Dino posted a mini-rant on homeopathy and its utter lack of usefulness. I got to thinking about it, and...
I was going to make a comment on the fact that we've also become a style over substance society, hence all the Hope and Change we're experiencing...how we feeeeeeeel about things has become much more important than actual results.
As far as I am concerned, homeopathy is the Obama of scientific/medical world -- in the end, it's an empty bottle/suit that costs a shit-tonne and does absolutely nothing.
Edit: I'd point out that, also like homeopathy, it's easy to sell people a bill of goods based on appearance; a "blank screen on which people project their own views,*" if you will. It looks good on the label, and promises to fix everything but in fact does not treat things and makes them worse.
Trading big companies fucking people over (when you have legal recourse, no matter how convoluted) for big government fucking people over with impunity is not improving things for anyone. The Obamacare bill does not do anything but add several levels of bureaucratic bullshit. It does not improve access or quality of care, but it looks good on Dear Precedent's resume.
(A quote from "The Audacity of Bullshit," if I recall.)
Dead on the money...
ReplyDeleteActually, Obama is more like science-based medicine. You don't have to like, understand, or agree with him to benefit from his policies.
ReplyDeleteIt's the new healthcare law that prohibits companies like Keystone HealthBastards East from pulling crap about treating fractures at Urgent Care, or was that whole episode just a shining example of the free market at work? Is preserving the right of big companies to jerk you around really your idea of "freedom"?
Good question Dino!
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