Comments on: The Health Care Difference http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5856 Joan Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:17:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html#comment-5856 <p>Hi! Your web site is helpful. Many thanks. Best regards!<br /> </p> Hi! Your web site is helpful. Many thanks. Best regards!

]]> By: Mesa EconoGuy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5855 Mesa EconoGuy Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:27:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html#comment-5855 <p>Unrelated – Back to Star Wars 30th</p> <p>Forgot about this one, Python does Star Wars:</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEsz9ci5XE&mode=related&search <br /> </p> Unrelated – Back to Star Wars 30th

Forgot about this one, Python does Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEsz9ci5XE&mode=related&search

]]> By: Mesa EconoGuy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5854 Mesa EconoGuy Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:20:22 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html#comment-5854 <p>And, just to pile on, the people [government] advocating socialist medicine will be forced to ration, and will also control the cost reporting mechanism [government, taxation]. They will tell us it’s working! Unbelievably better than we had ever anticipated! </p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuvB7j9n-II </p> <p>So, in any rational analysis environment, voters should run screaming throughout their houses, many jumping through windows.<br /> </p> And, just to pile on, the people [government] advocating socialist medicine will be forced to ration, and will also control the cost reporting mechanism [government, taxation]. They will tell us it’s working! Unbelievably better than we had ever anticipated!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuvB7j9n-II

So, in any rational analysis environment, voters should run screaming throughout their houses, many jumping through windows.

]]> By: M. Hodak http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5853 M. Hodak Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html#comment-5853 <p>It's even worse than Francis is saying. The opportunity cost of socialized health care is not part of this discussion.</p> <p>With the market guiding health care dollars, we actually have a decent shot at significant life extension in the next few generations--by decades or centuries. Hillarycare or any of its variants will literally cut short the lives of our progeny versus what they could hope for if the current pace of advancement is allowed to continue.</p> <p>http://www.hodakvalue.com/blog/</p> It’s even worse than Francis is saying. The opportunity cost of socialized health care is not part of this discussion.

With the market guiding health care dollars, we actually have a decent shot at significant life extension in the next few generations–by decades or centuries. Hillarycare or any of its variants will literally cut short the lives of our progeny versus what they could hope for if the current pace of advancement is allowed to continue.

http://www.hodakvalue.com/blog/

]]> By: Francis W. Porretto http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5852 Francis W. Porretto Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:38:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_health_care-2.html#comment-5852 <p>Well put. There's a direct comparison to another socialized American industry: education. Now, you might say that education isn't socialized, because private schools are still permitted, but the effect of the mandatory, and very high, school taxes all of us must pay is to compel most of us to send our spratlings to the government-run schools, simply because the money that would have paid for a private alternative has already been taken from us by force. And of course, American grade-school and high-school education have become so laughable that most high-school graduates of the past thirty years couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a hunting dog.</p> <p>Socialized medicine, whether on the Clinton plan or any other, would perform even worse than the government-run schools. To function at all, it would necessarily compel 100% participation -- no private alternatives allowed. It would eventually require stringent price controls. It would put bureaucrats in charge of decisions that would mean life or death for millions of disenfranchised others. And the opportunities for graft and corruption would be unspeakable.</p> <p>VA medicine and Medicare have already witnessed many of these developments. Dare we even entertain doing to the whole country what VA hospitals have done to America's veterans and Medicare has done to America's elderly?</p> Well put. There’s a direct comparison to another socialized American industry: education. Now, you might say that education isn’t socialized, because private schools are still permitted, but the effect of the mandatory, and very high, school taxes all of us must pay is to compel most of us to send our spratlings to the government-run schools, simply because the money that would have paid for a private alternative has already been taken from us by force. And of course, American grade-school and high-school education have become so laughable that most high-school graduates of the past thirty years couldn’t find their own asses with both hands and a hunting dog.

Socialized medicine, whether on the Clinton plan or any other, would perform even worse than the government-run schools. To function at all, it would necessarily compel 100% participation — no private alternatives allowed. It would eventually require stringent price controls. It would put bureaucrats in charge of decisions that would mean life or death for millions of disenfranchised others. And the opportunities for graft and corruption would be unspeakable.

VA medicine and Medicare have already witnessed many of these developments. Dare we even entertain doing to the whole country what VA hospitals have done to America’s veterans and Medicare has done to America’s elderly?

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