HT: Mises Economics Blog
You might have read the story about the Socialist Alarm Clock. A friend who wishes to remain anonymous sent his libertarian version and asked me to post it (cross-posted at Division of Labour and The Beacon):
“This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock built by the ingenuity of millions of individuals [...]
by the Night Writer
Mitch made a reference to “this year’s model”, which reminded me of Elvis Costello’s “I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea”, which reminded me of how little I expect of a British-style health system.
Capital punishment, she’s this year model –
They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don’t want to [...]
by the Night Writer
From an article in The Scotsman:
THE cost of Scotland’s flagship free elderly care policy will soar more than threefold to £813 million a year by 2031, a new report has revealed.
A dramatic growth in the number of pensioners over the next three decades will send costs, put at £256 million in [...]
If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it is free.
— P.J. O’Rourke
That quote appears in my blog header this week because I’ve been keeping an eye on the Single-Payer Health Bill passed a couple of weeks ago by the California legislature and forwarded to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator vetoed the bill [...]
Last April I posted on the story of Charlotte Wyatt, the British infant whose doctors had gone to court to get a “Do Not Resuscitate” order — over the objections of her parents. The doctors’ petition was granted, and to me it as an example of a socialist state demonstrating that it does indeed believe [...]
“Hello, this is ABC Cardiology. How may I help you?”
“Yeah, I’m looking to have a little work done, and I’m calling around to find out what it costs to see one of your doctors and have a couple of tests?”
“What kind of tests?”
“Oh, you know, EKG, stress test, enzyme test, whatever it is you folks [...]
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 2)
CART MASTER: Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER: Here’s one.
CART MASTER: Ninepence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
CART MASTER: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing. Here’s your ninepence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
Terminally Ill Can Be Starved to Death, UK Court Rules
By Nicola Brent, CNSNews.com Correspondent, August 02, 2005(CNSNews.com) – [...]
Walking out to lunch yesterday in the 99% humidity I started to feel an odd heaviness and pressure on the left side of my chest. No pain, no shortness of breath or anything else out of the ordinary, so I thought, “Ehh..it’ll go away.”
(Continue reading – as if you could resist)
The sensation persisted throughout [...]
I didn’t take in any shows while in Las Vegas, but I did see a presentation on healthcare trends by futurist Andrew Zolli that was almost as eye-popping. According to Zolli, the price of a typical new car in the U.S. includes about $1,000 in materials…and $1,200 in health insurance costs for the men and [...]
Don’t stop me if you think you’ve heard this before:
A British court decided last week that 18-month-old Charlotte Wyatt need not be resuscitated by her doctors if her breathing fails. The unusual twist to this story, at least to American ears, is that it is the doctors who sought and received this sanction over [...]
