Health care reform is important, but it is not worth bankrupting the country over. — David Baroques… New Yourk Tymes
Our healthcare system is bankrupt, and the cause for more bankruptcies than any other item in America. If we include the costs to small business of healthcare insurance and absence due to sudden health failure, then it costs us more in lost GDP than any other business factor, including fraud and theft.
Options never stare.
The debates begin again.
The opening salvo begins with this proclamation. proclo’motion.
America has the best medical system in the World.
An argument supported by this evidence. “You don’t see americans traveling overseas for medical care, do you? No, you see foreigners coming here.”
America might, but NBC doesn’t. Just recall that whatshisname died in NBC world headquarters just across the street from one of America’s best hospitals. Whatshis name couldn’t travel across the street, nor would the World Famous Doctors travel to him. Not even to save a life.
In my world, among those people I know, travel to india, or mexico or even Arizona is common for surgery. It is also common to see buses at the canadian border bearing retired tourists returning with plastic bags from pharmacies. And in the north bound lane canadians pretending that the toasters and socks aren’t new, just shiny and clean, so clean they smell of china.
After a CNBC pronouncer declared that there were only 4 MRI’s in Toronto, I checked. Even if he said it tongue in cheek, I thought to check if he also had his head up his ass. Just in case the smell was from him. I could get an MRI in Toronto the next morning. I then tried Stanford. Then tried a clinic in Las Angeles. No MRI for tomorrow, unless my physician signed me in as an emergency.
I can see the time now that oldsters from canada will be bringing in drugs in exchance for toasters or socks. Plumpy carrying back lumpy. The world market working at last. Free, fair, exchange among the desperate.
Toasters and socks from america, but drugs and MRI’s from canada.
We live on with notional health care, preferring the illusion.
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Upon Palin’s election to the presidency 1600 pennsylvania avenue will be known as the
White Trash House
. I heard her talk for more than five minutes to the NBC morning guy and haven’t any idea what she meant. Nor do I know the whether in Alaska.
This is going to be easy since every few days another loon gunman delivers the pitch for the gunners…
Gunman, guards exchange fire in Holocaust Museum
Of course if visitors had guns, then the gunman would never have been able to draw his and fire upon the poor security guard.
The mirrors in my mind outshine the sun outside.
If only students were permitted to carry guns, the Virginia Tech tragedy wouldn’t have happened...[more than a million hits on big G.]
If only peaceful citizens carried guns, there would be less crime….[more than a million hits on big G.]
So lets try this suit of clothes on in recent headlines…
If only parishioners carried guns, that evil baby killer would have been saved..
If only vacationers carried guns, those 16 dead revelers would still be drinking in Mexico.
Feel free to copy this template and use it at the next gun show you attend. If only…
As in the libertarian’s voce…
I don’t care, so why should you?
Statistics proves that eating corn is the original cause of pregnancy. Corn, being the common ingredient in the life of our founders must have been the cause of pregnancy. The common thread of statistics shows that the most frequent thing is the thing of cause.
Obviously this is false.
Statistics proves or disproves randomness, fit to distribution and such. The common, or journalistic man things that statistics proves something. The statistician certainly better not fall into that mistake. Stats may disprove a posture, but it cannot prove the position. What was the height of the First Emperor of China? Let’s take a poll.
Can there be anything worse, of lower standards, than an ancient intellectual making the threats of a teenaged thug? that is where Harlan Ellison finds himself. This is how I will remember him:
“If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” – Harlan Ellison [nyt: 5/12/09
Another promise on empty.
