In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Doing the right thing – it saves money
I was at Hershey Park with my family and as I waited for my son outside a particularly scary right (I can do roller coasters, I can do high rides, I can do spinning rides, I can’t do both), I met a man also waiting for his children to get off the ride.
“Too scary for me” I say.
“Yeah, I can’t do that ride. I tried a ride earlier today and a pain just shot up me chest. So that’s it for me today.” He says.
He goes on to explain this isn’t the first time this has happened. Last time at work he sat down holding his arm while his manager kept asking if he could send the ambulance. “I kept telling him no because I don’t have insurance.”
Now that it happened again he was thinking he might have to go to a doctor and deal with a potentially costly unplanned expense (and that is the best case scenario).
National HealthCare isn’t “the right thing to do.” It saves you money. We have a manger and employee spending employee time discussing whether or not to send for an ambulance. You have a Hershey Park customer with a not too fond memory of their park. And the saddest and most costly thing of all, you have some children who will lose a dad. You want to be cold about it: This will cost you tax dollars. Boys without dads have an increased likelihood of committing crimes, drugs, and going to jail. Girls without dads have a higher chance of getting pregnant out of wedlock (see that fat guy on the couch with the remote serves a purpose – somewhat).
The cost of our healthcare system is loss of productivity, it is millions being spent on paperwork, and it is doctor’s giving inadequate examinations because they need to fit in X number of patients a day to make it any money.
Oh, and lives and families will be saved.
You want to save more taxpayer’s money? Spend money on pre-schools and for every tax dollar spent on that and you save 2.62 dollars be reducing special education needs, juvenile arrests and the number of children held back a grade. Sounds like a done deal!
Side benefit: Lives and families will be saved.
You want to save more taxpayer’s money? Spend money on prevention programs.The study released this week by the Rand Corp. found that for each dollarspent, the graduation incentives and intervention programs that monitoredhigh school delinquents and targeted parents of high-risk youth fortraining were far more effective at stemming crime than simplyincarcerating people who already have committed crimes. A previous Rand study estimated that the "three strikes" law might reduceserious crime by 21%, but at a cost of $5.5 billion per year. The new studyindicates that a combination of the graduation incentives and parenttraining could cut crime just as much for less than $1 billion.Whoa, that is a savings – sign me up – we’re talking tax cut!
Side benefit: Lives and families will be saved.
Doing the right thing isn’t a sissy liberal thing, doing the right thing is an extremely effective way of reducing the size of the government.
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