tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684990852543900230.post3529725761389351569..comments2023-05-21T01:55:59.039-07:00Comments on iLupper's Musings: Pass Health, Then Move On (Energy)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684990852543900230.post-1487577966080924852009-12-16T05:40:48.311-08:002009-12-16T05:40:48.311-08:00The economic/energy plan should have been done fir...The economic/energy plan should have been done first before the health plan; still enough time before reelections in Nov 2010. If Obama did the economy first, then the goodwill it presented would have helped out. Seeing how the health plan will be subsidized by the middle and upper middle class (the rich tend to pay a tax rate of the poor - at least according to popular convention) and the middle classes are thinning out (taking a blow) by the recession, it appears prudent to take care of them first before the poor (health). The middle class or anyone else are willing to help the poor, so don't handicap them. Make a promise to Edward Kennedy to look at it in June 2010.ilupperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499303565461675007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684990852543900230.post-62143451179902473582009-12-14T15:16:24.176-08:002009-12-14T15:16:24.176-08:00If the health plan promotes more doctors but most ...If the health plan promotes more doctors but most of those are NOT in primary care, then in the future, it will be harder to see a doc just for a prescription. So, in that sense, health will be worse. If it does get serious, then a specialist will take care of you but more specialist won't decrease the price because energy will be that more expensive. *So, now the efficiency gains from giving 30 mil uninsured will additionally have to be offset by the deficiency of I say 15-20% of more difficulty in seeing a primary care physician.ilupperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499303565461675007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684990852543900230.post-45293037591715227742009-11-30T05:20:26.205-08:002009-11-30T05:20:26.205-08:00Addendum: the fact that we have to tax the rich an...Addendum: the fact that we have to tax the rich and forced the poor to appropriate some of their funds to fund health care shows that the efficiency of the uninsured does not exceed the price to provide health care. So, maybe in 10 tens, the balance will shift but the 30 million uninsured will have to provide a product to grow the US which is adversely taken from what the "other hundreds of millions" of insured americans can't do. Maintaining the populace of the US healthy as a whole is generally good; but that perhaps makes for a good # of soldiers only. Social stratified societies do succeed. The innovators design new technologies to grow the society. Think Romans (had slaves), India (caste system), China (peasant class). Were those societies not prominent? they grew from technological trade. So to take (by taxing) the rich to grow the US & growing all, is not a surety. It's good by morale and everything else but certainly not a certainty.ilupperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499303565461675007noreply@blogger.com