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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (3698)	1/10/2008 3:00:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 42652

There are some here who are ideologically opposed. Not pragmatically opposed. Even if were guaranteed to lower our costs by 50%, improve quality and cover everyone, they would still be opposed. Perhaps, but maybe not. How does one come to be ideologically opposed? Well, some are just born into it. They learn an ideology at their mother's knee or from their peers and that's that. Failures of that ideology don't shake them. They may not even register. But some people develop their ideologies as a result of wisdom collected during a lifetime. I've posted before that when I first went to register to vote at 21, it was as a Socialist. Having seen the failures of that through the history I've lived and having earned a living in part by studying the effects of too much employment security and egalitarianism in the public sector, I know how deleterious they can be and can anticipate how applying them to health care in our country might turn out. I am willing to look at counter arguments but I haven't seen any. I never ducked that. Maybe you forgot. If you provided one, I can't believe I would have missed it. I don't claim you ducked it. I recall your addressing it, in your way, but not countering it.

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