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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (9764)2/19/2012 2:14:55 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 85487
 
So just look at how all the other democratic countries manage it.

I wrote the first comprehensive plan for a statewide emergency medical services system in Alaska and the first state plan for a statewide program for alcohlism and drug abuse. 30 years later both plans are still in use basically as I wrot ethem.

But before I wrote those plans I read many other state plans and then adapted what I learned to my state.

It can be done. We know this because every other western democracy has managed it and we are the richest country.

We just need the Republicans to stop demogauging it and help us work toward getting it done.

<<But Tim F. has raised a good point and one that worries a lot of people/voters. And that is: Will the quality of my current care decrease (and my taxes go up) as we expand the health care tent? That's the devil in the details and probably what the political argument is about.

We need to set out whose Ox is going to be gored and what the cost of the universal system is going to be and only then do I think people will be able to make enough of judgment to accept it, or reject it as the case may be, but I think a lot of people feel they are being bamboozled by the social engineers because the facts are not plain enough.
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