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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (6115)2/14/2009 12:19:25 PM
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Because I think healthcare should be a 'public good' provided or guaranteed by government, like protecting us via the military. If you look back at history, I believe there was the same kind of outcry by the opposition during the FDR era to the concept of social security.

You should realize that SS as FDR envisioned it was a totally different animal. In his own words, he insisted that SS was and must remain "actuarily sound".

He said, "It is almost dishonest to build up an accumulated deficit for the Congress of the United States to meet in 1980. We can't do that. We can't sell the United States short in 1980 any more than in 1935."

That is to say that FDR's SS was a failure by his own metric in less than 50 years. And it is far worse today that it was in 1980.

The point here is that however well-intentioned these programs are, they cannot escape the chronic failings of government and the political process.

SS is NOT a success, it is an absolute failure by its own creator's measure. So, please don't suggest it as a model for government health care.

The cold, hard reality is that government intervention in health care (via Medicare and state Medicaids) is largely what's wrong with our health care system today. Piling more government bureaucracy on top of what's there today is not going to make it better.
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