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

To: Alighieri who wrote (15830)	3/31/2010 6:24:30 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

Well, that sounds like rationing and regulatory cost controls. In the framwork of Obamacare, yes, that's not only what it sounds like but is. both republican bitching points for the last twelve months. Indeed. But what was being challenged was the Obamacare framework and what was wished was an alternate framework in which costs were controlled by structural changes and the market so Obamacare rationing and regulatory cost controls would be thankfully obviated. So the contradiction you perceive is largely in your tunnel-visioned way of looking at things. What are you suggesting? I've made 2500 posts on this thread in which I did a lot of suggesting. I'm sure not going to go back over that at this late date. There is no point since we now have what we have so what I suggested is moot. Just in case you have lost track of who's who, I am not an apologist for the GOP. I am not a Republican so I can't speak for them. But I think I can better get my head around where they're coming from than you do so take my response in that context. I have disagreed here with the GOP posters here who oppose rationing. If we're going to have public systems, then we need serious rationing else we go belly up. I do not see how they can reconcile opposition to rationing in extant public systems with either fiscal conservatism or common sense going forward. The only way of explaining it would be brinksmanship. So if the rage against rationing was a tactic to fight Obamacare, then it, too, is moot now. If it was earnest, then it will be interesting to see how it is either reconciled or double-talked going forward.