(estimates based on Wikipedia and Federal and State government statistics) Myths: The top 1% in wealth pay 90% of taxes The top 10% of wage earners pay 50% of the taxes The general wage earners only pay 10% to 50% of the taxes What taxes and when do they pay? Facts: Which taxes … income taxes or all 46 taxes … all 46 taxes Which taxes … State, Local or Federal … all 46 taxes Enterprising Americans pay 99% of…..

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PROPOSED SOLUTION: THE ENTERPRISE MODEL SHIFT THE PARADIGM (From the Medicare/Medical Model to an Enterprise Model) Systemic Problems: While America is number ONE in cost per capita and thirty-eighth in quality, statistically, Americans spend more money on their health care than anything else but food. But the consumption of the health-care dollar is predominately not paid for by the consumer. The middlemen, so to speak, make the forces of free enterprise moot.  Consumers are bystanders in the relationship between purchase and…..

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By: Jerry Rhoads Americans are you excited about the prospect of getting free health care?  Sounds like a great idea for a politically driven plan … so I’m thinking a working title of Debunking the free Medicare For All socialism proposal … that converts all Americans to a VA type debacle!  You wait in line to get any medical intervention with a bureaucrat deciding your coverage then denying it based on its not medically necessary then it takes five levels…..

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Green New Deal Resolution Ed Markey speaks on a Green New Deal in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019 Wikisource has original text related to this article: Green New Deal Senator Edward Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a fourteen-page resolution[8] for their Green New Deal on February 7, 2019. The approach pushes for transitioning the United States to use 100% renewable, zero-emission energy sources, including investment into electric cars and high-speed rail systems, and implementing the “social cost of carbon” that has been part of Obama…..

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By: Karthik Kandamuri, and Jerry L. Rhoads, CPA and health care expert and consultant Americans are you excited about the prospect of getting free health care?  Sounds like a great idea for a politically driven plan … so I’m thinking a working title of Debunking the free Medicare For All socialism proposal … that converts all Americans to a VA type debacle!  You wait in line to get any medical intervention with a bureaucrat deciding your coverage then denying it…..

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First in a series of articles re: Medicare for All – Boon or Bane By: Karthik Kandamuri, and Jerry L. Rhoads, CPA and health care expert and consultant With the kickoff of 2020 presidential elections, healthcare debate started afresh. All the democratic presidential candidates are trying hard to outdo each other to offer “best” healthcare plan, which covers all the uninsured! But none of the candidates seem to have a coherent plan, which meets basic objective of the so called…..

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BY: JERRY L. RHOADS, CPA, FACHCA, LICENSED HELATH CARE ADMINISTRATOR … 1962 TO 2019 = 57YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND SYSTEMS ENTREPRENUER: ACCOUNTING AND CPA BUSSINESS, MANAGEMENT, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMEBT, AND OWNER OF THREE SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES 2009 TO 2015 (ARKANSAS AND IOWA) WRITTEN 17 BOOKS 9 REGARDING HEALTH CARE AND UNDERLYING FUNDING PRINCIPLES INCLUDING “FAILING GOVERNMENT TAKETH AWAY”,  “THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE MANIFESTO (THIRD POLITICAL PARTY)”AND “THE BOOMER’S ARE COMING” FOUNDED ON “WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW”…..

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Here is the blog review for you book: Failing Government Taketh Away, Xlibris publishing (Global Summit House literary agent), 2014 I am reviewing this book, not because I recently read it but because I speak favorably of the ideas it advocates. I just can’t say enough about how astounding I thought this book was and what it did for me and my knowledge of health care delivery and spending. I received a copy of this book for review and was pleasantly surprised to find…..

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FAILING GOVERNMENT TAKETH AWAY OUR TRUE STORY OF HOW THE MONOPSONY GAME IS PLAYED   In 2009 my son, wife and I purchased a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in Muscatine, Iowa with 15 beds available for vets, 2011 in Washington, Iowa we bought a 125-bed facility with 75 available for vets and in 2009 a 139-bed facility in Little Rock, Arkansas with 50 beds available to assist in providing much needed restorative care for the returning veterans. Why wouldn’t collaborating…..

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THE MONOPSONY GAME (a single payer health care system… a true story) By: Jerry L. Rhoads, CPA, LNHA, FACHCA   While America is number ONE in cost per capita we are thirty-eighth in quality; statistically, Americans spend more money on their health care than anything else but food. But the consumption of the health-care dollar is predominately not paid for by the consumer. The middlemen, so to speak, make the forces of free enterprise moot. Consumers are bystanders in the…..

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