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I would argue that not having healthcare available to all could also be considered a deterrent to innovation. Many creative people are stuck in boring jobs, instead of taking risks and pursuing entrepreneurial ideas, because they don’t want to/can’t live without health coverage.
Speaking of Positrons,
is everyone aware that as we speak, there is
an experiment underway in Europe that could
have much larger (and even dangerous) implications
than the Euro meltdown?
kensingtonian,
you are right,
the free market fosters innovation.
Consider the Positron Emission Tomogram
PET Scan,
developed at the Univ. of Penn
and now routinely used for Cancer treatment/detection.
i dont know if ive exhausted my forbearance options.. every couple of months ill pay my loans then call and ask for a forbearance and they let me, but they always ask why. it’s funny you can say anything you want and they arent allowed to judge you. lol. i told one student loan officer that my baby momma was in the hospital and she was like okay you are deferred. i think it’s all just one giant formality, but i want to pay this crap back.
*rob*
Tyburg 6,
I wouldn’t support a socialized system of medicine with the nation’s doctors on salary.
-primarily because it would take healthcare out of the hands of the individual and into the hands of bureaurcrats.
It’s bad enough as it is, where you have to call in for approval from someone at the HMO to get approval for a medicine. Spend 1/2 hour on the phone to get approval for an aspirin. Imagine the man hours lost on this lunacy alone.
I would advocate for more free market solutions.
I was just in Rite Aid this weekend and noticed their pharmacy advertising 500 generic drugs at 8 dollars for a one month supply. Free market solution to lunacy.
Ty, and who pays British doctor’s half a million dollar loan after medical school? Who gives them incentives to create different inventions?
No wonder all of the new Cancer treatment technology and inventions is produced either in America or Israel. Why do you think that is?
quote:
This is how *true* socialized medicine systems work. Doctors in Britain get a salary. It’s a very good salary — but not the hundreds of thousands that a private doc can amass through a fee-for-service system.
the problem is that there would be like ZERO doctors (okay maybe one or two) if they made < 100,000 a year. why would you subject yourself to the grossness of being a doctor if you didnt make a ton of money? think about just how nasty it must be to be a doctor. sorry, you couldnt pay me enough. plus they have to wear uniforms. ugly uniforms.
*rob*
Rob. #1 and #3. And submit a request for voluntary deferrment for #2… unless you’ve already exhausted that option.
*rob*
-wear glasses; save some money.
-don’t pay the government loan,
your taxes already bailed out Sallie Mae/Freddie Mac.
-pay your private loan, the private sector is our only
hope of getting out of this economic mess without becoming
Greece.