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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9511)	9/15/2009 9:59:02 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

Your judgement is clouded by your trust in government. I have no idea where you get the idea that I trust government. Have I not been a zealous opponent of putting health care in the hands of the government rather than the individual? Just because I am am able to assess risks and don't get frantic about unlikely events doesn't mean that I trust government. That is totally irrelevant to the subject. LOL. Indeed. And about as likely to occur as a doctor shortage leading to putting all doctors on the federal payroll. The path that the Pelosi / Obama Administration has chosen to steer us on in the Healthcare Takeover would cause massive irreparable harm to the American medical system. Obviously this would cause irreparable harm to the American way of life. I haven't challenged that. I have been zealous in my opposition. Perhaps you forgot that you recently called me the poster child against ObamaCare. As I wrote, it would cause a medical provider shortage. It is not a matter of plausibility, it is probable. Indeed, it would likely contribute to the shortage. I didn't challenge that. What I challenged was the probability that the shortage would lead to nationalizing doctors. Aside: There has been a lot of chatter out there about the polarization and hostility in politics. It used to be that each side had normalizing forces, forces that reined in the wingnuts. Bill Buckley used to do that brilliantly for the Rs. Just the other day Joe Scarborough mentioned yet again how that isn't happening much anymore, how it is important that the rational members of each side take a stand against the nuttiness lest we deteriorate into competing nonsense. He plays that role frequently on his show. For example, he wouldn't defend Wilson. Instead he talked about the difference between disagreement and disrespect. And about D disrespect and overreaction. So, when folks on my side of an issue get really weird, I call them on it just like I call the other side on its weirdness. You can find me arguing with both sides when they are over the top. It's my small and mostly ineffectual contribution to civility and reason, my way of being a good citizen. Hence my comments about nationalizing doctors, death squads, and the like.

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