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

To: RetiredNow who wrote (15410)	3/31/2010 4:15:36 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

That's not always true that market forces will automatically drive up bandwidth speeds. Yes markets don't always give us what you want. Instead they give us what people are willing to pay enough to be profitable. If people don't want higher speed internet access within a particular time frame, enough to make providing it profitable, than delaying providing it is a good thing not a bad one. Markets shouldn't be measured by how well they give other people what you want them to have. I would argue that in the current government policy regime, market forces are being restrained from driving up bandwidth speeds. If the problem is government policy, such as government granted monopolies, than its not a problem caused by free markets. So yes, the government has a role to play, because the government screwed it up to begin with, so now they need to unscrew it. Unscrewing it is largely canceling the negative policies they put in place earlier, and mostly staying out of it so they don't put in place new negative policies in response to lobbying by special interests.