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Author: Amelie Mag
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Are liberals aware how bad socialized health care is around the world?
Democrats say that we shouldn’t worry about the cost of their bill to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. They say that we will spend less on S-CHIP all year than we spend on Iraq in one month. That’s true, in the short run. But the Iraq War will one day end. A new entitlement won’t. Instead, it will grow and grow.
Future fiscal crises are built into the design of S-CHIP. It is funded through cigarette taxes, and will be underfunded to the extent that those taxes succeed in discouraging smoking. But that’s the least of the program’s flaws. Under the Democrats’ bill, states will be able to expand benefits and stick the federal government with two-thirds of the tab. The Medicaid program shows us how these incentives will work. Benefits will expand. When times are good, governors and state legislators will be able to offer voters $3 in services for every $1 in state taxes. When times are bad, the politicians will suddenly discover that they have to cut services by $3 for every $1 in savings.
Rich blue states will spend the most, and thus get the most federal dollars. Half of all Medicaid spending goes to nine states. Republican congressmen who voted for the S-CHIP bill are voting to transfer money from red states to blue ones.
They’re also voting for high marginal tax rates on the poor. S-CHIP, in combination with other federal programs, creates a poverty trap: Many people will find that, if they get ahead, their benefits will fall and they’ll be left behind where they started.
Expanding S-CHIP will get coverage to some children who would not otherwise have had it. Although there is little evidence that this is a cost-effective way to improve children’s health, presumably some of these kids will be able to have better preventive care. Other kids, however, will lose their private insurance and end up with worse coverage.
Insurance is unaffordable in some of the states that most want to see S-CHIP expanded. But that’s the result of those states’ own regulations. New Jersey’s insurance prices are higher than Pennsylvania’s not because of act of God, but because of acts of the New Jersey legislature.
Congressional Republicans—and especially the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee—should have tried to reduce the regulatory obstacles to buying affordable health insurance. They should have pushed to let consumers buy insurance from out of state, thus bypassing the types of regulations that New Jersey has enacted. Or they could have forced Democrats to end the tax penalty on individually purchased insurance if they wanted any S-CHIP expansion at all.
The leading Republican on the committee, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, instead capitulated. He said that, while he supports free-market reforms, it is unrealistic to expect this Congress to approve them. It is a pathetic excuse: He should have told his Democratic colleagues that it is unrealistic to expect a Republican president to sign such a liberal bill.
President Bush should veto this bill proudly.
They don’t care, it makes them feel good. There is NO doubt that if medicine is socialized in the US quality will suffer……
So, how is that war on drugs going for us?
U.S. leads world in substance abuse, WHO finds
Tue Jul 1, 12:31 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday.
Countries with looser drug laws have lower rates of abuse, the researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.
The survey of 54,000 people in 17 countries found that 16 percent of people in the United States had used cocaine in their lifetimes — far higher than the next highest rate, found in New Zealand, where 4.3 percent of people reported having used cocaine.
More than 42 percent of Americans admitted to having tried cannabis, closely followed by 41 percent in New Zealand, Dr. Louisa Degenhardt of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and an international team of colleagues found.
Americans were also the most likely to have smoked, with 74 percent saying they used tobacco at
some time in their lives, although current smoking rates are far lower at 21 percent.
The next-highest lifetime smoking rate was found in Lebanon at 67 percent, with 60 percent of Mexicans and the 61 percent of Ukrainians having ever smoked.
“Globally, drug use is not distributed evenly and is not simply related to drug policy, since countries with stringent user-level illegal drug policies did not have lower levels of use than countries with liberal ones,” Degenhardt’s team wrote.
Alcohol was by far the most common substance used, the researchers found in their face-to-face interviews with people.
“Alcohol use by age 15 years was far more common in European countries than in the Middle East and Africa,” they wrote.
By the age of 21, up to 99 percent of Europeans, 92 percent of Japanese, 94 percent of New Zealanders and 93 percent of people in the Americas had tasted alcohol.
“Estimates were lower in the Middle East and Africa (40 percent to 63 percent)” the researchers wrote.
“In the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and New Zealand, more than 60 percent of young people had started to drink by age 15 years,” they added.
“These findings add to our understanding of substance abuse world-wide, and suggest that drug use is still a major problem in this country, pointing to the need for more effective prevention interventions,” U.S. National Institutes of Health director Dr. Elias Zerhouni added in a statement.
The researchers said their findings shed light on drug, alcohol and smoking policy.
“The use of drugs seems to be a feature of more affluent countries,” they wrote.
“The United States, which has been driving much of the world’s drug research and drug policy agenda, stands out with higher levels of use of alcohol, cocaine, and cannabis, despite punitive illegal drug policies, as well as (in many U.S. states), a higher minimum legal alcohol drinking age than many comparable developed countries,” they added.
