Others have said this before, but it’s worth repeating.
The purpose of the healthcare system is to keep people from getting sick in the first place, and, if they do get sick, to make them better as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
The purpose of business is to make money.
Posts Tagged ‘ThoughtOfTheDay’
Why Healthcare Must Be Public
by Kavan Wolfe
The law has, long ago, ceased to apply to the powerful. That is why a poor person who murders someone gets the chair, whereas a CEO who murders someone through the actions of his corporation gets a bonus (see, for example, TASER). That is also why Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have not been prosecuted despite [...]
My Life as a 2X2 Matrix (pic)
by Kavan Wolfe
Does this also describe your life?
The Central Theme of your Thesis (comic + comment)
by Kavan Wolfe
If you’ve gone to grad school, particularly for a PhD, this may ring true for you.
The strange thing is, grad schools seem to be constructed around the assumption that grad students are desperately inept and have no idea what they want to do for their thesis or beyond. This premise has so profoundly affected the [...]
Pirate Bay Case Judge a Veritable Copyright Lobbyist
by Kavan Wolfe
Well it looks like Canada and the United States of Torture are not the only countries with embarrassingly incompetent judges. Tomas Norström, the Swedish judge that recently found the Pirate Bay founders guilty of copyright infringement, is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for Industrial Legal Protection.
So let me get [...]
Canadian University Bans Bottled Water
by Kavan Wolfe
In the latest display of misplaced enviro-consciousness in Canada, a university, a school board and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities are pushing for bans on bottled water. I know what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to get people to stop drinking bottled water because it’s horribly inefficient compared to tap or filtered [...]
Wars before Whores
by Kavan Wolfe
War on Bullshit Thought of the Day:
Prostitution may be the oldest profession, but men made war before money was invented to pay prostitutes.