Re: {OT:} AARP Facts about healthcare

On Aug 8, 12:01 pm, Wollybird <wollyb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 8, 10:56 am, edspyhill01 <edspyhil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Aug 8, 8:27 am, "h kiesel" <pls2...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, I guess I'm not a "medical Darwinist" - I've never heard this
expression. But I wouldn't call my self a supporter of Obama's approach
either - I've yet to see any reference to seeking the advice of practicing
physicians or physician's groups in his decision-making in regards to
defining the big problems in medical care. Has he said anything about the
cost of "defensive medicine" - i,e, ordering every test possible to protect
oneself even if such tests have near zero chance of altering anything? -
current estimates say this is somewhere between 30% and 50% of all tests
ordered, especially in emergency rooms.

Regarding free market thinking, I'm no economist but it seems to me that any
economy based on progressively increasing consumption, and which tanks when
such is not the case, is doomed over the long haul.

This is almost a non-sequitur reply but somehow it seems relevant.
Sort of shows the fragility of out military-industrialist, bottomline
economy.  From a book review about Khrushchev’s visit to the US.

"Take the spectacle of Averell Harriman, of the railroad dynasty,
trying to persuade the Soviet premier that he was wrong to think that
the US was run by a cabal of capitalists who profit from the cold war
arms industry. He tried to accomplish this by inviting a cabal of
capitalists, including the head of General Dynamics, to dine with
Khrushchev in his Manhattan salon and disabuse him of this mistaken
notion.

The following day, Wall Street proved Khrushchev’s theory correct:
when the Soviet premier publicly challenged the US to a mutual
disarmament pact, the stock market crashed."

The entire book review is here:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dc10a404-7d6c-11de-b8ee-00144feabdc0.html

Funny story, except the market didn't crash in September 1959- Hide quoted text -

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Oops- I guess that was in June 1959, there was a dip (not a crash)
http://www.life.com/image/50708077
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