Aug 5th, 2009 @ 7:15 am

“Such fears are easily activated in the health-care debate, especially if one is already inclined to believe that Obama is a nascent totalitarian. Liggitt said she is convinced that the Democrats’ plan will result in a single-payer health-care system, and her conception of such systems is hellish. “What does happen in countries with single-payer health systems like Norway, a 50-year-old man who has been diagnosed with cancer is told he will go to the bottom of the list for treatment because he’s older and somebody in their 20s has a better success rate for survival than does he,” she says. “The 20-year-old may have a family or he may not. The 50-year-old most likely does have a family. You’re going to allow this gentleman’s family to go on without him because you couldn’t afford to pay for him.” This is not how health care works in Norway, or any other European country. “I think you’re on firm ground in saying that this a myth,” says Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institute. “It’s fear of the unknown. When there is comprehensive reform, it rouses great anxiety and people fear the worst. They just assume the worst possible motives and the worst possible outcome.”

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Horses and Shallow Lakes

Joshua Tuscan spills some thoughts here and they collect in a pool. I live in Seattle, btw.

I once cried because I couldn't draw a tree the way I saw it in my head. Granted, it was kindergarten, but it was a defining moment. One of my lifelong goals has been to ride a horse through a shallow lake, seriously, it's in my grade school journal. I lived in Barbados for a while where I almost lost my toe, which has stood as a metaphor in my life for that time. I watch a lot of movies and sometimes I fear that it is cutting into my ability to learn foreign languages. Oh yeah, I like to write beautiful, validated code.

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