Thursday, July 02, 2009

Hitlerian Notstandsgesetzgebung

Bar Talk
"Hitlerian Notstandsgesetzgebung"

Overheard at the O Club ... oh - waitress - another Manhattan here!
A note of caution regarding US socialism medicine system under consideration:

The system will give you the very best healthcare it can afford. Unfortunately it cannot afford much due to the inherent inefficiencies and waste. So it will force prices down by law. That means standards and quality of care will drop to the level of what the government's low offer is worth, or else supply will dry up because it will be impossible to offer proper quality care at the government's price.

Artificially forcing higher supply creates low quality. Artificially imposing low prices creates shortages. The Soviet Union learned that. Why has the US ignored that basic economics lesson?


Good night.
Lagom
To project forward, it means that "tipping" will become commonplace as those who can afford scramble for the better "table, " and more "meat in the soup," so to speak.  This from Today's Financial News sums up nicely.
It’s not our way to selflessly provide traffic for other sites. But this article… on how the Obama Administration is using a combination of smoke and mirrors and Hitlerian Notstandsgesetzgebung (emergency legislation) to pass sweeping changes to the U.S. healthcare system without as much as a courtesy nod to democratic debate… needs to be read by any responsible American adult.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The USA medical system is "broken". Solution, spend less.

The USA public education system is "broken". Solution, spend more.

Huh? Life expectancy continues to rise, so we should spend less on healthcare? Public school test scores continue to decline, so we should spend more on education?

Anonymous said...

Keen observations, Anon 1:15
I was thinking that the last bottle should be a Foley catheter and urine bag.
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