On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Billy Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bureaucracy is the inevitable result of attempting to deliver a complex > array of services in a fair manner. The tax system is the same way.
This is actually the biggest challenge to healthcare. It's a massively huge system that includes everyone in the country (one way or another) - even more people than the tax system. It's very difficult for any managed system to handle this, but those huge systems are something free markets tend to deal with better. This is the same difference between the Soviet planning model and the American Capitalism. In the US, the cost of this system comes out in the markets, though Healthcare is very VERY far away from an open and free market right now (and probably should stay that way in many regards). Many other post-industrial nations have nationalize healthcare, which is very inefficient from a cost standpoint, but that's alot less obvious because the cost is supported by a board base of taxpayers and rolled up into the total tax rate. The difference? The cost of Healthcare in the US is born by the consumer directly, in other countries it goes through a terribly inefficient government filter first. The US actually has some pretty darn low tax rate compared to other countries with national healthcare programs, -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262993 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
