tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5826893008188355901..comments2024-03-28T07:02:04.892-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: A classic example of a half-truthPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30567281029135516602011-01-02T14:57:38.725-06:002011-01-02T14:57:38.725-06:00I've noticed that many people who want free he...I've noticed that many people who want free healthcare are the same people who graduated from high school with me. In high school most took the easy gimme classes and partied. Having terrible grades they couldn't get into college. Instead of looking for a trade such as an electrician or a plumber (both examples of amazing jobs that can pay nearly six figures), they would rather wait tables and whine about how they can't afford good healthcare and how it should be free. Even those who made it into college generally choose worthless degrees such as sociology, psychology, english, and history. All are fine degrees if you can make it in academia, but they have no industrial or private-sector application. This sense of entitlement is rampant among my own friends my age. Simply because they obtain a degree they believe they are automatically worthy of a house and new car every few years. Healthcare? Why not let the rich pay that? What they don't understand is that the people who worked their butts off in high school and college , or even those who became employed in a trade, have to support them with their own tax money. Its truly ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5750554389172214202010-12-31T16:24:38.030-06:002010-12-31T16:24:38.030-06:00Remember, Dr. David Berwick, the appointee in char...Remember, Dr. David Berwick, the appointee in charge of Medicare, has praised the English NHS. Apparently you have to go all the way to Harvard to find a fan of the NHS. You sure don't find too many in the UK, from everything I've read!<br /><br />Anyway, Dr. Berwick believes they keep costs down by restricting supply. That's right: reduced supply leads to reduced costs. <br /><br /><i>"In a speech marking the 60th birthday of the NHS, he praised the it for deliberately creating scarcity: "You [the NHS] plan the supply; you aim a bit low; historically, you prefer slightly too little of a technology or service to much too much and then you search for care bottlenecks and try to relieve them.""</i><br /><br />Apparently Dr. Berwick believes that medical care is the only thing in the known universe that the law of supply and demand doesn't apply to.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81778893629703775392010-12-31T16:15:05.204-06:002010-12-31T16:15:05.204-06:00And unmentioned of course is that those same Europ...And unmentioned of course is that those same European countries had the US military covering their worthless asses for 50 years...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-58008968531641431572010-12-31T09:49:46.613-06:002010-12-31T09:49:46.613-06:00They don't mention the vast inferiority of the...They don't mention the vast inferiority of the provided "cradle-to-grave" medical care. We may spend a lot more, but we definitely get more too.<br /><br />Also, having a cradle-to-grave medical safety net means you have a cradle-to-grave nanny too.cybrushttp://blog.wymanhq.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90583082404378610202010-12-31T09:13:48.690-06:002010-12-31T09:13:48.690-06:00Peter, as discussed, you will be lucky to get anyo...Peter, as discussed, you will be lucky to get anyone who is not spouting the 'party' line on this...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17951439404874904152010-12-31T05:57:13.431-06:002010-12-31T05:57:13.431-06:00I've been trying to find balanced newsmedia an...I've been trying to find balanced newsmedia analysis. What sources do you use?suzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07599102235797825599noreply@blogger.com