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

To: John Koligman who wrote (2523)	10/30/2007 12:00:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Taking the investment need to produce some good and service out of the equation is living in fantasy land. Even in communist countries investment is needed, it might come from the government but you still need to invest resource in order to have systems to produce goods and services. When it comes to things like advanced weapons money seems to 'be no object'... Nonsense. There are all sorts of financial limits on the military ability to get the advanced weapons it wants, and there would be even if we fully mobilized the country to the extent that we did in WWII and spent over a fourth of the GDP on defense instead of four or five percent. Money is ALWAYS an object for any scarce good. Also you should note that we spend more on health care than weapons, a lot more. I'm not arguing against having things be that way, its a good thing, but it does provide another point against your argument. Certainly socialized medicine systems also consider money to be an object. Even the most lavish and expensive systems have limits on the resources available to them.

To: John Koligman who wrote (2523)	10/30/2007 3:01:51 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"'investment'. As a society, perhaps that angle should be taken out of the equation in regard to healthcare." Perhaps you need to start now to change the Constitution to add good health coverage in the inailienable rights section. There is no debate about having access to medical care being a social good. There is substantial disagreement between those who want to create a new entitlement. If you feel strongly about financially challenged people having access to free medical care then get active and start a charity. Don't create a new inefficient and incompetent federal bureaucracy.