Where the Music stops

The concept of bringing Medicine back to the Consumer has always appealed to me. Retail clinics appeal to me in the sense it is the direction to start the process of bringing Medical Costs down. A pet idea of mine consists of tying broken bones and Limb injuries to the retail clinics. It not only detours Patients away from primary care physicians already overrun with Child and Elderly Care, but allows Waiting Room delays to be cut short by Shopping opportunities. Bone injuries and Such can be considered External, rather than Internal, Medicine; a better realm for Specialists rather than Primary Care. We break off a basic different medical science, and bring higher special technological training to both halves. Ambulance availability to both ER and primary physician is universally available, while Consumer Transit Time could be cut to a third of the current rate.

It is particularly revealing that Oil pricing consistently claims an adherence to fundamentals in a rising Oil Market, but can equally dismiss massed Inventories in pegging favorable Oil prices. American Oil Stocks are at a 19-year High with a huge amount riding in Ships at sea, but Oil companies assert that a doubling of Price will not grant Windfall Profits. I would love a doubling of the value of my Investments, but doubt seriously that it will ever happen; a clear monopoly, on the other hand, enjoys the ability to manipulate Markets to obtain such advantages whenever their Supply sources are secure. Hint: What is one of the basic causations of Recessions in the first place? Re-channeled Profits denude effective Payment Schedules, cutting the profitability of primary Suppliers through diversion to introduced Middlemen, without their contribution of production efficiency.

Calculated Risk will give the Reader a good Review of the Trade Deficit. Exports are off 17.4% year over year, while Imports come in a 27% lower. A Trade Deficit is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on the spread of Products, Services, and Financing. A Fiscal Deficit combined with a Trade Deficit indicates a loss of economic power, especially if Consumer Debt is being financed from Overseas sources. A continued decline in Imports would be to the advantage of Americans, but is probably the most volatile, and doing the most damage. Americans must learn to Buy domestically, but probably will not because of lower Pricing of Imports, until American Credit Score in much lower. Foreigners are not likely to cut off the Credit as long as Americans are maintaining their Production through purchase of Imports, but Credit contractions will be swift and large when foreign economies dismiss Americans are vital Consumers. lgl