Comments on: The beginning of the end of whatshername https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:39:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528813 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:39:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528813 See, it IS a socialist plot. Extra billing is just the free market making everything all efficient and stuff.

]]> By: Karen B https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528812 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:56:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528812 To echo A Bear and Monado, Universal Health Care came to Canada in 1966 and existed in several provinces in the 1940’s. The Canadian Health Act was created to stop doctors from extra billing.

]]> By: Monado https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528811 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:40:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528811 Universal health care came in in 1966, with hospital and diagnostic services insured before that.

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528810 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:46:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528810 Another entry for the “teabagging morons” file:

Feds probe Christine O’Donnell’s campaign spending
BALTIMORE (AP) â?? Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

]]> By: A Bear https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528809 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:24:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528809 Juice; The CHA of 1984 was not the origin of universal health care in Canada, which began in the late 1940s and was in place throughout Canada by the 1960s. The Canadian Health Act was more of a cost sharing agreement between the provinces and the federal government.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528808 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:35:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528808 @george.w: At least we haven’t got a “preferential” system like Australia (a voting system which might sound OK to people who haven’t got the necessary analytic skills but is really bad). In one round of elections the major parties put some fundamentalist nutcase as the “preferred” candidate if they don’t win by a majority in the first count. The imbeciles in both parties believed that the fundamentalist couldn’t possibly win (one of the many incorrect beliefs about a ‘preferential’ voting system) so when no major party had the required majority, their votes all went to the nutcase. It is a textbook example of why what is touted as a virtue of the preferential voting system is merely an illusion of the innumerate and in reality a severe defect of any such system. It is similar in many cases to the old rules of progression in tennis tournaments and Lewis Carroll explained the problem very well. (Except that in the case of voting, unlike the tennis, the winner is not necessarily who people want either.)

]]> By: george.w https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528807 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:19:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528807 Doh! “…pick her over any Democrat…” said my brain, but my fingers typed something else.

]]> By: george.w https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528806 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:17:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528806 Maybe 50% of Republicans don’t like her now, but if she were their candidate they’d pick her of any Democrat no matter how well-qualified. That, to me, is the danger.

Highlighting evidence of her hypocrisy won’t sway any Republican but it might turn the swingers. Best to keep the lights on and the heat turned up. I don’t want to wake up some day and find that she is President just because we thought it couldn’t happen. That’d be worse than Michele Bachmann being on the House Intelligence Committee or something. Absurd as that sounds.

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528805 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:13:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528805 Greg, I don’t disagree with anything you wrote — excepting only that any of it is at all likely to change anyone’s mind. Rational people and those who allow facts to enter their mental landscapes (not identical sets, but either will do) are already horrified at the idea of the Palinator getting anything resembling power.

The remainder aren’t paying attention and aren’t likely to change their minds [1] no matter what.

[1] Quirk objection preemptively noted.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528804 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:03:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wh/#comment-528804 MikeMa, when was the last time you saw Republicans, as a party, limit their office-/power-seeking behavior to things they actually liked?

Also, as was demonstrated repeatedly this last election, the majority of voters are not the people who decide who ends up on the ballot.

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