At 05:24 AM 7/20/01, Jeroen wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Ronn Blankenship
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:12 PM
> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Onderwerp: Re: Ethics, death, and cost.
>
> > It may sound like a "cheap shot," but what it comes down to is that if
> > the government makes the rules, ultimately the only way they have to
> > enforce them on an unwilling populace is by force.
>
>Whereas when the market makes the rules, health care goes not to those who
>*need* it most, but those who want to *pay* the most.
>
>As for "enforcing rules on an unwilling populace", that's where the
>democratic process comes in: if the government starts making rules (and
>enforcing them by force) that the public doesn't want, the public will elect
>a new government.
Always assuming that the first rule they make does not involve disarming
the citizenry . . .
--Ronn! :)
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