Posted on 03/13/2009 5:01:33 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
CNBC's Squawk Box has a guest host named Michael Porter on this morning, a Harvard professor. In the last few minutes, he has said things like (not exact quotes) "We have to move to universal healthcare coverage, where nobody in the nation is without insurance" and "We will have to make health insurance mandatory, so that everybody will be required to have it, like car insurance." These statements seem to Porter to be every bit as obvious as mathematical axioms. They do not trouble his mind one bit. To Porter, the only issues seem to be how best and how quickly the initiation of mandatory universal healtcare coverage can legislated into existence. To Porter and his ilk, people who find themselves in North America—citizens, resident aliens, illegal aliens, visitors from abroad, visitors from Alpha Centauri—possess an inalienable right to government-administered healthcare.
I'll tell you what I want: my portion of Harvard's investment portfolio (even in its dwindled state). It's only right.
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whats with all these neo marxist out of harvard... they all seem to be leftist zombies... all of them..
Yeah, that’s right. Let’s instutionalize more risk. That worked great with Social Security and Medicare, both of which are essentially broken.
Universal health care means rationing care, and waiting for treatment while you die.
Great. Just great.
It’s true - I went there for grad school - since liberalism is a mental disorder - I can’t really explain it any more than I can explain schizophrenia - maybe something they put in the Sherry I don’t know.
There is a contrarian tendency among academics. They feel uneasy agreeing with Nascar fans and attenders of Monster Truck competitions, so they throw back their heads, look down their noses, and pontificate. Having spent too much time among them, I speak from first-hand experience.
Not really—the econ department is full of strong free-market supporters. The B-school is mixed, with a bunch of leftists like Porter but also a number of Republicans. The Ed school and the Kennedy School... nevermind.
Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947) is a University Professor at Harvard Business School, with academic interests in management and economics. He is the founder of a nonprofit organization called the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and one of the founders of The Monitor Group. Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. He is also a Fellow Member of the Strategic Management Society. Porter graduated from Princeton University in 1969, where he was an outstanding intercollegiate golfer. He has two daughters and is divorced. He has three dogs. One of his most significant contributions is the five forces.
I don't see how this makes him qualified to be talking on Health Care, and especially to be an "expert" on universal health care. Also, that he's supporting such measures draws into question (at least in my mind) his understanding of how business is supposed to work.
Here’s a radio program interview that I just heard, about the healthcare issue. I usually listen to Jan Markell’s radio interviews. It’s a Christian ministry radio program and is very informative.
Go here to get the archived show...
http://www.olivetreeviews.org/radio/mp3/
February 21, 2009 - Hour 2
Twila Brase represents the “Citizens’ Council on Health Care.” She is a national spokeswoman for privacy rights in the medical world but now is sounding the alarm that socialized medicine has been slipped into the stimulus package. How will this play out and when? What about the national electronic database for which $20 billion was allotted in the stimulus bill? The future of medical care for the elderly, sick, or disabled is very bleak and rationing for all patients is on the horizon. www.cchconline.org.
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There are a lot of other good interviews there, too.
That’s the guy.
I think we should just deport him to the UK, and let him
enjoy socialized med.
At least he will not live so long to preach to us.
Welcome to Ivy League insanity....the ideological basis for a lunatic presidency...
Liberals - God just wasn’t paying attention when he made them.
“So sorry to spoil your morning, folks... “
...simply knowing that bhussein is potus always puts a little “spoilage” into every morning!
“maybe something they put in the Sherry I don’t know”.
...I thought they drank white wine spritzers.
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Carpetbagger-chameleon, "Pillsbury’s dough-Boy", DNC-pandering, RINO Mitt "the-Myth" Romney
gleefully installs his biggest liberal pet project in history, HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE
which Romney FORCED upon Massachusetts taxpayers without a public vote (the Romney way(TM)
similar to Romney's gay marriage imposition through his threats to the Clerks.
Interesting.
This person knows nothing about anything. The one thing true about economics is this: Free markets lead to the most abundant and least expensive production of everything. Nothing else comes close.
Ignored by his supporters, Romney got a "C" rating from CATO. And that was BEFORE
Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in.
Here are the facts from CATO.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Think publik skools when we’re thinkin’ public health care.
Think doctors with as much expertise as those members of our “educatin” union.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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