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

To: Road Walker who wrote (3270)	12/16/2007 9:05:59 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

There are clear reasons why they are less expensive (detailed here many times). They have been detailed many times in comparison with the US system, not a generic or alternative for-profit system. Arguably, you might reasonably conclude that they are better than the current US system. But you can't conclude that they are better than any solution provided by private enterprise. You have no examples of alternative private solutions, neither actual nor hypothetical. This is a cognitive disfunction further evidenced by the frequent charges made here that those who challenge the socialized model are defending the status quo. It's not binary: current US system vs socialized system. I would suggest that is what you are doing. I'm not. I acknowledging the belief that you get more of what you reward, that demand triggers greater supply, that "free" triggers greater demand, stuff like that. Oh, wait. That's called "economics." I believe that you cannot suspend the laws of either human nature or economics because you feel bad that some people don't have health insurance. I believe in analysis and problem solving, not mysticism.

To: Road Walker who wrote (3270)	12/16/2007 11:09:41 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

There are clear reasons why they are less expensive Lower pay for medical workers, esp. doctors, regulation of drug prices, usually fewer medical scanners, in a number of cases rationing by queue instead of price, lower auto accident and overall accident rates, lower total wealth in most cases (premium health care is in economic terms a luxury good, as you get richer you pay more for it), when private insurance is allowed it doesn't face the requirements for very extensive coverage that if often faces in the US (look at the cost of health insurance in New York State for an extreme version of this idea)...