Comments on: This Is PBS

By: Olympics of Stupid « Taunter Media

Olympics of Stupid « Taunter Media — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:24:57 +0000

[...] we let the IOC auction the Games. Nationalize the rights. Or, more precisely, state that PBS is the only permitted bidder, and it will bid the same amount per-person as the lowest-paying EU state broadcaster. Then offer [...]

By: smell_the_victory

smell_the_victory — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:47:51 +0000

You studiously avoid the entire purpose of public television. It is/was to show things that are supposed to be educational/enlightening. There isn’t a market for this beyond the very narrow niche of wildlife death-porn on pay TV.

Specific to the comparison with the health care issue, Public TV does not directly compete with commercial television. I can imagine all kinds of interested groups that would like to open a secondary market that does not compete with the existing medical insurance/care industries. The results would be the same.

In the U.S. you also have the interests that wrap themselves in the mantra of ‘free markets are the most efficient’ getting angry and decrying ‘big government’ when a public agency provides the identical service more efficiently.

By: ECONOMISTA NON GRATA

ECONOMISTA NON GRATA — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:15:27 +0000

I can’t for the life of me, golly, gosh and darn, think of why we are discussing a public option, when what we should be discussing is a private option. If we have a de facto nationalized the banking industry because for all intents and purposes, it’s bankrupt (no pun intended). Let’s just nationalize the entire health care industry, which is swimming in cash. Federal Imminent Domain.

Lets’ just move along and cooperate with the inevitable, universal, single payer, heath care. If you want something more, go to the private insurers. If what you want is cosmetic scrotum sack surgery, go for it….

Ciao,

Econolicious

By: anne

anne — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:33:43 +0000

Not a fan of Tess, Taunter? Ah well…

David Chappelle is hilarious…

I think ALL governments need a Ministry of Silly Walks.

But you’ve defined one of my fears for the public option:

“Little attempt to be innovative coupled with endless begging” for funding.

I perhaps have too limited an imagination, but I simply cannot see a public option devised in such a way as to provide critical competition to the big guns. My fear is that the public option will become the dumping ground for the sick. For-profit insurance companies would accept premiums from people until they have serious health issues, and then they’ll get dumped onto the public option.

Those are my fears – no stats or anything to back them up.

Thanks for the links to the funny stuff. I’m always looking for a good laugh.

By: Mark Hartzer

Mark Hartzer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:51:06 +0000

“I would listen to David McCullough read Sarah Palin’s speeches.”

You’re a braver man than I, Gunga Din!