Comments on: ‘Death Panels’ make there debut…

By: jytdog

jytdog — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:59:19 +0000

sorry for the long delay in responding, i forgot about your blog! I will check back this week and see what you have to say

By: jytdog

jytdog — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:58:41 +0000

You want to privatize police? Fire departments? Providing water and sewage removal? Reagan started this discourse that “government doesn’t work” and it is so terribly corrosive. Government is you and me and the people we elect, not some rippled greedy monster. To the extent that government acts in bad ways it is because the American people are too lazy to obtain real news and be vigilant –“the price of liberty is vigilance.” The priviate sector is no more virtuous than the government, nor necessarily more efficient. Private sector companies that survive on government contracts tend to be more corrupt and inefficient than companies that sell into the private sector – look at the defense industry for pete’s sake!

By: jytdog

jytdog — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:54:23 +0000

To address your response, however.

1) healthcare is already rationed in america. if you don’t have a job that provides insurance and don’t have enough money to buy insurance, you don’t get healthcare and if something bad happens you die. This happens every day. What about that?

By: jytdog

jytdog — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:52:15 +0000

All the stuff you wrote is interesting but off the point of your original post and my response to it. Risk management is a huge, undiscussed issue here. Again, hospitals could prepare for common events, somewhat common events, rare events, very events… should they buy boatloads of vaccine that they might never use “just in case” — it is a serious and very very hard question. And you mention Katrina. Very similar issue there with regard to prevention. If we spent unlimited funds we could ensure that New Orleans would never, ever, EVER be flooded. But we don’t have unlimited funds and so you have to decide how bad a storm you will prepare for — how high to build the walls. Civil engineers deal with this stuff every day and the US Population just has no stomach for it, no head for it either.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:18:33 +0000

jytdog,

Thank you for your contribution.

No, I am not dumb and I don’t need to score points with anyone.

Back on August 15th at a town hall on health care, Grand Junction, Colorado, President Obama said, “No one in America should go broke because they get sick.” Well, let me ask, would the president agree with this: “No one should die from rationed medical care because America is broke.” And that’s the greater consequence that we face. No one should die from rationed medical care because America is broke. Would you borrow money from somebody who’s bankrupt? That’s what we face with President Obama and his agenda.

A few short questions you might ponder…

Do you feel comfortable turning over your medical care to a government that …

Tried to run the ‘cash for clunkers program’? -bankrupt in a week

Runs Social Security and Medicare? -unfunded liability of the two programs is now about $84 trillion

Runs Public Housing, Public Schools, Amnesty, Hurricane Katrina…

I could go on but I find it a bit ridiculous to believe that Government can do anything better or at a lower cost than the Private Sector.

History shows us all we need to know about government efficiency.

I do not want to risk my medical freedom, 1/6 the American Economy or American Capitalism, which has made this the most prosperous country on the planet, on Obama Care which will destroy all the above.

If you would like to debate this further, I invite your input.

Regards,
Phantom Lady