John wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Doug Pensinger<brig...@zo.com> wrote: > > > Absolutely not, but isn't that how the free market works; the people with > > money/power decide what's in the best interest of the people they > control? > > People they control? Huh? Politicians and regulators control people. > Free market allows people to choose for themselves.
So if there was some vital benefit to society and it couldn't be provided without a financial loss, how would the free market provide it? > > > > Then we have the ringing success of the U.S. health care system to tell > us > > how well the free market works for sick people. > > The US health care system is not a free market. Medicare and Medicaid > make up more than 50% of US health care spending, so the majority of > the US health care system is government controlled. And why isn't it a free market? What is the free market mechanism that provides _all_ of the citizens of one of the the worlds wealthiest nations with health care? Doug
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