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Back from traveling down south for a visit, we’re back at home and enjoying Thanksgiving food and football today. I’ve got to get some Zerobased stuff together today but, other than that, no plans.

Now these are the sorts of posts blogging is all about… *L* (sarcasm)

More substantial thoughts of late (from too much time driving) are mostly paranoid/fearful about the future of the country.

• women being told not to self-examine… (to eliminate resulting unnecessary doctor visits)
• acceptable levels of annual deaths if we change a recommendation on early detection of cervical cancer…
• evidence that some global warming “evidence” was manufactured through “the Nature (Magazine) trick“

60 Minutes had a segment on Sunday night where one of the experts was outraged that the US would allow its citizens to pay for statistically disadvantageous health care (you know, things like cancer screenings…) particularly when faced with 46 million Americans without health care. First, is that 46 million stat true? Next, this is the lowest common denominator approach – we not only have to make sure that the uninsured get covered, we have to change our expectation of care as well. This is not about health care. If it were, they’d just take this social health care money and buy policies for those uninsured. (I bet the math works better.) This is about you and I being told that we should not trust ourselves, our local doctors or the free market to help. We must obey the state. (You will take soma and be happy. You will be healthy… but the definition of healthy is now less healthy than before.)

Like carbon emission restrictions, it acts without acknowledging that that extra medical effort… those extra emissions (from productivity) are a symptom of what makes the US special, not the low productivity, employment and standards of care held in some/many? socialist states.

The Netherlands, New Zealand or Australia are looking like good options.