The free market allows people to sell marvelous new products, products that make the purchasers' lives much better. The free market also allows people to sell fraudulent and dangerous products, at least until they're caught and punished (which we hope happens).
The result is a net gain for humanity, progress.
The less free the market is, the slower and smaller the flow of new products will be. Some beneficial things will be prohibited entirely. Also, the people doing the prohibition have to be paid, and that is a drain on societal productivity.
Government being able to prohibit things for which there is not strong evidence of danger or fraud is a bad thing. In the field of health, such prohibitions cost more lives than they save.
Speaking of astronomically high punitive damages, how about doling out some of those to major pharmaceutical companies that have hidden or denied fatal side effects of some "conventional medicine"?
There's lots of fraud in the medical field, and it's not limited to the purveyors of unconventional products.
The FDA has a long history of threatening, stealing from, and jailing makers of supplements for making true statements. This history has been documented by the Life Extension Foundation, among others.
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, using the lawyer Jonathon Emord, successfully sued the FDA on first amendment grounds. The result is the boilerplate which is commonplace now.
New legislation is not likely to be able to overturn these Supreme Court decisions because the decisions were based on the Constitution, which overrides normal legislation.
I skimmed the second citation. I may have missed a critical portion, but it looks like they're using a nickel-rhenium alloy. Rhenium is rare in the earth (about 1 part per billion) and not cheap.
They're not going to be using this stuff to make car bodies or skyscrapers.
I took the trouble to actually look at some internet sources on nickel. It's common in foods, and people typically ingest about 200 micrograms a day, probably a lot more than is needed and a lot less than is toxic. Knowledge of the human biological use of nickel is still rather sparse, but it appears to help the body absorb iron and create prolactin, among other things.
Never driven north out of San Diego on I5, have you? The INS isn't local cops, but they'll block an Interstate to look for illegals, and they'd do it for drugs if they felt like it.
"One percenters" are the only ones who can make large donations to either party. You imply that it just goes to Republicans, but the Democrats have a generous share. Soros. Buffet. Gates. Many others.
Murder, Inc. was market-based. That did not make it conservative or moral any more than a carbon tax is either conservative or moral.
A carbon tax actually isn't market based because it is founded on government rigging of the free market to accomplish a political goal, and because it's based on the scientific fantasy that carbon dioxide as produced by machines is harmful.
The essential difference between communism and socialism is that communism has the explicit policy of bringing about government domination by quick violence, whereas socialism uses other techniques such as fraud, the slow ratcheting up of violence, corrupting the educational system, massive public bribery, etc..
I used keyboard only for 2-D AutoCAD circa 1988. The advantage was accuracy. Using a mouse scaled everything to the pixel spacing, which was floating point. Using keyboard input, dimensions were integer multiples of a user-set dimension, as exact as possible.
Shutdowns occur when the disagreements between the two parties are so severe that no acceptable compromise can be reached before the deadline for funding is reached. This means that each party could end the shutdown by surrendering; blaming this on one particular party does nothing but identify the bias of the writer.
My own opinion is that the shutdown is a good thing and Trump deserves the credit for the shutdown.
Disbanding them all [insurance companies] would save 9.4 trillion dollars and since they are only leaches that contribute nothing,...
I hate insurance companies for the reason you state and because using insurance is cowardice and selling insurance is pandering to cowardice. If you think sending health payments through the government is more efficient than sending them through insurance companies, you are naive and completely deluded. Worse yet, the government already is a monstrous inhibitor of medical technology progress; if all medical payments were to go through the government progress would grind to a halt as all payments for unapproved treatments would be prohibited. Furthermore, by guaranteeing payment for all approved treatments of health problems, a powerful incentive for taking care of one's own body would be removed. Overall health declines, expenses rise.
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The free market allows people to sell marvelous new products, products that make the purchasers' lives much better. The free market also allows people to sell fraudulent and dangerous products, at least until they're caught and punished (which we hope happens). The result is a net gain for humanity, progress.
The less free the market is, the slower and smaller the flow of new products will be. Some beneficial things will be prohibited entirely. Also, the people doing the prohibition have to be paid, and that is a drain on societal productivity.
