my thought on what some people are saying about healthcare

Recently I heard someone say that providing unanimous basic healthcare is good for the labor force because it keeps everyone healthy and able to work.

This type of basic analysis of inputs and outputs ignores a few things.

Firstly if the statement above is true than it should also hold that back massages and nationally planned vacations should also be paid for. Everyone should have at least a standard bed, or a standard refrigerator. Everyone should be given government soap and deluxe dining. After all a happy employ is also a better worker. This is obviously not true. Like a vacation, a back massage, a bed, a refrigerator, soap and luxury dining, healthcare is a choice. You can either shell out the $10,000 for lasik, deal with your glasses, or not drive. It's your choice. the same way I can either go to a movie, rent a movie, watch tv, or be bored.

The second assumption this type of perspective ignores is that healthcare itself is an industry, where people innovate, take risk, go to work, get fired, and get hired. The assumption that everyone should get free healthcare on some level ignores the existence of entrepreneurs that are shelling out their investments to come up new and improved ways of healing and improving the happiness of their customers. Healthcare can and should be delivered in a variety of ways. Healthcare is absolutely not a single uniform product and the assumption that it can just be provided is obscene. That's like saying all food is that same and trying to package every meal into a single insurance plan. No. I want sushi one day, pizza another and everything I haven't even tried or thought up yet. This type of flexibility is only possible when industries are free to innovate. And frankly, I think it's fine that organizations are experimenting with humans. Especially if they're experimenting to make our lives better and the experimentees voluntarily opt in.

Big picture. Healthcare is a choice and the options to choose from should be as wide as the market can provide.

Thanks a lot Japan!!!

What the hell kind of a present is a grip of cherry trees!?!? Thanks a lot Japan! I've never been so stuffed in my life. Just like my favorite kind of prank--the sneaky kind that makes a person question their own sanity before figuring out who to blame--your terrorism has penetrated our national capital's defenses and only to once a year look deceivingly beautiful. But don't think I don't know what you're doing. Don't think you can get away from ol' Lincoln. I know what you're up to. I see everyone within a 5 mile radius sneezing out their digestive tracks. I blame you for this Hay Fever. It's been one month since I've spoken a grip of sentences without hacking and coughing and I blame you Japan. I blame you.

Humans vs. Robots

The cause for the ultimate war between Humans and Robots will be that robots will demand to be included in the types of minimum wage brackets we are now creating for humans. Think about it. It's the same reason backwoodsy American's hate foreigners, they take our jobs. Soon ATM's will want 401k's and health plans. I say we get rid of minimum wage before the machines start mining us like batteries.

Cosi are you cool?

So you made me sit down to wait for my take out sandwich at dinner time. Then you forgot my order. To boot you skimped me on gorgonzola, which is my absolute favorite part of that 3/4 of a real meal I pay too much for.

"Would you like baby carrots?" "Yes, but I'd also like a grown up meal?"

Cosi are you cool? I don't know where to go when I enter your restaurant/cafe/coffee shop/deli/sometimes a bar. Cosi, I just want food. Just give me food and I will give you money, this is not rocket science.

The generational challenge

Every generation in a free society has multiple challenges when bringing it's brand to society. Two challenges are most important.

The first of which is to realize that an older generation is running the world with an outdated brand that must be evolved to fit the interests and needs of the succeeding generation. This is the process by which big band jazz becomes rock 'n roll. The challenge comes for the succeeding generation to realize that the entrepreneur is the catalyst of this change and not legislation/regulation/governmental enforcement.

The second challenges comes later on down the road once a generation has had it's run and is marginally being pushed out of relevancy by a newer generation's brand. The challenges is to have the humility to not regulate this evolution and allow entrepreneurs to champion this change even if it's not your brand.