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To: Cogito who wrote (51847)	3/5/2008 4:28:03 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542197

Maybe I just didn't express myself well enough. Perhaps I just didn't express myself well enough, although I've certainly expressed myself enough so some of it should have gotten through. <g> So why should the government not also be involved in helping people to have access to healthcare? Well, maybe I need to do some more expressing because that's either a badly missed point or a straw man. The question on the table is not about government helping people to have access to health care. The question is about doing so via switching to a different paradigm--a universal single-payer system. The government helps now. If it needs to help more, so be it. But helping is not the question on the table. You said yourself that we help keep people from dying in car crashes through regulation. We hand out food stamps to keep dying people from starvation, etc. We don't nationalize the auto industry and we don't nationalize the food distribution industry. And we accept the fact that some people will still starve and some people will still die in car crashes. So what is different about health care that 1) we have zero tolerance for anyone dying from lack of a screening and 2) we're willing to brave this new paradigm to achieve that zero tolerance? What is it about health care that makes it so special? Why can't we treat it with the medical equivalent of food stamps or auto-safety regulation? Do you hear me now?