Bernanke Deficit Warning

[Polk]

Right....America's health care services are sooooo bad that Canadians are flooding hospitals and clinics in Seattle, Minneapolis and Buffalo to get procedures on demand.

Want to do a comparison of the number of Canadians that come to America to medical care to the number of Americans that go to India and other places in Asia for care? Not that it's a relevant point, since no one is proposing we adopt a system like Canada's (though Canada's outcomes are just as good as ours at half the cost).

if the outcomes were just as good and half the cost, EVERYONE would be saying Canada's system should implemented here.

That assumes no people have a vested interest in the current system or that some people oppose an expanded government role on ideological grounds.

 

[elvis]

Want to do a comparison of the number of Canadians that come to America to medical care to the number of Americans that go to India and other places in Asia for care? Not that it's a relevant point, since no one is proposing we adopt a system like Canada's (though Canada's outcomes are just as good as ours at half the cost).

if the outcomes were just as good and half the cost, EVERYONE would be saying Canada's system should implemented here.

That assumes no people have a vested interest in the current system or that some people oppose an expanded government role on ideological grounds.

so are you saying Obama has a vested interest in the current system?

 

[Polk]

if the outcomes were just as good and half the cost, EVERYONE would be saying Canada's system should implemented here.

That assumes no people have a vested interest in the current system or that some people oppose an expanded government role on ideological grounds.

so are you saying Obama has a vested interest in the current system?

No more so than any other politician. Health care experts of every stripe agree that the most important thing that needs to be done in the long-run is to divorce insurance from employment. There isn't a feasible way to do that though.

 

[elvis]

That assumes no people have a vested interest in the current system or that some people oppose an expanded government role on ideological grounds.

so are you saying Obama has a vested interest in the current system?

No more so than any other politician. Health care experts of every stripe agree that the most important thing that needs to be done in the long-run is to divorce insurance from employment. There isn't a feasible way to do that though.

Does Bernanke's statement today reflect this "vested interest"?

 

[Polk]

so are you saying Obama has a vested interest in the current system?

No more so than any other politician. Health care experts of every stripe agree that the most important thing that needs to be done in the long-run is to divorce insurance from employment. There isn't a feasible way to do that though.

Does Bernanke's statement today reflect this "vested interest"?

No. The discussion of health care is really dragging this thread off topic. Perhaps we should take it to another thread.

 

[Oddball]

If your point is irrelevant, then what's the point?

No, your point is irrelevant. I was asking if you wanted to compare an equally irrelevant data.

I think elvis handled it quite well.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

He is the president of the United States.

Only the president and the Congress can cut spending and raise taxes.

Perhaps you could remind him of this before he continues creating multiple new trillion-dollar programs?

Just sayin...

I am more worried about the lack of national health insurance.

We pay twice as much per capita for healthcare as the rest of the industrialized world, because the insurance companies own Congress. If we could bring down healthcare costs, and increase taxes on the rich to the level they were at when Clinton was in office, we could solve the deficit.

I'm more worried about your significant lack of intelligence.....but you spew the DNC talking points quite well indeed. Are you an automated message board response computer?

"Does not compute...does not compute" "You will conform...you will conform"