I think I walked down the same street David Duke walked down in New Orleams; I had to burn a candle and wash my Democrat party card in honor of the holy father FDR afterwards. But 21 hail Lenins later I was able to make happy brainless strawman attacks against Republicans with a clear conscious.
You think that the south is Republican because of race? The south is Republican because it supports Christian values which the Democrats did away with; yellow dog southern Democrats went to the grave voting Democrat and talking about the coons that worked on their farms. The Christian values of family and freedom extended beyond race; the things that Democrats espouse - 1) Agnosticism and 2) Socialism would only appeal to a subset of the population that would depend on #1 or #2 -- so southern blacks and whites who work and have a Christian background would sway Republican; blacks or whites who are content to live cradle to grave on the welfare teat would then sway Democrat -- the only association with race would then be a negative dependency one.
I hear 'they' also stole all his toilet paper, so he was out and had to use a towel that was laying around. Clearly the Republicans are desperate, and have to keep up with the likes of Bill Clinton, who visits the private islands of billionaires keeping underage sex slaves, or the Democrat congresspeople who go to the Dominican Republic for corporate funded orgies.
The funny thing here is how David Duke seems to be a poster child (strawman) for anyone wanting to smear the Republican Party. Back in 1994 I volunteered for the Louisiana Republican Party's nomination convention, and Lindsey Graham and a few other national Republicans showed up; CNN sent a crew to record it and they never interviewed Graham or the other legit contenders, they kept trying to interview David Duke who was an unregistered attendee and kept getting thrown out of the hall -- he was a better story for them than any of the actual Republicans. Same story, different time.
Yes, as soon as the big government let loose on the reins of the FDA slowing down drug delivery it was revealed that 20+ private companies currently have Ebola drugs in the works... How many treatments for how many diseases are being held up until an FDA bureaucrat gets his back scratched real special?
The Declaration of Independence sums it up best - Americans demanded the right to '_Life_, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'. Threat to life precludes threat to liberty or pursuit of happiness.
At least you get a choice in who you can vote for - people who feed their families on foodstamps _forced_ to vote for the Democrats and do not have a voting choice.
Oh crud komrades, I just saw one of those teabaggers holding up a sign -- it said
'We demand the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' -- they must be on to us, we should take active measures... Contact our friends in the Cheka
Your post is a fantasy, Stripe7 - the reality in the US is that hospitals and doctors all follow strict procedures laid out by their medical malpractice insurers to minimize their lawsuits (unbounded $$$ in jury awards) and the medicaid/medicare payout standards which standardize the high costs of treatment. If you are not a citizen of the US and not covered by Medicare / insurance you can quickly be bankrupted by the very much non-free market price set system that is guided between the Trial Lawyers of America (who hold Obama's leash) and the Medicare/ Medicaid system that establishes payout norms. When Duncan went into the hospital the first time, not only did he get antibiotics, but he also got a CT scan for his -headache- - a $1,000+ billable procedure that is mandated due to the threat of Lawsuit in the Rare Event of Brain Bleeding. These very much non free market, completely political forces, have killed 95% of all common sense and market forces in our medical system, yet you pawns of the former Socialist states continue to call American medicine 'Free Market'. Pathetic.
The fundamental problems of the healthcare situation in the US were ignored - regardless of the individual bean counter - the trial lawyer association in America controls the Democrat Party (Obama).
Anyone who has been in a country with Ebola outbreak (the passport agent reviews the passport) should have their thumbs dyed (airbrush stamp) the way they do in third world countries for voting. If such a person came in to the ER after landing, the doctor immediately knows to wet their pants and put on the rubber gloves. The dye takes about a week to wear off.
You like to build a 'strawman' to attack - American Medicine is not 'free market' - it is CYA, follow expensive procedures so you do not get sued by Trial Lawyers to the tune of millions of dollars in jury courts that look at rich doctors and hospitals as unbounded sources of $$$, while Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance companies pony up thousands for unnecessary procedures that the doctors employ for the same CYA. Insinuating that the 'free market' failed Duncan et al when he had (despite being a non-citizen) a doctor visit, and an expensive CT scan (take a look at an American bill for that sometime), a standard operating CYA procedure in our pre (and post) Obamacare environment is just another political fantasy that has ruined how many American lives?
You claim the problem is that Texas has "Cut and Cut and Cut" but when Duncan came in initially for treatment not only did they review him, a non US citizen, they gave him a 'CT Scan' -- the money was being poured at the individual walking in with flu-like symptoms, as ever, but the whole system is so messed up CYA kills common sense.
