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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (2239)	10/18/2007 4:04:01 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 42652

Buying potatoes or paper clips for resale is gambling, John. You're gambling that you can sell them for more than you paid. Take transportation... almost all roads are built with government funds because that is the most efficient and fair way to build roads. Yeah. THAT'S a large part of why more efficent railroads can't compete against trucks in transport: trucking companies pay only a small part of the cost of the roadbed they run on, whereas railroads have to pay 100%. That doesn't mean you can't build a road on your own land. You can build a rasilroad on your own land too. But in most cases it makes no economic sense. Take education... the economy of scale and fairness make government controlling education the most effective solution. That doesn't mean you can't send your kid to a private school. Prove to me that public education is better than private. Then prove increasing education funding improves results. I dare you. If you put your kids in private schools now, you STILL are forced to pay the cost of having them in the public system. Take police or fire departments or the Defense Department......... Is that why kings so often hired mercenaries to fight their wars? The point is single payer would be more efficient and less expensive Than a gov't bureaucracy? Are you SERIOUS???? And it wouldn't be a monopoly, you could still buy your 'gold plated' insurance if you wanted to. THAT depends entirely on the system finally adopted. If the Canadian system is used as the model, forget that. In fact it would probably be very cheap. Why? Particularly when you consider that you will probably be forced to pay for public health insurance for yourself anyway.

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