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

To: Lane3 who wrote (2600)	11/1/2007 11:08:52 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<I have been rather fond of the concept of private charity. I think it would be a shame for society to lose it.>>> Don't worry. No one wants to restrict your access to private charity either as contributor or recipient. What we are looking for is to have government do and to facilitate what no one else can. We want government to do it more effectively. There is nothing mutually exclusive in what you would like and what we would like.

To: Lane3 who wrote (2600)	11/1/2007 1:11:59 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"put charity in the hands of the government rather than the insurance companies? I have been rather fond of the concept of private charity. I think it would be a shame for society to lose it." Few people would prefer to give government the power to restrict their access to medical care. Considering the capriciousness of many bureaucrats it would result in many imbalances in medical care with politically connected replacing those with money as the favored class and conservatives and other hated groups replacing those who choose not to work as the ones excluded from life saving medical procedures.