Recent content by amartin_109

Yay Arch! I feel the Linux is lacking in this thread :(

Because the violence of the past is unchangeable. Im sorry the past generation was stolen from. Thats awful. Its not my fault. I cannot be held responsible for stupid people voting for stupid laws. My parents were 'ok' with getting stolen from to pay things for other people, im not. This isnt...

The quote wasnt mine, it was from a book. I just didnt edit it. There is no statistic i can give you that you could not come back with a counter example. There is no situation i can give you that you would accept. I can scream to high heaven that every instance of a real free market has resulted...

There is no way for me to prove definitively that it would be better. There are no examples because it has never been tried before. We do decide who is in charge. It would be the most cost effective company that could provide the best services to the most people. Thats economics. Yes its...

Yes incentive always equals competition... im not even sure how to argue for the existence of gravity. If you can point to real world example, absent the use of force, please do so. 1. Why? 2. So here we have you that says government is better at healthcare. By what metric? Lives saved...

You have never seen a good argument against it because against it is the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis is the default "true" position until it has been proven otherwise. The burden of proof is on the proponents. First principals are really a wondrous thing. First principal: People...

Force would not be necessary. A pharmaceutical company performing these tests would be required by their insurance companies to release all information or be dropped from their insurance. Baring them from banking, electricity, etc. Its all an intertwined system of contracts and insurance...

This doesnt happen in a real free market. So setting up a non-competitive, unionized, unaccountable government program is the way to fix a problem fundamentally caused by the government? Pointing out that the only reason healthcare cost so much is because of legislation that restricts insurance...

This thread makes me very sad face. What part of free market equals competition equals reduction in price has been forgotten? http://www.surgerycenterok.com/about/ Interesting little project. I hope it takes off.

There were no bullies in my high school. Because whenever that one kid that would pick on the fat girl, steal the scrawny kids lunch monies would pop up, that kid got 2 warning, then, i liked to call us the bullie task force, would beat the snot out of him. Every year there were a couple that...