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

To: TimF who wrote (9636)	9/19/2009 7:52:17 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Private companies face competition and have to get customers to choose them. Government can just take what it wants. Private companies don't always face a lot of competition and often collude on price. In a representative democracy the government (politicians) represent the will of the people and can and will be voted out if they don't. That's the argument for government and against business. In reality government has it's problems including but not limited to gerrymandering and special interest money making it too hard to unseat an incumbent. And business has it's problems because, as I said, consolidation has led to less competition and collusion. Neither can be put up as purely efficient or inefficient and/or always working in the public interest. Sometimes I think the strong pro-government people and the strong pro-business people are really arguing at the margin... both capitalism and representative government are at least somewhat broken.