Perdue: NC Medicaid program spending over budget

Let me put it terms so simple even you can understand them: If you cannot support your offspring, you do not have a right to produce offspring. Is that basic enough for you? I'm sure that in your sappy mind, "We can't let them starve, but we also can't control their reproduction." Here's a wake-up call - if they ACT like dogs and cats, we spay and neuter them. If you can afford ten kids, have ten kids. If you can't afford to feed the two kids you have, don't expect us to let you have a third kid. What I represent is everything LOGICAL and FINANCIALLY SOUND in our society. You cannot allow the upper fifty percent of tax payers to pay 97.3% of the personal income taxes collected. You cannot allow 48% of the population to pay no income taxes. Do you have any idea WHY the Soviet Union collapsed, and why China didn't? Do you have any idea why countries like Sweden, Holland, France, et al are reducing their social benefit programs? It's because your Sesame Street/Barney Utopia is ALWAYS destined to fail financially. The poor stop trying because they know the government will take care of them, and the productive, successful memebers of society stop trying because they know the government will simply take most everything away from them. Take time to research how many billions of Euros France lost when they enacted a millionaire's tax on large homes. Rich people packed up and left. The same thing is starting to happen right here in the United States. Rich people are making plans to leave if the Socialist plans continue. You can cry all you want to about me being "what's wrong," but history, Economics, and common sense are on my side. 2 + 2 cannot equal 10, and printing new money simply devalues the existing money. You either carry your own load and manage your own life or you fall by the wayside, the only exception being the truly disabled and handicapped. It really IS that simple....if you want this nation to survive. (BTW, born into poverty. Had a net worth of around $2k less than twenty years ago. So YOU try again.)

I don't pay a dime for my healthcare. YOu taxpayers pay for me. If it is made available to more people that will mean less for me.

With all of the news and politics about healthcare, it's probems, who will manage it, who will get it, who doesn't, etc., ect. I have heard nobody address the fundamental problems with fundamental solutions. No. 1: STOP the FRAUD. It hasn't even been addressed and will get worse by orders of magnitutude if the government takes control. There are 100 theives with 100 schemes waiting for every program offered the day it rolls out. The penalty for medical fraud should be nothing less that dismemberment for 1st time offenders. No. 2: Cut the ties of lobbying by pharmaceutical companies. No. 3: Cut the ties between the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies. No. 4: Prohibit the doctors from being pill pushers for ther pharmaceutical companies and getting kickbacks for it. Way to many useless prescriptions are written every day. No. 5: Place reasonable limits on costs of medical procedures. $450,000.00 for bypass surgery is a bit tall. $15,000.00 to birth a child? We can do better than this. We all know doctors and surgeons want to get wealthy, but if they want to get filty rich, they can play in the stock market or devise a ponzi scheme and suffer the potential consequences. No. 6: USE ELECTRONIC DATA!!!! This is 2009 for Christ's sake, we have computers now! cut the paper, trim the hospital admin. from 3 floors to 10 cubicles. Everything for a patient is still on paper and has to be hand carried. No. 7: Pharmaceuticals again. Everybody understands that phamaceutical research and approval is a long and expensive process, but $400.00 a week for an elderly persons precription??? C'mon! No. 8: Deny medical treatment to anyone that is not a legal US citizen or is not legally engaged to become one. They can go back home to get the care that their own country provides. No. 9: Close the borders down to prevent illegal immigration. This will eventually assist with No. 8 above. Now...this is a biggie that keeps getting worse and is waaaaaaay out of control as it is. WHY it this being allowed to continue? Who's pocket is getting packed by this one? Let's get an answer and get it now!!! STOP! No. 10: Anyone that is on Medicare or Medicaid must submit to a weekly drug screen and pass it to receive any benefits. This is simple, common sense, easy, first grade stuff. This is the tip of the iceberg. There are a ton of companies and people getting filthy rich by taking advantage of those with less. The average, everyday, hardworking soul, jut trying to raise a family. One hiccup and his chances for life are OVER! I'm not against capitalism, but what we have here is nothing less that government mandated greed that is running rampant. It is the greed that must somehow be curtailed.

...just has to live with the healthcare they can AFFORD? How about savings? How about using Medac? How about going without a cellphone and cable? How about riding a bike to work? Or walking? Where did we ever get this nonsensical view that the poor rate every single benefit in life even if they can't afford it? We give them food, we give them healthcare, we give them free daycare, we give them a place to live. Now we are actually giving them taxpayer provided cellphones!!! Where does it end? 40 million without healthcare? That means 268 million WITH healthcare....and you want to play around with that? You want to spread the walth so that even more people are on the dole? Here's what you seemingly fail to grasp - this country is horribly overcommitted financially. We can't afford to be everything to everyone. We can't afford to keep playing Santa. We have to tell people that THEY are responsible for THEIR lives. You want some solutions? Try these, though I'm sure you'll cry about all of them: On TANF and Medicaid and get pregnant again? No increase in TANF and mandatory tubal ligation after the child is born. Second case of fathering an illegitimate child, mandatory vasectomy. Senior applying for Medicaid? Five years worth of financial records provided and investigated. Search of real estate tranactions to make sure you're not hiding assets in the family. Stop states from mandating what constitutes "basic coverage" and allow people to customize their healthcare to what they need. Most of all, lose this insane notion that the government is here to devote 90% of its efforts to making the poor feel "un-poor!" (I'd really like to make it illegal to even have a child unless the household income is $40k, but too many sob-sisters would moan about that. Meanwhile, China and their one-child limit rocket past us and lend us trillions to finance our national recklessness.) So it may be "old" to you, but until we get tough, grow backbones, and knock off this acceptance of individual irresponsibility, this country is destined for financial ruin. Which will you prefer - defaulting on our obligations or raising taxes to pre-Reagan levels?

If 40 million people in this country have no no health care does that mean that there is 325 million that does? Sounds like something is working.

Agreed. Would say Amen but I cant. :) Too many welfare recipients breeding, generation after generation. Problem is, it is normal to them and NO ONE is telling them otherwise. One child per Mother, period. Any more and you get not a dime. Like that will ever happen. We will keep working so they can get paid to breed uncontrollably.