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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (14888)	3/20/2010 9:24:05 AM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

the government puts so many intra and interstate regulations down on telecoms that Verizon is having a really hard time expanding their service everywhere. My access to broadband was also delayed for a few years because of a similar situation. Government people end up overregulating, and then it takes them forever to untangle their own maze of rules. These days satellite companies like Hughes can bypass many of the restrictions, and offer broadband in places where no one dreamed about it before. Government people are only human. They measure their success not by how well they serve their constituencies, but how high they are in the pecking order, how much power they have, how many subordinates work under them. There is a thin (and fuzzy) line between proper regulation and governance - and overdoing it. What helps maintain the balance are the famous checks and balances - and the Constitution. Regrettably, the latter nowadays is seen more as a fertile field, where people keep discovering whatever they... would like to discover. About healthcare -- I can see, at some point in the future, a couple of Congressmen sitting and making deals, like: "If you vote for my Bridge to WhoKnowsWhere, I will vote for your new Oversize Medical Center. This will happen, because that's how they do business. There will be more waste and inefficiencies than we are willing to imagine. The main problems with our otherwise superb (relative to others) healthcare are cost and access. Both can be addressed and improved -- but our political classes see this as an opportunity to take charge. And so they will.

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