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To: c.hinton who wrote (235877)	7/13/2007 3:49:33 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We can proceed headlong towards destruction of the mechanisms for advancing technology. Let me ask you this, if you were offered a job for 1/4 of what it normally pays, but the hours were terrible, would you take it? that is a very cold blooded statement My post started with: "The time approaches when it be necessary to stop pretending that everyone should be able to get whatever medical treatment they desire because they were born once. Rationing of medical care is necessary and has always been necessary. As a free good its demand is almost limitless." Letting the market ration the more expensive and experimental procedures seems less cold blooded than letting a government bureaucrat do it. If society were fortunately they might ration arbitrarily, if not it might be capriciously. For instance in the old USSR what is the chance a chicken rancher got a heart transplant? What is the chance a top government official didn't? I would suggest that perhaps the chicken rancher was of great societal value than the politbureau member. Government officials always seem to react as if they believe the opposite. "The recent bombings in London and Glasgow point out the fallacy of bureaucratic rationing." ..................... so this terrorist attack is about national health insurance and not the problems in the middle east?. No, but just because you were reading a book about quilting does not mean you cannot learn from it about history. The bombing provided a window into another negative impact of socialized medicine.