Biden's Afghanistan Explained

    After witnessing the Biden Administration's colossal disaster in Afghanistan, I have been in wonder at media commentators who project the possible shortcomings of the Democrats as a series of miscalculations.

The shortfall was not the lack of trying to do good policy.  The Biden Administration wanted America to fail.  Their thought processes were the following:

Trump's plan was to completely pull out of Afghanistan.  If the Democrats can leave Afghanistan in a bad way, then Trump will be blamed for having a bad agenda.

It doesn't take much thinking to conclude that Trump's Afghanistan policy: wouldn't have left a lot of vulnerable Americans behind, wouldn't have left behind thousands of Afghan allies who we promised refuge to because they helped us, wouldn't have left tens of billions worth of high-tech military equipment behind to be seized and used by our enemies, and, wouldn't have left intact American-built, operational military bases.

I wonder if we are going to start to hear the argument that America failed in Afghanistan because of the complete military pullout that was Trump's idea.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Why You Should Want Capitalist Medicine

    There is a battle in America between Government Health Care and Capitalist Medicine that Government Health Care is winning.  In this blog post, I will discuss what the two alternatives are and why you should want Capitalist Medicine.

Government Health Care is where the state takes care of you with force.  The government decides what health care it doles out to you--if you get anything at all.  In most cases where you receive the state's care, it is not something you want.  This could be less than you would like, or more--such as the injection of a mind-altering drug with nasty side effects.  In cases of serious medical need, you often won't be able to get a desired medical operation, or perhaps will be forced to receive something potentially dangerous to your health--such as experimental brain surgery against your will.  The basic concept is that the government is in control.

The opposite, alternative system is Capitalist Medicine.  Under Capitalism, you have the freedom to look for medical professionals to offer to hire--such as: doctors, hospital staff, and private care givers.  Since Government Health Care didn't wipe out their market, they actually still exist to offer medical services to you for payment.  For example, despite the drastic erosion of private medicine, I personally, still pay to see three private doctors at separate offices, in exchange for existing medical services.  The freelance, private, family practice doctor has made recommendations to me over the many years I have seen him that have saved me sometimes tens of thousands of dollars.  Other times, he has told me of therapies (such as one that used a government facility) that I didn't want to do; and I told him "No."  You see, in Capitalist Medicine, you have that freedom!

One issue, that I don't think that most people understand, is what I call: "the sensation of health care".  Health Care procedures are marked by pain.  This can range anywhere from the internal side effect reactions to a nasty drug, to the perception of a scalpel cutting open a conscious patient because a hospital is low on anesthetics.  You either don't get health care, or you get a low-quality, painful operation.  The scarcity in health care is like Civil War times when the military surgeons kept going for coffee breaks to stay awake cutting off everyone's arms and legs.

But it isn't just that Government Health Care is full of examples of health care you don't want.  It's opposite, Capitalist Medicine, is full of the wonders of technology and healing that you do--assuming that you can pay the market-sustaining fee to enhance or save your life.

In Government Health Care, medicine mostly does not exist.  In Capitalist Medicine, the state does not take care of you.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Whatever Happened to Repealing Obamacare?

    Covid America is obsessed with fighting a virus with Government Health Care.  The only exceptions, that I see, are the private efforts to produce therapies and vaccines--as well as the voluntary decisions by company management to require such things as mandatory vaccination to work.  But, government agencies, such as the FDA, still interfere in the private sector by requiring approval to sell a Big Pharma or Biotech product--if the government allows a private sale at all.

Think back six years to the political climate concerning medicine in America.  Whatever happened to repealing Obamacare?  After the disaster of the "Affordable Care Act" (ACA), Americans were fired up to get rid of Government Health Care once and for all.  I wrote blogs explaining that it's opposite is Capitalist Medicine, and that Capitalism in the medical profession should be the goal to strive for.

Trump was really good for America; but he never had the conviction that Capitalism was the ideal for American Medicine.  I remember one debate among the Republicans running for President where Senator Ted Cruz pointed out that Trump in fact supports Government Health Care.  After a four-year Presidency, I tend to agree with that more than I had hoped for.

Americans need to get back on the track that they began with defying the policies of Obamacare.  And it's not just an extreme assertion of Socialism in the medical field.  Americans need to dump Government Health Care--all of it!  Capitalist Medicine is the moral political environment--because it is the economic one that government only interferes with when there is non-contracted force, or fraud.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalism Medicine Promoter

Covid Verses Natural Mortality

    As the world learned more and more about the Coronavirus, it became known that that flu was statistically much more deadly to older individuals than the young.  In America's battle, the government took over and converted most hospitals to be treatment centers that tried to save people.

In following the events that unfolded from the beginning, I became outraged when I learned that many government hospital efforts were tallying Covid mortality as deaths by that virus whether or not the individuals who died had multiple, medical afflictions.  I read that this was being done partly because Government Health Care would get more funding according to the level of need that the elevated Covid mortality numbers demonstrated.

This aggregate number had a secondary effect--in that it wooed Americans into perceiving that many more have died from the pandemic than actually did.

I researched some numbers and found a few relevant statistics:

(1) 328 million is the approximate population of The United States

(2) 78.5 years is the approximate average life expectancy in The United State

(3) 613 thousand deaths have been claimed to have been caused by Covid since the beginning of the pandemic in The United States [in about 1.5 years]

These are common statistical measures that are used; but, I thought I would develop a new one that could be of interest in the investigation of Covid vs. Natural Mortality.

(U.S. population) / (Avg. U.S. life expectancy) = (Avg. U.S. deaths expected per year)

(328 million individuals) / (78.5 years of life) = (4.18 million individual deaths per year)

So, according to the government and public hospital administrators, ((613 thousand Covid deaths) / (1.5 years)) / ((4,180 thousand Normal deaths) / (1 year)) = (about 10% of all deaths in America each year that are caused by Covid).

Is that what the private medical professionals are telling us?  10% of all U.S. deaths in the last year and a half have been caused by Covid?  Common sense says that's a little high and that Government Health Care is lying to us.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter