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I didn't write national defense and health care are the same. If they're both unique, they can't be the same. They are unique for different reasons. But, nevertheless, they are unique.

Cultural realities surrounding how we engage the health care system, and how we view the purpose of health care - that is, not as a business, but as an enterprise designed to make us healthier - supercedes, IMO, the ways it offends your intellectual pro-market sensibilities, or those sensibilities of anyone like you, because there's considerable, significant proof that single payer works just fine and is far less complicated than the system we have now, which also fucks up in ways any system would.

Health care is distinct and poignant in ways that are more compelling to me than your or anyone's interest in totally controlling their health care outcomes. I side with what I perceive would be the greater, common good over any personal self-fulfillment (or lack thereof) that might come from your great choices (or lack thereof).

 

Retired transgender Navy SEAL: Tell me to my face I’m not worthy of serving


"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," Kristin Beck told Business Insider Wednesday, referring to Trump. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service."

Beck was a Navy SEAL for 20 years, serving with the elite Team 6, among others. She was deployed 13 times and served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Business Insider.

She added that she doesn’t think it’s right for people in the military to defend liberty for only some Americans.

She also dismissed the argument that unit cohesion would suffer from transgender people serving alongside service members who might have problems working with them.

"A very professional unit with great leadership wouldn't have a problem," Beck said."

 

Because if you approach something as a public good when it's clearly not, you'll probably totally fuck things up?

 

This I agree with. I don't know if that required a robust and functioning insurance market thought. If anything, it means a smaller, more specialized one I'd imagine.

 

When exactly are you referring to?

 

This is going to be one of those weird, reasoned backwards from belief definitions of "fucked up" that believes child labor laws and universal primary education was a mistake, isn't it?

K. Despite this brief blip, I have confidence we can outvote those definitions in the long run so I'll live with your disagreement.

 

I suspect my understanding of "fucked up" is clearer and more rigorous that your understanding of "market failure" -- hint, it's not "an equilibrium of which I don't approve" -- so your long run better be pretty dadgum long.

 

Did she publicly identify as female during her service?

 

Economists didn't copyright the words "market" and "failure."

When the free market fails to produce desirable outcomes, I can call it a failure of the market. I'll take the F in Econ 350 on my SJ.com transcripts

 

Trump listen to his team? Oh, come on Inky, you know better than to even suggest that.