Posts by Terence Wood
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aaarrgghhh...worst typo thus far. I'm talking about Paul Krugman, not to him, and the link's meant to be for the rest of you.
Sigh....time...to.....switch....to......backup.....brain.......
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Paul Krugman,
Has a good go at the terrorists and socialised health care thing in the NYT. open link
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Sorry Craig my last post was missing a tag. It should have ended with
[/sarcasm] (which is a pity really, it would have been quite fun to have you out flank me from the left :) )Don,
Just in case your post doesn't end with the same tag: bureaucracies - they created an even bigger one in the US, with insurers trying to avoid paying, hospitals trying to make them pay twice, and the whole adverse selection thing.
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Well there you go. Silly old me. I'd always been in favour of a health care system where the state plays a core role for the simple reason that it is demonstrably more efficient (if you want to guarantee provision in any way). But I'd never thought about those Jihadis (why do they hate us so?).
Gasp! we could be a target. Heck we'd better scrap the system pronto: party vote ACT this election. That's what I say.
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Craig,
I agree: simply publishing Ben Goldacre does not change the fact that the story is nonsense. Nor will the mauling that it is destined to receive from the readers' editor for that matter.
All I'm saying is that Ben Goldacre is invaluable and I for one am grateful to the Guardian for publishing him. No other English newspaper that I'm aware of has a columnist doing this sort of debunking.
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In defense of the Guardian stable, at least Ben 'Bad Science' Goldacre' will be around to give the article a thrashing later in the week.
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Craig,
I'm with you: while I may occasionally have the urge to hug posters of Helen Clark, I'm real keen to leave the doctors with fewer rather than more pills and (grimace) blood tests...
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Having said all that, speaking as someone who lives on an NGO sized salary and suffers from a chronic disease, when I went to the doctors yesterday and found my bill halved I was sorely tempted to hug the poster of Helen Clark they had hanging in the waiting room*
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*Ok - so there wasn't actually a poster there. But if there had been I might have hugged it. -
[Deep Inside the Labour Party Strategy Building]
Strategist 1: "...cheaper health care, free child care, incentivised savings - these are all good policies but...the trouble is...the public might realise. And then we might end up, like, popular again."
Strategist 2: "hhhmmmm...indeed...and that wouldn't do"
Strategists 1 & 2 together: "hhhhhhhhmmmmmm"
Strategist 1:"I know! why don't we advertise the policy using the same technique that got us into so much trouble in the first place"
Strategist 2: "No, no - silly. It would be no use. We made that legal. Remember?"
Strategist 1: "Ah but you miss the point: it will still remind the public of the the whole fiasco and..."
Strategist 2:"It will give the other side something to attack us with!"
Strategist 1:"Exactly"
Strategists 1 & 2 together: "Pure Genius"
[Curtains Draw]
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Che,
yes - I've often said, "good community development starts with a good uniform". But I may be a hopeless idealist.