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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2363)	10/26/2007 3:11:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Generally when you can have effective competition, private sector provision with at most only moderate regulation works better than government provision of services. Where your talking about the basic keeping of the peace, protection from foreign enemies, setting up the legal framework for the country, something involving natural monopolies, or maybe infrastructure that anyone can use with the most trivial of effort and where you can't limit payment to the users, then maybe you have a good case for either government providing the service, or government extensively regulating it. (You also have a case for government regulating externalities like pollution, but that isn't really relevant to the question at hand) Outside of that the free market generally does a better job. The United States of America is still an experiment. We are still in the process of development. We still have to find the right balance. And I'd submit that the right balance involves less government provision of services than we have today.