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On another note did you guys hear that Los Angeles raised the homeless tax and now according to the mayor homelessness will be 100% gone in ten years. That's great news!
Question 1: Do you think that the overall medical system prior to the ACA (unregulated?) was all that great? And as part of that answer, state whether you are basing that answer on your own personal monthly bill.
Question 2: If you think that the medical industry should be an all-capitalist proposition, then why should we continue to give tax breaks to companies who pay for medical plans?
I have to agree. Anything that politicians touch has been influenced by lobbyists, "experts", pundits, etc. But does that just means it is all hopelessly broken? i hope not.
My accountant did everything legal and even a few questionable things. Only other way to get my taxes lower are to flat out lie, that is what most of these accountants do that make it to where you don't pay. My problem was that I followed the rules and got screwed. I talked to a few other accountant because I get upset with mine but its not her fault she just won't lie to save me money and I agree, I don't need the audit where they will find out. Right now I could be audited for every year and win every single one. I would rather the rules be changed to to help someone trying to build a company instead of using every turn for them to charge more. Like Bud said, they won this battle, they took jobs away from six people including myself. They made it not worth it to keep fighting the fight. I had a very successful 9 years and every year that came more success came more charges for success to keep where I was the year before. It's funny I was up to 12 employees and doing a few million a year in sales and I took home less money than I did my first year in business when I was running the tractor with a helper.
They want equality, they got it. They just made a hard worker into the poor class just like everyone else. Its not about bringing up the lower class it's about bringing down the middle class to the lower class for equality.
Shaving $1k per capita would be a good start...
https://managinghealthcarecosts.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-has-high-hospital-administrative.html
Carried debt is deductible unless it is a big ticket item like a truck.
I had two truck loans and a few tractor loans that I paid off. Not supposed to pay them off
So what is everybody thinking about the new plan that's on the floor?
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World > World Statistics > Health and Social Statistics
Life Expectancy for Countries, 2015
Find the average life expectancy for each country and the world. As of 2014, the country with the highest life expectancy is Monaco at 89.52 years; the country with the lowest life expectancy is Chad at just 49.81 years.
Rank Country (years) Date
1 Monaco 89.52 2015 est.
2 Japan 84.74 2015 est.
3 Singapore 84.68 2015 est.
4 Macau 84.51 2015 est.
5 San Marino 83.24 2015 est.
6 Iceland 82.97 2015 est.
7 Hong Kong 82.86 2015 est.
8 Andorra 82.72 2015 est.
9 Switzerland 82.50 2015 est.
10 Guernsey 82.47 2015 est.
11 Israel 82.27 2015 est.
12 Luxembourg 82.17 2015 est.
13 Australia 82.15 2015 est.
14 Italy 82.12 2015 est.
15 Sweden 81.98 2015 est.
16 Liechtenstein 81.77 2015 est.
17 Jersey 81.76 2015 est.
18 Canada 81.76 2015 est.
19 France 81.75 2015 est.
20 Norway 81.70 2015 est.
21 Spain 81.57 2015 est.
22 Austria 81.39 2015 est.
23 Anguilla 81.31 2015 est.
24 Netherlands 81.23 2015 est.
25 Bermuda 81.15 2015 est.
26 Cayman Islands 81.13 2015 est.
27 Isle of Man 81.09 2015 est.
28 New Zealand 81.05 2015 est.
29 Belgium 80.88 2015 est.
30 Finland 80.77 2015 est.
31 Ireland 80.68 2015 est.
32 Germany 80.57 2015 est.
33 United Kingdom 80.54 2015 est.
34 Greece 80.43 2015 est.
35 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 80.39 2015 est.
36 Malta 80.25 2015 est.
37 Faroe Islands 80.24 2015 est.
38 European Union 80.20 2015 est.
39 Korea, South 80.04 2015 est.
40 Taiwan 79.98 2015 est.
41 Virgin Islands 79.89 2015 est.
42 Turks and Caicos Islands 79.69 2015 est.
43 United States 79.68 2015 est.
44 Wallis and Futuna 79.57 2015 est.
45 Saint Helena, Ascension,
and Tristan da Cunha
Bud, I posted that in response to your comment on life longevity.
I guess I should have posted the list of happiest countries.
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