“The Netherlands, with a less criminally punitive approach to cannabis use than the U.S., has experienced lower levels of use, particularly among younger adults.”
The study is available at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document& doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox, Editing by Michael Kahn and David Wiessler)
isnt this awesome for us smokers?
Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency.
Pay no attention to those lung cancer warnings – they’re nonsense. You’re more likely to get cancer from cooking smoke! Those are the words of wisdom from China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly, the world’s most successful cigarette-marketing agency. With annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese are responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cigarettes smoked on the whole planet.
The official website of the tobacco monopoly claims cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug: solving your health problems, helping your lifestyle, strengthening the equality of women, and even eliminating loneliness and depression. “Smoking removes your troubles and worries,” says a 37-year-old female magazine editor, quoted approvingly on the website. “Holding a cigarette is like having a walking stick in your hand, giving you support. “Quitting smoking would bring you misery, shortening your life.” Such statements are widely believed in China.
2/3 of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that approx. 90% believe their habit has little effect on their health, or is good for them. Even in China’s medical community, 60% of male doctors are smokers. No wonder Western tobacco companies are drooling over the Chinese market of 360 million smokers.
This week, a group of Canadian experts went to China in an effort to convince Chinese smokers of more realistic effects of smoking. They distributed anti-smoking posters, visited cancer patients, showed the graphic warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and lectured on how the anti-smoking campaign has reduced Canada’s lung-cancer rate. They face a struggle in China, a country where the tobacco industry provides 60 million jobs and 10% of national tax revenue.
“In China today, the economy comes first and everything else is secondary, including health care,” Dr. Jean Couture, a Quebec surgeon, said. “You wonder if anyone in the government is conscious of how great the smoking problem is. There’s no public education program. The Chinese anti-smoking association is very weak and has almost no money. Within 20 years, China could have the majority of all smoking deaths in the world.” Couture leads anti-smoking campaigns in 4 Chinese provinces, and has been involved with China’s smoking problem since 1990.
As Canadians distributed posters at a hospital, they saw a number of people smoking in the hospital. A hospital shop was openly selling cigarettes. While smoking rates have fallen sharply in Canada in the past two decades, the rate in China is still rising. The number of Chinese smokers is growing by 3 million a year, despite an estimated 1.3 million tobacco-related deaths annually.
Chinese cigarettes are cheap — as little as 30 cents a pack — and the health warnings are hidden in small print on the sides of the packages. Though cigarette advertising is technically illegal, tobacco companies are allowed to promote their corporate names. Children can easily buy cigarettes at Chinese shops, despite an official ban on sales to those under 18. Money, money, money.
Hmmmmm. Very few people can read the sarcasm in your title but judging by the spelling and grammar in their answers, very few people can read at all.
If the bilateral exchange rates are: E($/£) = 1,8; E(£/€) = 0,3 and E($/€) = 0,54;calculate the terms of trade?
Consider a situation in which Britain and France each conduct trade with the United States (there is not trade between Britain and France). Supposed that Britain export beer to the US and imports Alaskan smoked salmon. France exports champagne to the US and imports Alaskan smoked salmon. The domestic prices of the goods produced by the three countries are given by:
british beer – 20£
french champagne – 100€
alaskan smoked salmon – 40$
a) If the bilateral exchange rates are: E($/£) = 1,8; E(£/€) = 0,3 and E($/€) = 0,54; calculate the terms of trade for Britain and France.
c) Federal Reserve Bank intervenes the currency exchange market with the intension to buy back dollars. The dollar appreciates against the pound and the euro so that:E($/£) = 1.2, E($/€) = 0,36. Assuming that the domestic prices of the traded goods remain unchanged in the short run and that £/€ exchange rate continues to be E(£/€) = 0,3 what is the short-run impact of the appreciation of the dollar on the terms of trade of each of three countries? Calculate the new terms of trade and explain your reasoning carefully.
d) What effect would you expect the appreciation of the dollar to have on each country’s terms of trade in the long run? Explain carefully.
e) Use your answer to parts (c) and (d) above to draw a diagram of the impact of the appreciation of the dollar on the US terms of trade as time passes. In your diagram, let the vertical axis measure the US terms of trade, and the horizontal axis measure time.
f) What impact would you expect the change in the international value of the dollar to have on the US trade balance in the short run? Explain carefully.
g) What impact would you expect the change in the international value of the dollar to have on the US trade balance in the medium term? Explain carefully.
