Journal nocomment's Journal: A GREAT! Obama rant 4
This guys gets it: http://www.allyourbasearebelongto.us/blog2.php/2008/10/27/a-great-obama-rant
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A GREAT! Obama rant
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Wait, what? (Score:2)
Poor people coming to America for its health care?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Try living outside the country for a while for a dose of reality. :-P
(If European health care* is so inferior, why is it -- for example -- that the medical college right here in Hannover has a department just for foreign patients? [mh-hannover.de] And it's hardly as if Hannover is a major metropolis, either.)
Cheers,
Ethelred
* - Which, contrary to your ranter's supposition, is not socialized. Neither is Obama's health care plan. Nor
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Yeah he is incorrect on that (and many other specifics). I think the point was that the current budget is stretched beyond it limits, and adding fancy features is a terrible idea.
Such as the bailout plan. I heard a commercial on the radio last night about how because of the bailout package you can now get a home! cheap! Uh huh, wait? Isn't that my tax dollars? Now eing lended by someone who was bankrupt because of irresponsible decisions? To someone else that likely doesn't have a hope in hell of surviv
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To be fair, both candidates have health care plans that will probably cost us a small fortune while not really changing anything. The main difference is in the way they will cost money -- it's like a shell game, in effect.
The real irony of it is that the much-derided* European health care systems are not only not socialized, but they do indeed use markets to work. The difference is the way their markets are regulated, in such a way that universal health care is more or less guaranteed.
Cheers,
Ethelred
"I'm gonna try to offer the best care at the best (Score:2)
cost"
Yeah. That ain't how it plays. The stock market skews capitalism against Adam Smith.
"I'm going to offer the most negligible and contentious level of care possible at the most inflated prices I can manage, using some of the margin to create incentives that advantage employers to offer my plan anyway - the rest of my float will produce a maximum possible shareholder dividend, and inflate the stock price during my tenure as CEO. That will allow my friends on the board to vote me a multi-million dollar