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

To: Lane3 who wrote (7361)	7/6/2009 6:49:13 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"Public bureaucrats don’t have the same incentives at all. They don’t get punished by consumers for failing to provide information, or for providing the wrong information. They don’t suffer if they listen to the wrong experts. They face no competition from alternative providers of their service. They get to set their own standards for “success,” and if they fail, they can use that to justify a larger budget." Yes, this is well said. This description above is, in my mind, the second most important reason why we should not hand over health care to the government. The number one reason is that it would make government too powerful. There would be a couple of trillion more reasons to kiss politician's and bureaucrat's butts.