tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138407995554542237.post2384076302415020049..comments2014-12-05T07:03:20.883-08:00Comments on Science, Stories, Etc.: Who Dominates Health Care Costs?APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279756198190552196noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138407995554542237.post-59642001728528800972011-01-15T13:47:53.373-08:002011-01-15T13:47:53.373-08:00Aaron, I don't agree that the following statem...Aaron, I don't agree that the following statement is a tautology of health insurance: "universal health care will drive up the cost of health care for everyone, because so-called "healthy people" will be paying, through their premiums, for the bills of the "unhealthy". If anything, it is a tautology of universal health care, which is very different from insurance. Insurance is the underwriting of risk, whereby parties pool together their funds to cover a small percentage of claimants. The percentage of claimants has to perforce be small, or the system is no longer insurance. Do the math: if an individual pays $200 a monnth in premiums and incurs a $100,000 medical expense, how many other payers have to not make a claim in order for the insurer to stay solvent? Quite a few. <br /><br />Health care, on the other hand, is the actual doctors, medications, treatments and tests provided by the medical industry. This is different from insurance.<br /><br />So "Universal Health Care" is not insurance at all, but a promise to give everyone in the population free (or cheap) medical care whether they pay premiums or not. <br /><br />I won't bore you with why the concept of "Universal Health Insurance" is a contradiction in terms. I just respectfully point out that in Universal Health Care only those who can afford the higher taxes and fees will be the ones paying for everyone else's use of the benefits. How moral is that?<br /><br />By the way, I also greatly appreciate your guitar charts.<br /><br />Kindest regards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138407995554542237.post-2170983261883989822010-07-15T11:19:25.068-07:002010-07-15T11:19:25.068-07:00A totally unrelated comment. If you are the owner...A totally unrelated comment. If you are the owner of http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~aparsons/guitar/guitar1.html. I found this page a few years ago and I seem to remember a tool for transposing the chords. It is a great selection of songs but I find I need to sing in a different key than you do. Your guestbook is no longer working, I wanted to ask there. Feel free to email me directly at mikegcox@gmail.com. and let me know if this was my imagination or not.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12865001247061143131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138407995554542237.post-45784370456676124062010-06-27T01:52:08.590-07:002010-06-27T01:52:08.590-07:00Aaron and Sarah, It's late here in Massachuse...Aaron and Sarah, It's late here in Massachusetts, so I'm just going to write a <br />few lines this time. You may know, it is not<br />possible to leave a message on your guest page. YOUR MUSIC PAGES ARE A RARE GIFT!! <br />The clear and "print friendly" manner in which<br />you've entered them is so appreciated by me.<br />The choice of songs, also. Sounds like you are busy people, and yet have enough time to<br />do this..thank you!! I tried to read some of<br />your blogs...holy cow, that's all I'll say for now. I have been playing guitar for<br />approx 45 years... took it out of the closet<br />a few months ago, after a couple years (maybe 10 or more)or collecting cobwebs. Your website has definately inspired me!!!! Love your website. Carol I have 4 grown kids and 10 grandkids...love to hear more about your momAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138407995554542237.post-38104655432054623472010-06-02T20:04:16.914-07:002010-06-02T20:04:16.914-07:00Hi Aaron,
Sorry to comment here on your Guitar Cho...Hi Aaron,<br />Sorry to comment here on your Guitar Chord song page, but I couldn't find a way to contact you thru that page. I wanted to thank you for posting your renditions of the many songs. I am a 40 something year old mom, just now learning to strum away with my 12 year old daughter.....excellent quality time, for sure. As we are both beginners, we appreciate the chords over lyrics to learn to play familiar songs. But...as beginners, it would really help us if you also included with each song, the suggested strum pattern. As absolute beginners, we have no idea background knowledge to draw on, and no guitar playing role model to turn to for suggestions as to strum patterns, so we are completely clueless as to what we should be strumming like. Please consider adding the suggested strum patterns to the many Songs/lyrics/chords that you have posted and shared. ThanksTerri-Annenoreply@blogger.com