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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (370940)	2/15/2008 4:50:22 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573718

The same logic leads to the notion that we can simply keep parts of the free market system that works and use government intervention to fix those parts that don't. Exactly. The reality is that you end up exchanging one system for another, which means you inherit both the benefits and the drawbacks. Well yeah. You can't build an Interstate road system without a bit of socialism. Yet it sure moves goods a lot more efficiently than if we all built our own roads. Take universal health care, for instance. You keep claiming that health care in Europe is both better and cheaper. Certainly cheaper (not in dispute). Maybe better (or slightly worse) on an individual basis. Certainly better in that it covers everyone. Even if it is (and the results vary widely depending on the country), do you think that's primarily due to socialized medicine? Or do you think there are more important factors involved such as diet and lifestyle? First, most don't have socialized medicine, they have socialized medical insurance. Big difference. Second, are you talking about outcomes or cost? If you are talking about outcomes, then I think there are so many variables that they pretty much cancel each other out. If you are talking about cost then I believe it's their system... taking out the (ultra expensive) middle man. But the thing you really have to get over is that we are not a socialized country. The difference between us and Europe is marginal at best. If they do something better there is nothing disgraceful about stealing the method.