Category Archives: Health Care

Medical Miracles

I wanna go on the record here. Even with this health care law that is now in effect, there will be medical services available and even innovation. It’s not as if we have just descended into the dark ages where leeches* were common practice and a shot of whiskey complemented by an ash twig was considered anesthetic. We’ll still advance. Just not as fast as we might otherwise have.  Consider the fact that British doctors were able to transplant a trachea that would regenerate!

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Why Debating Liberals is Like Picking a Lock with a Wet Noodle

I admit it.  I watch Bill O.  I think that he tries, tries I say, to be the fairest of all of the opinion guys on the cable shows.  Beck and Hannity are right-wing with Hannity clearly in the bag for Republicans and the politicians in the party.  Olbermann and Madow are so far to the Left that you can see ’em on the horizon if ya look Right.

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QALY: The Left Will Explode

And so will the rest of us, of course.  Obamacare removes any limit that an insurance company can place on an individual per year or per life of the policy.  Which is niffty, because if we had the Single Payer, the government itself would impose that very limit.

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Bug or Feature

One of the most powerful hammers Obama used during the health care debate was the cost of care in America.  And he hammered hard; so hard that people were so stunned that failed to think it through.  Spending more may actually be a sign that we are BETTER off than any other nation in the world.

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Health Care Bill: Don't Repeal-Make Better

I’m pretty scrawny.  Built for lovin’-not fightin’ has been my motto since I was like 7.  So I am leery at the Republicans thoughts of repealing this bill.

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This is What it Feels Like to Live in France

At least I don’t have to shower any more.

Wanna Know Why We Spend So Much on Medical Care?

Because we can; just ask Celine Dion.

America is the world’s richest nation in the world.  Never in history has a generation enjoyed as much discretionary income as we currently do.  The price of food, clothing and shelter has never, ever, been lower.

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Market Forces at Work

This is what happens when the medical care industry is exposed to the free market.

Health Insurance: Moral Hazard

It is a law of “Economic Physics”.  Health insurance can not cost less than the cost of medical care.  If a group of people consume $10,000 worth of medical expenses per year, the sum of the premiums collected from all members of that group HAVE to be no less than $10,000.

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From Sea to Shining Sea

It started in Virginia and moved to New Jersey.  After that, the momentum swept to Massechusetts [heh heh – dumb bitch misspelled her own state!].  But beyond that, the writing has been on the wall for some time now:

“We didn’t like the Republicans but this, THIS, is NOT what we had in mind!

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