I hope the USA can come up with universal health care soon. Having a petrol tax to help fund the cost of universal health care sounds smart. It would raise the cost of gas and diesel encouraging conservation, while lowering CO2 emissions The proceed of the petrol tax would pay some of the cost of universal health care. Perhaps such a tax would needle more people into walking and ride bicycles, which is great preventive medicine.
Currently I'm paying $177.00 per month for health insurance, which I understand is a really good deal. I hardly ever use medicine, even aspirin. However, there is one prescription I take daily to control my asthma. Its called serevent and come in a disk with 60 shots each. I'm required to inhale the serevent twice daily, so one diskus of 60 shots last me about a month. It cost $35.00 per diskus with health insurance, and $125.00 per diskus without health insurance. I think the cost of medicine is ridiculously high, and I'm hoping we eventually get universal health insurance with better regulation of the health care industry. The regulators would require that health care providers maintain a reasonable relationship between the prices charged consumers for health care product and thier costs to deliver the health care goods and services. This would make the health care industry much like utility companies that are monopolies, requiring them to justify cost increases to a regulatory board. I don't mind the health care companies making a reasonable profit, but whats going on right now is closer to extortion than capitalism. FCOL (eg for crying out loud) Regards, LelandJ Adam Buckland wrote: > If you think the price of Petrol is expensive in Europe, look at how > much US healthcare and medicines costs.... > > The fuel tax offsets universal healthcare and prescription capped at $12 > a time. The last US prescription I paid for was $95 for one lot of pain > killers... > > > Adam. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leland F. Jackson, CPA > Sent: 03 April 2008 17:02 > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] $8 FOR A GALLON OF GAS?! IN GERMANY, YES > > Yes, European countries have a much higher percentage tax on petrol > products than in the USA, so as the cost of a barrel oil increases, > there is an increase in the markup to consumers with corresponding > increase as the percentage for taxes that is applied; a kind of double > whammy affect on the consumer. > > Regards, > > LelandJ > > Michael Madigan wrote: > >> Isn't most of the price taxes? >> >> >> >> --- "Leland F. Jackson, CPA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Anyone that thinks the price of gasoline and diesel >>> is high in the USA >>> should consider the prices in Europe.: >>> >>> >>> >>> >> http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/18/781155.aspx >> >> >>> or >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/3bf7hq >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> LelandJ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com >>> Subscription Maintenance: >>> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox >>> OT-free version of this list: >>> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech >>> Searchable Archive: >>> http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox >>> This message: >>> >>> >>> >> http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>> ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, >>> are the opinions of the author, and do not >>> constitute legal or medical advice. This statement >>> is added to the messages for those lawyers who are >>> too stupid to see the obvious. >>> >>> >>> >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
