[Rhodes22-list] Comment to Philidelphia Lawyer about medical costs

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“Health insurance costs as well as physician's malpractice premiums have
NOTHING to do with lawsuits, and everything to do with insurance company
mismanagement, poor investments, and the increase in healthcare needs caused
by malpractice.”

This is the biggest lie since Lenin and crock of shit believed in.  It has
everything to do with costs of medical care.

I spent 15 years working in a hospital.  I functioned as physicians extra
hands. It was a charity hospital and as such was shielded by South Carolina
to maximum tort awards for negligence.  

Medicine is an ‘Art’.  A Physician uses his education and experience to make
medical judgments.  Occasionally there are screw ups.  Some of these screw
ups result in severe injury and death.  Because of the total numbers of
hospital procedures involved, these screw ups happen daily.  The reasons are
many.  

The biggest reason is so called ‘human error’.  And this is where law suits
arise.  And tort lawyers jump on these instances like hyenas on a dead
zebra.  The costs of defending Hospitals, Medical Clinics, Doctors and other
medical personal are outrageous.  These costs are thru putted to the
patients, all the patients.

When I have time, or somewhere way back in the archives, I have answered the
question as to why ‘mistakes’ occur.  For this post I will say the biggest
reason why mistakes occur is the physical impossibility of providing 100%
infallible medical care.  

The impossibility occurs because economic limitations. Economic resources,
sometimes called ‘wealth’ are not unlimited. Because wealth is finite is the
reason why ‘Marxism’ fails.  

Wealth is created by man working.  It is the value of his efforts.  It is
not created my mandate of the Government.  If a person gets to keep the
results of his efforts, he works more, harder.  If he gets his efforts
confiscated then why work? 

This is a famous story that Ronald Reagan oft told.  It is important for
intellectuals that seek to ‘spread the wealth’ need to comprehend yet fail
to.  

Read and attempt to understand:

Red Hen 

A modern day little red hen may not sound like or appear to be a quotable
authority on economics but then some authorities aren't worth quoting. 

About a year ago I imposed a little poetry on you. It was called "The
Incredible Bread Machine" and made a lot of sense with reference to matters
economic. You didn't object too much so having gotten away with it once I'm
going to try again. This is a little treatise on basic economics called "The
Modern little Red Hen." 

Once upon a time there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard
until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called her neighbors and said
'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant
it?' 

"Not I, " said the cow. 

"Not I," said the duck. 

"Not I," said the pig. 

"Not I," said the goose. 

"Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did. The wheat grew tall and
ripened into golden grain. "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the
little red hen. 

"Not I," said the duck. 

"Out of my classification," said the pig. 

"I'd lose my seniority," said the cow. 

"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose. 

"Then I will," said the little red hen, and she did. 

At last the time came to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake bread?"
asked the little red hen. 

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow. 

"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck. 

"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig. 

"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose. 

"Then I will," said the little red hen. 

She baked five loaves and held them up for the neighbors to see. 

They all wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen
said, "No, I can eat the five loaves myself." 

"Excess profits," cried the cow. 

"Capitalist leech," screamed the duck. 

"I demand equal rights," yelled the goose. 

And the pig just grunted. 

And they painted "unfair" picket signs and marched round and around the
little red hen shouting obscenities. 

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not
be greedy." 

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen. 

"Exactly," said the agent. "That's the wonderful free enterprise system.
Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern
government regulations productive workers must divide their products with
the idle." 

And they lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled
and clucked, "I am grateful, I am grateful." But her neighbors wondered why
she never again baked any more bread.

>From Ronald Reagan...  Reagan In His Own Voice (Audio book/download) ^ |
November 1976 | Ronald Reagan 


While this story is called 'Red Hen', there is an analogus story about a
baker and loaves of bread.  

This story explains the 'Ukrainian Holodomor'.  Luckly my Grandparents were
here not there.  Thru relatives and friends, I got the story and the reason
it occurred.  The reason can be explained by 'Marxism' and 'Government
Control'.  

Ed K




 


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