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

To: Road Walker who wrote (10191)	10/6/2009 8:09:12 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

This is not a free market. I'm quite sure no one has claimed that this is a free market. Some people want to turn it into one. Some people want to socialize it. I don't think anyone is enthralled with the status quo.

To: Road Walker who wrote (10191)	10/6/2009 9:47:11 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

>> This is not a free market. That's a key problem. The government is in absolute control of half the market. There is no competition; the government simply dictates what the pricing and benefits will be and that's that. The other half of the market (private insurance) ends up absorbing the underpayments by government. It is the furthest thing from a free market today.