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

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3402)	12/21/2007 6:52:50 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

As far as I know there are no examples of a successful implementation of a completely market driven health care system... That's an example of the kind of strawman/demonizing I was talking about yesterday--and you seemed sympathetic to my point. I have not seen Tim advocate a "completely market driven health care system." If you're seeing that, I suggest it's because you're seeing what you believe, not what he posts. Best I can tell, he's arguing against nationalizing the health care industry, aka socialized medicine.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3402)	12/21/2007 12:24:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<The real world is always a lot more complex than models of it. >>> I agree with you, but, how can you then go around telling people that you know with absolute certainty that your vision for health care is best for America or that it will even work. Because the real world is more complex than models of it. The free market isn't imposing some system or some model. Its allowing people to be free to make their own decisions and than adjust if they don't work our right. If you could perfectly model the economy (or a subset of it like the health care part of the economy), despite the unpredictability of people and the fact that they have different ideas and agendas, than maybe centrally planning some solution might make sense. But you can't even come close to perfectly modeling even a significant subset of the economy.