Psychobabble (a portmanteau of psychology or psychoanalysis and babble) is a form of prose using jargon, buzzwords and highly esoteric language to give an impression of plausibility through mystification, misdirection, and obfuscation. The term implies that the speaker lacks the experience and understanding necessary for proper use of a given psychological term.
One more record that must have been broken in the recent presidential election, but will never be reported by the media, is the quantity of voters that went to the poles with nothing more than “psychobabble” in mind.
“Hope, Change, and he ain’t George Bush” elected Barak Obama. Very few voters took the time to go beyond the psychobabble and investigate the “change” that Obama was promising. If history is examined, I think it will be found that Stalin and Hitler were brought to power in much the same way….
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Universal Healthcare
I find it amazing that people are lining up behind Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama (apparently not necessarily in that order), in large part because of their platforms to bring "Universal Healthcare" to the United States. I have two questions for either of them:
1) What in the US federal government's vast resume makes you think it is suited to manage our nation's health care? Social Security? Medicare? Yeah, right.
2) Have you spent any time taking advantage of Canada's universal healthcare?
I can answer that last one for you Senator and Senator: No you haven't or you wouldn't be pushing socialized medicine on the unwitting US public. I personally have known two Canadians that had serious medical conditions and one almost died of a heart attack waiting on a cardiac surgeon and the other died waiting on a cardiac surgeon. I only know a total of 10 Canadians in the first place so the statistical relevance must be enormous.
Without a doubt, our medical system has flaws. Too many people can't afford coverage. And who knows what goes into determining the price of prescription drugs in the US and abroad. But the solution is not to turn the reigns over to our federal government. Under any universal healthcare plan the government will ultimately set the standard and price of care, either directly or indirectly.
The big bad doctors and the big bad pharmaceutical companies are making too much money after all. OK, so take that money away from the doctors and guess what? They go elsewhere. The smart kids don't go to medical school any longer. Start regulating the price of perscription drugs and guess what? Without that profit carrot out there, the drug companies don't like to stick their necks out and invest in R&D. Sure, the price of healthcare goes down and more people are covered, but innovation stops.
Innovation stops and we have 2nd tier doctors providing us with health care. Sounds fun. Sounds like Canada.
1) What in the US federal government's vast resume makes you think it is suited to manage our nation's health care? Social Security? Medicare? Yeah, right.
2) Have you spent any time taking advantage of Canada's universal healthcare?
I can answer that last one for you Senator and Senator: No you haven't or you wouldn't be pushing socialized medicine on the unwitting US public. I personally have known two Canadians that had serious medical conditions and one almost died of a heart attack waiting on a cardiac surgeon and the other died waiting on a cardiac surgeon. I only know a total of 10 Canadians in the first place so the statistical relevance must be enormous.
Without a doubt, our medical system has flaws. Too many people can't afford coverage. And who knows what goes into determining the price of prescription drugs in the US and abroad. But the solution is not to turn the reigns over to our federal government. Under any universal healthcare plan the government will ultimately set the standard and price of care, either directly or indirectly.
The big bad doctors and the big bad pharmaceutical companies are making too much money after all. OK, so take that money away from the doctors and guess what? They go elsewhere. The smart kids don't go to medical school any longer. Start regulating the price of perscription drugs and guess what? Without that profit carrot out there, the drug companies don't like to stick their necks out and invest in R&D. Sure, the price of healthcare goes down and more people are covered, but innovation stops.
Innovation stops and we have 2nd tier doctors providing us with health care. Sounds fun. Sounds like Canada.
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