Reinke Faces Life

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BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors ‘deny elderly treatments’
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:18 AM EST
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, according to a study.

In the “health care” debate, with the socialists in both major parties advocating mandatory insurance, “single payer”, and all sorts of gooferment involvement, we need to keep focusing on the “working laboratories” of results reported from Canada and England. Personally, I think we started down a dangerous path to socialism when “benefits”, medical insurance, and Medicare / Medicaid were introduced. Maybe I’ll blog about the details (http://www.reinkefaceslife.com), but when you remove the dynamic of the “individual paying for their own healthcare” then all sorts of bad “unintended consequences” sneak in. Here’s one of them socialized medicine kills old people. Not necessarily unproductive old people, not demented suffering old people, and not necessarily those at the end of their lives. If fact, the way I read the article, it’s all about hustling the old of life.

Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:25 AM EST

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England and Canada offer us a “laboratory” on socialized medicine. Not that I think the USA system is great. I’m just not sure that what the politicians propose is any better. In fact, if I know gooferment, it will make it worse. The “laboratories” are useful in the debate because we can see the impact of socialized medicine on people over there and extended it to what will happen here. Our politicians are no better than theirs. Our doctors are no less or no more than theirs. Socialized medicine sets up perverse incentives. And, we need to the “laboratory” lessons to heart. There’s a reason that Canadians come to the USA for MRIs. There’s a reason that elderly English dialysis patients migrate to other countries. There’s a reason why Californians are getting hips replaced in India. And, we have to hold our politicians accountable for those answers BEFORE we let them do anything.

The wage price controls of WW2 started the current “benefits” fiasco. Business seeking to retain their good people, faced with a wage cap, came up with paid medical insurance as a way around the limitation. From whence, we got wage slaves who had to keep their job to keep their benefits. Having purchased medical insurance on my own as a consultant, it not cheap but not impossible. We need to take it out of the company’s benefit package and put it back in people’s hands. At the very least, if I buy medical insurance it should be tax deductible to me. We need to jigger the scales. Remove the business from the “benefits” business by removing the tax deductibility. Let people be in total control of their own money.

Where stuff gets tricky is when it ceases to be catastrophic insurance and a prepayment plan for routine stuff. I like to use the car metaphor to understand it. Car insurance is for accidents; not oil changes or fender benders. Why send money to a third party, with all the shipping and handling, to pay for routine or small stuff. What’s next insurance for gasoline consumption. No medical care is more like the car than anything else. Medical Savings Accounts with high deductible catastrophic coverage is the way to go. Change people’s economic behavior and you’ll solve the problem.

Medicare / Medicaid and all gooferment regulation of medicine must end. Period. It has totally screwed up the marketplace.

Argh!

(ain’t insomnia productive?)

Today’s news on 1015 quoted Corzine as considering 4 measure to “increase revenue to close the budget gap”. I translate that to mean “steal more money at gun point form the unsuspecting”. Notice how lowering spending is never an option. How about: (1) eliminating state pensions by creating 401ks; (2) eliminate spending by an across the board cut; (3) nuke all the earmarks and other pork; and (4) roll back the tax increase represented by the 1% sales tax. That’s without getting on the big ticket items: (1) the dole and (2) the gubamint reeducation camps!

Today on 1015, the news reported that NJ wants to take DNA from those arrested (yes, arrested not convicted), for submission to the Feds.

Argh!

(1) Arrested, not convicted.

(2) It’s their body. It violates the most basic of human rights. Everyone owns their own bodies.

(3) This is the use of aggressive force.

(4) And the FED, STATES, and gooferment are so good at securing stuff.

(5) Do we really trust the gooferment with the essence of who we are?

(6) That essence will be sold to the drug companies and everyone who will fork over a few bucks.

(7) Slippery slope. Take it from babies. Match with the SSN. Now they can be “tracked”. “Vere isss yur paaapers?”

(8) Sure we “matched” your dna! We know that you killed Jack Kennedy from dna taken on the grassy knoll. Trust us, were the gooferment.

And, the prosecutor’s quote about making their job easier? Get a real job. You’re job is supposed to be difficult. You’re supposed to prove something.

And, did you believe the Barbara striesand about how they use dna to clear people. Right. Those prisons are just full of people proven innocent.

Sheesh, how dumb do you think we are? Pretty dumb.

JimG on 1015 was on the bandwagon this morning saying that there were three state senators that deserved kudos for their actions in this joke in trenton.

I prefer to judge the entire corpus on what it produces … nothing, nada, nyet.

An unconstitutional income test on property tax relief.

Even over and above that it is unconstitutional, it’s more progressive socialism right out of the Communist manifesto.

