A Stitch in Haste

President Obama is either a liar or an idiot. And he's not an idiot.

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Economics is the ___ science?

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"I can't take advantage of it now which I think is totally unfair…"

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It has become increasingly clear, both in text and image, that Nadya Suleman, the controversial single mother, too "disabled" to work but not too disabled to bang out 14 children via artificial means, is simply mentally incompetent.

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The Prime Taboo of Politics is that no middle class entitlement must ever be allowed to hint of being the dole.

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Richard Swier, a retired military physician, has a modest proposal to help alleviate the health care finance crisis:
Reduce and eliminate health disparities? How about we eliminate gay, lesbian and bisexual behavior? Perhaps the Department of Health, Governor and Legislature should create strategies to reduce the number of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. That would solve this [...]

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What do they have in common?
That's right — Both are scarce goods and must therefore be rationed:
With about 55,000 requests for fewer than 400 tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin's staff says he has no choice but to dispense them in a random drawing. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a fellow Maryland [...]

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Can't quite fit this on Twitter:
I'm sure opponents will dust off the same old slogans they have used to try to block every major advance in health care. They will call it "socialized medicine" and a "government takeover," just as they did when they opposed Medicare and the children's health program — and they are [...]

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I was all set to cite this New York Times article on violation rates in nursing homes simply in a "Questions" entry: Shouldn't a supposed "right to health care" include a right to violation-free nursing home care? Etc.
But I'm changing tack after having read the whole piece:
More than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited [...]

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To review: Health care, however defined, is a scarce good like any other good or service. And like any other scarce good or service, it must be rationed. The only question is how it will be rationed — by private market forces (perhaps bounded by a minimal, humane social safety net for the truly incompetent) [...]

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