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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (3687)1/10/2008 1:45:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
My argument is that the government intervenes successfully in many cases.

In some cases there is clear overall success, I don't know that I'd say many.

In other cases there is success from a certain standpoint, where your giving up efficiency or freedom or paying some other price to get some benefit. To those who care a lot about the benefit the government intervention might be successful, it succeeds in doing what its supposed to do, it succeeds in getting a benefit for some people. In that sense its not a failed program. In a few cases their might be some benefit for almost everyone, but whether the benefit is worth the cost, whether you really have a net benefit can be highly questionable. (And it isn't a question that can simply be resolved by more studies or better data, different people put different weights on different types of benefits and costs)

This isn't brain surgery

The basic ideas are simpler than brain surgery, but getting definitive answers is generally much more complex.
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