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To: bentway who wrote (160020)	10/25/2008 9:47:14 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I believe in the free market, contradicts for some segments of society. and But, I DO think that socialism is the best answer for some problems, including insurance and health care. Please explain how all insurance and all health care could be owned and sold by government. The companies that do this now would stop doing it, or their profit would be determined by government. How large would government need to be to know how much profit various companies would need? They'd all get the same? Then the product would be the same among them. Without the ability to differentiate your product and thereby make it better in order to make more money, why should any company stay in the health care of insurance business? Why not convert into the "free market" segment and do something profitable like make widgets? Better yet, find a foreign country which still operates under capitalism and do business there. Maybe you'd like to explain what problems were better handled in the pre-eminent socialist state of all time, the Soviet Union. Were there any? Then why did Soviet Union disappear? Couldn't apply the whip hard enough to the Russian people to get them to do what they needed to keep the state going? Why do all nations that try socialism to any degree eventually figure out it's a total disaster? I'm, not asking you to argue formally or technically what you do not understand. I want you to look at the record of history. Don't want to do that? Then maybe you'd like to demonstrate why all those people from Canada, Britain, and France, where medicine is socialized, come to the US for medical treatment? Those peoples are intrinsically inferior? Why should ONE of them come here where it is surely more expensive?