tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post6486045885519703785..comments2023-11-03T11:11:57.989+01:00Comments on Chronicles from the Front: Health Reform Passes House with StupakLazy Disciplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-89613934579686548152009-11-09T14:50:50.027+01:002009-11-09T14:50:50.027+01:00Dear Ella,
I do not think you are so much missing...Dear Ella,<br /><br />I do not think you are so much missing it, as not realizing that there are state-level health programs. Blue Cross/Shield and others are examples.<br /><br />The Federal Government does have a role to play in this, because, with the mobility of people and the fluidity of the labor market, providing health care is inevitably a matter of interstate commerce (Cf. Constitution of the United States, Art.1s.8c.3).<br /><br />I am going to have something up on this later in the day. Keep checking in.<br /><br />Best,<br />C.Lazy Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-50896013830234696302009-11-09T09:33:37.937+01:002009-11-09T09:33:37.937+01:00If I may again step in this debate, I think one of...If I may again step in this debate, I think one of the biggest problems here is that the health care system reform comes from the federal government. I see the federal government is as far away from the people and the real issues as it can be. I'd different states have different needs, different demographics, different economic situation. They should get a chance to deal with this on their own.<br /><br />Or am I completely missing it?<br /><br />EllaElla from Torontohttp://homestagingtoronto.multiply.com/journal/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-27966193567707270232009-11-09T05:23:34.544+01:002009-11-09T05:23:34.544+01:00Dear Kevin,
Thanks so much for visiting and comme...Dear Kevin,<br /><br />Thanks so much for visiting and commenting - and please, don't sweat the "stream of consciousness".<br /><br />Actually, it strikes me that your remarks flow quite coherently. If it was a stream, then it was a slow, tranquil stretch of water with, I am quite sure, some nice, quiet holes to fish.<br /><br />I like your thinking on the question of cost-benefit analysis, though I also think you answer your own question.<br /><br />How to gather the data? How to filter the data? How to crunch the data? These are all "political" questions, if you will, which must be answered beforehand.<br /><br />What constitutes an acceptable c/b ratio? An optimal ratio? What can we do to make it happen in the US?<br /><br />Did you happen to see John Allen's take on the economics of health reform over at NCR?<br /><br />I am going to have something up on it by the end of the day - it's just after 5AM over here.<br /><br />Best,<br />LDLazy Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-36927916514239305482009-11-09T05:02:29.268+01:002009-11-09T05:02:29.268+01:00Great posts from both you and HP lately, LD, and I...Great posts from both you and HP lately, LD, and I'm pleased to have "found you" again via Clayton's blog! Now your blog is firmly locked into my bookmarks menu! ;-)<br /><br />Moving beyond the abortion issue, which I am very pleased to have seen dealt with at least in the House bill via the Stupak amendment, I find more interesting in a global sense that which you point out in this post, LD, namely the cost-benefit analyses that could be done on other government-run health systems around the world. How difficult would it be for some panel consisting perhaps of a couple of each--economists, doctors, accountants, health care administrators, sociologists, and politicians--to do an objective analysis of differing models of government-run or subsidized health care systems in places like Europe, Asia, and North and South America? <br /><br />My sense is that the greater difficulty would be found in trying to remain objective in one's methods of analysis and interpretation of the results found. Everyone has a bias, it's as natural as breathing for fallen humans. But our biases are also strongly influenced in political matters by things like funding sources and personal political preferences--money talks in our capitalist system. <br /><br />I apologize for the stream-of-consciousness nature of this comment, but it just seems to me that the logical and natural precursor to such a major issue like health care reform in such an enormous country like the U.S. should be a relatively non-partisan and objective study or cost-benefit analysis of other systems that have been tried and implemented worldwide.Kevin in Texasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-38861260321465350532009-11-08T19:33:00.313+01:002009-11-08T19:33:00.313+01:00Hi,Ella.
I think your understanding is correct, a...Hi,Ella.<br /><br />I think your understanding is correct, as far as it goes: no supposed "right" to abortion is threatened by the government's refusal to pay for its exercise.<br /><br />I do not think that there is a right to abortion, but that is another matter.<br /><br />Best,<br />LDLazy Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-13674825128967980442009-11-08T18:49:56.294+01:002009-11-08T18:49:56.294+01:00I don't think this is about woman rights. Nobo...I don't think this is about woman rights. Nobody is told they can't have it done, right? It's just that state will not participate in funding it. <br /><br />Everything cost money.. to have a child and not to have a child. But why the state should be involved in the latter I don't really understand.<br /><br />EllaElla from Torontohttp://homestaging.blog.friendster.com/noreply@blogger.com