Posted by
rycK on Friday, April 04, 2008 9:33:10 AM
And they Whine On about Socialized Medicine.
We can rely on the New York Times to scrounge the secret rusty places in the bottoms of every dumpster in New York City for a hint as how to present a glubberance[1] to the politicians as how to implement socialized medicine. Using Cuba[2] as a sterling model, spending only $230 per person per year, we are treated to round number 349 from the Walter Duranty Papers [3]on how this budget buster ought to proceed.
The harangue continues from the usual source: Krugmann, the krugmaniacal non-economist from the Times in an article entitled [4] Voodoo Health Economics. His articles always attack capitalism and conjure up heaps of abuse for the greedy while appealing to emotions just so as to get the worthless federal government to control our health care system. We can wonder what else they can do properly after looking as the Pentagon, HUD, Great Society, welfare in many variants, ‘education,’ and Social Security. From that list we might assume that government might be a failure in administrative terms. It turns out that the ONLY thing our government can do is tax, and that is the basis of leftist power in the work and the only power they really have.
The current sputum:
“It’s about time someone said that and, more generally, made the case that Mr. McCain’s approach to health care is based on voodoo economics — not the supply-side voodoo that claims that cutting taxes increases revenues (though Mr. McCain says that, too), but the equally foolish claim, refuted by all available evidence, that the magic of the marketplace can produce cheap health care for everyone.” [Emphasis is mine in color and such in all quotes in this article.][5]
This is so old that it must be inscribed on several Egyptian tombs. The clarion call for tax hikes is the only solvent scheme in Krugman’s screeds. Given the histories of the JFK tax cuts, the Reagan Tax Cuts, and the Bush Tax cuts, the evidence is ignored in the hope that some simpleton will buy this lie. Of course no Marxian drooler worth employing as a ‘writer’ in any Soviet Rag would accept market forces in lieu of a command economy. Stalin drank the best wines when he headed that kind of grunt and grab group. The Clintons are worth $50,000,000 dollars and are fine examples of compassionate liberals.
“For one thing, even if you buy the premise that competition would reduce health care costs, the idea that it could cut costs enough to make insurance affordable for Americans with a history of cancer or other major diseases is sheer fantasy.”[6]
Strange. Competition cut costs and prices in telephones, cars, TVs, computers and many other facets of capitalist economies around the globe. I wonder if Paul Krugman has ever taken a course in economics?
“And the international evidence on health care costs is overwhelming: the United States has the most privatized system, with the most market competition — and it also has by far the highest health care costs in the world.”
It is also the very best and if we want to cut costs by 25% we can take the slimy lawyers out of the cost structure. Look at how John Edwards got his loot: channeling a dead baby in front of the jury! How about that for a cost-cutting suggestion? What is the cost of 15,000,000 illegal aliens using our system for free? How much is that?
“As I’ve mentioned in past columns, the Veterans Health Administration is one of the few clear American success stories in the struggle to contain health care costs.”[7]
As a vet, I have to say that this is a joke. The VA has consistently reduced the number of patients by simply truncating eligibility with punitive means tests and confined their constituents only to the destitute. They refused to treat me. Their facilities are crap [Elsmere, Philly Brooklyn], their doctors are second rate, facilities are shabby and they frequently cannot speak English. The VA is a sick joke like most governmental programs. It ranks down there with HUD or the efforts to control the borders: utter failure.
“Worse yet, Mr. Obama attacked his Democratic rivals’ health plans using conservative talking points about choice and the evil of having the government tell you what to do. That’s going to make it hard — if he is the nominee — to refute Mr. McCain when he makes similar arguments on behalf of such things as privatizing veterans’ care.”[8]
This is pedestrian-level rubber-stamping leftist propaganda. For liberals, mere drooling stooges who prostrate themselves under the statue of Lenin, there is no substitute for higher taxes and more government. The sobbing continues.
Tautology and propaganda are the only skills at the New York Times as we have seen in the past.
Nothing has changed.
rycK
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[1] New word: a sorrowful plea to use somebody else’s money for a worthless social project. Glubberances are generally submitted by slitherants, another new word.
[3] Colors are used for emphasis in my blogs with bold an italics to match the particular political flavor of the comment or history of the reference. Duranty was a liar and Communist stooge and is an icon of the New York Times.
[5] Voodoo Health Economics IbId.
[6] Voodoo Health Economics IbId.
[7] Voodoo Health Economics IbId.
[8] Voodoo Health Economics IbId.