Comments on: The Moral Imperative

By: Peter W.

Peter W. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:20:53 +0000

Ron, may I suggest you add this writer to your considerations: Richard Fernandez, aka ‘Wretchard’.
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

HIs commentary at the ‘Belmont Club’ is fascinating, stimulating, and wise.

Best regards, Peter Warner.

PS: I admire Hanson deeply, a man who farms successfully knows common sense. Krauthammer is very smart and perceptive, but I part with him on his estimation of Sarah Palin. He famously suggested it would be better for the GOP if she ‘left the room’.

By: Ron Snyder

Ron Snyder — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:07:52 +0000

MM, interestingly, both Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer are on my “A List” of people to read, view and listen to. Both are obviously rather intelligent, educated, well read and versed in history.

Both also base their opinions and perspectives from personal experience (farmer/historian/scholar/author for VDH), (physician, author, commentator, pundit for CK).

Regards,

By: Marianne Matthews

Marianne Matthews — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:49:34 +0000

chunk … “rare is the moment when Krauthammer isn’t the smartest guy in the room.” Great comment. He’s my hero. Problem is, under new Obamacare rules, he might never have been encouraged to continue his life after his college swimming accident which paralysed his lower body, or even been given the expensive healthcare necessary so that he could. And we would have been denied one of the most brilliant, incisive thinkers we have in our country. His healthcare needs would have been rationed. just as those of the rest of us will be.

Blanche DuBois is wrong. “Depending on the kindness of strangers” is no longer a good idea. It’s even dangerous.

Marianne

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:09:49 +0000

This 2000 some odd page health-care bill wending its way thru Congress reminds me of something a Turkish diplomat was quoted as saying in Mewsweek circa 1982. “You want to know how the world is going to come to an end? Someday the worlds’ pop will swell until everyone gets stuck in a giant world-wide traffic jam. And then some bureaucrat will come along with a form to fill out with instructions as to how to get out of the jam. But nobody will be able to understand it–and that’s the way the world will end.”

By: xformed

xformed — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:26:04 +0000

Of course, it leaves control to the states.

And, as QM astutely pointed out above…there’s the rub….

They did it with “drive 55mph, or no fed money for you.” They have done it with No child Left Behind, and many, many other programs, where the refusal to implement unfunded requirements at the state level, because Congress said so, leads to withholding of money collected all around the country.

Congress has decided they know best. That 535 people and the hordes of paid staffers, and abused interns are all smarter than real people living in a real world. Sickening, it is. Worse yet, about 65% of the people don’t seem to care, until they see the pragmatic affect on their lives, then they scream…and Congress provides another (equally bad for us, but worth votes to them) solution.

By: saltydog

saltydog — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:08:48 +0000

Federally, they could be contolled in 20 pages. It is the state legislatures that have such a differing approach to health care. State legislatures are where the real health care reform should be happening. Less interference by the Federal govt.
An example: Look at Mississippi and what they had to accomplish as they were losing virtually every OB/GYN due to insurance and lawsuit abuse. State passed Tort reform and Insurance legislation. That model has not even been brought to the light of day. Of course, it leaves control to the states.