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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171313)	9/27/2005 2:05:41 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The medical profession in the US of A is a quasi monopoly under the guise of the AMA. I have no problem if the government breaks up that particular monopoly. Heck it broke up Ma Bell. Not all government (which is just us after all) is good and not all government is bad. There is room for continuous improvement. Wow, you have faith in humans. You actually think that a species that overeats itself to disease and early death is able to think rationally (and not emotionally) about car choices in an unregulated market? Good luck. I'll avoid your flaming Pinto look alike on the highway thank you. Take, for instance, the 'market' forces that put Republicans into office. Is that rational? Just how much information do you think individual voters are able to process before making their once-every-four-years choice? By the time they realize their mistake, we're an extra $2 TRILLION in the hole and are involved in two ruinous foreign civil wars. This is the problem with the idea of a 'free market'. It does not exist. People do not know if the plane they just stepped into saved an extra $4/passenger and picked up the slightly moldy meals left over from the previous week. It isn't a fiery crash but it is a lot of cramping and misery whose cause may never be found. The first prerequisite for a 'free market' is perfect information available to all participants instantaneously and at zero cost. Have you ever seen that anywhere? How many years will it take before people figure out that the 1 gallon size of soda pop really contains only 80% of a gallon...who cares about truth in labeling and advertising if there is no regulation? Pretty soon no one will trust anyone and the entire system implodes. After all, the only reason I'll take your $5 bill in exchange for a cup of coffee is because I trust THE GOVERNMENT. I don't know you from Adam. Without the government intervening, that transaction doesn't even happen. It isn't YOUR money if you're living in a society and reaping its benefits. It's a pay to play proposition. If you want the pleasures of living in a city then you pay for the costs which include a safety net for the less fortunate. If you don't like those costs...there's always that hunger-gatherer existence in the hinterlands. You can always try and change the laws or refuse to pay your taxes and end up in jail. You have lots of choices but, yet again, you simply dislike the consequences of your choices.