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

To: Lane3 who wrote (3689)	1/10/2008 9:25:50 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 42652

Will do...

To: Lane3 who wrote (3689)	1/10/2008 1:55:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Well why I'm not really defending the status quo, I suppose maybe I can see how John thinks I am. He posts studies or surveys or arguments about how other systems are better. I post reasons how they aren't better or at least how the data doesn't clearly show that they are. If you look at things in a binary way "universal health care" vs. "the current setup in America", then opposing "universal health care could be seen as defending the current system. Esp. since I'm not proposing anything else in detail. (Although I have suggested some changes in vague terms) Also in one sense I really am defending the current system. Not "I love this system, its a good system and its what we should have", but rather "its not as bad as some people say it is". But if I'm saying that only because people are portraying it as really really bad, and I think it has weaknesses but isn't quite so bad as they portray it, does that amount to defending it?