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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (215902)2/1/2007 9:56:21 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Health care requires people to be sick. Exactly why would Dell or GM require their customers to be sick.

Dell requires their customers to need new computers. For GM it is new cars. Since neither Dell nor GM are selling insurance, I haven't a clue why you would think getting sick has anything to do with Dell or GM.

Your above comment makes me think that perhaps you view any business whose consumption would rather be avoided by the customer, as somehow being apart from other commerce, and this is the secret ingrediant that makes you want to service such activity by non-profit monopoly. Is this what you think? Since people only consume health care when they have something they don't want, therefore health care must be treated as a uniquely different economic activity?

I did not say that critical and immediate requires a non-profit monopoly.

You did too. Go look at my response about Katrina & FEMA.

FEMA and Katrina are the result of the gutting of FEMA by a for-profit corporation called the Republican Party.

ROTFLMAO. What do you think both Dems & Reps have been doing to Medicare & SS funds for donkey years? And continue to do. Yet you think we can blissfully expand the program.

Have a clue. Make as many posts ranting about the raiding of SS & Medicare funds as you do about expanding coverage. Then perhaps you will have a point.
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