Obamacare was insurance company care instead of single payer or an intelligent hybrid. If the democrats can't be trusted to deliver single payer, I guarantee Republicans won't deliver until every establishment member is replaced. Ryan and McConnell have to go first.
I wonder how many gang-related shootings of people with no insurance the Swiss have to deal with? How many illegal immigrants showing up at a hospital to drop anchor babies? How many illegals carrying deadly, highly communicable diseases that were eradicated decades ago? How many poor people and illegals with large families who have been taught to go to the ER for routine health care?
Bernanke was right, in my opinion, to want to delay identifying specific banks that were getting emergency loans from the Fed. (It wasn't just the monster banks, it was any getting those loans that he wanted to delay identifying.) He was rightfully concerned that this news might result in an even worse run on bank securities. The amounts were revealed, but not the names of specific recipients. However the specifics would have been revealed in due time anyway, as once the banks were stabilized and recovering there would no longer be a need to protect this information. Because Bloomberg had to go through the FOI procedure, this produced the much needed delay. Kudos to Bernanke again for outstanding, level headed management of the crisis!
AAA my wife works in a NICU in san diego...I give you thumbs up for being aware of how much money is being spent on babies from other countries. Additionally, right now there is an expanding surrogate baby trade. We have women being baby ovens for couples from all over the world... but many from china. When the babies have problems... guess who frequently winds up holding massive medical bills.
an interesting comparison would be how much U.S. spends on healthcare for those over 65 on medicare compared to how much Europe pays for healthcare for their over 65 population.
They have the Turks, who they hire to handle their garbage and clean their toilets, and the folks shooting up in the park in Zurich to contend with..
whether he was right or not is a different issue altogether - that I suppose matters if you enjoy crony capitalism or not. However, I can see you now understand the Fed can create trillions at will and not document it for us unless ordered. note... I do enjoy your delightful commentary. The Fed choose to be secretive about 7-16 trillion in money creation because they knew they would give out the details after losing a FOIA request they fought in court. Hillary could use you on her team right now. Are you more telegenic than that media matters troll who needs a better haircut? I know what look he is going for, but it does not work. It just makes him look silly.
Poll: Sanders overtakes Clinton in Iowa http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...-in-iowa/ar-BBoxw9g?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP15
For a good government reformer who worships propublica, pie is awfully casual about letting an unelected bureaucrat whose prior experience consisted of grading term papers at Princeton hand out trillions of dollars without any oversight. I guess we were just darn lucky Bernanke had people from Goldman telling him where to put the money.
I prefer some nerd economist running things than some politician who needs people like me to vote for him.