Posted on 12/01/2013 5:29:23 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
December 1st, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Michael Hayden, a former chief of the CIA and National Security Agency.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Tom Donilon, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rogers; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt.
There’s yer dam hunnert Larri!
Thanks Shalom
The worst thing to happen to dems is for the website to work properly.
Did a book review on “Rediscovering Catholicism”-the book that changed my life, that answered all my questions, that cleared my soul and head.
Case you might be interested.
I thought maybe the story was a little maudlin but you know, it’d just happened before I posted that, and it was my newly-cleared head after reading the book that made me a better version of myself.
Author was right.
“Rediscover Catholicism” by Matthew Kelly-Free Book Changes My Life Forever. Guest Writer Michelle Defines Love.
http://patfish.blogspot.com/2013/11/rediscover-catholicism-by-matthew-kelly.html
a yowman’s effort! Congratulations.
I don't think they get paid enough.
Medical costs (especially those total costs you cite) are huge! No doubt! But this isn't caused by the doctors. Sure, some get big bucks, but consider the level of expertise and how much schooling and learning they've done, it does make sense.
As long as we are a capitalist system, and people are free to choose the work they want to do, and that work is rewarded or not in the marketplace, those who have intelligence and stamina—a hard work ethic—will ALWAYS make the most money.
Otherwise the government (or some people collectively) get involved and the next thing you know you have mandated price controls on medical treatment, shortages, huge costs that always come to the maximum the government will pay and worst of all death panels, as government budgets are not unlimited and somebody has to say “No” (the government).
You don't say No, your doctor doesn't say No but the government, as the payer, gets to say No and in time of political corruption and punishment, THAT decision might not be based on cost but rather on who is asking for the treatment (shudder--just think upon how EVIL those Republicans and their supporters are! /s).
So many of my European friends shake their heads at our American system and simply do not understand why all doctors and medical professionals are not government employees. Well, it is a matter of time. Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare and now Obamacare has or is going to turn doctors into government employees. So I ask them, what is the incentive to get young people to want to be doctors in their countries? Well, the answer is it is just another job, however, not for the best and brightest, the more eager and ambitious, the harder working and those with more perseverance; no, their doctors are just 9-to-5 employees and slobs like the rest of us. They make a hell of a lot more mistakes and treatment times are way longer--if they can get them--than ours.
Still, we can't say our system is any better today, because we are on the cusp of crushing the American incentive to be a doctor, and make it just another job somebody has to do. Our legal system has leached onto the medical world to make every decision a doctor can make a potential suing point, so that every test must be run, every procedure signed and approved, and no doctor gets to truly make heroic decisions to help his patient any longer. Every medical decision is based on potential liability and not health and healing. Those doctors and hospitals pay a fortune daily to the malpractice insurance companies just for the privilege of trying to fix us when we're broke without any guarantee that anything humanly possible will work in the end. These insurance companies are often making enormous payouts to the perfect-haired John Edwards type trial lawyers, building their massive mansions and screwing and getting pregnant their campaign managers while their wives die of cancer all while being gushed upon by the Driveby Media for bringing up TWO Americas that you helped CREATE(ok, got carried away on Edwards a tad...)
I would not want to be a doctor if MY life depended on it.
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.
Awesome Jeff and oh so true (I have the tire tracks scars to prove it!)!!!!
First....I luuuuvvvved the Edwards description. Looked like something I would write.
Not that you should be proud of that.
I misspoke in my first post. I do not think doctors, or most medical people are overpaid.
And quit telling me that’s what I said. Who do I think I am, Obama?
Nobody benefitted more than my husband by a brave doctor who refused to open up his skull, that what was in his brain was an infection. It would take many months of 4-times-a-day intravenous antibiotics to clear it up but opening his skull would serve no purpose.
Not that brain surgery was a cheaper alternative I must suppose, but it was this doctor who I feel saved Billy’s life. He did his job, and he was good at it.
It’s just that on any one medical case it seems like there’s a whole team of all sorts of varieties involved....I dunno, my experience probably isn’t typical.
It’s like everything requires tons of tests, many specialist visits, tests, tests....the whole MEDICAL process of ....health care, is ponderous....that’s my view of it.
Huh?
Not weeping. Just sayin' the facts. Gators had a (real) down year. Why Muschamp is still there, is beyond me.
I'd rather have 317,000,000 million Americans making their own decisions than fifty of the "best and brightest" making decisions for the rest of us. The best and brightest designed Obamacare, which is going to move most metrics of affordability and quality in exactly the wrong direction.
According to the CIA World Factbook, the US ranks 51st worldwide in life expectancy. The US also spends a greater % of GDP and more $ on health care than any place on the planet. Like most, I think my health insurance is okay, and like most people, I try not to use it too much (same thing for my car insurance and homeowner's insurance).
Employer-sponsored health insurance plans dramatically expanded as a direct result of wage controls imposed by the federal government during World War II. Then, in 1943, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that employer-based health care should be tax free. This mess has taken 70 years to create. I am skeptical that it can be fixed during my lifetime.
Sorry I missed all the action I went fishing.
Just wait until next year U.F. will come back and big time.
UH Oh we all want to know about the big AB/SC meet—details please...
Wait until next year gators will make a huge comeback.
McCain and Linda also took the day off.
Yes, but so will Braxton Miller and the Ohio State Buckeyes. But this time was have Urban on our side.
At least I caught some fish.
Amen, brother! On the other hand, it can't get much worse!
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