You Must Read This

First: Read this.

Look at how free individuals and a famous "greedy corporate giant" are working to provide health-care services to people that otherwise could not afford it. My company has an on-site nurse practitioner: because her salary is less than the cost of insurance-covered doctor visits.

Now take special note of this:
"Because health care is largely regulated and licensed at the state level, some states are more friendly than others at having non-physicians deliver care. California requires that clinics be a medical corporation owned by a physician. In Arizona, each site must be licensed, but in most other states, a single license will serve multiple clinics. Illinois is considering legislation to limit the number of nurses a doctor could supervise to two and restrict the clinics' right to advertise."

Are you hearing this? The government is limiting the flexibility of the market to respond to consumer needs. Aren't we hearing from every corner today how we must be protected from greedy profiteers, and only the government can be trusted to provide us with the care we need? This is the same government led by the same politicians that block every market attempt actually provide the services people need; the same politicians that excoriate the people that are actually working to provide those services in the name of convincing you to put them in charge of your medical care. It's analagous to the mafioso that wants you to pay him for "protection" from "anything bad that might happen."

Gaaaahhhh!

Principles and Assertions

Without the guide of principles, the only alternative is a grab-bag of arbitrary assertions delivered on a case by case basis. The FCC is a case in point. Observe the mental contortions that the FCC has to go through in order to justify its unjustifiable censorship policies. Since the FCC (and the Supreme Court) has abandoned the First Amendment in favor of "community standards," the FCC is left with no objective standard on which to base its decisions.

I'm sure that the neo-cons would be happy to offer a justification though...