Jan Baker

6 Ways to Short the Obama Health Plan

This is what they have in mind. All about 'choice.' Those old folks will 'choose' to put their names on the dotted line, just the way too many women 'choose' to get drug into an abortion clinic by the boyfriend. 'Choice' will be the magic word again, folks. We could quote Dylan again, 'Freedom is a word I never use/without thinkin' " and maybe this time we should listen.


On Jul 03 04:08 PM curley55 wrote:

> Obama is a lot like Hugo Chavez. He is willing to sell out Isreal,
> say it is OK for Iran to have a nuke. Trying to take over the health
> care system is a very bad idea. I only see 3 ways to cus healthcare
> costs.
> 1. Tell the doctors they will get paid less
> 2. Tell the drug companies they will get less and
> 3. Tell the consumer they will get less.
>
> Telling an 80 year old that needs a hip replacement that he will
> go on a list for 3 years before he gets the procedure is scary. The
> govt will hope he dies before his procedure is done. Perhaps Obama
> can send a Dr. Kavorkian type to anyone over 59. That would cut costs
> and fix Medicare and Social Security.

6 Ways to Short the Obama Health Plan

It's 'the times they are a'changin.' " Honestly! What were you smoking?

I wish someone would explain just once what 'short' and 'long' mean. I deduce, peraps incorrectly, that 'to short' something means to abandon it as a viable whatever--plan, or person, or stock,, or whatever. And 'to long' it would be to marry it. (Yes I do get an image: him on his knees with the ring elevated like a sacred host: Will you long me?)

Is that right?

6 Ways to Short the Obama Health Plan

I skimmed the link, thanks for it. Usually, as a senior teacher who was awake most of the time, I can spot the bs in these kinds of initiatives, but I cannot remember having experienced the fall out from funding a more expensive and aggressive mental health program (other than observing that it does not seem to work at all!). The link is Kennedy's words. Is there a link that reveals the subsequent project's defects?


On Jul 02 01:58 PM Buckoux wrote:

> If I had been in the stock market, instead of grammar school, when
> President Kennedy launched his mental health care bill, I would have
> gone long on psych-pharma. But, as things turned out, there was really
> no there, there. The shorts do have the edge on good intent policy
> and investment. We chronically suffer from the effects of this good
> intention legislation on our society and economy some 46 years later.
>
>
> For those who are interested in the siren-song of of good intentions
> that have disastrous unintended consequences, there is the University
> of California at Santa Barbara's presentation of JFK's special message
> to Congress regarding legislation for the mentally ill that became
> law in October of 1963. It is at:
>
> www.presidency.ucsb.ed...
>
> This is the presidential outline for the act of Congress known officially
> as the "Community Mental Health Centers act of 1963". It will both
> enlighten AND frighten one at its naiveté. A cautionary tale, indeed.
> We must be careful what we wish for.
>