Sand cats

“have a contact call which is a short, bark-like vocalization, a low-pitched miaow.”

I never imagined that Cafe Hayek would be my forum for showing off awareness of Felis margarita .

“Others find treatment for breast cancer rationed by insurance company bureaucrats who scramble to increase profits by denying coverage, sometimes on the flimsiest of pretexts. And the extent to which private insurance companies now offer coverage for screening tests is often determined by state mandates that they do so.”

- Have insurance companies compete across state lines. As for denial of coverage… …Medicare carves the country into regions. Medicare hires a third party contractor to handle claims. I’d love to see the rules used by these contractors to review claims.

“The government isn’t run by bureaucrats but by politicians.”

- The fact that the government is run by politicians is supposed to make me feel better??? Bureaucrats are nothing more than apparatchiks.

“If anything, placing greater responsibility for health care in the hands of government is going to lead to more coverage than necessary, not less.”

- But think of the cost savings! After all, we’re reducing the deficit!

How about “hypocritical” to do so.?