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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: spiral3 who wrote (51678)3/4/2008 9:18:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542176
 
The choices are vastly different, food consumption is far more elastic without fatal results.

Most people can go years, even decades without health care without fatal results. That doesn't work quite so well for food.

And yes some people need health care in a very short time or they will die. But 1 - In certain circumstances people also need food in a very short time. 2 - Socialized health care would cover more than emergency care. 3 - People already get emergency care.

We have a market in food because it is the most efficient delivery system for that commodity

Well then present some evidence that it isn't the most efficent delivery system for health care...

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