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• • 12 Mar 07
  • 3:06 pm

  Thanks David Moberg for the article and recognizing we have a real window born out of crisis to act on meaningful health care reform You are correct about the incrementalists trying to stop bold national reform citing potential severe dislocations of a $2 trillion dollar "disease care" economy I am a physician-forecaster-blogger. I am convinced that individual and institutional prevention resulting in reduced demand for expensive high tech medical services is our only way out of this mess. Other nations are discovering this reality also. My blog since Dec 05 is http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com Dr. Rick Lippin Southampton, Pa ralippin@aol.com

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• • 12 Mar 07
  • 5:14 pm

  Hi Blonde Mike- I make zero $ dollars from my writing. I didn't realize I put up an ad? Thanks Dr. Rick Lippin

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• • 13 Mar 07
  • 4:50 pm

  WTH- You are absolutely correct. blondemike is wrong. blondmike doesn't understand the difference between a business and a profession. Medicine, Law , the Media, the Clergy are professions-not businesses. These are professions who perform important services that transcend the freemarket. As a matter of fact they have been ruined by the excesses of the free market . The practice of Medicine is a profession which has been almost completely corrupted by trying to transform it into a business. Human Flesh and human souls are not commodities- period! blondemike- Get it? Dr. Rick Lippin Southampton, Pa

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• • 13 Mar 07
  • 5:55 pm

  Hey blondemike. I read Ayn Rand in college and fell in love with free enterprise. But I know when it is taken to an extreme. We have corrupted medicine, law, the media and the clergy with excesses of the free-market model All I can say if you believe that everything has a pricetag is that I feel very sorry for you. What a crass way to go through life. I am not superior at all to the honest business person. But as a Doc I am not a businessperson Get it yet? Dr. Rick Lippin Southampton, Pa

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• • 14 Mar 07
  • 11:15 am

  blondemike- Your arguments are devoid of intellectual merit. Your ideologic and obsessional view of free-enterprise is extreme in its inflexibility and ignorance. Your misperception of what has happenned to the former U.S. professions of medicine, the law, the media and the clergy is uninformed by any measure. Your attack on the New York Times is way out of line I am not an "MDiety " at all. But , as a Doc, I try to be a values-based professional and not a businessperson I have always, in over 30 plus years in the practice of medicine, been on a salary. I …

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