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

To: skinowski who wrote (7954)	7/31/2009 1:51:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Besides, at least in the beginning it would be relatively generous both to patients and to providers. If it were more generous, then it wouldn't be competitive. Public option would never fail -- it would be deemed "Too Important to Fail". Perhaps this is a semantic disagreement. The public option would most likely fail. Whether that failure were allowed to stand or whether it would even be officially acknowledged, perhaps not--for the reason you suggest or for other reasons like magical thinking, inertia, or cognitive dissonance. But it would most likely fail to compete. If it cost more than the equivalent private service, that's failure. What politics does with that is something else again.