tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post3783000504536990004..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Parity as Bogus Bail-out Bonus?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-50934735717915167462008-10-31T02:34:00.000-04:002008-10-31T02:34:00.000-04:00I arrived here from a web search after reading the...I arrived here from a web search after reading the part about negative reinforcement. Un-fricking-believable. So normal people are just bottling up the crazy because they're scared? And for those for whom stigmatization is apparently not enough, screw 'em, they're faking it? I can tell you who these people are...the same people who think we should ban sex ed because they think if they ignore a problem, it will go away. Social conservatism, yay!<BR/><BR/>"OTOH, we've been trying to pass parity on its own merit for years with no success."<BR/><BR/>This should have passed years ago. It didn't. Evidenced by the stars of this post, there are too many righteously ignorant people at this time for it to pass on its own.<BR/><BR/>The indignity of it getting passed this way pales in comparison to the indignity sufferers have received. <BR/><BR/>To naysayers, better this as a costly rider than some train museum in Podunk, My State, or an Alaskan bridge, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-37558035654865093292008-10-26T11:14:00.000-04:002008-10-26T11:14:00.000-04:00Hm. By the authors' logic, insurance companies als...Hm. By the authors' logic, insurance companies also shouldn't pay for the treatment of tennis elbow, torn rotator cuffs, or shin splints. 'Cause, you know, playing so much tennis or golf, or running so much in bad shoes on unforgiving surfaces, that you injure yourself is a completely avoidable behavioral choice.Gerbilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908487212760713496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-35301045925447899152008-10-24T13:31:00.000-04:002008-10-24T13:31:00.000-04:00Should top Management be responsible to the public...Should top Management be responsible to the public company performance?<BR/><BR/>bailoutmovie.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-63490861903177047362008-10-24T12:06:00.000-04:002008-10-24T12:06:00.000-04:00Alison, that's a great way of putting it. The sti...Alison, that's a great way of putting it. The stigmatizing view reflects harshly heroic expectations of what people are capable of, which in turn is influenced by neurobiology.<BR/><BR/>Medicine exists to begin with because of human fallibility. Why don't we stigmatize anesthesiology? Pain is "just" in our heads after all, we could always just deal with it...Novalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-58675912056250225022008-10-24T11:43:00.000-04:002008-10-24T11:43:00.000-04:00Whether a person bears no, some or entire responsi...Whether a person bears no, some or entire responsibility for their difficulties doesn’t always mean we shouldn’t help. I never cease to be surprised that the concept of enlightened self-interest seems to have completely disappeared from the american political discourse. <BR/><BR/>Extreme case: there are cases of wealthy but benignly neglected 19th-century british children with access to a library who, however haphazardly, educated themselves. We could therefore conclude that if children wanted to an education they would look after it themselves and wash our hands of it. In practice, taxpayers get together to fund a universal public education system because we prefer to live in a country with educated citizens, and because we recognise that while a theoretical possibility of self-education exists, in fact people learn more quickly with the help of teachers. <BR/><BR/><BR/>A little closer to home: I doubled my income within a year of starting (publicly-funded) antidepressant therapy. I have since doubled it again and am now on privately-funded antidepressant therapy. Even if it were theoretically possible for me to pull myself out of a decades-long rut, this was clearly a smart investment by taxpayers, as I have been paying much, much more in taxes than I ever received in free meds. <BR/><BR/>Why wouldn’t we want to help our fellow-citizens become more productive? Really, why? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.Alison Cumminshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370841996857073237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-72144029869290418452008-10-24T11:18:00.000-04:002008-10-24T11:18:00.000-04:00I don't care for the way the parity bill was passe...I don't care for the way the parity bill was passed, either, and suspect there will be some resentment from dissenters on the way it was sneaked into law.<BR/><BR/>OTOH, we've been trying to pass parity on its own merit for <I>years</I> with no success.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-75246704414428089992008-10-24T11:04:00.000-04:002008-10-24T11:04:00.000-04:00That was a depressing read. I have never understoo...That was a depressing read. I have never understood the reasoning of people who will acknowledge any other system in the body can be dysyfunctional except the brain (although I suppose they'd allow for strokes). <BR/><BR/>The idea that the most complex organ we own, and the generator of not only all our physiological functions, but of our mental functions -- our <I>mind</I> -- can never malfunction is, to me, completely illogical and indefensible.<BR/><BR/>FWIW, the qwaky anti-vaxers quote medical information from the 19th-century to support their arguments, whereas Szasz's work is a mere 50 years out-of-date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-56655859971399870622008-10-24T10:55:00.000-04:002008-10-24T10:55:00.000-04:00Thanks for pointing out the media's always haphaza...Thanks for pointing out the media's always haphazard approach to this question, which seemingly will always be with us.<BR/><BR/>I think one can go too far in the direction of "addiction is a disease" (i.e. merely or only), but similarly in general medicine. All kinds of behaviors and personal attitudes can contribute to heart disease, lung cancer, etc. but they certainly get treated.Novalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.com