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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (39427)7/10/2007 10:24:50 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541477
 
I can see we still start from such different places that a serious conversation is not possible. However, a point or two on this last post.

1. The argument that if "the government pays for health care" (obviously, it's tax payers that do) then it could damage your health is deeply abstract. The point Moore makes about our present system is that since the provision of health insurance is a for-profit activity, the health insurers have significant motive to deny care. Then he mounts up some reasonably serious evidence to that effect.

Since no system is perfect, one can find exceptions. But the structural argument above, coupled with a lot of experiential evidence that Moore offers and his audiences bring to the showings, makes that point strongly.

It's not to say a not-for-profit system is perfect. But it's built on a vastly different motivation structure. The best argument for that is in Michael Walzer's Spheres of Justice.

2. Your point that he gives "one sided and distorted views" is only partially true. It is certainly one-sided, meant to counter the one-sided views that are the dominant ones in the US. And he does a nice job of countering them. As for "distorted," that's a judgment call too far. It's not your view but that hardly makes it "distorted."
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