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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (51827)	3/5/2008 3:04:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541761

...but what we're now discussing is expanding the concept of subsidized health care and attempting to make the system more affordable for all. Hooray, finally. <g> That's the system you want to protect as an efficient free market system? Why would you assume that I'm trying to protect the current system? That's quite a leap. What I'm trying to do is get to the essence of why folks are so keen on jumping to a universal single-payer system. When we design systems, we look at the old system and identify problems to see if modifications to the old system will do the trick. If not, we identify all the functional requirements and design a new system around them. It appears to me that some folks have euro-envy or some such so they are skipping those key steps and jumping on this universal single-payer bandwagon because the cool kids across the pond do it that way or because it just feels right. I don't know if that's just ignorance coupled with ideology or if there's something else going on there and I'm curious about it. That's part of my interest in this. Another part is that I'm a retired war horse who just can't help trying to build solid systems and who just can't help being professionally offended by what's going on. And yet another part is that I love my country. The reasons for revamping the system are many. They are, indeed. So let's not do something precipitous without so much as articulating a rationale. It's too important.

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