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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24564)	8/20/2012 1:30:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

the short term impact of socialized medicine will be the ability of politicians to leverage their political power by manipulating healthcare availability for the connected. Just repeating and repeating an assertion doesn't make it so. Please explain how you envision that potentially happening. I can't see it. The more socialized something is, the more rulebound and universal/consistent/standardized it is. Lack of flexibility is one of the key problems with centralization and socialization. Particularly when that system is computerized, you lose the ability to make individualized adjustments because computers and rulebound people don't exercise discretion. With lack of flexibility, you likewise lose your ability to manipulate the system. No?