The same day the news broke that state worker benefits cost 2 billion this year and are unfunded by 80 billion over some time period.

If I was in Trenton, then I say “Sorry, we can’t afford to pay benefits. Sorry, we can’t afford pensions. Sorry we can’t afford this nonsensical public government education. Sorry, we can’t afford the dole.”

Dual office holding would end, tomorrow. Pick your favorite job and that’s it. Freeze retirements. Age becomes 65! Pensions, no. 401k, yes. Benefits, phase out.

It’s my way or the highway.

Oh, and can that feather brained scheme. Selling the highway to give the politicians more money to blow. “I”, the New Jersey Taxpayer paid to build it. Why sell it? So, I can pay more for it again. Are you idiots out of your collective minds?

It wouldn’t be SO bad, but (1) they didn’t tell you; AND (2) it’s the same ad! Argh!

Jim G. on 1015 is exposing the slugs ‘n’ thugs in Trenton for the hippo-crits they are. (Hippo = a large dangerous animal and “crit” for the gang like the bloods)!! In Jim’s rant, he points out that they are trying to pull the wool over the taxpayer’s eyes. When you disassemble the “tax cut”, it is meaningless.

He also picked up another “drum”. PA is bigger and has more people than NJ, yet their state budget is about a third less than “our”.

This of course overlooks the moral argument. What give you the right to rob me to pay for your kid’s education? What gives the State the right to run “education” which is merely brainwashing future “citizens”? And why is the State permitted to run such an inefficient operation with so much corruption?

The answer: They have the guns!

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Teen Strikes Back in Clash With Record Labels
By Jim Fitzgerald
AP
01/31/07 9:36 AM PT

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Robert Santangelo, 16, his sister and his mother have all been sued by record companies for allegedly sharing music files illegally. Now Santangelo has struck back, raising a 32-point defense, demanding a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies that accuses them of damaging his reputation and conspiring to defraud the courts of the United States.

A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

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Robert Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, “have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States.”

The papers allege that the companies, “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy” by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency “to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.”

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Way to go kid!

That’s punching the big bully right in the nose.

What’s more, if I was on your jury, I’d give you punitive damages.

Hit with a RICO charge. Level the playing field.

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This law is un-American. We have always stood for the rights of the individual to a fair proceeding. Aside for the “small” fact that torture is immoral, it is also inefficient. When under duress, people will tell you what they think you want to hear. It’s ineffective because after torture, if the person was NOT your sworn enemy before it, they certainly will be afterwards. Stop it now.

They have actually broken what roboform used to handle quite nicely.

They now have a screen for userid and then a screen for passwords.

Can, will, roboform support this “security theater”?

One is Paytrust and the other is Vangard.

Help?

I don’t understand how this helps ME. I understand that it gives them a more plausible defense should someone break in.

Knowing the answers to questions that can be relatively easily found out, ain’t gonna cut it.

How this stops replay or a keystroke logger beats me.

c.c.: Risks, BuceS, and Ed@Gripeline

On today’s morning news, the prison guards aka the school government workers are meeting to come up with ways to prevent that “tragic accident” from recurring.

Admirable idea.

What do you think the chances are that the “guards” will even think about closing the “prison camp”?

Zero is my guess.

Of course all the remaining inmates, and all future inmates, at that particular institution of detainment will suffer the wisdom of fools as new “great ideas” are tried on them.

Oh I am sure it will be “just to keep our children safe”.

When do the inmates stop being “children”?

Now the deaths of four people is bad. The deaths of three young people is bad. But, let’s not overlook some specific responsibilities.

(1) The driver (?) for operating that car in an unsafe manner and violating the law by probably speeding and having other juveniles in the car. (So how does adding MORE laws change anything.)

(2) The parents (?) for failure to train, supervise, and equip their offspring for life.

(3) The school for imprisoning them … …

(I can hear the collective “huh” out there.)

Yup, if there was no law mandating them to be at the Government Youth Propaganda Camp for most of their day, where their little minds full of mush were filled with more mush, like self-esteem and self-confidence, then (that might have killed them) they could have been at home being schooled by their family.

Or maybe working at a business gaining real skills and an appreciation for for how much cars and car insurance costs.

Certainly there would have been no escaping from the penal colony at the end of day and feeling the need to be “free”. Perhaps they were throwing off their shackles and feeling freedom.

It’s a shame that they thought they were indestructible. I wonder where they could have learned such a silly concept?

So I blame the driver, the parents, the school, and the politicians who made such stupid laws like “mandatory attendance” and “government run education”. That’s what killed those four people!