Good morning.
- Criticism of Mr Obama from Israel.
- Inconsistency on Mr Obama’s part regarding democracy.
- Mainstream press marginalizes itself, and the case of Ms Palin is demonstrative.
- The monastic tradition.
- Redefining the renewable car.
- Who’s “betting” against him? Now working against him, that’s another story.
- And here’s a reason why it’s important to work against him.
- Ethics of empathy as will to power.
- Learning from literature, duh. If you learn nothing from, say, A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch or Brave New World or The Brothers Karamazov or …. (the list goes on) you can’t learn anything.
- The latest news from David Wayne and his cancer.
- The left, still trying to keep life hard for the poor.
- Well, now that the employment is completely recovered it can be kicked around again.
- The risings costs of veterinary costs matching (human) healthcare is a meme being kicked around. Both sides try to swing this in their favor, when really it’s just a sign of the fact that both are skilled labor intensive endeavours.
- GI Joe.
- Memory Eternal.
- Of shop class.
- Probably.
The risings costs of veterinary costs matching (human) healthcare is a meme being kicked around. Both sides try to swing this in their favor, when really it’s just a sign of the fact that both are skilled labor intensive endeavours.
See my other comment on this and how it relates to your arguments about malpractice.
A non-partisan observation, I think we are missing something when we look at graphs like this and talk about ‘rising vet costs’. Usually when we talk about rising costs we are talking about the same thing. Milk costs more today than it did in 1970. Aside from some production differences, a glass of milk today is the same as a glass from 1970 so yes the cost has indeed gone up.
But we aren’t talking about that. An hour of examination and consultation by a doctor or a vet isn’t quite the same today as it was ten or twenty years ago. That hour of time is more likely to produce impressive insights or lead to more potent treatments than it was in the past. This is a bit like saying we spend more on computer chips today than we did in 1980. Well yea but that’s not so much about ‘computing costs’ going up as it is there’s more reasons to spend our dollars on computer chips today than other types of products and services.
In other words, if potato chips had gotten 100,000 times better since 1980 we would be spending many times more on them today. They are, at best, only a bit better so we go for computing and medical care today.