writing : A few months back , many were outraged when a young girl, Nataline Sarkisyan, died after the administrator of her insurance plan, Cigna Healthcare, did not approve a liver transplant procedure until it was too late to save her life. Many Lefty bloggers (and Michael Moore ) were outraged, though they got some of the facts wrong and the situation wasn’t nearly as clear as they seemed to think. This raises some more questions: Do advocates of universal health care think cost/benefit resource allocation decisions will no longer happen under universal health care? Do those advocates believe nobody will ever be denied any medical care for any reason? If they disagree with those decisions when the government pays the bills, where will they take their business? Finally: Cigna Healthcare denied one procedure that had a chance of extending a life. But the FDA routinely delays and denies thousands of medical treatments based on potential risks and uncertain...
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Joke of the dayFrom: caveatbettor.blogspot.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:56:00
courtesy of Arnold Kling : One Cuban young woman complains to another. "He lied to me! He told me that he was a luggage handler! It turns out, he’s nothing but a neurosurgeon!" Luggage handlers working the tourist hotels [in Cuba] often make more in one day than medical doctors receive in a month. ...
more NAFTA fearmongers, meet Thomas SowellFrom: caveatbettor.blogspot.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 10:29:00
who instructs : Senator Obama says that he is for free trade, provided it is "fair trade." That is election year rhetoric at its cleverest. Since "fair" is one of those words that can mean virtually anything to anybody, what this amounts to is that politicians can pile on whatever restrictions they want, in the name of fairness, and still claim to be for "free trade." Clever. We will all have to pay a cost for political restrictions and political cleverness, since there is no free lunch. In ...
more Bubble watchFrom: caveatbettor.blogspot.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 10:09:00
over at Felix Salmon’s . Very neat! In case you haven’t been following, here is where bubbles come from ....
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