Comments on: The public option http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: SteveO http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html/comment-page-1#comment-188727 SteveO Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7112#comment-188727 Muirgeo, I submit that you currently have no idea how much you pay to send a letter. Only how much you pay for a stamp. This applies also to the examples in your cartoon. Muirgeo,

I submit that you currently have no idea how much you pay to send a letter. Only how much you pay for a stamp.

This applies also to the examples in your cartoon.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html/comment-page-1#comment-188637 Anonymous Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:33:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7112#comment-188637 It's not a "public option", and it doesn't compete. A competitive company is one which can be driven out of business by a more successful company. If the public option loses all of its customers to insurance companies, does anybody here think it will go bankrupt? Of course it won't. They'll increase its subsidy so it can lower its rates. It’s not a “public option”, and it doesn’t compete. A competitive company is one which can be driven out of business by a more successful company. If the public option loses all of its customers to insurance companies, does anybody here think it will go bankrupt? Of course it won’t. They’ll increase its subsidy so it can lower its rates.

]]> By: Mark http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html/comment-page-1#comment-188600 Mark Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7112#comment-188600 Couldn't have said it better myself, Shotworth! Couldn’t have said it better myself, Shotworth!

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html/comment-page-1#comment-188598 Anonymous Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:05:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7112#comment-188598 Truly poor people pay for the educations of their own children without the need for overpaid (at any wage) pie-slicers like you helping to allocate other peoples' stolen money: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6015 "The whole point of the market is not to provide a service to everyone - the whole point is to only provide it to people who can pay at a certain price." Standard. Diminish the free interactions we describe as "the market" to a harangue about some people getting too much while others are left with nothing. Just Critical Theory B.S. from someone who hasn't properly thanked his intellectual forefathers. Truly poor people pay for the educations of their own children without the need for overpaid (at any wage) pie-slicers like you helping to allocate other peoples’ stolen money:
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6015

“The whole point of the market is not to provide a service to everyone – the whole point is to only provide it to people who can pay at a certain price.”

Standard. Diminish the free interactions we describe as “the market” to a harangue about some people getting too much while others are left with nothing. Just Critical Theory B.S. from someone who hasn’t properly thanked his intellectual forefathers.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/11/the-public-option.html/comment-page-1#comment-188596 Anonymous Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:45:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=7112#comment-188596 <I>I went to a pretty good public high school.</I> - DK Compared to what? Other U.S. public high schools? Japanese public high schools? Parochial or other private high schools? U.S. public high schools fifty years ago? I'm betting that your alma mater only compares well to other U.S. public schools of this day. Versus all of my other examples, I'm guessing that your high school doesn't fare so well, and I'm quite sure that Virginia Beach Senior High circa 1950 had a curriculum far more demanding and challenging than VBHS offers today, and I'd go so far as to wager that VB-1950 would rival the University of Virginia today. I went to a pretty good public high school. – DK

Compared to what? Other U.S. public high schools? Japanese public high schools? Parochial or other private high schools? U.S. public high schools fifty years ago?

I’m betting that your alma mater only compares well to other U.S. public schools of this day. Versus all of my other examples, I’m guessing that your high school doesn’t fare so well, and I’m quite sure that Virginia Beach Senior High circa 1950 had a curriculum far more demanding and challenging than VBHS offers today, and I’d go so far as to wager that VB-1950 would rival the University of Virginia today.

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