We’re focused on getting ‘free’ health care without asking why it’s expensive. . . . → Read More: Free Markets Versus Free Health Care
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23 September 2009
By Hal on 23 September 2009
 Leave a comment  Current Affairs, Essays & Articles, free market, Freemarket, Health, health care, health insurance, obamacare11 September 2009
A persistent assertion from those hoping for the passage of ObamaCare is that government competition in the insurance market will lower costs. Not much is said about how this will come about, or why the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs haven’t already provided the cost lowering competition that ObamaCare will. The details of how government participation will increase competition remain vague, except to point out the obvious fact that if Uncle Sam is selling insurance it would represent one more outfit doing so. But there are already hundreds, if not . . . → Read More: Hoping for the Impossible 4 July 2009
You would think that the destruction of capitalism would be enough to keep our new president busy for at least a year or two. Nationalizing the banking, finance, insurance, and automobile industries is a pretty big bite to chew. But as they say in the ads, there’s more. Controlling your money is not enough. There’s your health to consider. We can take some comfort in the fact that, since the prez is planning to socialize the medical industry too, many of us will very likely not live long enough to get the full effect of living in a . . . → Read More: The Laws of Supply and Demand Won’t Be Conned 29 April 2009
Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction? By Dr. Mercola American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the U.S. Health officials across the world fear this could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, where seven people are confirmed dead as a result of the new virus. On Monday April 27th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four . . . → Read More: Dr. Mercola on Swine Flu Bunkum 24 May 2006
To a crime investigator a coincidence is a clue. Scientists on the other hand assume that clues are only coincidences until proven by experiment. The rule in science is that correlation does not prove cause. Clearly it doesn’t. For example, we cannot decide that because all scientists drank milk as babies that drinking milk as a baby causes people to become scientists.
Similarly, as U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) . . . → Read More: Just a Coincidence |
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