Hartmann: GE moves x-ray business to China, now that China passed national single payer health care

How is that for another slap in the face for regular people?


Our government is broken.

why Universal Healthcare for all actully benefits the medical industry. Quadruple the number of patients = $$$$. Why is this so hard?

And then make it so they can never use it with huge deductibles and copays. That way the Co.'s get $$$ for doing nothing! It's the American Way :sarcasm:

They convince the stupiderati that social programs benefiting the health and living quality of the working class are wrong, that personal lives (especially sex and reproduction) should be heavily regulated. and that corporations should be unregulated.

*China is evolving. Invest in China.* It used to sadden me when that ad came on; now it seems par for the course. We're screwed, and a big chunk of America doesn't even know it yet.

Time to end the clap trap of austarity/authority...

I am so sick and tired of stupid Americans. They are the ones responsible for electing idiots into Congress.

I just had to add that bit. I'm tired of fighting for what is rational. It's like trying to convince a drunk that what they're doing is unhealthy.

Pissing about gay marriage and family values.

What a laughingstock we've become.

And, sadly, we've become incidental, no, irrelevant, to the success of American, so-called American, and formerly American companies.

If all you want is a "maintenenace hog", get their equipment. Have to call work orders at least bi-weekly.

I am just glad for Siemens USA.

I'm sure Siemens can take up the slack.

Bake

Yes, the have a US division, much like Toyota does. But in the end all, Siemens is a German company.

I just want Immelt to pay.

Bake

Obama should be replaced the dude is traitor (Hope you can believe in? hahahahahahahahahaha...hahahahahahahahahaha...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

"GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt serves as the head of President Obama’s job creation council."

was able to PAY zero corporate taxes on 5 plus billion in profits. And a nice gig on job creation.


Zero taxes
Moves a substantial sector to China

And then tells people to suck it up.

his President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.


Anyone still have any questions about where Obama's loyalties are?

Hell, even the USSR managed that. I swear even setting aside all his other terrible polices this just shows Mao sucked at this whole socialist revolution thing.

Under Mao's system, each collective had one or two doctors assigned to treat the members of that collective. As proper communists, those doctors weren't paid, but were directly supported by the members of the collective. If anyone needed medical care beyond what they could offer, those doctors could refer them to a government run hospital. Those hospitals operated on a money basis, and the bills were paid by the collective.

When China de-collevtivized after Mao, those local doctors vanished. Instead, health care became cooperative. You joined the coop, dedicated a mandatory portion of your earnings to it, and those earnings supported your local hospital and doctors. You could see them without charge. The downside? If you didn't have anything to contribute, you couldn't join. Because China didn't make joining mandatory, there were also many people who opted out and kept their earnings. Most coops collapsed because there weren't enough people in them. At that point, most of the people found themselves in a Fee For Service environment. That worked fine for a long time, but modern hospitals with modern technology is expensive, and many Chinese can't afford it today.

I'll admit my knowledge of Mao's China is limited, since I haven't really studied it all that much. I appreciate the correction.

They advertise heavily on TV. They are world wide, of course.