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Archive for May, 2008

Doctor: Capitalistic Medicine vs. Socialized Medicine

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The American health care system is broken. You don’t have to be the smartest man online to see that. The more difficult question is …why? and how do we fix it. While I don’t have an answer for how we fix it at this time, I do have several interesting thoughts on the subject that may get us closer to an answer for how we fix this mess. (more…)

The Upside Down American Economy

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Over the past several years, the United States economy has been upside down on many fronts. While some of it is obvious, (i.e. no down payment mortgages, etc.), others are not so obvious, unless a deeper look at people’s personal financial situation was analyzed. If I had to characterize the economy of the last decade, it would be “the decade where the poor lived better than the rich.” (more…)