yes, it's about damned time those bankers learn to quit spongiong off of others and work for a living.

Don 't worry, they'll mobilize the wingnut radio army to blame Obama.

Yes, it''s been so long since the last incompatible connector hell, we're just inching for a new one!

And yet, I have never seen a jack marked as Rj45 that didn't work just fine.

It's telling that Tesla expressed gratitude and paid the loans back early. Where the banks expressed any opinion at all it was closer to anger that we even questioned their right to a bailout or that we had any expectations whatsoever in return. Then to demonstrate their gratitude to the American people, they jacked up credit card rates, continued to not offer affordable loans, and stepped up theuir often illegal foreclosure preceedings (In other words, did everything that the bailouts were supposed to help avoid), then gave the money to the same executives who created the problem as a bonus for their "good" work.

Careful! If you keep spouting crap like that, you'll get buried in VC offers.

If prevention is cheaper, then why don't catestrophic coverage policies offer free checkups for the same price? Wouldn't it be cheaper?

So where are those charities you imagine? Plenty of people in the U.S. can't afford heqlthcare and I don't see anyone stepping up.

Meanwhile, since the U.S. spends double the money per capita as any country with socialized medicine for an inferior outcome, I agree, lets choose an efficient socialized medicine and cut our costs in half.

Actually, if a lawyer letter is incorrect on it's face or with a cursory look at the evidence, it should be grounds for sanctioning. They are supposed to keep crap like that out of the court system. And if they argue they never actually intended to take it to court, they admit to serious ethics violations. Lawyers also aren't supposed to use intimidation to win when they know they couldn't win in court.

Sure, as long as they can use something else that costs about the same, double the retail price and blame the FDA.

Few question that sanitation is probably the number one reason for the increased average lifespan in the developed world. However, there i a difference between simple sanitation (don't let the kids crawl in a river of human excrement) and obsessively blasting every bacterium with gallopns of triclosan.

All two of them.

What GP described was the way of things for most of human history including a significant part of the 20th century.

Unless you're worried about your drains getting an infection, I would say that so long as the germs are no longer on your hands, it hardly matters if they're dead or just down the drain.

That doesn't address the issue of breeding superbugs that cross over to human infections.

That too depends on the disease.

In most cases, I would say the vaccine is better than the disease. I question that for chicken pox on the grounds that vaccination as a child rather than contracting the disease leaves you more vulnerable as an adult.

In the case of Whooping cough, it's really only a serious danger to young children who seem to be adequately protected by the current cvaccine, so I'm not so sure a followup booster of any kind is necessary.