Jonathan Paul's List: Social Media

• Despite what almost seems a conscious effort to keep the facts properly subdued  and tucked out of sight, the truth has been worming its way to the sunshine. Now  it's clear, as one example, that longevity is only partially connected to health  care in the first place and that when you subtract homicides and accidents, we  in America live longer than anyone, despite President Obama's constant  reiteration of the reform-encouraging and utterly deceptive thesis that we do  not.
• We know that our treatments of serious disease produce better outcomes than  elsewhere in the world, that everyone can get treatment at least in emergency  rooms, that most Americans are satisfied with their care, that insurance net  profits are a relatively low 3.3 percent and that the actual number of citizens  without access to insurance is closer to 10 million than the 46 million number  so often heard. We also know that Medicare and Medicaid have accumulated  trillions of dollars in obligations to future recipients that we have no way of  paying
• Fixing those programs is a task rendered virtually impossible by piling new  hundreds of billions of giveaway dollars on top of what the government is now  spending, thereby emulating socialist health systems abroad. When you make  something cheap to the point of being virtually free, the demand for it goes up  enormously, severe rationing takes place and instead of everyone being  splendidly taken care of, you have many left to suffer and even die.

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