Improve Healthcare? Increase workload, cut wages! Liberal Logic (sic)

(Reuters)

“Nearly two-thirds of U.S. doctors surveyed fear healthcare reform could worsen care for patients, by flooding their offices and hurting income, according to a Thomson Reuters survey released Tuesday.

The survey of more than 2,900 doctors found many predict the legislation will force them to work harder for less money.”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41149280

Comment: Hey, I got this great idea of how to improve medical care in the US: Increase doctors workload and cut their income!

(Yea, that should do it!)

“The Law” by Bastiat is One of My Favorite Books

On another venue, I posted a simple quote that has always intrigued me since I first read it 40+ years ago:

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~ Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)”

 

Lots of discussion today on my quote by the Hand-Wringers United division of People For a Perfect World.

(Whose slogan is: “Don’t worry! We will hold your hand, dry your tears, pay your overdue bills, get your little Johnnie a bright red fire truck, and cure little Suzie’s cold – just give us your paycheck.”)

My Bastiat quote upset some people. Terrific! His book, “The Law” is just about the best book I ever read.

Government is a group of people who fight among themselves for privileges to pass out – and take a bit of mordida off the top.

Then some of the people fight among themselves to see who can take the most privileges.

Since the government NEVER can provide enough “free stuff” to satisfy the people (there is an unlimited appetite for “free”), they must take more from the people to give to the people, taking still more of a cut off the top.

At some point, some of the people say, “Hey, to give us free stuff, they have to take more stuff from us and a lot of what we give doesn’t come back because it takes a lot of people to seize and distribute! We get our money taken, some is kept somewhere and some is given to people we don’t even know…this is getting ridiculous!”

Yep!”

 

 

 

 

Lots of discussion today by the Hand-Wringers United division of People For a Perfect World.

(Whose slogan is: “Don’t worry! We will hold your hand, dry your tears, pay your overdue bills, get your little Johnnie a bright red fire truck, and cure little Suzie’s cold – just give us your paycheck.”)

My Bastiat quote upset some people. Terrific! His book, “The Law” is just about the best book I ever read.

Government is a group of people who fight among themselves for privileges to pass out – and take a bit of mordida off the top.

Then some of the people fight among themselves to see who can take the most privileges.

Since the government NEVER can provide enough “free stuff” to satisfy the people (there is an unlimited appetite for “free”), they must take more from the people to give to the people, taking still more of a cut off the top.

At some point, some of the people say, “Hey, to give us free stuff, they have to take more stuff from us and a lot of what we give doesn’t come back because it takes a lot of people to seize and distribute! We get our money taken, some is kept somewhere and some is given to people we don’t even know…this is getting ridiculous!”

Yep!”

 

 

When The Left Is Upset With the President, I Sleep Better

Watching Olbermann and Huffington tonight, trashing the president for his Wall Street column today will make me read that which I have not.

If they can be believed, the president has caved to Big Business and is dismantling regulations that stand in the way of business to the point that he is in violation of his campaign promises, which they played for emphasis.

When the left is upset with the president, I sleep better.

President Obama’s move right is right, and there will be little left for the left.