I rent an apartment and one of the fire alarms stopped working. I tried replacing the battery and it still doesn't work. Is the landlord responsible for replacing it or am I?I live in Oregon
sounds like a suspension problem, has the car been lowered? springs been cut? Highly possible the shock is bottoming out, especially if the car has been lowered with factory shocks. Have a shop check the shock and spring assembly, they may just be worn out.
It's a very bad idea for two very basic reasons: (1) I can cite you numerous examples of social and/or health programs that were taken over by the Federal Government and became ten times worse than they ever were before. Take one look at Capitol Hill and you'll see that the only thing our government is REALLY good at is miring everything they get their hands on in bureaucratic red tape, all the while wasting taxpayer dollars at the speed of light. (2) If we hand our health care program over to our government, we're stuck with whatever they come up with. Just like a monopoly is not good in a capitalist system because it allows the monopolist to control prices, it's not good for our government to have complete control over our health care because they can do whatever they want with it whenever they want without the approval of John or Jane Q. Public and we would realistically have NO SAY over the program whatsoever. People listen to me and think I want to overthrow the governmentNO!!! I want to FIRE 'EM!!! Gallagher
Total governmental control is never a good thing .. I read where Canada is doing fine Really? lets look a little further into this marvolous institutional health care system Canadian health insurance is administered by the various provincial governments under strict control of the federal government. It is illegal for a Canadian citizen to carry private insurance coverage for any health care services covered by the government. Physicians are told by the government how much they can charge for their services; drug prices are set by the government. The supply of medical services in Canada is completely rationed, with no significant private alternative.Canadians may not pay the price in dollar terms but they pay a steep price indeed in terms of care denied or delayed and the poor quality of service provided by unhappy medical practitioners whose incomes do not match their skill and training. Long waiting lines are the worst flaw in the system. The Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, calculated in 2003 the average Canadian waited more than four months for treatment by a specialist once the referral was made by a general practitioner. According to the Fraser Institute's work, the shortest median wait was 6.1 weeks for oncology (cancer) treatment without radiation. In some provinces, neurosurgery patients waited more than a year. A simple MRI requires, on average, a three-month wait in Canada. No thanks..
It is not really a question of whether they control it. It is more of how they control it. See, Canada had a policy of free health care. The government pays for it. In FULL. And they are doing fine. USA is so caught up in the financial concededness, that they won't do that. We love moneytoo much.
Aside from the bureacracy doing so would create, with no accountability, I hadn't thought about the information issues. The fact that competition generally creates efficiency out of necessity would disappear as well. To those who believe Canada's system is great, try getting an MRI when you need one. The wait list is staggering and apparently there aren't that many machines there. That's just an example of 'free' healthcare.
