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


To: Road Walker who wrote (4038)1/19/2008 11:40:08 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
The major difference is that one is insurance and the other is production.

Products and services are certainly different and I suppose a service industry would be easier to nationalize than one that produced widgets since it's white collar. But picking at my example sidesteps the question, which was to identify the criteria that would warrant nationalizing one industry as opposed to the rest.