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

To: i-node who wrote (8318)	8/17/2009 4:41:20 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Megan McCardle had a piece today on the difference between liberals and libertarians on health care. "As for the second question, this is where I realize that liberals often really just do not grok what libertarians are about. For them, this is a battle between people who like health care companies, and want to defend them, and people who like the government. But I don't care about the pharmaceutical companies qua pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical companies are interested in what is good for pharmaceutical companies. I am interest in what is good for society." I think that a lot of the hostility comes from this misunderstanding. If you instinctively love government and have an instinctive distaste for big bad corporations, it's natural to lash out at those who mistakenly seem to be putting the interests of corporations over the interests of the little people. That would be fine, seems to me, if it were apt, but it isn't. But you can't tell them that they're misreading the situation because the level of distrust is so high.