Cards that Mayael might like in HOD:
Crested Sunmare
Chaos Maw
Hour of Devastation
Neheb, the Eternal (Yeah, it's only 4 power, but that mana...)
Hour of Promise
Overcome
Sifter Wurm
Uncage the Menagerie
Samut, the Tested
Leave // Chance
Struggle // Survive
Rampaging Hippo is also an option, but more for the "It has power 5 or greater, and if you don't have enough mana, you can just cycle it." than any real reason for using it.
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And that is a serious issue. It's called doctor-shopping. Basically it means that, in order to still have patients, the doctor has to be a sociopath. Wow, capitalism rewards sociopathy. That's never happened ever.
And that's why an unregulated market is incompatible with modern medicine.
Still, you don't want to be citing NaturalNews, except in an ethnographic context: "This particular subculture believes blah blah blah." It just associates you with the wrong people. In the minds of most, a broken clock is still broken.
Of course, I doubt Archimedes would pick half the stuff there.
Interesting point (and here's where we get to the woowoo factor), but before the AMA existed, there were a lot of quacks. Many of them are still around, hawking their "traditional Native American herbal remedies" that no real Indian's ever heard of, their pure water (better known as homeopathic medicine), their colon-cleansers, magnets, crystals, and the rest of it.
And thanks to the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994, they legally can.
Interestingly, this conspiracy isn't very good: The AMA only represents about one in six doctors.
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And that's even a cursory glance at the government. I'm sure there's a bureaucracy regulating textiles, and one for metallurgy.
Um, yeah, in the 40s-60s, we had a much higher tax rate on the highest 1%, most of the New Deal programs still existed, and Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. Hell, in the early 40s, we were allied with Stalin, while at the same time, Marxists were disclaiming him. (George Orwell actually had trouble getting Animal Farm published because it badmouthed Stalin.)
When they want a return to the 50s, they more mean "blacks had their own side of town, and gays didn't exist". Which really wasn't exclusive to the 1950s; segregation began way back in the 1890s.
Except that organs go to the healthiest people whenever possible already; an alcoholic would never get a new liver, for instance, because he'll just wreck that one too. I mean, unless you give everybody free motorcycles and ban helmets, I don't see organ shortages ending any time soon.
I'll grant you that the free market works...if we're all omniscient and have the exact same starting point (meaning, the gift tax and the inheritance tax are both 100%). But since even then, omniscience isn't a thing, I don't think it can be applied to medicine. Hell, all I have to do is watch The Drs. or The Dr. Oz Show, and I can get some good lulz out of the medical misinformation spewed forth.
Organic versus conventional isn't that important really; it's the calories more than anything. Caffeine isn't really bad for you either. And you forgot getting immunized. Otherwise, yeah.
Seriously, though, I feel that as a man, it's not my place to pick a side.
I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about how a certain group of the electorate don't want people with Obama's complexion to be president. Never underestimate the crazy in state or local politics. Of course, the same applies to federal politics, judging by the birthers. And geopolitics, judging by people like Ahmadinejad. And party politics, judging by last year's primary.
Is there a high school student council where sanity prevails?
I don't think impotence drugs (among other things) should be covered by insurance, but NaturalNews? Really? Would the people here prefer a NaturalNews medical woo bingo card or drinking game? Cancer quackery, HIV denialism, homeopathy, naturopathy (a.k.a. woo kitchen sink), and conspiracy theories to justify why the lack of evidence for any of their claims is just proof of how persecuted they are.
Vaccines don't work that way. Good night!/morbo
It gets worse. Wakefield had his children bring their friends over for a party (Performing medical procedures on your own family is an instant ethics fail due to the lack of objectivity. And the whole "getting around the parental consent requirement" thing.) where he took samples from them. (Seriously. My first reaction would've been "Get your paws off me, shorteyes!" if someone did that to me.) Then, not getting the results he wanted, he changed the results.
The worst ethics fails I've seen tend to be rationalized as "It would be unethical not to break ethical procedures here."
Note that all the big Cold War-era communist windmill-tilters (Hoover, McCarthy, Reagan, a bunch of organized crime guys) all were advancing their careers in some way. It's a "hey, we're relevant" type thing. It also...says a lot about conspiracy theorists. Yes, the worst conspirators are...other paranoid nutcases!
So you'll see AIM/PLO/Communist Party conspiracy theories floating around 70s-era FBI files. One of these groups is not like the other.
This. Back during the OJ Simpson trial, it had less to do with his guilt and more to do with "If they're going to protect their people from justice, we'll repay in kind."
This is more about "mana ramp is broken".
LOL "Hey doc, I've been having this excruciating pain like all over, since, when did the governor sign that medicinal weed law again? Yeah, right after he dotted the last I."
Anyway, how about some reefer madness?
This. Hell, the irony is, medical conspiracy theories always get things wrong: There's no money in vaccines compared to cures. Therefore, the antivaccine movement is a conspiracy in the hands of Big Pharma. And it's also a false flag, like the Truthers claim about 9/11! Would make a lot more sense than a lot of stuff on this thread.
