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

To: gg cox who wrote (17359)	4/26/2010 8:44:50 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

People tend to think that what they are used to is normal and appropriate. They are disconcerted over anything that disrupts their equilibrium. So health care reform has undisconcerted the reformers who had been disconcerted on behalf of people some of whom were disconcerted and some of whom weren't. In the process they disconcerted everyone else, including many of those who were the intended beneficiaries. I don't think you recognize that disruptive paternalism can be disconcerting to those affected by it, including those whom you see benefiting. Paternalism is arrogant and dismissive. People who are "doing God's work" tend not to recognize that. They're too full of themselves.