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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: John Koligman who wrote (2582)	11/1/2007 1:08:53 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 42652

If you want to know the truth you will have to widen your net. Blaming Enron for the failures of California regulations is not productive. It is more instructive to look at the root cause of market distortions from a basic point of view. As price increases the amount willingly supplied increases. As price goes down (or relative price is held down by government regulation) the amount demanded increases. When the end user prices were capped demand increased. Since wholesale prices were not capped the amount supply was met at unprofitable prices and the utilities went bankrupt. If you wish to blame the distortion on Enron or any other corporation you will have to explain rationally how Enron forced the California legislators / regulators to legislate / regulate to create the market distortion. "I would like to see. If insurance companies on their own would be willing to provide reasonably priced policies to all, no cherry picking, and guaranteed acceptance” A related question, should everybody pay the same price at the grocery store? Grocery stores should have guaranteed acceptance, regulators can force them to accept say $100 per month from anyone who could then take whatever they want without limit. While we are at it, gasoline sales are unfair; everybody should be given a card which will get them unlimited gasoline because people who can't afford hybrids are being unfairly penalized. The idea that one sector, health care, should be forced to operate like a charity is equally ridiculous. "my best guess is that we either have a system that remains somewhat private with government help to insure that everyone is covered, or if that isn't feasible a government run system." Or better yet we could reduce the barriers to an efficient market and let people seeking profits provide people wanting to consume quality health care at low prices work it out. We have always had a certain amount of charity and the largest impediment to improving the general health of our population remains governments distorting the market. If you think everyone should have unlimited access to medical care until they become too big a burden on society then you should work to establish or support a charity that has those goals. Telling me I have to pay for others’ health care make them a dependent of mine. Even my own kids will not remain dependent on my largesse forever. Charity is charity. Government forced labor is tyranny. There is a reason why most new doctors in Britain are from the third world; under socialized medicine intelligent and motivated citizens allocate their scarce resources to making money where the profit potential is greater. I personally prefer smarter doctors rather than ones fleeing tyranny.

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