The annual sales tax holiday weekend, held Aug. 5-7, cost North Carolina about $14.5 million, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Revenue said Thursday. Did you take advantage of the weekend? Some members of the senate are calling for the program to be re-examined as the state suffers from decreasing revenue. Should the program be stopped? Or is it a good handout to the public? You may read the full article referenced at http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/9986530/
Welcome the Friday / Weekend Open Lines!
Voter Fraud in Wake County:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/11/three-north-carolina-democrats-admit-voting-twice-for-obama/
http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/9984810/
Did you loss or misplace your pot belly pig? Or know who has lost or misplaced their pot belly pig?
This pot belly pig wandered up to someone’s house off Thomas Road.
Describe your missing pig and I will tell you where he or she is.
Michael, maybe a call to WIZS, and Animal Control might help in locating the owner.
Volunteers this weekend are setting up camp in Raleigh to provide free dental services to the needy. People wishing to get care have to be in line by 4:30am due to the number of slots available. http://www.wral.com/5onyourside/story/9991123/
A similar event occurred in Georgia with over 4000 people arriving for needed dental services they couldn’t afford. http://www.ajc.com/news/cherokee/thousands-line-up-for-1101295.html
This isn’t something happening in a third world country, this is happening right here in USA. We need to catch up to the rest of the civilized countries and take care of our own people by providing guaranteed medical coverage to all.
Anon3, How many can afford cig’s, though? Or cable TV? You can’t legislate good health. Aren’t you paying any attention to the conversation going on in the country now?
IF the treatment is done by volunteers, and not charged to any government agency or grant..I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Some people just do not get the concept of a $14 TRILLION debt, and climbing daily, by spending 4 billion dollars a day at minimum.
Of course, one would have to actually care about the future of the country to recognise what such debt has done and will continue to do, to our economy.
Some prefer to have rose colored glasses on and not see the reality.
It’s irresponsible and immoral.
Guarenteed medical care for everyone?
We already have it.
No one, by law, can be turned away from an ER regardless of ability to pay.
But of course we assume that anon3 means guarenteed free medical care for everyone.
NOTHING IS FREE. SOMEONE HAS TO PAY.
Obamacare will be the final blow on our economy, The COST (not “free”) of this plot.oops…plan. will be much more then estimated..by at least 50 billion more a year, (according to new CBO estimates)while taking 500 billion from Medicare, and will reduce access to care, not expand it.
Anyone who believes otherwise is just not using comon sense. and is ill-informed.
You can’t legislate good health, just as you can’t have good health by not smoking or watching TV all day. Bad health and accidents happens to all, regardless of what you do with your life.
No one has ever said healthcare should be ‘free’. Why is the argument that everyone wants something for free? Everyone needs coverage, not free coverage. Everyone chips into the pool at a percentage of income, just like you do now for medicaid. Creating a nationwide group pool to manage risk would lower individual costs. It would eliminate a huge percentage of administration cost waste current in private companies.
A trip to the ER that can end up costing someone their house is not coverage. An ER is only by law responsible for getting you ‘stable’. Not providing routine medical care. Do you really expect low income people to go to the ER for a simple need? People that have to resort to using ER as their only doctor don’t pay the bills, how can they when the cheapest hospital visit is hundreds of dollars? So the hospital increases your charge, in effect you subsidize them already. An emergency procedure can cost tens of thousands of dollars, around $100k sometimes, how is a low income person expected to pay for that? ‘Obamacare’ was just fine as he introduced it, don’t dare say how bad the law is now after the tea party got ahold of it. That was the whole republican game, make the law terrible and give people reasons not make it a good plan then blame it all on Obama.
These 4000 people that needed dental care could have just gone to the ER room? And with their low income, who pays for that? Someone that gets cancer can just go to the ER room and have it magically cured?
The simplest solution is to expand medicaid coverage to include everyone. Take it out of taxes, eliminate your current medical insurance coverage and use that pool of money to get whatever plan you want to have. You don’t pay any more than you did before.
In other words, single payer?
This is not the HC bill as passed, tho it is the intent.
So, you want government in charge of all healthcare and coverage.
as for the Tea Party…they were not even in the Congress when this bill was concocted, so how did they “get a hold of it” and change the bill as Obama introduced it?.
It is a wholly Democrat bill, with little Republican input.
almost 3000 pages long with no time to even read what is in it..
Pelosi…”We’ll know what’s in it after we pass it.”
Have YOU read the bill in it’s entirety?
your quote, “The simplest solution is to expand medicaid coverage to include everyone. Take it out of taxes, eliminate your current medical insurance coverage and use that pool of money to get whatever plan you want to have. You don’t pay any more than you did before.”
some people already have the insurance plan they want.
and how can it come at the same or less cost if the government is mandating what the insurance should cover, plus continue to pay through their taxes, for a greatly expanded Medicaid program?
and if the “simplest solution IS to expand Medicaid coverage to include everyone”…why would you then suggest that people choose whatever plan they want? from what? from where?
as for the matter of people wanting something for free.
many people are under the impression that they will get free coverage, which they will under medicaid. (free to them, not for taxpayers).
exactly what does this new HC bill change, other then expanding Medicaid, and costing a whole lot more for the taxpayers?