Assuming same price level, absence of frictions, same taxation, market depth and competition levels zero delivery costs etc.:
a)
USD/GBP = 1.8000
GBP/EUR = 0.3000
USD/EUR = 0.5400
Terms of trade:
UK(US) =Exp/Imp= 20£ / (40$/1.8)= 20*1.8/40 = 1.8/2 = 0.9
FR(US) =Exp/Imp= 100€ / (40$/0.54)= 100*0.54 / 40 = 0.54*2.5 = 1.35
US(UK) = 1/0.9 ≈ 1.11
US(FR) = 1/1.35 ≈ 0.74
FR(UK) – no trade
UK(FR) – no trade
b)
c)
USD/GBP = 1.2000
GBP/EUR = 0.3000
USD/EUR = 0.3600
Terms of trade:
UK(US) =Exp/Imp= 20£ / (40$/1.2)= 20*1.2/40 = 1.2/2 = 0.6
FR(US) =Exp/Imp= 100€ / (40$/0.36)= 100*0.36 / 40 = 0.54*2.5 = 0.9
US(UK) = 1/0.6 ≈ 1.67
US(FR) = 1/0.9 ≈ 1.11
FR(UK) – no trade
UK(FR) – no trade
Short-run effects: Both, FR and UK will tend to move toward higher deficit (less surplus) on Current Account in BoP because in short-run domestic demand is relatively less price (FX) elastic (J-curve effect) and foreign demand does not react quickly on cheaper good too…
UK and FR have deteriorating terms of trade after relative devaluation of their currencies (dollar appreciation).
d)
In the long-run UK and FR will tend to have lower trade deficit (higher surplus on current account) and vice-versa for US, because in long-run demands from both sides are more price (FX) elastic and income effect comes into play…
Although over some time dollar will tend to depreciate relatively to GBP and EUR, thus GBP and EUR will tend to appreciate, thus terms of trade will approach to old values.
e)
f)
US trade balance is expected to improve for a very short period (will go toward higher surplus or lower trade deficit) – because domestic economic agents need time to react to cheaper prices and will continue to maintain same sales volumes (although in general depends on consumer reaction speed too, warehouse capacity and international supplier behavior)
g)
In the medium-term (before value of US dollar falls back) US trade balance will worsen (less surplus / higher trade deficit).
Actually answers depend on many assumptions and also topics your are study now, thus accents may be shifted depending on school you follow.
With all the attention on Health Care, what critical issues are being ignored by the …..?
media? In other words, what is the ‘other hand’ doing?
I think our economy is headed for collapse – Moody reports that the US is about to lose its AAA credit rating – China is refusing to buy Treasuries, and Japan is getting cold feet too. The EU, led by Germany refused to bail out Greece, and blames the US for the global economic crisis. The White House continues to alienate and insult our former allies. NATO will no longer take orders from the US, and the list goes on and on.
Is all this attention on Health Care just a smoke screen to hide the real truth about the awful state our nation is in?
Doorstop – sorry, I should have said “cooperate” with the US as far as our military actions abroad are concerned. At any rate, they will ignore us.
Just letting Health Care pass so that we can get on to other issues is like drilling another hole in the bottom of a boat to let the water out.
I have been wondering what critical issues are being slipped past us while they have diverted our attention to Health Care.
America seems to have given up on expecting Obama to concentrate on the economy. Maybe that is our good fortune.
We are collapsing. It is being done on purpose. Obama has spent 11 trillion dollars in a year. Where is that money?
It was not spent in America. We have only gotten worse. Even when the economy SEEMS to be turning around it is not. That was done to pacify people.
Is this money going toward our place in the new Global Government we seem to be hurtling toward?
After Americans are broke, homeless, starving. After Americans can’t feed their children we will be ready to be saved and the Global Government will offer to save us.
All we have to do is “belong”.
All we have to do is give up our Constitution
All we have to do is give up our Declaration of Independence.
All we have to do is give up our Bill of Rights.
All we have to do is give up being American and everything that is sacred to us.
China and Japan have control of us. We NEED them. It is a very bad position to be in. To be controlled by a Communist Country. Shame on us for not helping ourselves.
Germany is regretting joining the EU. The EU was developed to support and to prop each other up. Now almost all of the EU countries need propped up and they only have 2 solvent countries in the EU and they are worried about themselves. If they go under trying to support everybody who did that help? I don’t blame them. Survive first.
I don’t mind America helping other Countries BUT we need to get our Financial Health back first. When we have something to give then we can give it. We should never force/indebt the taxpayer to help other Countries when we have to borrow the money to help. We need to close the International Checkbook until we are solvent!
The whole world can blame us but they themselves are to blame.
We did not force any Country to invest in the American Stock Market or to buy American property.
Our stock market has crashed several time before. EVERYONE knows the stock market is a risk.
Other Countries chose to RISK money in America and for many years they made millions and sometimes trillions of dollars. We crashed we lost they lost but it is their own responsibility for their investments.
NATO does nor respect America as a super Power because Obama has weakened us in the eyes of the world.