I will say, that viewing AIDS fundraisers (I've always had a fascination with retroviruses, particularly with the possible medical applications for deactivated variants.), I've seen the fundraisers always pick the least relevant strategies. You can't target prevention efforts toward gay men, intravenous recreational drug users, and prostitutes, for instance. You instead have to pretend that a baby whose mother is HIV-negative has the same risk as a dude who sells his body to pay for his heroin habit.
But that's misguided politics for the most part.
@Vaclav: Real potential AIDS cures typically involve gene therapy (targeting CCR5) or some...really complicated stuff that you wouldn't normally do if your patient wasn't already on chemotherapy. There are also antiretrovirals for an HIV-negative partner of an HIV-positive patient to prevent spreading (pre-exposure prophylaxis).
I have what can be best expressed as "cautious optimism". No cure, but reduced risk and longer lifespan.
I always assume they just know this is the best way to get money.
And no, I don't see martial law as a possibility. Civil war, maybe, if only because so many states have petitions to secede now. Many of them get more money from the federal government than they put in via taxes, and are why our education system's so bad (Texas and textbooks have more of a connection than just similar names.), but they want to secede.
Remember, South Carolina seceded before Lincoln was even president.
Technically, the United States doesn't have "some Christian tendencies". During the Revolution, the Founders promised the Northeast's Jewish population that the new nation wouldn't be like the theocracies of Europe that had so persecuted them. The Constitution establishes the United States as a secular government. ("Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion...") Subsequently, an early treaty with Morocco again reestablishes America's secular identity.
But when the government starts having Christian tendencies *waves at smallpox-carrying, child-molesting missionaries who are also "shining city upon a hill" idealists*, bad things happen.
The difficulty with the insurance system is that it's another "our technology does not work that way" issue, much like intellectual property law and the internet. For instance, everyone with an infection (such as influenza) is a potential vector for infection. Surprising. We have answers to this infection (vaccines for many infections, antibiotics for bacterial infections, and various barriers for a few, such as condoms for HIV, indoor plumbing for hepatitis, or mosquito nets for malaria), but unless everyone has access to the particular answer, the system breaks down. (As an aside, I'm on record, when Gardasil came out, suggesting the vaccine be available to males.)
And in the case of say, vaccines, they're cheap, but in come the alarmists. It would be highly unethical to answer the alarmists with mandatory vaccines, but we really don't have enough education. (And we'd have to go against the Oprah media empire, whose various lords and ladies, not to mention the queen herself, have long, storied histories in skeptical media.) But hey, marketplace of ideas, right?
For something like cancer, early detection is important. For something like non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, you can go for years without a diagnosis.
So that's a somewhat-tangential explanation of why medical technology, again, does not work that way.
Hilariously, if you own a business, all this sickness keeps your workers from, oh yeah, making you money. Even if they come in for work, they'll do suboptimal work, just enough to make it through the day and then go home.
(Relying on markets offers another issue. If you're a painkiller addict--sorry, if you have "excruciating pain, like, all over" for six consecutive visits, and your roommate "stole your pain pills" several times--if a doctor drops you for obvious drug-seeking behavior, you'll...find another doctor and continue your drug-seeking behavior, repeating the cycle until you find one with less scruples. Yes, the system rewards the sociopathic behavior of a drug dealer and punishes "first, do no harm".)
But sometimes it's because the treatment doesn't work also. *waves at Cancer Treatment Centers of America* That's another issue with American medicine: There's a double standard. Scientific treatments have to prove themselves, while nonscientific treatments get by with a boilerplate "Statement/product not evaluated by the FDA blah blah blah" warning that actually admits that it has no medical value, but people trust it more for that for some reason.
And sometimes there are medical treatments that do work, but you can't have them for some reason. Going back to vaccines, many are grown in an egg medium. Some people, who know who they are because eggs are so ubiquitous in baked goods and candies, go into anaphylactic shock from eggs.
So I wouldn't trust economists to talk about medicine. And I certainly wouldn't trust the MSM to talk about medicine, due to its "both sides are equal even if proved otherwise" sense of balance. Come to think of it, I wouldn't trust the MSM because of that.
1) We have more manpower than Germany as well because...we have more men (in a gender-neutral sense).
2) 400 million? Closer to 314 million (and I'm rounding up).
Didn't they continue funding "race and IQ" studies into the 90s? I mean, it jumped the shark already with World War II, managed to jump the shark again with Rushton (probably the single greatest example of Poe's Law in Lysenkoian political pseudoscience ever), and these guys...cited Rushton. Yeah, the American Enterprise Institute's a bit of a joke.
But hey, that's how think tanks are. You want to know how you know someone's a crank? "I'll start my own academic journal! With blackjack! And hookers!" They're exactly as useful as a PhD off the internet.
Summing up, health insurance is a scam. The fact that they can deny you, and make their money finding creative ways to deny you, makes it a scam. And mandatory health insurance was, geez, Orrin Hatch's baby before it was Obama's. (And being from Utah, Sen. Hatch represents a lot of quacks already, even before this little boondoggle.) It just happened that creative medicine is illegal under Obama's.
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Another good trick is to make it harder than hell for your opponents to attack you. Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, Seedborn Muse, Protective Sphere...