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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (480212)5/12/2009 6:04:14 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575774
 
>>> There you go...see, social health works.

I didn't say that, at all. What I said or tried to say is that if you are going to have some government health care, Part D is a model for it.

>>> The left opposed the following:

Correct. The Left opposed precisely what made the program successful.

I am first in line to say that our health care system has some problems -- but the solution is NOT to throw out the existing program and replace it with some single payer monstrosity the way the Left wants to do it.

Part D's success shows clearly that private enterprise can run a health care program more cost effectively than government can. And it is private enterprise which provides the US with the best health care system to be found anywhere in the world today.

This idea that a government run program can produce the kind of quality our current system has is absurd.

As a moderate I have no problem with providing insurance for the truly needy (NOT the 43 Million of which 2/3 CHOOSE not to have health care). But handing it over to the government is utterly stupid -- at least for anyone like me, who has spent the last 30 years dealing with innumerable government agencies which are literal disasters -- like IRS, Medicare, Medicaid, SSA, etc.
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