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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (81584)	10/23/2009 11:44:54 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<If you believe government can provide services at a higher quality, more efficiently, and at a lower cost than the private sector then you should support government funded service programs. If you believe government is inefficient, provides lower quality of services and runs amuck on costs, programs, and agency expansions then you should not support the idea of government funded services. > I wish it were so easy...IMHO the government should provide whatever it is that 'we the people' decide we are all willing to be obliged to each other for in the best way they can. Those are government institutions... if people decide those things aren't worth the cost, they vote them out and omit them. There are much more eloquent arguements pertaining to these issue (for instance liability) by lots of smarter folks than I. It can easily be argued that things like armed forces, police, etc. are much more efficient if "privatized" but can be just as easily argued that it makes absolutely no sense. IMHO one needs to decide if the government has ANY role in healthcare... which, it seems clear has the "YES" answer since it's been decided in our society no one get turned down at hospitals, etc. To some extent it's just a matter of details and levels... of government, levels of care, etc. <If you favor the private sector scenario you should support limits on the size and scope of government to only those things that can't be addressed in the private sector free market; there by, keeping the government from getting its hands on societal roles that it won't handle well.> I would argue that this is the case regardless of which "scenario" one favors. <<If you favor some combination, you must establish an underlying principle that you can use to guide your decision making when turning certain roles over to government and not others. >> I'm sure this will be debated as long as the country is a country as we know it. DAK