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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (3153)	12/7/2007 4:25:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

and they also set the minimum bid price in auctions. Setting a minimum price that you will take is not "controlling" the price, unless you're using some esoteric term of art. It's no different than setting a maximum price that you will pay. I will buy it for $1. Yes or no. I will sell it for $4 million. Yes or no? What's the difference? In neither case does the sale take place. In neither case does the party control the price. No commerce takes place until the seller agrees to a price. No commerce takes place until the buyer agrees to a price, as well. Go to a flea market. Browse around looking for, say, a pie plate. Make an offer on one. Who controls the price? The buyer who can accept or decline the offer or the seller who makes the offer? Or neither. Your notion that the seller controls the price ignores the laws of supply and demand, at a minimum. That's why I call it an alternate universe.

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