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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6172)2/17/2009 6:04:36 PM
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I don't think that's feasible. We might have done it differently, or not done it at all, had we known then what we know now. I wish we had. But we can't go home again. We can't undo the Ponzi paradigm we're in.

No, I agree. Not in any time frame you or I could appreciate, that's for sure.

But I think that the mistake Bush and others have made is to try to reverse something that is too embedded to be reversible.

Well, I don't know if it was a mistake to try. But this is the problem with these kinds of social programs. They tend to grow without bound because the political incentive is to increase benefits and expand the scope of the programs. Meanwhile, the political DIS-incentive to cut expenditures makes them politically untouchable.

This is why I have complained about Obama creating new entitlements with this stimulus program. Even small entitlements become big ones over time, and cannot under any circumstances be curtailed.

Today, we put maybe 8 Million people on the public dole for their health care, a figure which over time will undoubted double, triple and more. We're already broke due to Medicare. Bush added Part D, and for the life of me I don't know what he was thinking when he did it.
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