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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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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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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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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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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Thanks lams- blondemike is really not worth another single keyboard stroke. He is as rigid as they come. But I appreciate your post and also for the historical perspective you put forth. Be Well, Dr. Rick Lippin
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Iams- Thanks for your continued efforts to reason with a rigid ideologue whose last post ends with an anectote that Buckley threatened to "punch Chomsky in the mouth" on Buckley's TV show. Therein is the classic endgame of a trapped and desperate ideologue- violence or the threat of violence I think we can rest our case. Dr. Rick Lippin
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lams You are very generous with your wisdom and encouragement Be Well, Dr. Rick Lippin
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lams and others Just keep giving blondemike more and more rope and watch him continue to hang himself publically. Even though after all his name-calling toward me and others it is still truly painful to witness any public self-annihalation Thanks and Be Well, Dr. Rick Lippin
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Iams- Thank you again blondemikes post about me above is bordering on slander re- "PA is getting ready to yank you license" . My attorney, who is one of the best in Philadelphia, may be contacting him soon. Dr. Rick Lippin
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cabdriverinchicago Thanks for your two post above regarding fundamental morality of modern culture which has been indeed been eroded by the excesses of the marketplace. I resonate with "life is sacred" statement - more Docs should. And thank you and lams for providing the rope to blondemike on which he now hangs ,through his own actions, in public Dr. Rick Lippin
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cabdriverinchicago and lams The twisted mind of blondemike is revealed with each post he makes. I regret having to endure his insults but we are revealing to readers the moral depravity of a COMPLETELY INFLEXIBLE ideologue-in this case his diefication of capitalism. Inflexible ideologues of ANY stripe are the most dangerous people in our or any society. History repeatedly has taught us that. Dr. Rick Lippin
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Chicgocabdriver and lams With each passing post blondemike reveals himself. Keep-em coming He can't help it. That's the tragedy Dr. Rick Lippin
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Thanks lams712 Really appreciate your helping to expose blondemike I share your views in last post Dr. Rick Lippin
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SEE NYTIMES TODAY- ABOUT DOCS WHO HEAD GOVERNMENT PANALS ON IMPORTANT DISEASES BEING IN POCKETS -BIG TIME -OF DRUG COMPANIES IS THAT WHAT UNREGULATED CAPITALISM BRINGS US? IF SO -COUNT ME OUT Dr. Rick Lippin
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keep giving blondmike more rope and just watch We will get him to slander us in writing Dr. Rick Lippin
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cabdriverinchicago you are correct -we got off topic here-thanks But maybe a good writer should do a piece on how to keep blogging instructive and civil? I have to say however I enjoyed blondemike's public meltdown enuf from me - over and out Dr. Rick Lippin
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lams and cabdriverinchicgao I am daring blondemike to publically slander me or my professional reputation. Then things will get interesting Be Well, Dr. Rick Lippin
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AT LAST! -An intelligent response from blondemike Hope truly does spring eternal :) Dr. Rick Lippin
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whoops -spoke too soon about hope for blondemike Dr. Rick Lippin
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We Are Beginning to Heal As A Nation A lot of pus is coming out and we as a nation are beginning to heal. No doubt about it. November 7, 2006 was a watershed. The Bush Presidency for all practical purposes is over. Yet I keep reading on many progressive blogs about worse days to come? Why? Maybe some progressives are just "sore-winners"?(did I just invent that phrase?) I understand that we are just at the beginning of a deep cleansing of our very deep and very poisoned wounds as a nation but, nevertheless,the cleansing has begun. The sunlight of truth …
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lams712 You would do me a big favor if you cross- posted your comment on my blog as a comment or I can do it for you with your permission? Thanks Dr. Rick Lippin
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Iams Thanks Dr. Rick Lippin On blondemike- I rest my case re his poem about me I will be asking In These Times to look at this trash which clogs up otherwise good e-space Also I have forwarded his poem to my attorney. Dr. Rick Lippin
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lams- If any sane person would read this e-thread they would be forced to conclude that blondemike has revealed himself many times over to be pathological- probably beyond repair. Thanks for continuing to shine the light on his pathology. We need to bear witness to this type of human and expose him as much as we can. Be Well, Rick Lippin
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