From reading the New York Times article, apparently Duncan was subject to a 'CT scan' - an extremely expensive diagnosic procedure. Our healthcare system is economically screwed up beyond comprehension, and Obamacare did absolutely nothing to adjust economic and outcome decisions for the better, just piled on more incentive to perform more needless and expensive testing. In one way it is good for America that it did not have any expensive ZMapp drug when Duncan came along -- if they would have saved him then how many more people would be sneaking through the border from Africa to get the extremely expensive treatment at American expense, ignoring the spreading of the disease to other people?
The _village_ in Africa that got exposed to a disease like Ebola probably died off, but they did not have peaceful and easy interaction with other tribes, much less easy transportation with continental highways, airplanes, etc, that they have today. The village model successfully protected the majority of Africa by isolating any disease to a cell-like level, something that is not possible in our modern open societies.
The whole point is that a regular US trained nurse got it when the ambulance bringing him into the hospital immediately went into quarantine, so the nurse new about it from the get go. Those people out there who lied about Ebola contacts to get into the U.S. over the past few weeks to be with their families, girlfriends, etc, will first be contacting _regular_ nurses and healthcare workers, not highly trained Level 4 infectious disease prepared specialists from the CDC.
How do you know it was stopped in Nigeria? Because the Nigerian government, who have a strong incentive to protect their billions of dollars in trade with the rest of the world say they stopped it? 21 days will tell more than any press releases.
Instead of randomizing with placebo, why not simply randomize with _different_ experimental treatments and then use analysis / datamining to determine which are most effective? That way no one has to have placebo.
You started well but then got lost in the trees. Follow the money. In your first example, the university has an incentive to increase the number of graduate students -- the professor/department would assemble a class and get revenue from (?) Are these grad students shelling tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their personal bank accounts? Or is some third party making that financial transfer? So let us assume that the doc students are transferring money from some third party. That third party is apparently turning a blind eye to the fact that there is little or no economic return to the resulting naked PhD. In other words, we have a third party that makes irrational inflationary spending decisions uncoupled with the actual utility of the resulting PhD student. This all boils down as usual to 'writing checks with other people's money and pretending to be a saint while doing it'. Old story, news at 10.
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I think I walked down the same street David Duke walked down in New Orleams; I had to burn a candle and wash my Democrat party card in honor of the holy father FDR afterwards. But 21 hail Lenins later I was able to make happy brainless strawman attacks against Republicans with a clear conscious.
You think that the south is Republican because of race? The south is Republican because it supports Christian values which the Democrats did away with; yellow dog southern Democrats went to the grave voting Democrat and talking about the coons that worked on their farms. The Christian values of family and freedom extended beyond race; the things that Democrats espouse - 1) Agnosticism and 2) Socialism would only appeal to a subset of the population that would depend on #1 or #2 -- so southern blacks and whites who work and have a Christian background would sway Republican; blacks or whites who are content to live cradle to grave on the welfare teat would then sway Democrat -- the only association with race would then be a negative dependency one.
I hear 'they' also stole all his toilet paper, so he was out and had to use a towel that was laying around. Clearly the Republicans are desperate, and have to keep up with the likes of Bill Clinton, who visits the private islands of billionaires keeping underage sex slaves, or the Democrat congresspeople who go to the Dominican Republic for corporate funded orgies.
The funny thing here is how David Duke seems to be a poster child (strawman) for anyone wanting to smear the Republican Party. Back in 1994 I volunteered for the Louisiana Republican Party's nomination convention, and Lindsey Graham and a few other national Republicans showed up; CNN sent a crew to record it and they never interviewed Graham or the other legit contenders, they kept trying to interview David Duke who was an unregistered attendee and kept getting thrown out of the hall -- he was a better story for them than any of the actual Republicans. Same story, different time.
Yes, as soon as the big government let loose on the reins of the FDA slowing down drug delivery it was revealed that 20+ private companies currently have Ebola drugs in the works... How many treatments for how many diseases are being held up until an FDA bureaucrat gets his back scratched real special?
The Declaration of Independence sums it up best - Americans demanded the right to '_Life_, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'. Threat to life precludes threat to liberty or pursuit of happiness.
At least you get a choice in who you can vote for - people who feed their families on foodstamps _forced_ to vote for the Democrats and do not have a voting choice.
