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

To: John Koligman who wrote (4044)	1/19/2008 1:30:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Health is one thing too important to entrust to the current system IMO... I don't question that it's both important and needs to be fixed. What I question is this messianic figment, this knee-jerk adoption of a drastic alternative with so little analysis. It's like the pied piper has transfixed a subset of the population. There's no logic to it. The mantra is: European systems cost less with excellent results; European systems have universal coverage and single-payer; ERGO we must adopt universal coverage and single payer. It's like folks have never seen a syllogism. Rotweillers make good guard dogs; Rotweillers are black with tan markings; ERGO we will be safe if we just get black dogs with tan markings. Yikes. I would just roll my eyes and laugh were it not so, as you say, important. [This has moved so far into true-believer territory that the fact that France, the best of the lot, has neither universal coverage nor single payer doesn't make a dent in the zeal.]