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

To: TimF who wrote (5947)	2/7/2009 8:58:14 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Its not like we are at laissez faire now, or too many people are proposing to move to such a system. I've never heard anyone suggest it. You see it mentioned every now and again as a theoretical construct. You see it most often as a straw man by folks like Mary. I have not seen an actual proposal for a government monopoly, either. You see it as a Utopian flight of fancy, a twinkle in the eye, but not as a proposal. No serious person would propose one. It pops up in the mind's eye of the partisan fearful but not actuality. And if we absolutely have to have that dichotomy, I still wouldn't assume the government monopoly is the best of the two choices. Nor would I, although it would be hard to argue strenuously for either.