Apr
23
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There: Part Three
April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(In which we mostly belabor the obvious.-PB) Mostly Over-doctored How much health insurance do most people need for most of their lives? The answer is none. Most people are fairly healthy and have mostly healthy children who could probably manage to go years between visits to the doctor. When they do go, it is mostly [...]
Apr
19
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There: Part Two
April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(Medical care is expensive, no doubt about it, but the remedies proposed by the usual suspects who hope to leverage the problem into political power don’t address the real factors driving up the cost. Maybe I’m just not an excitable fellow but I like to keep a cool head and not get swept up in [...]
Apr
7
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
April 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(If I fellow could keep his head and not get caught up in the hysteria surrounding health care, if he could just keep his mouth shut and his eyes open he might see the real problems in the system without being blinded and deafened by the usual propaganda from the usual suspects using Health Care [...]
Mar
30
Single Payer Dreaming
March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(The third time’s a charm as they say. Again, from the tone of many of my emails, not all of them as polite as you would imagine coming as they do from people who make it their business to be compassionate, I can see that many of you are still not getting it. Let us [...]
Mar
29
Single Payer Monte
March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(Judging from my email, the previous article was poorly understood even though I tried to break things down to the most fundamental level possible. I used little, easy-to-read words and I even made mention of dogs biting scrotums for crying out loud. Let me take another crack at it for the sake of those of [...]
Mar
28
Single Payer Shell Game
March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Bureaucracy That Dare Not Speak Its Name To hear its proponents describe it, under a Single Payer system of national health care the government wouldn’t even be involved. Apparently, even though such a system designates the government as the eponymous Single Payer who would pay everybody’s health care costs from tax revenues, the private [...]