tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post7924795060919628100..comments2023-10-19T04:46:10.308-05:00Comments on Griper Blade: The Healthcare Debate RefocusedWiscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013881728915462943noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-58428716817072036422009-09-30T17:32:59.980-05:002009-09-30T17:32:59.980-05:00You hit on something important when you pointed ou...You hit on something important when you pointed out that it's easier to report "unarguable numbers - i.e. hard facts".<br /><br />There's just too many journalists filling too much air time. (Column inches aren't such a problem, because they're less time-critical.) But all those TV producers believe that they can't, or for some reason shouldn't, go on repeating the same things day in and day out - it's meant to be "news", dammit, and that means it has to be <em>different</em> from yesterday, or even one hour ago.<br /><br />And if the only differences are trivialities, then - report the trivialities, dammit!<br /><br />Otherwise, how would they justify their vast, expensive phalanxes of under-employed reporters?vethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13376500106064052491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-31718378139485344072009-09-30T14:02:52.017-05:002009-09-30T14:02:52.017-05:00John, it is written in stone -- it always has been...John, it is written in stone -- it always has been. Not that that makes any damned sense at all. I'm not really sure why we want a bunch of contageous people out there.<br /><br />And you're paying for every "Tom, Dick and Harry" now -- you're just doing it the stupidest way possible. Why do you think it costs an insane amount for a Tylenol in a hospital? Because people who can't pay their bills get care, then the hospital passes that loss on to you. Meanwhile, these people have to wait until their condition gets so severe that they're either hospitalized or have to go to the ER -- i.e., until they need the most <i>expensive</i> care.<br /><br />That sound like any way to run a railroad? It sure doesn't to me.Wiscohttp://gripernews.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-63273663202450813982009-09-30T13:48:20.919-05:002009-09-30T13:48:20.919-05:00My concern with this health care reform, as an Ind...My concern with this health care reform, as an Independent, is that it’s all over the place, there are not enough specifics and it must be put into writing and as if “written in stone” so that not every illegal that comes to the US will get free healthcare and those that work hard all their citizen life in US pay for every “Tom, Dick and Harry”john gordonhttp://www.vacationrentals.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-85727943615892862362009-09-29T18:25:34.635-05:002009-09-29T18:25:34.635-05:00Superb points and solid logic.Superb points and solid logic.Mnoreply@blogger.com