Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Anybody who knows anything about this whatsoever, won’t see this as news. Still and all, it’s like unbending a coathanger and getting that itch under the cast finally, finally scratched. Ahhhhhh…….
One-sixth of the U.S. economy is threatened with a takeover by the federal government on the erroneous rationale that “tens of millions of people in the U.S. are without health care insurance, and therefore are being denied access to adequate health care.” Unjust! Unfair!
This is, of course, an absolute lie. Nor does some large number of people “die every day from lack of health insurance coverage.” That too is a lie.
Access to the health care providers (professional services) and medicine (products) of the best health care system in the world is already universal and available to every U.S. citizen, legal resident, illegal alien, prisoner, detainee, or visitor — regardless of whether anyone is covered by any insurance policy or health plan. For heaven’s sake, even the illegal aliens have figured out that anyone who walks into an emergency room is required by law (EMTALA) to be treated, regardless of the person’s ability to pay.
You can find out more about EMTALA here.
Congressman Freeberg would introduce a rider to repeal EMTALA as a condition of passing ObamaCare…just to be an irascible sonofabitch, to make the right kind of enemies, and to call attention to this obsessive-compulsive layering of safety nets that threatens to suffocate our country. Then he would be burned in effigy and run out of the beltway on a rail. That’s why we do not have a Congressman Freeberg.
The point stands nevertheless. We make society all lovely and perfect and germ-free, make it impossible to ever encounter any kind of personal disaster…we’re never, ever done. It never, ever ends.
This is a good, functional difference between Architects and Medicators. Architects construct a device that is supposed to do a certain thing, and then the thing somehow goes undone. Before they construct a new thing, the old thing m-u-s-t be retired. It is almost like a primal instinct.
Medicators just pile on. Can’t go back, we can only go forward. I suppose this is a fundamental attribute to any chemical addiction, which is what they’re really doing. They’re…well…they’re medicating. And so we have EMTALA, but we still have to have President Obama’s wunder-programme. Can’t go back, we can only go forward.
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Two million four hundred thousand people died last year, more or less. The vast majority had health insurance.
- jamzw | 03/14/2010 @ 22:26Last week I was hunting down some numbers on the insured/non-insured and I discovered that a full third of Americans, 100 million people, are on some form of government health care program.
Those numbers are due to expand quite a bit with the large number of baby boomers about to enroll in medicare.
Does anybody else think it’s indicative of a serious problem when a third of your citizens are already on taxpayer funded government health care?
- Daphne | 03/15/2010 @ 07:17