Oh crud komrades, I just saw one of those teabaggers holding up a sign -- it said 'We demand the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' -- they must be on to us, we should take active measures... Contact our friends in the Cheka
Your post is a fantasy, Stripe7 - the reality in the US is that hospitals and doctors all follow strict procedures laid out by their medical malpractice insurers to minimize their lawsuits (unbounded $$$ in jury awards) and the medicaid/medicare payout standards which standardize the high costs of treatment. If you are not a citizen of the US and not covered by Medicare / insurance you can quickly be bankrupted by the very much non-free market price set system that is guided between the Trial Lawyers of America (who hold Obama's leash) and the Medicare/ Medicaid system that establishes payout norms. When Duncan went into the hospital the first time, not only did he get antibiotics, but he also got a CT scan for his -headache- - a $1,000+ billable procedure that is mandated due to the threat of Lawsuit in the Rare Event of Brain Bleeding. These very much non free market, completely political forces, have killed 95% of all common sense and market forces in our medical system, yet you pawns of the former Socialist states continue to call American medicine 'Free Market'. Pathetic.
Hey it's a start -- at least it gives the medical professionals some clue before they go up and start kissing on the patient
The fundamental problems of the healthcare situation in the US were ignored - regardless of the individual bean counter - the trial lawyer association in America controls the Democrat Party (Obama).
Anyone who has been in a country with Ebola outbreak (the passport agent reviews the passport) should have their thumbs dyed (airbrush stamp) the way they do in third world countries for voting. If such a person came in to the ER after landing, the doctor immediately knows to wet their pants and put on the rubber gloves. The dye takes about a week to wear off.
Or lying on an exit survey and taking some tylenol to hold down the flu while you board a plane.
You like to build a 'strawman' to attack - American Medicine is not 'free market' - it is CYA, follow expensive procedures so you do not get sued by Trial Lawyers to the tune of millions of dollars in jury courts that look at rich doctors and hospitals as unbounded sources of $$$, while Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance companies pony up thousands for unnecessary procedures that the doctors employ for the same CYA. Insinuating that the 'free market' failed Duncan et al when he had (despite being a non-citizen) a doctor visit, and an expensive CT scan (take a look at an American bill for that sometime), a standard operating CYA procedure in our pre (and post) Obamacare environment is just another political fantasy that has ruined how many American lives?
You claim the problem is that Texas has "Cut and Cut and Cut" but when Duncan came in initially for treatment not only did they review him, a non US citizen, they gave him a 'CT Scan' -- the money was being poured at the individual walking in with flu-like symptoms, as ever, but the whole system is so messed up CYA kills common sense.
What country do you live in?
If the CDC goes _anywhere_ in the U.S. for pandemic containment, a quick phone call to the President / Federal authorities should open _any_ door.
From reading the New York Times article, apparently Duncan was subject to a 'CT scan' - an extremely expensive diagnosic procedure. Our healthcare system is economically screwed up beyond comprehension, and Obamacare did absolutely nothing to adjust economic and outcome decisions for the better, just piled on more incentive to perform more needless and expensive testing. In one way it is good for America that it did not have any expensive ZMapp drug when Duncan came along -- if they would have saved him then how many more people would be sneaking through the border from Africa to get the extremely expensive treatment at American expense, ignoring the spreading of the disease to other people?
-so far - -- but the nurse has been constantly monitoring herself -- so wait 21 days before you claim no one else was infected there...
The _village_ in Africa that got exposed to a disease like Ebola probably died off, but they did not have peaceful and easy interaction with other tribes, much less easy transportation with continental highways, airplanes, etc, that they have today. The village model successfully protected the majority of Africa by isolating any disease to a cell-like level, something that is not possible in our modern open societies.
The whole point is that a regular US trained nurse got it when the ambulance bringing him into the hospital immediately went into quarantine, so the nurse new about it from the get go. Those people out there who lied about Ebola contacts to get into the U.S. over the past few weeks to be with their families, girlfriends, etc, will first be contacting _regular_ nurses and healthcare workers, not highly trained Level 4 infectious disease prepared specialists from the CDC.
How do you know it was stopped in Nigeria? Because the Nigerian government, who have a strong incentive to protect their billions of dollars in trade with the rest of the world say they stopped it? 21 days will tell more than any press releases.
Instead of randomizing with placebo, why not simply randomize with _different_ experimental treatments and then use analysis / datamining to determine which are most effective? That way no one has to have placebo.
Are you the kind of fruitcake with nuts or with preserved fruit?
You started well but then got lost in the trees. Follow the money. In your first example, the university has an incentive to increase the number of graduate students -- the professor/department would assemble a class and get revenue from (?) Are these grad students shelling tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their personal bank accounts? Or is some third party making that financial transfer? So let us assume that the doc students are transferring money from some third party. That third party is apparently turning a blind eye to the fact that there is little or no economic return to the resulting naked PhD. In other words, we have a third party that makes irrational inflationary spending decisions uncoupled with the actual utility of the resulting PhD student. This all boils down as usual to 'writing checks with other people's money and pretending to be a saint while doing it'. Old story, news at 10.