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

To: TimF who wrote (10640)	10/21/2009 2:18:03 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

>> If they've been widely accepted for a long time (say Social Security), then they, or extensions of them wouldn't be radical. I agree. >> But if they had not been then a repeat or something similar could be considered radical. I would say the FDR court-packing scheme was radical. I would also say that radical is not always, by definition, a bad thing. Some would argue that radical measures are needed, for example, to address the health care cost problem, and I probably wouldn't disagree about that. My complaint with the health care reform legislation is that none of it really addresses the cost in a reasonable manner. There are radical aspects to it, but who knows if any of that gets through, ultimately.