Prion diseases be damned...
Mar. 12th, 2007 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaotic_nipple... I want to kill and eat This Cow so I can be even higher on the food chain.
Other linky things:
Introducing ClockPunk, Things I Will Do if I Am Ever the Hero, The case for Privatizing Defense, German women aren't really forced into prostitution, Some of the new Transformers are actually kind of silly, Venus terraformed, The World that Dubya made, and finally The Speculative Dinosaur Project. Of all the "What if the Dinosaurs had survived?" thought experiments out there, this one is BY FAR the best. I particularly liked the "Salmonites", but the actual dinosaurs are all cool too.
On a sad and serious note, the tale of Million-Dollar Murray brilliantly explains why the US government currently spends far MORE per citizen on health care than countries with "Socialized medicine", because we mandate emergency care regardless of ability to pay, but don't cover preventative care. I was surprised that they missed the obvious, pro-business solution, though: Simply stop mandating emergency care. You show up at the ER bleeding to death but lacking insurance or a substantial bank account, they let you die on the floor. Just think of all the money we'd save!
Other linky things:
Introducing ClockPunk, Things I Will Do if I Am Ever the Hero, The case for Privatizing Defense, German women aren't really forced into prostitution, Some of the new Transformers are actually kind of silly, Venus terraformed, The World that Dubya made, and finally The Speculative Dinosaur Project. Of all the "What if the Dinosaurs had survived?" thought experiments out there, this one is BY FAR the best. I particularly liked the "Salmonites", but the actual dinosaurs are all cool too.
On a sad and serious note, the tale of Million-Dollar Murray brilliantly explains why the US government currently spends far MORE per citizen on health care than countries with "Socialized medicine", because we mandate emergency care regardless of ability to pay, but don't cover preventative care. I was surprised that they missed the obvious, pro-business solution, though: Simply stop mandating emergency care. You show up at the ER bleeding to death but lacking insurance or a substantial bank account, they let you die on the floor. Just think of all the money we'd save!