All Hail Walmart

Re: [spiers] Re: All Hail Walmart

Two of W. Edwards Demming's 7 sins that can keep the
US from competing were 1) the cost of healthcare, and
2) the cost of litigation. For healthcare, would a
Canadian style nationalized single payer healthcare
system lift the burden on businesses and allow the US
to be better competitors?

Speaking of government getting involved with medicine
and mucking things up...., in 1997 Clinton endorsed a
plan to reduce the number of doctors by paying New
York medical schools NOT to take medical students.
New York State happens to graduate 15% of US doctors.
The idea behind the reduction was that if you have
fewer doctors, you'll have fewer tests/procedures. I
think the idea was a little asinine (I thought Clinton
was an OK president too). Sick people drive tests
regardless of how many doctors there are. I think a
better idea would be to flood the market with doctors
and let the market take care of itself. Restricting
Doctors is like Enron closing down electrical
generating plants to drive up the cost of electricity.


Anthony


--- spiersegroups wrote:

> There is a difference between Walmart using eminent
> domain, something a small
> company cannot do, and Walmart encouraging employees
> to go on welfare,
> something small businesses can do as well. Only big
> biz can entice a local
> government to rob the small to serve the large, but
> all businesses, large and small,
> similarly benefit from welfare. Indeed, Walmart is
> obliged to encourage employees to
> collect welfare, since their competitors do as well,
> and to remain competitive at the
> big biz level, all big biz must do it.
>
> In this instance the problem is govt intervening in
> medicine. In the measure this is a
> market distortion, is the measure biz opportunities
> open up...
>
> John
>
> --- In spiers@yahoogroups.com, M A Granich
> wrote:
> >
> > > I do object to the relatively new policy of
> getting
> > > local government to use eminent domain to
> > > condemn and seize private property for the
> benefit
> > > of another private property owner (see the
> > > kelo rulings).
> >
> > The Seattle Times also recently ran a story about
> the
> > State of WA. providing hundreds of Walmart
> employees
> > with healthcare via Medicaid or the State's basic
> > health plan to the tune of millions of dollars.
> And
> > Walmart encourages this. I find that equally
> > objectionable.
> >
> > Anthony

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