Good morning.
- When a philosopher says, “your meaning is not clear” … his meaning apparently is also somewhat guarded.
- An academic philosopher offering unintelligent remarks.
- We can hope.
- Memory, has a year passed already?
- Theology and a question of continuum or distinct category.
- This was settled once a thousand years ago … but I guess not for good, the return of the iconoclast.
- Controlling costs of healthcare.
- Yet another reason to distrust what passes for wisdom in the White House.
- Culture of death noted.
- Of worship and song.
- A poem.
- Heh.
- Odd robot news.
- The fate of America’s poor.
- For the AGW faithful.
Yet another reason to distrust what passes for wisdom in the White House.
The chart appears to be a fraud. I count 15 cabinat positions per Wikipedia.
Perusing through the bios found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cabinet, the following have private sector experience:
Salazar – Interior
Vilsak – Agriculture
Lock – Commerce
Holder – Justice
Chu – Energy
Duncan – Education
From memory both Clinton & Geitner have private sector experience as well. That’s 8 out of 15, nowhere near the less than 10% the chart claims. Also note that if you follow the links to the chart you’ll end up nowhere. It appears to start at http://blog.american.com/?p=7572 where Nick Schultz claims the chart came from a ‘friend’ who found it in a JP Morgan research report. No link to the report or citation is provided.
Controlling costs of healthcare.
Yes pity Germany where they are spendign 14.9% on health care and that seems to be not enough. That shows their system doesn’t work as good as ours.
Ohhh wait, we are spending 16% of GDP on health care!
Additionally, the 14.9% is the rate on gross pay that Germany pays to fund their health system. The actual portion of GDP spent on health is a tad above 10% (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%25_GDP.png).
So right off the bat our system costs 60% more than Germany’s. If there’s pressure on Germany to be a bit more lavish in their health spending, that hardly demonstrates the real problem is with their system rather than ours.
All,
All get to reply to this in a bit.
I had gum surgery this morning … links and replies hopefully I get get to at lunchtime.
Good luck, I’m due for some gum surgery as well to finally finish off a root canal I started a year ago.
FYI, the first comment on this thread has been marked ‘for moderation’? I’m sure that’s one of those quirks of the site.