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You are incorrectly assuming they actually passed Logic 210.
2
You are assuming they read Slog
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@2) Nobody reads Slog.
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If we read it, our comments might actually refer to what you write, rather than our fake arguments about why the sky is blue with fluffy white cotton balls.
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I don't read Slog.
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Slog is meant to be read?
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I don't read Slog, I snort it through my eyeballs.

Also, right on, Dom.
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This the same Times that uses the same intellectual dishonesty to print an "article" saying what I-1240, the charter school inititative, and then leaves out vital parts (like charters being able to takeover ANY existing school, failing or not).

Their lack of reasoning is breathtaking.
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They're just pandering to their audience, i.e., the majority of Washington voters, that have the same cognitive dissonance.
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Better get it through your heads that the people of this state don't want higher taxes.
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Yes, you can, and the way to do so is to return spending on poor people, which at the state level is mostly spending on medical care and which has massively surged as a share of the state budget in recent decades, back to the levels of say 20 years ago in real terms.

But, you say, isn't medical care much more expensive than 20 years ago even in real terms? No really for the same drugs and procedures as 20 years ago. The problem is that we insist on giving the indigent the same shiny new state of the art care as paying patients are buying.
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@11 "The problem is that we insist on giving the indigent the same shiny new state of the art care as paying patients are buying."

No.

I suppose your statement is technically true if you mean that by denying the indigent and anyone else without medical insurance actual medical care, causing health conditions to worsen and only guaranteeing financially ruinous medical interventions in the most expensive context, the emergency room, but I doubt you understand it that way.

I believe it is also true that leeches are now cheaper in real terms than when they were used medically, but despite a few interesting applications for tissue regeneration and attachment being explored, I hardly think we should reintroduce blood-letting as a general curative for the indigent.

The problem is that our medical sector incentives are not based on outcomes, overall health and patient satisfaction. Sure, we have the best medical whatevers that money can buy, but everything is about buying it.

Now, before you go crying, we don't have to remove market rewards for innovators, inventors or even purveyors of excellence to realize these savings. The huge savings in this sector can be realized by changing the incentives, enabling medical information flow and addressing issues in their early stages.
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@6 no, it is meant to be read out loud by our Robotic Overlords.

@11 I think you mean rich old people. There, fixed it for you. That's where most of the medical care goes.

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