Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Free kibbles

Robert Novak died. I thought he was getting better. Too bad.

NASA discovers amino acid, a building block of life, in comet.

The Russians capture pirated vessel, but they're still not sure what happened. The captured pirates are all from ex-Soviet countries.

Mises scholar explains that government intervention in our health care market encourages people to eat more junk food than they otherwise would if they paid their own medical bills. The same is true for smoking. The same is true for every aspect of our lifestyles. Government interference in the health care market makes us unhealthy which is another factor driving up health care costs. Government involvement in the health care market is a huge subsidy for junk food makers, fast food restaurants, and meat producers. It makes those items cheaper and healthy food more expensive. More government involvement in health care will make all this worse. It also creates a conflict between two Democrat constituencies that they don't seem to realize.

The public option for health care is effectively the same thing as health care co-ops. Don't fall for this ruse.

About 60,000 seniors have quit AARP since June 1 over their support for some form of health care oppression.

Stockpiling cigarettes as a hedge against inflation.

2 comments:

  1. "Mises scholar explains that government intervention in our health care market encourages people to eat more junk food than they otherwise would if they paid their own medical bills. The same is true for smoking. The same is true for every aspect of our lifestyles. Government interference in the health care market makes us unhealthy which is another factor driving up health care costs. Government involvement in the health care market is a huge subsidy for junk food makers, fast food restaurants, and meat producers. It makes those items cheaper and healthy food more expensive. More government involvement in health care will make all this worse. It also creates a conflict between two Democrat constituencies that they don't seem to realize."

    Horseshit.

    The german (BRD) national health program proves you wrong. Germans eat better and more healthfully than US-Americans, and they have a single payer, national health care system. Ditto France, ditto Israel. All american allies, to note.

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  2. You're pointing out a cultural issue of diverse populations, and it doesn't affect my point. No doubt Germans, Israelis and whomever else you mention eat less healthy than they would if they paid for their own health care, as do Americans.

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