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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4736)	2/21/2008 5:09:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Failures, doesn't equal "dropped the program". As I noted before such programs create their own constituency. Give people something "for free", they want to keep getting it. The programs don't even have to be all that good to create a strong constituency, they just have to avoid being bad on the level of North Korean government initiatives.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4736)	2/22/2008 5:13:36 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"We acknowledge that they are failures," Surely with all being failures, you can document as least one instance where a country had universal care and dropped it? ROTFL The USSR didn't drop socialism, it imploded. It took a long time and the steps that President Reagan took accelerated it. Give Carter another term and then add a couple terms for another weak President and they could have gone on much longer. The equivalent of the arms race in medicine does not exist because of the socialized medicine systems being "free riders" as the US funds the medical research they benefit from. Still eventually we will see some of these systems that are showing signs of problems implode from the imbalances between costs, service levels, demographics and service level demands (to name a few of the forces).