The health care system is supposed to be run by private enterprise. It’s supposed to be free and dynamic, responding to market pressures and adapting to consumer demand. Our colleague, Porter Stansberry, says it has been corrupted. As you can see for yourself, it is degenerate…and zombified.
December 22nd, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "health care"
Care for a Poor Bill of Health?
We’ve already seen how zombieism overtook the education industry. Now lee’s look at another one — health.
The health care industry is demonstrably unproductive. We know that because we can compare the spending with the results.
November 2nd, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
The State the Welfare State is In
“You can take your loans and shove them,” the Hungarian economic minister, György Matolcsy, did not say. But that’s what he was thinking. Watch out. The Hungarians are trendsetters. They ran a budget deficit of 9% of GDP back in 2006. They got a $20 billion bailout in 2008 and have been living with austerity measures ever since…
July 26th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 50 comments | Continued
Goldman Stole the Money Fair and Square
But Goldman Sachs is as cool as a cucumber. Goldman released its annual report earlier this week. The firm said it hadn’t done anything wrong.
April 9th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Bubble Era Economic Model Worked Until Consumers Ran Out of Money
The consumers can’t really go back to borrowing, can they? Nope. Not without digging themselves deeper in the hole…or actually earning more money.
April 6th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Talk of Chinese Property Investors Bidding Up Australian Property Prices
Having our flagship resources industry rely on foreign credit and politically driven Chinese demand is unstable enough. Now our house prices rely on them as well!
April 4th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 9 comments | Continued
49 Million People Went Hungry at Some Point in 2008
Meanwhile, we learn – in the same paper – that “Rising obesity will cost the USA $344 billion.”
November 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
Proposals Inviting Government to Take Money from You and Give it to Someone Else
Look, there’s nothing wrong with looking for the perfect solution to something, we try to do that all the time. There is one difference though. We favour getting rid of regulations, taxation and compulsion and letting free enterprise and dare we say it, the individual make their own choices.
September 23rd, 2009 | Kris Sayce | 23 comments | Continued
