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

To: Katelew who wrote (3791)	1/11/2008 4:58:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Do you also refer to public schools as socialized education Yes. And they are more clearly socialist than Medicare because they are not just government payment for the services but government provision of the services. I don't see any reasonable way to consider them anything but socialist. and to the military as a socialized public defense system It could be considered as being such, but generally I would not describe the military as socialist. Securing the country from external threats is one of the basic parts of what being a government is about. More so than roads, much more so than health care or education. (And yes I know our military goes beyond direct defense of the US, but that just means its larger and more active than the minimum basic requirement I mentioned. Whether or not it should be so large or do so much, we clearly do need a military.) The 'socialized' FDA, NASA, and even the Supreme Court. NASA definitely. FDA, well thats regulation not so much provision of services. It might be "big intrusive government" but its not socialism as such. Supreme Court. That's settlement of legal disputes, and interpretation of law. I wouldn't call that socialist.