Sorry, Terrence, but please forgive me. Your posts lately have sounded so much like Michael Cummings' that I became momentarily confused. This was actually a question for him, and I am hopeful that he will reply:
<<Incidentally, aren't you still in the armed forces? It really makes me laugh to hear you
criticize things like governmental participation in the health care system, income taxes, or
Social Security, when you have totally paid for medical care, subsidized groceries and
other household items at the commissary, a very secure pension that cuts in much earlier
than it does for other Americans, and that I am forced to pay for all of these things with
my income taxes! Somehow, your positions just don't compute.>>
Privatized medicine seems to be pretty evil, Terrence. Look at the mess we have now! I am not saying that ALL of socialized medicine works well in every country that is doing it, but certainly you don't have the situation of HMO's ripping everyone off and providing substandard care at the same time, always trying to erode the quality and breadth of care to make even more money. Countries that fund their medical care system well seem to have people who are satisfied with it. This would be mostly the northern European countries, who do socialism with panache! Since I believe that basic health care in a world this wealthy should be a human right, I am not sure why I would have agreed that socialized medicine is evil. What class of people does it make economic slaves of, incidentally? Our medical care system now is making fools of all of us. I don't like Hillary Clinton, and I think she made a presentation on her health care ideas which was too complicated, but I do believe that some publicly financed system would have worked in America. |
