Why We Don’t Need Socialized Medicine

This video is a response to another video titled, “Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance” (click here to see that video). This video doesn’t edit the original…just adds to it with explanations to the contrary. This is posted just for informative purposes. Enjoy…its pretty good.

One key thing I want to point out from this video is the notion that insurance companies take out some of the money you pay in just as pure profit. The responding video points out correctly that revenue – expenditures = profits. Profits are therefore taken out at the end, if they are left over at all. For example, a company that one of my relatives works for (I won’t say who or what company because I don’t want to give away anything that might have been privaliged information and shared with me in confidence) … that company and employees paid $1.5 Million in premiums to their insurance company. Their insurance company paid out $4 Million in claims. So the insurance company took a loss of nearly $2.5 Million! So it saw no profit from the premiums paid out … yet it still paid out the claims from these employees. Just an example as to the fact that insurance companies don’t take out anything as pure profits as the original video claimed.

Healthcare: What Would Reagan Say?

Again, I feel compelled to post some audio of Ronald Reagan speaking out against socialized medicine. Now you can call me an extremest or naive, and say that the Democrats and President Obama are not advocating socialized medicine akin to Canadian or British systems. But listen to this clip that was put together and aird on the Glenn Beck Radio Program. Please know that this is only being used to give some perspective, not because its from Glenn Beck. I have been accused in the past of idolizing Glenn Beck, like Democrats idolize Obama. While I listen to his program, he and I are not always in agreement so take this audio for what its truly worth.

I want to point out some key quotes from this audio piece (which has been awesomely remixed with some music). Reagan talks about the proposals (much like today’s) under the Truman Administration that would advocate for a “public option” health insurance, but would make it much more compulsory then than perhaps current legislation suggests. So we will begin after the jump:

CDC: Beer Pong Causes Herpes

Ok so as I have pointed out I am a college student and one of the most prevelent drinking games in college is beer pong. So this story is just right for me to post here:

The Center for Disease Control released a report this week saying the game “beer pong” is one of the leading transmitters of the herpes virus, among other diseases.

In fact, the CDC said the game is nearly as dangerous as unprotected sex!

College campuses and other entities have attempted to remedy unprotected sex on campuses and educate students as to the dangers it presents. Now it looks like the “No Glove” folks may also want to adopt a “No Balls in My Cup” campaign (ping-pong balls that is).