Comments on: Used Car Sales Tactics

By: Bob Schaefer

Bob Schaefer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:54:23 +0000

To compare Nancy Pelosi to a used car salesman would be to do a disservice to used car salesmen.

Nevertheless, here’s the latest pitch from this pretentious creature:

“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will mean a cap on your cost but no cap on your benefit – a cap on your cost, no cap on your benefit. That represents real change.”

Video link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/22/pelosi_health_care_reform_has_cap_on_costs_no_cap_on_benefits.html

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:24:43 +0000

Health care is not health insurance.

This is how the “debate” is being distorted.

I have auto insurance for my automobile. I don’t have “auto care” for my automobile. I pay for routine expenses for my auto out of my own pocket. Insurance, whether for health or auto, is designed for catastrophic events.

Those who emote about the issue should also have no opinion about the issue because they cannot think critically. They’re too stupid to realize he is using FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to sell his bill of goods.

But he’s no different than his immediate predecessor. George Bush used FUD to pass the Patriot Act and to go to war in the Middle East.

God help this country.

By: Frank Brady

Frank Brady — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:41:46 +0000

There is a sense in which all health insurance programs are both gambles and Ponzi schemes. The person making the insurance purchase is betting that, in the event health care is needed, someone else will pay the real cost of that care. Any insurance program, public or private, that separates the person making the decision to purchase health care from the financial consequences of that decision will generate additional demand for the service. That is because the appetite for “free” stuff is virtually infinite. Once financial impact is removed as a consideration, the only way to control aggregate costs is through rationing.

By: Gringo Malo

Gringo Malo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:13:58 +0000

It's mildly amusing that Democrats seem to be balking on Obama's health care bill. At least, that's what this article in Pravda on the Hudson seems to be saying.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:23:10 +0000

I find that whenever I am discussing health care, people often get very emotional and exclaim “but people NEED health care!” as if to imply that because one NEEDS something, one shouldn’t have to pay for it. It’s as if certain goods and services are just too important to leave to the market since it apparently has such a poor track record of delivering good and services where they are needed!