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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9013)	9/3/2009 9:37:33 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

The problem with your logic is that most anti government takeover of healthcare protests is spontaneous grass roots effort. Most pro socialized medicine response is highly organized and often paid activism. To equate the two is ludicrous. I agree with this which was sort of the point I was trying to make. They are two different things. The "death panel" discussion was more or less a Limbaugh-esque development, typical hyperbole. For the most part, it was development out of the entertainment sector (with the exception of a couple of pols who jumped into the act). I never saw any mainstream discussion involving "death panels". It is a leap from "concern over bureaucrats limiting access to health care" to "death panels".

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9013)	9/3/2009 2:52:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The problem with your logic is that most anti government takeover of healthcare protests is spontaneous grass roots effort. Most pro socialized medicine response is highly organized and often paid activism. To equate the two is ludicrous. It's not ludicrous. They are alike in the kind of tactics they use. For example, each shouts the other down. That they may have differences in other respects, such as what triggered their engagement, does not nullify the one respect in which they are alike. Hitler and Mother Theresa are alike in that they both had mothers. There is no logical flaw in comparing them on that basis. The error in logic would be if you argued back that one was good and one was evil. That would be an error because it is irrelevant to the point being made. Just as your argument is irrelevant to the point I made.