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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2635)	11/2/2007 5:37:31 PM
From: Peter Dierks	of 42652

"Most private charity (not all) is about the self absorbed donor." I am extremely grateful that I can state that your perception is quite reversed. Some charity is about a self absorbed donor, but most is about a common vision for providing something that the market does not do efficiently. Are you telling me that most of the people serving at the soup kitchen are there for appearances? The doctors who serve in foreign countries are there for glory? Etc.? "There is a lot of private charity in the muslim world and in South America." There used to be much more in America, but government has subsumed the role. Charitable people tend to be sensitive to duplication of efforts. "Charity is one thing, but the concept of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is something else." Great, but nowhere in the Constitution does it say I have to pay for cancer treatment on the guy downtown who chooses not to work. Any government that would inflict that on its citizens has become tyrannical. "There are some things government can do better." And all three of those roles that the Federal government can do better are written into the Constitution.

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