Emphasize health services, not technology

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 6/3/04 | Vincent Carroll

[DumpsterDiver]

So we have to look generally at this broader picture of how we retire the baby boomers.

Who is we? The board of directors at Soylent Green, Inc?

[the OlLine Rebel]

"For all its technological marvels, he says, American health care is "unsustainable, unaffordable, and inequitable, and needs to be substantially amended and revised."

BS. The *only* reason we have *any* "problems" now is because there is just enough *socialist/Nazi* flim-flam going on in medical services now. We do not have a perfect capitalist system in place in medicine. Yet capitalism continues to be blamed for the problems - rather than all the garbage commie ideas that have spread in it for decades now.

Here's an example. HMOs were beloved of Democrats 10 years ago. Because they were all concerned about price (NOT cost), and they were a little microcosm of their socialist-paradise ideals. "Pay nothing", Wait for months for an appt, and get any old doctor they want to put up for you.

Now, the Democrats are treating HMOs like any other "corporation" - oh, those horrible, corrupt, greedy HMOs!!! The reason they don't work is because of their commie roots. But suddenly Demos try to equate them to any old "Big Business" they *naturally* hate.

No mention, BTW, of "we were wrong". You'd think they never wanted HMOs in the 1st place.