tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post5120435320687250180..comments2024-03-28T00:18:25.641-07:00Comments on Calafia Beach Pundit: The private sector is ready to goScott Grannishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028519647946868684noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-55929143096259271492013-10-01T15:22:18.052-07:002013-10-01T15:22:18.052-07:00Nice point about gold being twice its long term de...Nice point about gold being twice its long term deflated average. Here's a graph of deflated gold vs. 10-year forward return..<br />http://www.futuresmag.com/2013/09/24/taking-a-long-term-view-on-commoditiesThe Commodity Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518485068505658443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-71354943956008066822013-09-30T15:49:01.165-07:002013-09-30T15:49:01.165-07:00I agree with you Steve. And it is not just Doctors...I agree with you Steve. And it is not just Doctors, hospitals are only two happy to buy the latest expensive technology - often when there are no comparative studies to justify there use. Why? Because the purchased equipment results in new expensive charges which they didn't have previously - a new source of revenue.<br /><br />And the equipment makers sell their products (think CAT scaners, Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418491109912775561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-39561402778492400272013-09-30T04:35:49.817-07:002013-09-30T04:35:49.817-07:00william, the problem as I see it is the "for ...william, the problem as I see it is the "for profit" incentive US docs have. the more tests/surgeries/procedures they order, the more they get paid and don't forget medical malpractice lawyers. always on the sidelines ready to pounce. patients EXPECT these things and would never give up their treatments just as they'll never vote away the dole. we are rightly screwed and I see stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387986994469835875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-33864832327068332112013-09-29T19:32:18.713-07:002013-09-29T19:32:18.713-07:00Health care in the USA is extremely complex so it ...Health care in the USA is extremely complex so it can not be discussed on a Blog in a couple of paragraphs. Suffice it to say that the USA pays twice as much per patient as does Canada, western European countries, Scandinavian countries and Japan; but our system's results are inferior to those countries as shown by many studies.<br /><br />So why pay double for an inferior product - that is Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418491109912775561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-17827488846037966362013-09-29T19:29:54.690-07:002013-09-29T19:29:54.690-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418491109912775561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-37790688137258722382013-09-29T07:12:28.936-07:002013-09-29T07:12:28.936-07:00What is weird about initial claims is that they ar...What is weird about initial claims is that they are so low. Historically 300k was a bubble. With so many more people working now it is like 250k in times past which is bizarrely low.<br /><br />I am in the VA healthcare system. While it isn't a single payer system it has many of the worst elements. There is a drug the wise few at the top of the VA say they will not provide. A top Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-62579276265351253852013-09-28T07:15:26.637-07:002013-09-28T07:15:26.637-07:00"Pent-up demand" may exist in the upper ..."Pent-up demand" may exist in the upper 5%, but the middle class is either broke or hanging onto their dough for retirement. Health care and college are too expensive. Repealing Obamacare will not help the former. We need a Canadian-style single-payer system. Higher ed needs to go on a diet. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06365403570563730880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-73614936200749889002013-09-26T23:11:44.487-07:002013-09-26T23:11:44.487-07:00Something squishy about these labor figures...I fe...Something squishy about these labor figures...I fear too many people are going on SSDI or other welfare programs. One-third of returning vets now claim post traumatic stress disability (the PTSD program was liberalized and no one complained).<br /><br />The solution is lower taxes on productive behavior and...a more robust growth policy on behalf of the Fed.<br /><br />The Fed is expansive? Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-17917025867360829382013-09-26T19:52:10.414-07:002013-09-26T19:52:10.414-07:00Except in 1998 and 1999 when there didn't seem...Except in 1998 and 1999 when there didn't seem to be a serious care in the world ( the hey-day of the "day traders" ), when has there not been major problems in the USA and the World. Think of them: the Great Depression, WWII, the post WW II Recession, the Korean War, the years on years of the Cold War and threat of nuclear annihilation, the Cuban debacle and nuclear threat, the Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418491109912775561noreply@blogger.com