Comments on: Reality Is Not Optional http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rick Caird http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html/comment-page-1#comment-188336 Rick Caird Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7086#comment-188336 I love your attempt to claim your superiority via "No rational freethinker could support it" It is quite strange to see someone who basically complains the free market system has been corrupted government, so his solution is more government. Please review the definition of insanity. A counter example to your argument is Microsoft before government tried to hold them up for "campaign donations". The problem with your assertions is you do not allow for the desire for government to corrupt the market for its own power and aggrandizement. You must be a politician. Rick I love your attempt to claim your superiority via “No rational freethinker could support it” It is quite strange to see someone who basically complains the free market system has been corrupted government, so his solution is more government. Please review the definition of insanity.

A counter example to your argument is Microsoft before government tried to hold them up for “campaign donations”. The problem with your assertions is you do not allow for the desire for government to corrupt the market for its own power and aggrandizement. You must be a politician.

Rick

]]> By: Rick Caird http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html/comment-page-1#comment-188335 Rick Caird Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:49:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7086#comment-188335 As I said before, the reality of other countries paying less that the US is by not developing new drugs, medical techniques, or medical devices, but rather free riding on the US for those developments. Idiots like muirgeo never want to acknowledge that reducing our costs also reduces are results. These same idiots never seem to want to even attempt to put a price on innovation and increased success. For some reason, muirgeo either thinks such things are valueless, free, or will have happen via magic pixie dust. Rick As I said before, the reality of other countries paying less that the US is by not developing new drugs, medical techniques, or medical devices, but rather free riding on the US for those developments. Idiots like muirgeo never want to acknowledge that reducing our costs also reduces are results. These same idiots never seem to want to even attempt to put a price on innovation and increased success. For some reason, muirgeo either thinks such things are valueless, free, or will have happen via magic pixie dust.

Rick

]]> By: Rick Caird http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html/comment-page-1#comment-188334 Rick Caird Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:44:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7086#comment-188334 That chart is one of those silly non comparisons people like muirgeo actually seems to think means something. it doesn't or at least not what muirgeo thinks. All those other countries are basically free riders on the American system. How many new drugs, new procedures, or new medical equipment have come from those countries spending less. The answer is about "zero". In how many of those countries could someone who has already been diagnosed with cancer get an MRI, CAT scan, and PET scan with one week to confirm there is not a new cancer appearing. The answer, again, is zero. Perhaps the lovely and talented muirgeo does not care if someone else cannot get those tests that quickly, but it is pretty well assured if the "victim" was he or, assuming he has any, a loved one, he would much prefer our system rather waiting around for another system to get around to those tests. But, that quick response is a large contributor to the better success of the US system in treating those kinds of illnesses. Rick That chart is one of those silly non comparisons people like muirgeo actually seems to think means something. it doesn’t or at least not what muirgeo thinks. All those other countries are basically free riders on the American system. How many new drugs, new procedures, or new medical equipment have come from those countries spending less. The answer is about “zero”.

In how many of those countries could someone who has already been diagnosed with cancer get an MRI, CAT scan, and PET scan with one week to confirm there is not a new cancer appearing. The answer, again, is zero. Perhaps the lovely and talented muirgeo does not care if someone else cannot get those tests that quickly, but it is pretty well assured if the “victim” was he or, assuming he has any, a loved one, he would much prefer our system rather waiting around for another system to get around to those tests. But, that quick response is a large contributor to the better success of the US system in treating those kinds of illnesses.

Rick

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html/comment-page-1#comment-188311 Anonymous Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:11:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7086#comment-188311 So, the hypocrite is at it again: Bashing profits in the health care industry, while profiting in the health care industry himself. Yasafi is no Mother Teresa decrying wealth and taking a vow of poverty to practice what she preached. No. Yasafi's profits are so exhorbitant that he is able to take extravagant, carbon-spewing vacations all over the globe. So, the hypocrite is at it again: Bashing profits in the health care industry, while profiting in the health care industry himself.

Yasafi is no Mother Teresa decrying wealth and taking a vow of poverty to practice what she preached. No. Yasafi’s profits are so exhorbitant that he is able to take extravagant, carbon-spewing vacations all over the globe.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/reality-is-not-optional.html/comment-page-1#comment-188310 Anonymous Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:11:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7086#comment-188310 So, the hypocrite is at it again: Bashing profits in the health care industry, while profiting in the health care industry himself. Yasafi is no Mother Teresa decrying wealth and taking a vow of poverty to practice what she preached. No. Yasafi's profits are so exhorbitant that he is able to take extravagant, carbon-spewing vacations all over the globe. So, the hypocrite is at it again: Bashing profits in the health care industry, while profiting in the health care industry himself.

Yasafi is no Mother Teresa decrying wealth and taking a vow of poverty to practice what she preached. No. Yasafi’s profits are so exhorbitant that he is able to take extravagant, carbon-spewing vacations all over the globe.

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