tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post5270407069422845847..comments2024-03-18T17:28:44.693-07:00Comments on Rondam Ramblings: Individual health insurance without a mandate is a scamRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-35357896379810592722017-01-26T22:56:13.306-08:002017-01-26T22:56:13.306-08:00Beams Of Light
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>It's true that the De...<b>Beams Of Light</b><br /><br />@Ron<br /><i>>It's true that the Democrats are not without sin, but at least they don't embrace the notion of "alternative facts".</i><br /><br />That's because democrats live in an alternate reality, where energy beams shoot out of their eyes and change the environment to how they would like to see it. In this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-12913668404599419412017-01-26T22:55:09.991-08:002017-01-26T22:55:09.991-08:00Medical Care Markets - 2
Single payer leads to sh...<b>Medical Care Markets - 2</b><br /><br /><i>Single payer leads to short capacity:</i> In government single-payer plans, medical care is often in shortage - hospital capacity, testing capacity, and supply of doctors. Here's how that works. A yearly budget is passed. It will contain a certain amount of money to buy, say, MRI machines. But what if the demand for MRI imaging is exceeding the Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-30786191314719372552017-01-26T22:06:44.369-08:002017-01-26T22:06:44.369-08:00Beams Of Light
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>It's true that the De...<b>Beams Of Light</b><br /><br />@Ron<br /><i>>It's true that the Democrats are not without sin, but at least they don't embrace the notion of "alternative facts".</i><br /><br />That's because democrats live in an alternate reality, where energy beams shoot out of their eyes and change the environment to how they would like to see it. In this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-38149030064085611092017-01-26T22:04:39.210-08:002017-01-26T22:04:39.210-08:00Medical Care Markets - 2
Single payer leads to sh...<b>Medical Care Markets - 2</b><br /><br /><i>Single payer leads to short capacity:</i> In goverment single-payer plans, medical care is often in shortage - hospital capacity, testing capacity, and supply of doctors. Heres how that works. A yearly budget is passed. It will contain a certain amount of money to buy, say, MRI machines. But what if the demand for MRI imaging is exceeding the capacityPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-51284622127030691902017-01-26T22:03:59.703-08:002017-01-26T22:03:59.703-08:00First Rule - Don't Get Sick
>> The Fede...<b>First Rule - Don't Get Sick</b><br /><br />>> The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br /><br /><i>>Yes, but so what? All of the people who were in the government when that happened are long gone, and this generation has to play the hand it's dealt. Also, just because the government created *this* set of problems doesn't mean that everythingPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-20788102423097295142017-01-26T22:03:06.685-08:002017-01-26T22:03:06.685-08:00Medical Care Markets - 2
Single payer leads to sh...<b>Medical Care Markets - 2</b><br /><br /><i>Single payer leads to short capacity:</i> In goverment single-payer plans, medical care is often in shortage - hospital capacity, testing capacity, and supply of doctors. Heres how that works. A yearly budget is passed. It will contain a certain amount of money to buy, say, MRI machines. But what if the demand for MRI imaging is exceeding the capacityPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-30214733371425586952017-01-26T21:59:01.391-08:002017-01-26T21:59:01.391-08:00Medical Care Markets - 2
Single payer leads to sh...<b>Medical Care Markets - 2</b><br /><br /><i>Single payer leads to short capacity:</i> In goverment single-payer plans, medical care is often in shortage - hospital capacity, testing capacity, and supply of doctors. Heres how that works. A yearly budget is passed. It will contain a certain amount of money to buy, say, MRI machines. But what if the demand for MRI imaging is exceeding the capacityPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-15465945031496682892017-01-26T21:56:44.747-08:002017-01-26T21:56:44.747-08:00First Rule - Don't Get Sick
>> The Fede...<b>First Rule - Don't Get Sick</b><br /><br />>> The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br /><br /><i>>Yes, but so what? All of the people who were in the government when that happened are long gone, and this generation has to play the hand it's dealt. Also, just because the government created *this* set of problems doesn't mean that everythingPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-91333659406807545772017-01-26T21:47:36.398-08:002017-01-26T21:47:36.398-08:00Beams Of Light
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>It's true that the De...<b>Beams Of Light</b><br /><br />@Ron<br /><i>>It's true that the Democrats are not without sin, but at least they don't embrace the notion of "alternative facts".</i><br /><br />That's because democrats live in an alternate reality, where energy beams shoot out of their eyes and change the environment to how they would like to see it. In this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-63574883880207844802017-01-25T20:47:35.500-08:002017-01-25T20:47:35.500-08:00First Rule - Don't Get Sick
>> The Fede...<b>First Rule - Don't Get Sick</b><br /><br />>> The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br /><br /><i>>Yes, but so what? All of the people who were in the government when that happened are long gone, and this generation has to play the hand it's dealt. Also, just because the government created *this* set of problems doesn't mean that everythingPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-33949271184622321332017-01-24T17:45:00.664-08:002017-01-24T17:45:00.664-08:00Beams Of Light
