Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Headlines below the fold

I am for universal health care (hell, I worked for the Feds after all). But some of us "take the Hippocratic oath too seriously", so are the real problem.

USATODAY notes one problem is a lack of primary care physician due to long hours and a lot less money than one can get as a specialist...


And then no one is discussing the cost of defensive medicine...

as for the Obama plan... the dirty little secret is that a lot of us worry that they won't ration "elective" procedures like they did in the IHS but will ration medicine similar to NICE...

This link is to Nat Hentoff column on the subject....last time I looked, he was to the left of the president..

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Instapundit has the "we're all gonna die" headlines of the day:

Global warming due to the oceans releasing methane
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The real enemy: teenagers who swap songs: and are fined $150 thousand a song.
Presumably, she will pay off her debt at $10 a week...

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The latest version of chemical weapons: Hot Sauce Hand grenades.

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there have been 700 rockets fired into Isreal from Gaza so far this year...

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