Government being able to prohibit things for which there is not strong evidence of danger or fraud is a bad thing. In the field of health, such prohibitions cost more lives than they save.
Speaking of astronomically high punitive damages, how about doling out some of those to major pharmaceutical companies that have hidden or denied fatal side effects of some "conventional medicine"?
There's lots of fraud in the medical field, and it's not limited to the purveyors of unconventional products.
The FDA has a long history of threatening, stealing from, and jailing makers of supplements for making true statements. This history has been documented by the Life Extension Foundation, among others.
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, using the lawyer Jonathon Emord, successfully sued the FDA on first amendment grounds. The result is the boilerplate which is commonplace now.
New legislation is not likely to be able to overturn these Supreme Court decisions because the decisions were based on the Constitution, which overrides normal legislation.
I skimmed the second citation. I may have missed a critical portion, but it looks like they're using a nickel-rhenium alloy. Rhenium is rare in the earth (about 1 part per billion) and not cheap.
They're not going to be using this stuff to make car bodies or skyscrapers.
I took the trouble to actually look at some internet sources on nickel. It's common in foods, and people typically ingest about 200 micrograms a day, probably a lot more than is needed and a lot less than is toxic. Knowledge of the human biological use of nickel is still rather sparse, but it appears to help the body absorb iron and create prolactin, among other things.
Never driven north out of San Diego on I5, have you? The INS isn't local cops, but they'll block an Interstate to look for illegals, and they'd do it for drugs if they felt like it.
"One percenters" are the only ones who can make large donations to either party. You imply that it just goes to Republicans, but the Democrats have a generous share. Soros. Buffet. Gates. Many others.
The recovery during and after WWII was due to the lifting of regulations that had made production difficult, not the infusion of government money.
Murder, Inc. was market-based. That did not make it conservative or moral any more than a carbon tax is either conservative or moral.
A carbon tax actually isn't market based because it is founded on government rigging of the free market to accomplish a political goal, and because it's based on the scientific fantasy that carbon dioxide as produced by machines is harmful.
Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for doing what? Many Nobel prizes are political rewards, especially the more recent ones.
"Burnt" is an adjective. The word you want is "burned."
Has Hank Ketcham been asked for his insight in this matter?
Perhaps the test was skewed by including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who has the brain and voice of a six-year-old.
49.5 T is an enormously high magnetic field. Perhaps 49.5 microTesla?
Pole taxes are unconstitutional (snicker).
The essential difference between communism and socialism is that communism has the explicit policy of bringing about government domination by quick violence, whereas socialism uses other techniques such as fraud, the slow ratcheting up of violence, corrupting the educational system, massive public bribery, etc..
Both communism and socialism are based on the idea that theft is good if performed by the government.
One obvious technique is astronomical observations, based on the reasonable assumption that the Earth wobbles more than the whole universe.
But you're on the side of the Angels, eh? Like Robespierre.
I used keyboard only for 2-D AutoCAD circa 1988. The advantage was accuracy. Using a mouse scaled everything to the pixel spacing, which was floating point. Using keyboard input, dimensions were integer multiples of a user-set dimension, as exact as possible.
Shutdowns occur when the disagreements between the two parties are so severe that no acceptable compromise can be reached before the deadline for funding is reached. This means that each party could end the shutdown by surrendering; blaming this on one particular party does nothing but identify the bias of the writer.
My own opinion is that the shutdown is a good thing and Trump deserves the credit for the shutdown.
That is incomprehensible.
I hate insurance companies for the reason you state and because using insurance is cowardice and selling insurance is pandering to cowardice. If you think sending health payments through the government is more efficient than sending them through insurance companies, you are naive and completely deluded. Worse yet, the government already is a monstrous inhibitor of medical technology progress; if all medical payments were to go through the government progress would grind to a halt as all payments for unapproved treatments would be prohibited. Furthermore, by guaranteeing payment for all approved treatments of health problems, a powerful incentive for taking care of one's own body would be removed. Overall health declines, expenses rise.
Why do leftists think that sexual insults strengthen their arguments?
Says the ignoramus.