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

To: TimF who wrote (10316)	10/8/2009 6:58:40 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

If often strikes me how some on this thread constantly talk about how bad and inefficient government is, and in the next breath say if there was a public option it would drive all the private insurers out of business. ----------------- There is no contradiction between those two points. Efficiency isn't the only criteria about who succeeds in a business competition. Subsidies or other forms of tilting the playing field can cause the less efficient provider to dominate. There are a plethora of perverse incentives in the current system. Impossible to defend from a free market position. So the question becomes "where do we go from here?". Yes I would LOVE a complete free market system, but that impossible. So what do you do... you make the perverse incentive favor consumers and reduced costs. Ideology and reality don't always mix.