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>It's true that the De...<b>Beams Of Light</b><br /><br />@Ron<br /><i>>It's true that the Democrats are not without sin, but at least they don't embrace the notion of "alternative facts".</i><br /><br />That's because democrats live in an alternate reality, where beams shoot out of their eyes and change the environment to how they would like to see it. In this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/z6fg3ghPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-40747105071641769782017-01-24T17:43:53.170-08:002017-01-24T17:43:53.170-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-8270852275760727272017-01-24T12:47:51.319-08:002017-01-24T12:47:51.319-08:00> But I take issue with the implication that be...> But I take issue with the implication that because the current set of problems was caused by government action then the best way to solve them is to simply undo those government actions.<br /><br />Of course. Perhaps we could talk about the various different market failures which stop the free market model from accurately referring to reality. For example, how about monopoly conditions on Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-25555789905365232042017-01-24T11:49:33.444-08:002017-01-24T11:49:33.444-08:00> The reason to know your history is to underst...> The reason to know your history is to understand what situations we face are contingent on possibly reversible choices<br /><br />OK, fair enough. But I take issue with the implication that because the current set of problems was caused by government action then the best way to solve them is to simply undo those government actions.<br /><br />> Democrats attribute too little agency to Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-41577755707124301932017-01-24T10:38:13.620-08:002017-01-24T10:38:13.620-08:00@Ron:
> > @Publius: The Federal government ...@Ron:<br /><br />> > @Publius: The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br /><br />> @Ron: Yes, but so what? All of the people who were in the government when that happened are long gone, and this generation has to play the hand it's dealt. Also, just because the government created *this* set of problems doesn't mean that everything was hunky dory Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-38760330948373171572017-01-24T10:09:11.614-08:002017-01-24T10:09:11.614-08:00> The Federal government created the problems w...> The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br /><br />Yes, but so what? All of the people who were in the government when that happened are long gone, and this generation has to play the hand it's dealt. Also, just because the government created *this* set of problems doesn't mean that everything was hunky dory before, and it *certainly* doesn't meanRonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-90001395037332807862017-01-24T09:30:42.596-08:002017-01-24T09:30:42.596-08:00Medical Care Markets - 2
Single payer leads to sh...<b>Medical Care Markets - 2</b><br /><br /><i>Single payer leads to short capacity:</i> In goverment single-payer plans, medical care is often in shortage - hospital capacity, testing capacity, and supply of doctors. Heres how that works. A yearly budget is passed. It will contain a certain amount of money to buy, say, MRI machines. But what if the demand for MRI imaging is exceeding the capacityPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-24918464509317370792017-01-24T09:30:11.534-08:002017-01-24T09:30:11.534-08:00Medical Care Markets - 1
The Federal government c...<b>Medical Care Markets - 1</b><br /><br />The Federal government created the problems with medical care markets.<br />1. During WW 2, the Feds imposed wage controls. To attract workers, companies started offering health insurance. Employers could naturally deduct the expense of this from their taxes. <br />2. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-46894875207336865242017-01-24T08:45:22.153-08:002017-01-24T08:45:22.153-08:00Insurance
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> individual health insurance w...<b>Insurance</b><br /><br />@Ron<br /><i>> individual health insurance without a mandate cannot possibly work.</i><br /><br />Not sure if you're actually referring to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_shared_responsibility_provision" rel="nofollow">individual mandate</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_issue" rel="nofollow">guaranteed issue.</a><br Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-5848562921862981862017-01-23T19:20:18.522-08:002017-01-23T19:20:18.522-08:00> > What's the corresponding example for...> > What's the corresponding example for health-care unions?<br /><br />> I have no idea, but the right-wing propaganda machine is very clever. I'm pretty sure they'd come up with something should the need arise.<br /><br />We're going to have to talk about what seems like the implicit political philosophy undergirding this reasoning. The idea that the federal government Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-77916171361473187792017-01-23T18:43:32.472-08:002017-01-23T18:43:32.472-08:00> What's the corresponding example for hea...> What's the corresponding example for health-care unions?<br /><br />I have no idea, but the right-wing propaganda machine is very clever. I'm pretty sure they'd come up with something should the need arise.<br /><br />> Don't mistake contingent social circumstances for permanent human nature<br /><br />Well, I wouldn't be spending so much time writing this blog if I Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-21202180057228451312017-01-23T18:18:28.435-08:002017-01-23T18:18:28.435-08:00> That's doubtful. Look at how well labor u...> That's doubtful. Look at how well labor unions have fared lately. It seems unlikely that health-care unions would do any better.<br /><br />It seems rather obvious to me that it would be much harder to paint health-care unions with as nasty a brush as labor unions. For example, at UC Berkeley there were a series of break-ins where the criminals would smash the little glass window in Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-48540577132281814872017-01-23T17:48:51.081-08:002017-01-23T17:48:51.081-08:00> they would probably have figured out ways to ...> they would probably have figured out ways to organize<br /><br />That's doubtful. Look at how well labor unions have fared lately. It seems unlikely that health-care unions would do any better.<br /><br />The other insidious thing about this is that most people are relatively healthy, and so they have never directly experienced getting the short end of the insurance stick. So it'sRonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-67127796456584960742017-01-23T17:07:57.169-08:002017-01-23T17:07:57.169-08:00Argh, that should be "employers", not &q...Argh, that should be "employe<b>r</b>s", not "employe<b>e</b>s".Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-58936623944442893092017-01-23T17:05:23.036-08:002017-01-23T17:05:23.036-08:00How is it not bogus that employees can deduct the ...How is it not bogus that employees can deduct the cost of healthcare from their taxes but individuals cannot? We've created a system which gives corporations the kind of power which allows this problematic situation to exist. Had individuals long been able to get health insurance coverage on their own and gotten the appropriate deductions, they would probably have figured out ways to organizeLukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.com