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

To: Lane3 who wrote (2714)	11/4/2007 9:21:31 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"you were suggesting that bureaucrats would arbitrarily make life-threatening decisions regarding Aunt Tillie and I don't see that happening." I find it useful to extrapolate that current abuses of power will be replicated in new positions of power. Message 23893784 There was a recent example of the democrat leader in the Senate abusing his power. If the person he was targeting were less powerful and less creative he might have succeeded in causing harm instead of wearing millions of dollars of egg on his face. "I can't see Federal officials ever being in a position to single out an enemy. " See Harry Reid's abuse of power letter and Rush selling it on eBay. "some crooked person could never do it in one or two instances before getting caught, but that would be an anomaly." Look up EPA "whistleblower" Huge Kaufman who is paid by the EPA but works on his private agenda while they can never fire him. In government, bureaucrats become entrenched and jealously guard their territory. While the vast majority of federal bureaucrats try to do good, there are plenty in positions of power who use their positions to advance their own agendas. Their jobs seem to remain secure. Always remember that you can change insurance carriers, but changing governments requires either moving or revolution.