Recent content by Brian Defferding

Fark.com just linked this thread on their website, just a heads up. Says the first poster on their website regarding this forum: ...while not seeing the irony of posting on Fark.

And people wanted a public option in health care too.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44032122/

I find it amusing that Senator Chuck Schumer wants to crack down on it, because he doesn't like the fact the government cannot control it and, heaven forbid, people could use it to buy drugs and porn. Gasp. Good thing that doesn't happen with our trusted government-regulated fiat currency...

Why The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is better atheist Libertarian lit Ayn Rand http://hessenflow.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/655/ Figured I would share this here. Thoughts? :)

Sure thing, sorry.

http://hessenflow.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/655/ Something I just blogged, thought I would share this here. Thoughts?

http://www.thirdage.com/news/vermont-senate-passes-single-payer-health-care-bill_04-28-2011 Any Vermont RPFers wanna throw their two silver dollars on this?

Good list.

Good politics can make bad theater. When people get too preachy, the entertainment value can drop off really quick. With that being said, I think Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is better atheist libertarian literature than any Ayn Rand book, but that's just me.

Another point worth making: Japan is a country that has a mostly-government-funded health care system, and clinics/hospitals are strictly non-profit. But yet they are forced to raise taxes recently to support it. Guess what they cited for the main reason? The elderly, which is the...

What should be noted, though, is that many think that inelastic demand curve therefore means patients are entitled to the highest, most expensive form of medical care. And not even the most socialized of health care systems can feasibly work like that, they ration it out and have a lottery...

That's a good point. His example he uses does not apply logically to his theorem. Also he ought to look at what happens when the government assumes services as a subsidized loss, it then turns into forced rationing and limited care anyway. He also assumes those in charge of the funds (the...

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-patients-are-not-consumers.html The blog, while I disagree with it, is pretty concise, articulate and empty of snark. What are your thoughts on it?

This is just unreal.