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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2653)	11/2/2007 12:20:22 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

So I take it you are NOT happy with Medicare either? You guys are pretty good at bashing anyone even suggesting that government dip a bigger toe into this mess, but I don't see many concrete suggestions as to how the current private system can provide better coverage from your side... John

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2653)	11/2/2007 12:26:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"I wonder if you would have said the same when Medicare was being debated/created." I was not alive then. Most likely freedom loving people at the time fought it. At the time, there was less government regulation of certain things, but there was more confidence in large scale government management of the economy. The Soviet Union wasn't yet seen as the wreck that it was becoming (and in a number of ways we didn't yet realize, already was). The UK had not experienced Thatcher move to a freer market system. Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and the like where considered fringe thinkers. Nixon in less than a decade would implement wage and price controls. Generally the belief that the government could and should manage the economy was a mainstream belief. I'm not talking about the communists and the radicals, many mainstream liberals, and even some considered conservatives accepted the idea of such government management.