SWB: Alan B. Rowley II - Success Coach - ECoaching - Email Coaching

A Drug Free America?

Did you see the report that shows that in larger cities (and probably every where that tap water is "treated" and reused) the water contains all the prescription drugs that 'Merkins take?

All the anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, antibiotics, cholesterol reducing, blood pressure reducing, penis hardening drugs that people take are being spread out to everyone that drinks water from a tap or uses it for cooking.

People in Philadelphia are drinking a pharmaceutical cocktail with 56 different kinds of drugs in it. 

That just can't be good for the body but it does explain why the  morning wood has been more severe and yet I haven't been anxious about it and it doesn't raise my blood pressure.

Gambling on Health Care

Oregon is going to have a lottery to decide which few thousand of the state's 600,000 uninsured will get some insurance this year.

I really don't think I need to add anything else to the statement this plan already makes.

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Random Thoughts from the Headlines

W gave a big fat veto to healthcare for 4 million kids, supposedly because there might be some abuse of the system.  If that's the case, we need to shut down every government program in place.  It's not the case though.  There's just too much money at stake in healthcare.  This is changing though because every year, there are fewer and fewer people with health insurance.  When insurance companies can't make money, they will start lobbying for a change.  Probably something we don't like but it will be a change.  How about making health insurance mandatory like car insurance? 

Pennsylvania is adding a couple new slot parlors and Massachusetts is adding three new casinos.  The government makes a lot of money off of casinos so these things are going up all over the country.  I read that the government gets about half the take so people protesting in PA are pretty much out of luck.  We are headed for some pretty rough times financially as a country and lotteries and casinos are just going to make things worse.  Desperate people are going to risk money they can't afford hoping to be the big winner and solve all their financial problems.  There is likely going to be a lot of get rich quick infomercials in the next couple of years and the people making the commercials are going to get rich quick.

Should Obese People Pay More For Health Insurance?

Last year, I wrote a paper for college where my position was that under the current system, people who knowingly engage in high risk activities should pay more for insurance (which they already do for life insurance and car insurance) and that this should be expanded to cover health insurance.

I ran across an article yesterday that said this was in practice now and that the "high risk activities" has been reduced to pretty much just one thing: obesity.  Companies are checking the BMI of their employees and those that are obese pay more for health insurance.  Some companies charge one rate but give discounts to people who are more fit.  This is the same thing but worded so as to not be charging more for obese people, just less for not-obese people.

This type of discrimination has been authorized by the government as long as the difference in fees isn't more that 20%.

I can see some problems with this.