(provided by my cousin, Steve)
Friday, January 6, 2012
What Religion Are You?
Choose your religion per this handy "religion chart"...
(provided by my cousin, Steve)
(provided by my cousin, Steve)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Call for Public Health-Care (repost)
Re-posting this from way back in August 2009.
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Private insurance profit - at odds with providing Health Care
The center of the issue on "health-care reform" is profit .vs. care. Private industry has only one natural motive - profit. Normally this is good because that motive typically aligns with providing the right product or service I want to buy.
In health care, this concept fails. Profit in private health-insurance is completely at odds with providing care. Private insurance will do all it can to eliminate providing care because health care cuts into its profit.
o) Private insurance establishes massive and wasteful bureaucracies to make it difficult to get approval, and to evade paying for the service that they should pay for.
o) Private insurance restricts our choice of doctors to their 'approved provider' lists.
o) Private insurance inject bureaucrats between us and our doctors by rationing our health care and dictating to our doctors what treatment to give (what treatment is covered).
o) Private insurance costs us more and more every year, at a rate that far outstrips inflation, and puts increasing downward pressure on our business and family economies.
Just imagine the entrepreneurial explosion that would be possible if we and our employers were released from the costs of privately based (individually or in small "groups") health-care insurance! Of course. It still has to be paid for somehow. But with a universal public based system paid for by taxes, we and our employers are freed from what is nearly a feudal system making us all dependent on the benevolence of our benefactor - the group policy.
The elimination alone of this repressive barrier-to-entry would within a few short years spawn an amazing amount of economic growth. People who might be inclined to it, will be free to try their hand at different business ideas because they are no longer dependent on mainstream employment for medical insurance. Employers would no longer have to devote hours of human-resources time, and many many dollars evaluating, selecting, re-evaluating, re-selecting different health-care plans.
Profit-motive in the health-care insurance industry causes all the above inefficiencies, because the profit is naturally in opposition to cash outlay for health care. A public cost-coverage system will have far fewer of any of the above because the 'natural' motive is to enable health-care, not to increase profit.
Private health insurance can never be trusted to look after our health-care interests. All arguments in opposition to public health care cost-overage fail to overcome this single, overarching reality.
Americans can not afford to keep it.
And the American economy deserves to be unshackled from it.
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Private insurance profit - at odds with providing Health Care
The center of the issue on "health-care reform" is profit .vs. care. Private industry has only one natural motive - profit. Normally this is good because that motive typically aligns with providing the right product or service I want to buy.
In health care, this concept fails. Profit in private health-insurance is completely at odds with providing care. Private insurance will do all it can to eliminate providing care because health care cuts into its profit.
o) Private insurance establishes massive and wasteful bureaucracies to make it difficult to get approval, and to evade paying for the service that they should pay for.
o) Private insurance restricts our choice of doctors to their 'approved provider' lists.
o) Private insurance inject bureaucrats between us and our doctors by rationing our health care and dictating to our doctors what treatment to give (what treatment is covered).
o) Private insurance costs us more and more every year, at a rate that far outstrips inflation, and puts increasing downward pressure on our business and family economies.
Just imagine the entrepreneurial explosion that would be possible if we and our employers were released from the costs of privately based (individually or in small "groups") health-care insurance! Of course. It still has to be paid for somehow. But with a universal public based system paid for by taxes, we and our employers are freed from what is nearly a feudal system making us all dependent on the benevolence of our benefactor - the group policy.
The elimination alone of this repressive barrier-to-entry would within a few short years spawn an amazing amount of economic growth. People who might be inclined to it, will be free to try their hand at different business ideas because they are no longer dependent on mainstream employment for medical insurance. Employers would no longer have to devote hours of human-resources time, and many many dollars evaluating, selecting, re-evaluating, re-selecting different health-care plans.
Profit-motive in the health-care insurance industry causes all the above inefficiencies, because the profit is naturally in opposition to cash outlay for health care. A public cost-coverage system will have far fewer of any of the above because the 'natural' motive is to enable health-care, not to increase profit.
Private health insurance can never be trusted to look after our health-care interests. All arguments in opposition to public health care cost-overage fail to overcome this single, overarching reality.
Americans can not afford to keep it.
And the American economy deserves to be unshackled from it.
Selfish Interests of the Ruling Class
All states are governed by the selfish interests of the ruling class.- Plato.
I'm not a big fan of Plato. His philosophies and opinions on the 'nature of man' do not sit well with me. Still, regardless of ones negative aspects, it is seldom when a person has not even a single thought that rings truth or wisdom.
Plato had many. This is one of them.
Seize the Moments!
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."- Leo Tolstoy
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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