In Defense of Doctors
The doctors are not really to be blamed for the health-care mess. Instead, it is the intricate web of regulations, medical boards, AMA, lawsuits, insurance companies, etc. The corporatization of...
View ArticleFreedomCare
When you go into a supermarket, the business is happy to have you as a customer. As long as you pay for your purchases, they don't care if you are an American citizen or an illegal alien. The grocery...
View ArticleRyan Plan not so Free Market as you Think
Paul Ryan keeps on claiming his Medicare reform plan is based on "free markets." He is even being endorsed by the libertarian Cato Institute. To be fair, the Ryan Plan is preferable to ObamaCare. The...
View ArticleGOP Strategy to Win the White House
The Choices: 1) Appeal to the disillusioned left. 2) Appeal to the center. 3) Persuade the center toward the right. 4) Appeal to the impassioned right. 5) All of the above.Appeal to the disillusioned...
View ArticleLibertarian Solution to Health Care
Capitalism does not happen in a vacuum. Its participants are comprised of real human beings. They have empathy for one another. (Therefore, the profit motive is tempered by moral conscience.)...
View ArticlePrescription Socialism and Side Effects
Drugs have side effects. The doctor may give you prescription A to treat one set of symptoms. It then causes you to have other symptoms which requires prescription B. But that then aggravates new...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Fix Medicare
The Ryan Plan is the wrong way. It does not take the incremental approach. It fully funds Medicare for the next 10 years which merely prolongs the Ponzi scheme. The inflationary spiral of health-care...
View ArticlePonzi Schemes Galore
The huge baby boom generation (those born between 1946-1964) fueled the Ponzi schemes of the late 20th Century within the private and public sectors. Around the globe, we are now witnessing the great...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and Healthcare Monopoly
His Medicare reform plan is NOT based on free market principles. It calls for the use of taxpayers' money to subsidize "government-approved" insurance companies. (Therefore, the lobbyists will...
View Article@LibertyLynx on Right vs. Left
1) An intense hatred of the Right (some of it warranted) has allowed Democrats to fool their idiot followers into believing they're in it for the people. 2) AND an intense hatred of progressives...
View ArticlePandering to the Older Boomers' Appetite for Medicare
Why do you suppose the Ryan Plan calls for the FULL funding of Medicare for those born before 1957? Why are these older boomers to get FULL Medicare for perpetuity? Why does the Ryan Plan promote the...
View ArticleGood Conservative Websites
1) Pat Dollard =============> http://patdollard.com/ 2) America's Watchtower =====> http://americaswatchtower.com/ 3) American Thinker ========> http://www.americanthinker.com/ 4) The American...
View ArticleObamaCare Mandates Fealty to Rent-Seeking Classes
The individual mandate of ObamaCare will force us citizens to use insurance as the conduit of payment for routine health-care. It will further erode the doctor-patient relationship. The third party...
View ArticleDanger in the City ... Phoenix Valley Metro
Part I ... Peoria to Gilbert On Saturday, September 3 ... I had undertaken a journey from Peoria to Mesa-Gilbert via the Phoenix Valley Metro. The first three miles was the bicycle ride to the...
View ArticlePassenger from Wasilla
As an airport shuttle driver, I had an interesting passenger from Wasilla, Alaska. She knows Sarah Palin as a casual acquaintance, as do many people in Wasilla. The lady was of similar age. She...
View ArticleThe Canadians
Passengers from Windsor, Ontario: The middle-aged couple gave a stern warning to us Americans regarding ObamaCare ... "Don't do it!" They stated that the Canadian system of single-payer is a disaster....
View ArticleReihan Salam's Interview with Lou Dobb's on March 24, 2010
Reihan Salam, the coauthor of a book "Grand New Party," was a guest on the Lou Dobb's Radio Show, March 2010. The subject was about the health-care bill that had just been signed into law, back...
View ArticleObamaCare is Especially Bad for Older People
ObamaCare is very costly for the folks mandated to participate in it. Those costs become higher, the older you get -- especially for the Middle Class (whose subsidies are less). People who approach 65...
View ArticleCanadian HealthCare
Canada has a population smaller than the state of California. Yet its socialized medicine is administered at the provincial level -- not at the federal level. (Whereas the United States, with its huge...
View ArticleThe Pharma-Hospital-Insurance Complex
The exploding cost of healthcare -- as a percentage of GDP in the United States -- is a cancer that is out of control. As of 2010, it was 17.3% of GDP. It's projected to be 19.3% of GDP by 2019. The...
View ArticleEducationCare ~ A Hypothetical History
Once upon a time, there was a President named Franklin Roosevelt. He imposed wage and price controls upon industry during the inflationary years of World War II. But companies needed workers. They...
View ArticleA Computer Revolution was Born
Grassroots Capitalism: The counter-culture of the 1960's originally "scorned computers as the embodiment of centralized control,"[Pg. 58, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson]. But eventually, a small...
View ArticleNaomi Wolf is Being Very Honest
Naomi Wolf's Tweets of May 25, 2012I have to be honest about something. Some kind of evolution. I do still believe that women can never have social equality, if they can't terminate early in the first...
View ArticleSwiss View of America
Last night, I had a passenger from Zermat, Switzerland. He was a well-educated man, who keeps up-to-date on world events. (He also used to be a skiing buddy of Roger Moore.) According to him, the Swiss...
View ArticleMy Dream of being "Trapped in Vietnam"
We soldiers, both male and female, are penned inside a conference hall within a large building in Saigon. It is very crowded. No chairs. No tables. Standing room only. Mitt Romney had been elected...
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