Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everyone please understand that this debate is irrelevant. Our structural > obligations, combined with our debt, are going to crush our economy.
That's possibly true, but I can offer a different interpretation: (1.) Healthcare costs. This is the killer, with costs rising faster than inflation, due to a modular system; i.e., each doctor is an island and treatment is incented to keep you sick, i.e., fee-for-service. Insurance companies (and the federal government which is also an insurance company) are incented to keep you healthy. If we stay modular we're sunk. (2.) ObamaCare. The bad: a lot of energy spent to cover 15% more of our population while doing nothing to lower healthcare costs (see above). The good: it's more money being spent on healthcare which is a reverse starve-the-beast strategy. In other words, it accelerates innovation and I can tell you for a fact it is. e.g., RockHealth, Cake Health. Here's the crazy part very few people get: ObamaCare may be the very thing that keeps health care private!! Why? Because the reverse starve-the-beast is a gauntlet thrown to private industry: you have 3-5 years to fit\x healthcare or the government will *have* too. If the government does it, it's going to REALLY suck and be REALLY painful. It'll mean rationing, worse care, lines, the works. The Obama administration has essentially said this! PREPARE TO BE AMAZED: So for all the righty whiners who want private health care, if it's possible, Obamacare will bring it! It already is and I gave you 2 companies newly minted attacking it. And for all of the lefties who want single payer and think ObamaCare is awesome ... HAHA! It's a knife in your back. Still don't believe me? Obama set aside $10B (that's billion) as a starter to PAY PRIVATE COMPANIES to create products which the government will buy and allow the companies to sell for profit. That's a WIDE OPEN SUBSIDY! Have a great idea? The government will pay you to start a health care company and design the products. (3.) The debt. Huge topic, but the bottom line is we are where we are and there's arguments both ways as to whether it's a killer or not. For Japan, as an example, it hasn't helped them but it hasn't killed them either. What is true is that we're in a weakened economic position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337927 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
