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To: Lane3 who wrote (131290)	2/23/2010 1:05:09 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541854

No different than extending all kinds of "entitlements" to a growing population like education, fire services, police protection, food safety, the common defense and on and on and on. All those are taken for granted as government services we find a way to pay for. Only healthcare is considered a special "entitlement" in America, a concept most other countries would find completely absurd. The problem is motivating change in a system where 90% of the players don't need the extra government protection. That's where the individual motivation undermines the macro view (if you believe that only covering 90% of the population is inherently bad, which many don't).