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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (24518)8/16/2012 10:49:01 AM
From: Peter Dierks   of 42652
 
Typical leftwing pablum:

Virtually every economist knows that just maintaining Medicare and Medicaid benefits will require raising taxes on the middle class.
Or, virtually every economist knows that the current system is not sustainable and the only possible solution is to use financial incentives to match costs with sustainable taxation.

Nobody respectable denies that government mandates artificially raise the costs of whatever they touch. So since the problem is out of control costs why would any sane person suggest the solution is to increase to costs further? That is insane.

The rest of the story is so full of false claims and accusations about the costs of allowing people to keep what is theirs that it is not even worth addressing. As usual the ultimate trump card in their tenuous argument is fear: "No wonder we can’t afford to keep more children alive."

Nobody expects anything of value to emanate from that badly devalued rag.
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