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Treat your clothing with Permethrin.

Patients could plan in advance where they'd prefer to be treated. Also if we allowed proper competition among hospitals, there'd be more choices for the ambulance driver. Different hospitals will have different strengths and weaknesses and prices. And competition will smooth out the prices...

The industry has not been allowed to freely grow to meet demand. We have a medical school shortage and a doctor shortage, which have both been engineered by special interests and their allies in government. Prices are distorted because of third party payment and unnecessary and over-regulated...

either apple is overvalued, or everything else is undervalued.

I am talking about basic economic concepts. Grow the economy, grow supply, allow competition and consumer choice. And prices will go down. If we only had 100 barbers, you don't debate about what needs to be done. You call for more barber schools and barber shops.

Unfettered economic growth in the healthcare sector is the solution. That means hundreds/thousands more medical schools, all growing and competing with each other, and millions more doctors practicing and competing. Government intervention makes care more expensive. The care in France is not...

prices are high because the healthcare industry needs to grow. we need more doctors and medical schools, a ton more.

romney for pres

The problem is there aren't enough doctors, because we don't have enough medical schools. It's a supply problem. We need 500 medical schools at least. There is a lot of obstruction in academia and special interest.

people don't know when to buy, and people don't know when to sell. there aren't enough sellers. we'd have to drop 10% I bet to see any real selling going on.

other - government shutdown = fixed income hell.

eh the spy dividends have been rising for 4 straight quarters: 48c, 53c, 60c, 65c. If you bought like a year ago, like you should have if you are a long term investor, the dividend yield is better. Based on my original investment, SPY's div yield is 2.44%.

We should do away with capital gains taxes, so people can exchange their fiat currency for stores of value, without incurring a tax penalty when they sell the stores of value for fiat currency, down the road. So that way the central bank could try to do all sorts of currency shenanigans, but...

I dunno but this quarter's dividend was great. was .48 then .53 now .60 cents a share this quarter.

All Lincoln wanted to do was contain slavery. He knew slavery was obsolete and inefficient and would peter out on it's own. They were reasonable people. It was the slavocrats who wanted to expand it west and create a bunch of pro slave states, and nationalize slavery in America. Lincoln...