Recently a health reform critic(kindly put) claimed that the founding fathers had hospitals and did not mention them in the constitution(awkwardly put), but I cannot adequately paraphrase the rhetoric. But I did wonder at the time if
it was accurate. Yesterday NPI, has
a different angle on health care reform and
technical advances and the baby boom face of more than half of recipients of health care. But an auxiliary question came to mind. When did health
care become
for profit? But the
real question is when did health insurance become
for profit? My problem is that there is always a deeper question. Our problem is that too many have the wrong answers*.
Some have such a weak definition of capitalism that it is the nature of economics since the public market. Others don't even realize what the "invisible hand" means? I have not fully read Adam Smith's
Wealth of Nations, but at least I know he waved it. But I forgot who recently said, it is called the "Invisible Hand" because it is
not there ***. While other's
still... [trailing off] I might have been heading to a more substantial answer, but my point is that some people get caught up in the debate between
dirty words and the only word. Too many are taking sides, especially when it comes to the word "progressive" by
playing on fears and taking change for granted, and passing the buck, but
not the money**.
In memoriam.
* and without picking sides I would add: too many feel they have the only answer. At least when it comes to history and what we are based on, with intentions to move forward.
** ironically these last two links have a good point in common(well not exactly): but
in regards to the baseline, the blogger admits to some essentials or entitlements if you will, at least outside their argument for the need for profit, while Milton Friedman (a Libertarian) suggests
a negative income tax to balance the social responsibility of companies to make profits. And entitlements
are the real subject for the operating table, but so might be the flat tax and overall safety net reform. Actually speaking of dirty words, reform is not the word, adjustments are all that are needed to . Not that major adjustments might need to be considered in regard to globalization and world finance and diplomacy, which really scares the one word people, not to mention communities. It is not about the finger in the dike or
the egg on the wall
or the face of humpty dumpty, it is about the hands on the
foundation of civilization.
*** maybe him but not here
Other links, invisible hand, or the pointing
finger[Sorry to not point a finer finger, but it is all about the revolving perspectives and finding balance without starting from scratch.]
P.S. I did not read
these but did run across
them prior this blog,
let alone realize at the time I would
be back. They could be the concrete mixer, mortar or cobble stone of my thinking.
