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    • Story: Hospitals Find Way to Make Care Cheaper -- Make It Better (1738 days ago)

      Comment: As cost effective as well as health effective that this government run program is, as soon as there is a need to cut government costs, out comes the axe. You have to ask if legislators have any common sense. They plan to cut the budget almost in half to save $2.6 million. Does this make sense when the program is saving lives and 100s of millions of dollars?

      This is the type of program the government should be funding instead of simply transferring money from person A to person B.

    • Group Topic: Is the "cash for clunkers" program a good use of government money? (1802 days ago)

      Comment: In order for a stimulus program to be successful, it should be immediate. Pelosi's $800 billion stimulus does not meet this criteria. The cash for clinkers does. Even though I am a fiscal conservative, I love the program for the following reasons:

      -It is immediate and is not permanent (unlike some of the provisions in the Pelosi plan)
      -it is being funded by taking money from the Pelosi stimulus plan so it isn't further adding to the deficit
      -it has a mutiplier effect on the economy
      -it permanently takes gas guzzlers off the road and replaces them with vehicles 50% more fuel efficient
      -this marginally reduces our dependency on imported oil and greatly reduces fuel costs to the buyers
      -it marginally reduces pollution

      Instead of trying to stop the program, Congress should extend and increase it to $10 billion. Since so little of the Pelosi stimulus bill is really stumulative, I think Cash for Clunkers is brilliant. I wish my party (Republican) would be smart enough to get on board.

      Beverly Hails

    • Story: Doing a Volume Business in Liver Transplants (2056 days ago)

      Comment: This article makes me feel queasy. How can a top hospital in the country let money become more important than the well being of its patients? If Mr. Romoff is responsible, He should be fired immediately. And why is the head of a "non-profit" making $4 million a year? That's outrageous!

      Beverly Hails

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