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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9516)	9/15/2009 10:24:20 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Poll: Doctors Among Public Option's Biggest Fans text here - npr.org

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9516)	9/15/2009 10:43:08 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Please note that this was a 2007 exchange. Thanks for the heads-up. I would not likely have noticed. I was wondering if you might wish to reevaluate which one of us sees the future with more clarity. It seems we agreed back then as now. You posted: "To believe that government could allocate resources more efficiently than private enterprises would be to ignore the lessons of failed socialist systems." I've argued the same thing quite recently if not back then. You also posted: "Most of us can envision some entrenched government employees using their power of life and death to punish people against whom they harbor resentment." That was weird then and it's no less weird now. As for this: "Do you want a government employee telling you that you will be dead soon because they will not authorize medical benefits for a person with your medical conditions?," nothing has changed. Medicare is still Medicare and apparently always will be. "Once government medical care is the only game in town, either can be a death sentence." We clearly disagree on the probability that medical care will ever be restricted to government control. I submit that your concern is greatly exaggerated. Did then. Do now. Most likely will "two or five years from now." The European systems are mellowing in that regard even now. As costs go up, government reimbursements would either have to go up or a safety valve would have to be available lest they face insurrection. If I have trust, it's trust in the people to not ever submit to totalitarianism.