by lobbyists, and old folks can't figure it out.

We need to get rid of career politicians and lobbyists. Enough government for sale.

I'm with you. I am now a 'vote 'em out everytime' regardless of party. We have to break the entrenched mindset of the millionaires in Congress that keep increasing their standard of living at taxpayers doom.

As to Plan D, I do not personally participate in it at this time. On one side, it is confusing, expensive, and unfunded. On the other side, I know some retirees that were spending over $1k/month on drugs (with family and friends helping with food and rent) so I can see a need for some kind of help there.

While I believe in free enterprise, I also believe in a safety net. Some of our citizens really struggle. And a for profit incentive has brought many great innovations to our nation because of opportunity and competition. But there's always that problem of runaway greed with unfettered free enterprise - hence government should play a role of writing the rules of the road for the benefit of our society in general (although government needs its own checks and balances too). Personally I think the best way government could do this is rather than layer Agency after Agency, break up the monopolies (like occured early 1900's) for increased competition. Oil, healthcare, big pharma, banking, brokerages, ins cos, and many other industries, have been allowed to merge and buy so many competitors that now its a shell game where they are the winners.

As it stands big pharma is out of control - even though they have created many helpful products. My friend's wife worked on 'hospital hill' and the drug companies would entertain the physicians and staffs of each office with $40 gourment lunches at an exclusive eatery... week after week. That's a real problem.