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19906 [lbo-talk] Re: Oregon's health care proposal -- rank: 1000

Alex wrote: >Doug wrote: > >What about Oregon's euthanasia law? Do people come to >Oregon to die? > >------------------ > >I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. There are >national organizations available to people interested >in suicide drugs. Heavens no, I wasn't drawing that parallel. I was just curious. My 88-y.o. father's expressed interest in going to Oregon should he be diagnosed with something dire. Doug

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19907 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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19908 [lbo-talk] Re: Oregon's health care proposal -- rank: 1000

Alex wrote: >I don't think we would have gotten tons >of expensive patients "invading", What about Oregon's euthanasia law? Do people come to Oregon to die? Doug

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19909 [lbo-talk] Newsflash: social democracy causes terrorism -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Most democracies have some element of nationalism (or some sort of >chauvinism not based on national characteristics) in that there has >to be a distinction between citizens and non-citizens, while a >democracy usually makes decisions that affect outsiders. But social democracy and/or democratic socialism offer(s) a different economic deal from liberal regimes like the US: generous benefits and a voice in investment decisions. By contrast, in principle, in a pure ...

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19910 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Add to your list of reasons why this could be so: "because we can" -- >how much of the "shitload" of money that gets spent on "health care" in >the US would you say is, well, optional? Is it easier or harder to get >discretionary health care (if you [and your insurance company] can >afford it) in the US than in, say, Canada? At the other end of the >spectrum, how much of these costs are for extreme care? Here's an >intere ...

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19911 [lbo-talk] Newsflash: social democracy causes terrorism -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ They do have half a point, in that it's hard to conceive of social democracy (and socialism) without strong national borders. And if you believe in freedom of movement, that's a real problem. I've quoted Hayek on this before, and I'll do it again: >Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, pp. 142-143: > >The definitely antagonistic attitude which most >planners take toward internationalism is further >explained by the fact that in the e ...

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19912 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I understood that Japanese life expectancy has a lot to do with diet. >On a recent Michio Kaku show, he said that Japanese women have the >highest in the world & that women in Okinawa are the highest in Japan >-- I doubt that the medical care is better there. That and other things, no doubt. The point is that we spend a shitload of money on health care, far more than anyone else in the world, and end up with fairly mediocre outcomes. It may be because so ...

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19913 [lbo-talk] what caused the london bombing? (part n+1) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >yeah, and you would expect LBO readers to look a bit beyond such >"explanations", wouldn't you? ;-) but these are strange times... I doubt most lbo-talk subscribers would question a link between the bombings & the war. We might differ in the weightings, but they're mostly significantly greater than zero. Doug

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19914 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >In fact, I think you have been the one to advertize the fact that >polls show the majority of Americans to support a single-payer >system. Yup, but as I recall the last poll I saw on that, even a majority of Bush voters supported some kind of national health scheme. In the US, there's no fixed relation between voting and actual policy preferences. Doug

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19915 [lbo-talk] what caused the london bombing? (part n+1) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Rumsfeld: London Attacks Not Retaliation He would say that, wouldn't he?

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19916 [lbo-talk] Khmer Rouge -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Daily Ireland (pro-Sinn Fein newspaper) > >Khmer Rouge > >by Rory Byrne > > > >In less than four years, the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of the >population of Cambodia You're perseverating. Doug

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19917 [lbo-talk] Cop Killer Bullets -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >http://www.engineersedge.com/finishing/teflon_coatings.htm > >Note the last, uh, bullet. I'd reproduce it here, but there's special >JavaScript on that page that intends to prevent cut/paste. Man, you got a wussy browser! * Amongst many other industrial applications, Teflon is used to coat certain types of hardened, armour-piercing bullets, so as to reduce the amount of wear on the firearm's rifling. These are often mistakenly referred to as "cop-killer&quo ...

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19918 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >For 90% of the population it is vastly superior to what you have in the US. Sure, but the beauty of the US political system is that we get the 50th-90th percentiles to vote in the interest of the 90th-100th. And the bottom 50? Fuck 'em. Doug

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19919 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >It is true, however >that you will get to babylon before me. We're already there, comrade. Doug

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19920 [lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Before you all go thinking that two people get great health care >coverage for $1400/year, the last time we discussed this, I pointed out >that these premiums are _in addition_ to the estimated $0.43/$ of income >taxes that go to the health program. So ... it's quite a bit more than >$1400. If your dad is above median, he's probably in the 45% bracket or >so, so figure in addition to the $1400 about 25% of his gross income. > >It's true: you don't h ...

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