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To: Alighieri who wrote (706125)	3/27/2013 4:49:41 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576588

Al, You think that's an alternative...? Of course it's an alternative. Is it a viable one? Probably not. We're at the point in society where health and education are largely equivalent to public utilities. Privatizing this stuff now would be unthinkable. (This is one of the reasons why I'm not a true libertarian.) I've said it before and I'll say it again. Universal health care in America is all but inevitable. Only question is how we get there and whether it will truly be better than what we have today. I'm pretty sure it will be better in terms of "equal access" to health care services, and that in itself might be good enough of a reason. But is that worth the enormous cost, both on the ledger and hidden? Maybe ... Tenchusatsu

To: Alighieri who wrote (706125)	3/27/2013 4:52:02 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576588

>> You think that's an alternative...? It is the only reasonable alternative. It is government intervention that caused the problem. Now, somehow, government is supposed to "fix" a problem it created itself? That's dumb. Time and time again we've seen that they don't improve things, they only make matters worse. Particularly in the health care arena. Can you name one time, in dealing with health care, our government has done anything that actually IMPROVED the quality of care or reduced the overall cost? I'm talking about where there are empirical results that show that government can actually manage one of these programs? The one government initiative that actually worked was Part D -- and it lasted what, six years? Before which Congress decided to screw it up, which has ALREADY added close to $10 Billion to the cost of the program in two years. Part D worked because it had a heavy private component and some degree of personal responsibility. At the very first legislative opportunity, they destroyed the fiscal integrity of it.