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

To: John Koligman who wrote (7824)	7/27/2009 12:08:31 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

That's a common statement "we put a man on the moon so we should be able to do X". But while it mike make for a decent cartoon or joke, it doesn't make for a good serious argument. Effectively and positively changing complex systems used by hundreds of millions of people for an indefinite period of time will typically be far more complex than putting a man on the moon. And that's even before considering the politics or uncertainties and disagreements about the goals. The Apollo program had a very specific overall goal. Put men on the moon. Health care reform is not so specific. To use an analogy to military goals, putting a man on the moon is like "destroy that defensive line". It might be a very tough goal, the line might we well defended with mobile reserves behind it, but the basic objective is clear. Health care reform, or many other goals that involve politics and economics are more like "win the war", or really more like "have a positive situation develop after the war".