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Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy
jfruh writes "Larry Page revealed that he'd been suffering from a vocal cord ailment that impaired his ability to speak for more than a year. The positive feedback he got from opening up about it inspired him to tell attendees at Google I/O that we should all be less uptight about keeping our medical records private. As far as Page is concerned, pretty much the only legitimate reason for worry on this score is fear of being denied health insurance. 'Maybe we should change the rules around insurance so that they have to insure people,' he said."
"It's expensive because it takes vast resources to do the job."
No it's not. We are speaking of the US no? It's expense due to decades and decades of big government statist meddling with what is supposed to be a free market. Central planning and statist control always raise the cost of, reduce the quality of and amount of a thing; this is exactly what has happened with healthcare. Employee based insurance plans were created after state wage controls coming from the depression; HMOs were created by Ted Kennedy; emergency rooms are required to treat patients without the ability to pay due to the state; do you want to produce a drug or a product that provides medical care to people? You must work with the state to obtain permission and these regulations result in long times to get your product to market and enormous costs, and those are just the basics, this topic deserves volumes be written about it and no doubt already has.
You have to understand how we got where we are before you understand the beauty of the ACA. After creating all this mess, headache and expense the state now tells us "ok fine, look we can fix all of that. We will just tax the shit out of everybody and take over the entire business, don't worry a bit." What a bunch of complete and utter bullshit. Oh and by the way this will all be managed and adjudicated by the enormously fair and impartial bastion of efficiency and the organization that everybody loves, ladies and gentlemen I give you the I R S.
Thanks ever so much you progressive shitbirds for voting for this tyranny. Welcome to the post-constitutional US 2.0. I just don't get you progressives, why do you hate the constitution so much, I mean the document talks all over the place about "we the people" "the right of the people", limits of state power are mandated left and right, individual liberties everywhere. The Obama administration has attacked for all intents and purposes the entirety of the bill of rights; freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to associate, equality under the law, the right to keep and bear arms, the federalist system of the 10th amendment. And on and on you drones pull the Democrat lever and say to us "where is my free shit, more please".
Statism destroys societies and grants more and more power to the elites trampling on the rights and lives of we the people, I just cannot fathom why you lot (and I am speaking in the general of course not directly to you fnj) do not see this and continue to support the statist in ever increasing numbers.
We are in deep doo doo by now and I fear there is no turning back, the country we had is gone and the country our children are going to grow up in is going to be very different and that's to no ones benefit. No one except the socialist of course, they will be fine, fat and happy, they, as we all know are exempted from Obamacare, didn't you ever wonder why they thought that to be important?
That's all.
"The Gateway Pundit" the name pretty much makes clear this is NOT objective news
What was that intellectual coward? Afraid of looking at a website that doesn't fit your view point? That's okay. The story itself was in the daily mail, and it was reported to parliament, by in an independent body, as to the massive failings of the NHS in the UK. Oh and there were protests, they simply weren't covered in the media in either Canada, the US, or most of Europe. Not forgetting that this has been the subject policy of the NHS since the 70's.
Well would you look at that? Just one of hundreds of others.
Or here, or here, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Om, nomnomnom...
So do the decent thing America and get a socialized healthcare system
Fuck that. I shouldn't have to pay the medical expenses for smokers, alcoholics or drug users.
You want to ruin your body, do it on your own dime. I shouldn't be penalized for your actions.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower