Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

Linkswarm for December 22, 2010

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

A few bite-sized links of interest for the holiday season:

  • Michael Barone digs deeper into the census data. Among the tidbits: Five of the seven states with no state income tax gained the most population, and the other two each gained the most within their region, and immigration seems to have slowed in the last decade.
  • More on redistricting from lefty election wonk Nate Silver.
  • China’s housing bubble is worse on a percentage of GNP basis than the U.S. or Japan.
  • California’s Treasurer claims that the state economy is not in trouble, but is merely resting. He also asserted it has beautiful plummage.
  • We’ve got spirit, yes we do!/I killed a buck, how about you?

(Hat tips: Instapundit, mostly.)

Socialized medicine works great…if you’re rich

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Here’s a story about how socialized medicine actually works.

National health care works great… so long as you’re rich enough to afford the premium level of government insurance and to buy multiple additional private policies; so long as you have influential relatives; and so long as you’re willing and able to brazenly bribe the doctors and bureaucrats who run the system.

And this is Japan, we everything (except the air) is amazingly clean, efficient and orderly compared to just about any American city. (Even the homeless people are neater than ours.) And socialized medicine still results in worse care for most people than ours.

Read the whole thing.