Comments on: Bush a Commie Mole?

By: floyd

floyd — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:10:42 +0000

great article, one more concern is an increase in government interference in private lives, like maybe dubious mandatory "prevention programs", or maybe the "wait for service until you die" program

By: RJN

RJN — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:19:46 +0000

There is another factor in the health care cost complex and that is the enormous innovation, and its attendant costs, in diagnostic equipment and in its use. This is a great boon for the young and middle aged, but largely paid for out of medicare and taxpayer funded insurance.

I hope that the younger public understand that we older folks are funding reasearch, and development, that will be of major benefit to you.

By: RJN

RJN — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:01:19 +0000

Why don't you drive a Mercedes or have a jet on standby? It is too costly and the money comes from your own pocket. If your employer was forced to supply these items, free to you, you would be driving a Mercedes, or equivalent, and you would be flying to meet friends for weekends in exotic locales.

Obviously this screed of mine is rhetorical; for all I know you do drive a Mercedes, and deserve to. I do make a point though, the best way to ration health care is through the user, and his pocketbook.

The left is, believe it or not, coming to the realization that some sort of health care rationing is necessary. They claim collective coercion is how it should be done. I claim that any rationing is best done through individual choices.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:44:00 +0000

Over use of the facilities by those who have all the tax-payer supplied health insurance is a costly problem.

I continue to look for actual proof of this claim. I'd appreciate any you can direct me to. Note: demonstration that people spend less on health care when they have less to spend is not proof of overuse.

By: RJN

RJN — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:19:37 +0000

Trial lawyer greed, public sector greed, union greed and free health care for the poor and illegal are what is driving up the cost of medical care. Over use of the facilities by those who have all the tax-payer supplied health insurance is a costly problem.

People in the U. S. who donât have prescription drug insurance (free for the greedy public sector fat cats) pay the highest prices in the world for medicine. Nobody in the world pays as much, per unit of medicine, as I do. I, and people like me, pay the largest portion, per unit of drugs, of the cost of developing the medicine for the world.

The best way for Uncle Sam to be involved in funding health care is through the user, not the provider. The new prescription drug coverage does that; it provides a public subsidy for the development of drugs through the user of the drugs. The ever stupid, and hypocritical, left has to be kept as far as possible from our health care providers, and this plan helps do that.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:23:27 +0000

My guess is that the Democrats/liberals will continue to plug some sort of health care reform without the need to raise taxes, and Republicans will continue to avoid looking for market based solutions, and in the end will end up with something really, really expensive and bad.

Yup. That's the reason I've been pressing those who want a market-based solution to start looking for something that could actually gain political traction.

Proposals to create a market in health care might be a good start.