tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1646809421172994970..comments2024-03-28T09:46:42.923-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Not having health insurance can be as deadly as terrorism Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50103035177547944652017-03-20T18:43:29.091-05:002017-03-20T18:43:29.091-05:00I hope nobody who opposes healthcare for everyone ...I hope nobody who opposes healthcare for everyone dares describe themselves as "pro-life." Sorry, but if you don't want folks to get healthcare, you are pro-death. Paul Ryan is leading the pro-death movement right now. Trump is our pro-death President but it's hard to tell if he really understands what he's saying a lot of the time.J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-7892804046466409362017-03-20T12:40:13.764-05:002017-03-20T12:40:13.764-05:00Yes, Bismarck may have stopped the Comm. Revolutio...Yes, Bismarck may have stopped the Comm. Revolution from happening there. There was some help for workers too. Too bad the young Kaiser didn't appreciate him after a while.<br /><br />And Ms. Mona must have forgotten the low cost of med. care in those days.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46508033332311615572017-03-20T09:26:42.902-05:002017-03-20T09:26:42.902-05:00In a Saturday piece the Sun-Times' token right...In a Saturday piece the Sun-Times' token right wiing coulumnist, Mona Charen, declared her preference, "as a conservative," for a return to the free market in medicine that prevailed before Medicare and Medicaid and before "Congress further distorted the market by requiring hospital emergency rooms to treat everyone regardless of ability to pay." Put another way, that golden time when allowing the indigent and old to perish from lack of medical attention was considered a necessary inconvenience. Beware of free market ideologes, as they are apt to be bad for your health.<br /><br />But beyond that, one wonders if the lady knows that the first universal health insurance system was installed in 1883 Germany, not at the behest of Karl Marx but by Otto von Bismark,as "conservative" as they come. The Iron Chancessor simply felt a healthy 'volk' was necessary to a strong Germany. Evolutions of the Bismark model, not that different from 'Obamacare,'have been adopted by other industrial countries, providing better than U.S. outcomes at lower cost. <br /><br />Evidantly, being a 'conservative' these days simply requires taking a 'government bad' pledge, sometimes in defiance of good sense and common humanity.<br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8688501482039238312017-03-20T08:57:16.931-05:002017-03-20T08:57:16.931-05:00Well said.Well said.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.com