|
Media Infiltrations: Deadly Rescue  National Review November 17, 2008 Krugman’s Posthumous Nobel National Review Online October 14, 2008
"What has been your worst blogging experience? "That's a guy who actually stalks me on the Web and once stalked me personally." "I'm saying this...guy's a jerk."
 A Bound Man Shelby Steele What I'm listening to:  Langley Schools Music Project What I'm watching:  There Will Be Blood What I'm playing:  Speed Racer Order these from Amazon.com at Amazon's normal low prices... and a fraction of your order goes to help support this site. Thanks!
Thanks to Irwin Chusid, public editor. Some of the sites
|
The Conspiracy Letters
Join the fray! Email us at letters@poorandstupid.com. We reserve the right to publish all letters with authors' names, unless specified as not for publication or for publication anonymously. Letters may be edited for clarity and brevity.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
THE REALLY BIG LIE Krugman wrote,"... unlike any other advanced country, many people fail to receive basic health care because they can’t afford it. Lack of health insurance kills many more Americans each year than Katrina and 9/11 combined."This is a favorite LIE of the left. If you don't have health insurance, the theory goes, then you dont' have health care.
It's the big lie.
If you couldn't get health care in this country without health insurance, the streets would be littered with wounded, sick and dying people. So, where are they?
Lack of health insurance does not equal lack of health care. Louisiana, for instance (where I am from) has an extensive system of FREE health care. It's called the Charity Hospital system. The Catholic church provides FREE HEALTH CARE to many who cannot afford to pay insurance premiums.
And, can someone tell me please how not having health insurance kills people?
They may die of their disease, but I suspect that they would still die of their disease if they are paying for their hospitalization, or State Farm is paying for their hospitalization.
Insurance just pays for health care. It does not equal health care.
Kevin Greene
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 3:15 PM | link
WHAT DOESN'T GOOGLE DO? Google does "prediction markets." Thanks to Chris Masse for the link.
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 9:00 AM | link
ANOTHER VIEW I doubt very much that you will explore the issue I'm about to raise, but as a white person living in a mostly black and hispanic neighborhood, I hope that you will.
As you go home this evening think about where your children go to school. Where do Krugman's go to school? [Krugman is childless. -- editor] How many black families live on your street or in your neighborhood? If you live in an apartment building, do black families live there? Are Krugman's living arangements the same as yours?
What I bet is that both you and Krugman live in nearly all white neighborhoods. I bet that your children go to schools that are nearly all white and asian, if they don't go to private schools.
Both you and Krugman insulate yourself from the multi-racial society in which I actually live. And don't think for a minute that either of you would tolerate it. Zoning regulations are not enforced. Building codes are not enforced. Drug dealing and prostitution are a two block walk away. Outside the liquor store black men sit all day drinking. I try not to walk by them. Sometimes I'm afraid, even though I'm male, six feet tall and 270 pounds.
A mile away is the town of Rowayton. 100% white and insulated by an average housing price of over one million dollars. I'd live there if I could. It is nice, as I am sure you know, since you and Krugman already live in places just like it.
White liberals defend blacks, but don't live with them. Maybe you'd like to explore why that is? But I doubt it.
Tom Grant
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 1:14 AM | link