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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 26, 2008 7:44 am) Not sure that the government does more than oversee the medical profession. AMA control remains much the same, and as a result, even incompetent doctors are guaranteed high incomes. In law, a profession with much freer entry, some lawyers get rich, others make middle incomes, and others have to go into another line of work. But thanks to almost a century and a half of AMA statism, even terrible doctors get lavish incomes. The monopoly also allows anti-customer practices to go unpunished. For example, doctors routinely schedule appointments too closely together so as to keep their waiting rooms full, for prestige and marketing reasons. With little competition, they can get away with it, and advertising on-time service would be "unethical." The next time you have to wait 45 minutes amid six-month-old People magazines, thank the AMA. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/medical.html http://www.jstor.org/pss/3762857 Many solutions are offered for rising medical costs. Almost all of them involve more government intervention and less consumer choice. No one seems to talk about the root cause of rising costs—the extraordinary power of the American Medical Association (AMA) to control the supply of doctors. An economic principle is that when there is a shortage, prices go up. Ordinarily—in a free-market—when there is more demand than supply, new entry by suppliers occurs. However, the supply of physicians is strictly controlled. And so it is with medical care. No political party wants to tackle the unbridled power of the AMA—they are just too powerful a lobby. Until this power of the AMA is tackled, there will be no solution to rising medical costs. And as a consequence, the movement towards further socialization of medicine, which will hurt the consumer even more, will accelerate. http://givingupcontrol.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/the-untold-story-behind-rising-m- edical-costs/
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 26, 2008 11:21 am) Here in TX, I have not talked to one person that felt sorry for the California going belly up or falling into the ocean. So how many Hummers does your governor have?
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Replying to: blckislandguy (Dec 26, 2008 10:09 am) http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media_control_propaganda/Media_Control.html http://www.netscientia.com/media.html For all their economic clout and cultural sway, the ten great multinationals profiled in our latest chart--AOL Time Warner, Disney, General Electric, News Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann, AT&T and Liberty Media--rule the cosmos only at the moment. The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed is always growing here and shriveling there, with certain of its members bulking up while others slowly fall apart or get digested whole. But while the players tend to come and go--always with a few exceptions--the overall Leviathan itself keeps getting bigger, louder, brighter, forever taking up more time and space, in every street, in countless homes, in every other head http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/miller |
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 26, 2008 1:28 pm) I think he has about 6 of them. All UAW built. The Liberals that run the state all drive Prius. Remember it was our own Democrat Moonbeam that tried suing the Big 3 for spewing more Carbon than the Imports. If it was not for Rush Limbaugh pushing GM vehicles and Conservatives buying big SUVs and PU trucks. The Big 3 and UAW would have been gone long ago. 
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Except for the GM Job Bank, I don't have a problem with the UAW. In fact, I think the majority of the assembly work done by the UAW is excellent. The man or woman on the (assembly) line only installs what management provides. The failure of the U.S.auto industry is management's relentless pursuit of reducing cost-to-build by using cheaper and cheaper components and assemblies. What the 'white shirts' and pin stripe suits do not understand is that when cheap components break....that supposedly cherished, loyal customer starts looking for a better brand of vehicle. So moronic management saves .03 cents on a part.....and risks losing a customer who is willing to pay $20,000+ for vehicle. And that's stupid. Just plain stupid. WheelMan
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Replying to: wheelman (Dec 26, 2008 2:21 pm) That may or may not be so. The real point is why did the management cut corners on the content of their vehicles? Was it because they only have so much room with all the additional costs? There is more to the total mess at GM than we are seeing. Did the UAW contracts keep GM from modernizing their operations? Why are the health care costs of retirees added to current production rather than taken from the pension fund? Does the UAW contracts keep people working that are no longer productive? If GM is going to compete against the likes of Toyota on a $20k car, they better use the same quality parts. If GM cannot build a $20k car with equal quality to the imports. Best they get out of the business.
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 26, 2008 4:20 pm) But you hit the nail on the head. Many decisions were made to cut content/cost due to trying to offer a product at a competitive price. They had to take content out to compete. This was due to the financials. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 26, 2008 4:20 pm)
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 26, 2008 7:26 pm) Ask a 30 year engineer at GM what he thinks of the 30 year UAW worker.
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