October 10, 2005 @ 7:29 PM
How Health Care Works
Mike Bryan, the keeper of Blog For Arizona, has a harpoon for...er a lampoon of, the current conservative dream of the perfect health care deliver system.
The riff begins:
The socialization of road building and maintenance is one of the great evils to have befallen this nation. All roads should be privately built and maintained. They should be financed properly with tolls, distributing their cost to those who actually benefit of them, in the proportion that they are benefited, and returning profit to those who site their roads most usefully. Private companies will receive the right market signals about where we actually want roads to go: only where we will pay the most to get to.
And resolves itself thus:
The proposal that we need more private roads to solve our transportation problems wouldn’t be taken seriously. And with good reason; it’s not a serious solution. Putting more private market financing into a system that suffering horrible inefficiencies, largely because of private financing, is simply stupid. Yet policymakers on the Right continue to offer up such panaceas, such as medical savings accounts, with a straight face, even as they dish out old school socialized medicine plans like the Medicare drug prescription ‘benefit’ -- so long as they can prevent collective bargaining, which would control costs, in doing so.
The whole post is well worth your time. Link
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
This blog is a ‘must read’ for all Tucson political junkies. Presided over by "Tedski"…who everyone knows is Ted Prezelski…there is no more the wity and informative writing about the Tucson and Arizona political scene available.
Why one of our local dead-tree news sources hasn’t snapped him up is a puzzlement. No…wait a minute…it’s no puzzle at all, as you’ll see if read his stuff. Link
