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You know, the health care section is also annoying to me

Socialists regard patients as recipients; Liberals regard patients as consumers who demand the best possible service.

Patients are not consumers of health care. Where they are, as in the US, you get Massive Fail™.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 12:34:39 PM EST
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Re: They Post Letters (4.00 / 2)

Much of the letter is rather stupid market fundamentalist dogma ('government can't create wealth or jobs'). Not all ELDR parties are that far gone, but obviously the fundies are there at the European level.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 12:53:51 PM EST
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Re: They Post Letters (none / 0)

Is the PES letter full of dog-whistles, too?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 01:10:09 PM EST
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