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

To: gg cox who wrote (3400)	12/21/2007 12:16:49 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

OT The gasoline analogy works also.Americans have been getting a deal with gasoline for tens of years. In the US the government makes gasoline more expensive. If the governments of Canada, Japan, and most of the countries in Europe make an even larger effort to make gasoline more expensive, that doesn't mean the US is getting some special deal. As for an analogy of gasoline with health care, its even worse than the analogy to bread, because gasoline is closer to being a commodity (different blends keep it from being a simple commodity, but the difference between them is less than the most extreme differences between different types of bread)