Working to set up my campaign web site, which will include ways to contribute and volunteer. … Waiting for a response from the state Democratic convention, where I’ve asked for an “appropriate” speaking slot. … Being ignored by the L.A. Times. … It’s all going according to plan! …
P.S.: The Times mentions “demographic groups traditionally less interested in politics, particularly residents of Southern California ….” Yikes. That’s a big “demographic group” to be bored with politics. I blame … the L.A. Times, which has been making politics in Southern California boring for half a century. … 10:07 P’.M.
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Thorough piece by David Hogberg on the “20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms.” The trouble–from Hogberg’s point of view–is that the list is not that scary. Nothing worth abandoning universal health care over. … “Death panels”= scary! … Inability to buy “insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage” = not so scary. … 10:17 P.M.
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“Unsustainable” is the new “comprehensive”–a word reformers have begun to deploy in mysterious unison, in the apparent belief that it is magically convincing to voters (as in, “The current health care system is unsustainable”). ‘ Like “comprehensive,” the word is in reality a sure-fire turnoff. … “Comprehensive” scares voters with the thought that they are being governed by know-it-all,we’ve-thought-of-everything professors. It leads them to worry what the grand plan is hiding and to search for more incremental solutions. … “Unsustainable” is a get-up-and-get-a-beer word–as in, you get up and get a beer in order to ponder the complex question of whether the system really is “unsustainable.” I mean, you’re getting by, even if you worry about health coverage and all these experts are saying we’ll go broke in 15 years. It’s hard to see why things couldn’t continue the way they are going for a long time. … It would be more convincing if reform proponents simply said, “This will be a better system and here’s why …” 10:53 P.M.
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…the list is not that scary.
Let me speculate, Mickey’s never paid for an employee’s health insurance with his own money, and he never intends to.
That many of his fellow citizens will simply join him in that resolve never to hire people is what’s “scary.”
Of course, in addition to working to set-up his campiagn web site, Mickey will be establishing the health insurance plan for his campaign workers, right?
[…] Here's Kaus (second item), demonstrating early the kind of incompetence, stupidity, and even chiseling dishonesty that he so dearly wishes to put up against the same qualities of the aforementioned Boxer. […]
Gee, I wonder why no Democrats are afraid that medical advances will slow when the money to develop and certify them is made harder to recoup?
How many important drugs and devices have been invented in the UK or Canada since 1970? Are you content with that rate of innovation? Once the medical arts are a public utility, why will those technologies keep advancing faster than, say, electric power distribution?
Drug and medical device companies seem to produce for the Medicare market. I think once people find out about potential advances they demand them. That’s why the cost curve will not be bent. But by the same token it won’t kill the incentive to innovation.