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To: Metacomet who wrote (90955)	9/30/2007 6:40:32 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 306849

You clearly find it a valuable service as well, since you want national health insurance. Your argument is that non-profit, single-payer, is a better method for health care. Perhaps it is. Why non-profit, single payer is not also better for say food production or housing, both functions which are much more essential than health care, would be an interesting question. We can only go a few weeks without food, and to live without shelter would be a major bummer as well. For most of the vast sweep of human history, we have done without medical care. What specifically do you see in the healthcare field that leads you to a non-profit monopoly situation when in general, we have found competitive, for-profit systems to be more productive? Just curious.