Politicians vs Businessmen

Politicians Move Over

Posted on by Helena

My daughter-inlaw’s doctor is retiring this year. Not because he wants to, but because it just isn’t worth it any more. He claims his income has barely changed since the 1980’s! Costs have risen exponentially. Insurance, rent, equipment he can’t afford. And in doing a bit of research, I find he is absolutely right!

While the increase for primary care and ob-gyn’s flattened to a growth rate of just 9% over the last three decades – total, malpractice insurance has taken a heavy toll with rates running as low as about $15,000 annually, to over $120,000.   Beaten up by lawyers and insurance companies, doctors are calling it quits.

Slamming doctors for gouging their patients on their $150,000 salary, we fail to even flinch over the compensation package for United Healthcare’s CEO who made $66 million in 2014 (this doesn’t even touch the other executives). That would cover 440 doctors salaries per year… Of course, United is whining about losing money… despite health insurance premiums rising about 300% over the last decade.  Sounds like massive mismanagement to me.

Add to the fray the burnout rate for doctors in the US and the numbers are staggering, ranging from 40% to 53%! In addition, in a survey they stated that the number one cause of their burnout and bias was that their patient had emotional problems including maligning the doctor, demanding drugs, and entitlement. The second cause of burnout was patient obesity, third was ability to comprehend or intellectual barriers.

In the US, 33% of doctors are over 50 and 25% are over 60. The profession that was about ‘helping people’ has churned into a cog of assembly line medical practices dictated by insurance companies, pharma companies and regulators. As a result, a massive shortage is predicted to take hold in the next 3-5 years.   Sixty percent of doctors predict that the entire practice of medicine is in jeopardy.

While nurses and PA’s were supposed to alleviate the pressure and load, they are reporting equal burnout themselves. As more doctors retire, those left will be handed an even heavier burden, raising their burnout, and the domino effect could conceivably spiral out of control.

Taking with them will be the malpractice attorneys who have a smaller base to sue in order to provide their income, raising the bar for higher value lawsuits, higher malpractice premiums, and… implosion.

This is what happens when politicians run countries instead of businessmen. I am reminded of a time when my son’s teacher marked him an F because he left his paper in his locker and she refused to let him get it. When I challenged her decision, a board of teachers faced me off and told me they were just teaching him a lesson of how life worked in the real world work force…

Of course, none of these ‘teachers’ had spent one day in the real world work force or they would have known that a boss would NEVER fire an employee who left their briefcase in the car – they would simply groan and tell them to retrieve it – like any normal human being!

Unfortunately, when you work for the politicized government, it would seem that normalcy is left at the door.

Even Sarah Palin’s ridiculous tantrum over Trump giving a tax break to one company in order to entice them to stay in the US, was rife with political mentality. She would prefer that Trump follow the dictum of rules that requires years if not decades to change…while giving lobbyists a chance to make any bill impossible to pass as they load it down with thousands of political additives – a Molotov cocktail.

China’s military spending is massively dwarfed by the US, which doesn’t include NATO – 400-500% greater! What do they do with their surplus? Expand their economy through business relations. Ditto – Russia. So while our own economy is drained, the very competitors we condemn are allowed to grow exponentially.

Business people understand what Trump is doing, politicians don’t. And politicians have created the massive mess we are in today – and that would include both parties.

TRUMP – Business Agenda for US

Posted on by Helena

If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it!

On the other hand – ‘if it’s broke – and it ain’t fixable – get rid of it!’

That would seem to be the mantra of Trump. And he ‘ain’t afraid’ to be politically incorrect. Something a whole lot of American’s register with a Hallelujah! If he wants to talk to the Taiwanese President for seven minutes, Hallelujah! If he wants to make a trade deal with Japan – Hallelujah! And if he wants to give incentives to a company to keep jobs in the US – Hallelujah! That’s what makes him a businessman as opposed to a ‘politician’.   Hallelujah!

If other companies want the same deal – Hallelujah! Go for it, make the move and put the jobs back in the US. It appears that the people who most vehemently decry foul, are the same ones who advocate for the corrupt, fraudulent good ole boy atmosphere that the entire world is sick of: McCain, Romney, Merkel, Hollande, Cameron, Obama, Clinton, they all embrace a way that covets their personal gain at the expense of The People.

*Enter Boeing. They want to charge The People $4 billion for a Presidential plane.

*Enter the Pentagon with a quashed report detailing the $125 billion fraudulent wasteful spending.

*Enter the EPA being sued for utter failure, crony mismanagement and gross negligence.

*Enter Fake News being propagated by Propinnews, an ‘anonymous’ editorial that purports to know what is real and what is fake – as sourced by the Washington Post and New York Times surrogates; Graham Vyse and Erik Loomis. Of course they want to remain anonymous because they fear for their lives… while they sling mud and sewage…

*Enter economic trade, which for the US has shuttered a deficit since 1980!

*Enter a President more focused on building – than destroying.

*Enter the end of ridiculous, failed regime changes that cost taxpayers trillions!

Honestly, I really don’t care about Ukraine entering the EU, or Greece debt, I do care that Merkel’s open windows, doors and airvents to radical terrorists and pedophiles and rapists! And Obama’s deal to relocate the worst of the worst from Australia to the US… HELLO!

It’s about relinquishing the concept of ‘everyone else’ and looking at the Log in our own eye.

Russia needs to let go of demonizing the media in the US. Although they deserve it, it does Russia no favor. We see it, we hear it, we know it loud and clear, and the self demonizing instigated by the likes of The Washington Post, The Economist, and the New York Times, is well understood.

What Russia needs to do – is speak truth, be above the rhetoric.   What China needs to know is that Trump cannot be cowed to the ‘International Economic Order’. We don’t want an ‘economic order’, we want patriotism! And it is always interesting the friends you didn’t realize were your friends, and the enemies you didn’t realize were your enemies.

Recently, I met a woman from Iran. She is working toward her nursing certificate here in the US. I asked her about Iran. She said it wasn’t like Saudi Arabia, it wasn’t like Qatar, It wasn’t like Bahrain, it was Iran. They don’t have Sharia Law, they have their Islam culture. She said she left because of the suppression of freedom. But she also offered that Iran is far less oppressive than the allies in the Middle East we align ourselves with. It is the Sunni’s who require the Burqa. It is the Sunni’s who torture and behead civilians at an unprecedented rate! It is the Sunni’s who beat their women senseless because they are – women.

I also met a woman who had fled the Ivory Coast for the American Dream. And while she and her husband did achieve this, it was cut short when he died suddenly from Pancreatic cancer. The dream didn’t die because she was black, because she was African, because she was the victim of racism – it died a tragic death.

Fake news. Truth. Propaganda. As one journalist noted, “thank you for providing us with a list of the 200 fake news/blog sites, for now I know where to go to learn the truth!”