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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3141)	12/7/2007 3:17:05 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

So because I was writing about medical insurance and health care and you changed the subject I did something wrong? You misstated my position. At least I read that as your interpretation of my position. It had a question mark so perhaps you were asking a simple question rather than a questioning my position as you interpreted it. I suppose it could be read either way. Again, government bureaucrats tend to have better insurance policies than 'creators of wealth'. Perhaps, but so what? Unless you conflate health care with insurance. If a person is well enough off to pay for his own health care, then it doesn't really matter whether he uses that insurance or pays out of his own pocket. He still gets the same quality health care. I suspect that whether people are willing to spend money on their own health is much more complicated than whether one became successful by creating wealth or other means, including inheritance. (Actually, I wouldn't consider a person wealthy by inheritance our other circumstances outside their control to be "financially successful." My sense of "successful" is personal achievement. If by financially successful people you mean wealthy people, calling them "wealthy" would be clearer.) As for your analysis of the habits of the financially successful, lots of people are financially successful without being entrepreneurs. Some are salaried. Others marry well. Still others hunt for buried treasure. Some are good savers. You don't have to make a better mousetrap to be financially successful.