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

To: i-node who wrote (36648)	5/8/2014 4:45:36 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

We don't have much of it because HSR doesn't make economic sense in most areas of this country. The transcontinental railroad didn't make economic sense, then. The interstate system didn't make economic sense, then. Going to the moon didn't make economic sense, then. Capitol flows to high profits with low risk, and a low cost of entry. HSR is likely not high profit, not low risk, and certainly not low cost of entry with all the eminent domain that would be involved (impossible, BTW, for the private sector). Plus, there's politics. It's the perfect thing for government... once the risk/profit is quantified the private sector would likely jump in, or not. Here in Florida, the Feds were going to provide the funds for HSR from Orlando to Tampa. The contractors guaranteed a bond for profitability. Would have been a huge ancillary boost to the economies of both cities, and a huge job creator. Newly elected R Gov Scott turned down the money. Politics. Too bad.