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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (199928)	5/3/2009 6:07:51 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 306849

>> data please. I've cited the only data you need. 85% of participants are pleased with the result, and costs are running 30% under budget and decreasing WRT to budget every year. >>> they have to limit exotic health care or costs will explode. What you're talking about is cutting quality. Telling women with breast cancer, "We can't provide you with the best treatments available today because it is too expensive", just as Great Britain did. The problem with that is it will cause the development of such new drugs to slow to a crawl, since there is no ready market for them. This is what I'm talking about when I say you damned well had not screw around with this machine unless you know how to put it back together. There are going to be unintended consequences that are eye-popping. This gets back to the Tytler quote: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." I had never noticed this quote before, but it is absolutely true and there can be no better example than health care having morphed into a "right" over the last few years.