The Gold Plated Ambulance

[Zevico]

Is the deliberately provocative title to Kevin Williamson excellent article on free markets and healthcare. He makes a convincing argument.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359791/gold-plated-ambulance-kevin-d-williamson

[Ben Kenobi]

Fantastic article Zevico.

the best social innovations do not rely on philanthropic motives, which are notoriously unreliable.

[C0ckney]

Is the deliberately provocative title to Kevin Williamson excellent article on free markets and earth care. He makes a convincing argument.

he starts off with a strawman, then proceeds to state the bleeding obvious (new technology is expensive, often innovations in one area will have an impact in another, resources are not infinite etc.). we then get a bizarre attack on 'death panels'. it's strange for someone who has just argued that resources are limited to then rail against the means that most countries adopt to ration those resources. afterwards, a predictable attack on obamacare and a standard supply side argument which at no point recognises the obvious differences between the market for cars and healthcare.

in short, the author doesn't know what he's talking about, and is actually quite a bad writer as well.

[Hauldren Collider]

There's no strawman. What he describes is what liberals everywhere actually feel about the healthcare industry.

[C0ckney]

really? have you asked all of them?

[Hauldren Collider]

I have a sufficiently large sample size to extrapolate.

[DaShi]

Is the deliberately provocative title to Kevin Williamson excellent article on free markets and healthcare. He makes a convincing argument.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...n-d-williamson

Hey guys, I make fun of the Huffington Post then post an article from the National Review.

[DaShi]

There's no strawman. What he describes is what liberals everywhere actually feel about the healthcare industry.

Cockney is right. Williamson is trying to trick you. His opening story implies that wealthy people will no longer have access to healthcare under what he claims liberals want. That is a strawman. That you bought it so easily shows your ignorance.

I'm glad I made this thread: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/2...ldren-Collider

You don't understand the economics of poverty or any economic thinking beyond the 18th century.

[Dinner]

Hey guys, I make fun of the Huffington Post then post an article from the National Review.

Sad, isn't it?

[DaShi]

The complete lack of critical thinking that garnered that article any attention is what is truly sad.

[Felch]

The most generous national health-care program we can imagine is not going to have the resources to provide each and every one of the 314 million citizens of these United States with the same kind of health care that Bill Gates can access.

No ****, really?

[Aeson]

I must have a better imagination than Zevico's Article! I can imagine a health-care system that has sexy robot nurses (of whichever gender(s) you prefer) performing healthcare while their masters restfully take a nap (or pretend to, so as to not trigger the robot's embarrasment routines, as they have been programmed to be very shy ... but also mischevious in a very nice way). They caressingly rejuvenate each and every cell in the patient's body with sweet scented nano-lasers ... all running on zero-point energy.

Just reading those sentences you also imagined something better than Bill Gates having a colonoscopy

... and now you've imagined something much worse than even Obamacare ...

[Ben Kenobi]

What he describes is what liberals everywhere actually feel about the healthcare industry.

Exactly. We've all heard them argue, "why should some people die because they are poor?" The only difference is that liberals believe in universal healthcare and assisted suicide. Dying because you are poor is bad, but letting your doctor kill you is not. Go figure.

[Ben Kenobi]

His opening story implies that wealthy people will no longer have access to healthcare under what he claims liberals want.

Sure they will. In India, in Thailand. Medical tourism is a reality. Wealthy people will always have access to health care. His argument is that folks of modest means won't have access to health care - because they will be force to rely on the public system, and they won't qualify for subsidies, and they will see rationed care.

He's right. Why did so many Canadians travel to the US to get treatment? Expensive treatment > none at all.

[Aeson]

Dying because you are poor is bad, but letting your doctor kill you is not. Go figure.

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