The key to solving health care quality and cost is to make medical and insurance providers compete for the people's market dollars instead of tax dollars. As long as providers are competing for government dollars under government controls, they know that the subsidies and monopoly will allow them to continue to raise prices and reduce service quality. They all know this of course, which is why the biggest lie of socialized medicine is that it helps the poor. Elites know the truth that socialized medicine is actually a huge welfare program for the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
It now appears that a large US military force will need to be deployed to northern Africa in the near future. Of course the requisite media inculcation will proceed and create the sufficient fervor and righteous confidence of the citizenry in the mission ahead, despite the casualties or true losses of our imperial aims there. The US military and CIA have been operating in and around Somalia for over two decades now and the growing instability of that region, culminated by a collapse of the most recent CIA backed government there in 2007, has prompted decisions in the beltway that more than subversive forces are needed to maintain control. The latest “pirate” story, including the kidnapping of a US ship captain, is being promoted on the media grid with the usual meter and appearance of thoughtful restraint. Instead of just saying that we are sending troops to northern Africa as part of the control of the resources in the middle east and central Asia, the TAPI pipeline, etc., a decision ...
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