Tag: health care rationing

HEPA Vacuum Cleaner Orphaned by Miele

The Miele S184 PowerHouse HEPA vacuum cleaner has been orphaned by Miele. They no longer produce the HEPA filter that this model requires. Those of us who spent big bucks not many years ago are now stuck with a machine…

Palin adds to incivility

As reported in the Cleveland PlainDealer, former Alaska governor Palin is contributing to the incivility. She not only called the Obama health care proposal “evil” but made ridiculous claims about an Obama “death panel.” When she asks, “Who will suffer…

Economics, Justice, and Health Care

Some major points from someone who has trained in both philosophy and economics: Health care insurance exists to protect one against catastrophic loss. Ordinary health care costs should be part of a household’s normal budget, like other “necessities” such as…