Net Llama! wrote:
On 03/10/2006 09:02 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
On 3/10/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Scottaline wrote:
>It's a disgrace that our health care system forces such choices
>
Indeed, considering that the US spends twice as much per capita on
health care as other western industrialized countries. It has become our
purpose to provide profits. Health care should be nationalized,
Medicare for all ... but the politicians will never defy the insurance
industry. Too much palm greasing going on there.
I'm replying to General, where this belongs, before anyone complains.
I think you have a rather simplistic viewpoint. It's not defying the
insurance industry, but defying the majority of us that don't see
socialized medicine a la Canda or Europe as a valid answer to health
problems.
Which majority would this be? The US health care system is an atrocious
embarrassment, and a failure. Somehow I don't think you're going to get
those who have no health insurance in the US to feel otherwise, nor
anyone who is shelling out money for health insurance.
I've been without health insurance in recent times. And now that I have
it I'm paying for it with hard-earned money. So I'll take the bait...
The last thing we need is more socialism in health care (or any where
else for that matter). I believe you'd have a difficult justifying the
statement that "The US health care system is an atrocious embarrassment,
and a failure." And if you can, then you're making my point, as the US
health care system is very highly socialized.
Socialism is an atrocious embarrassment and a failure. Everywhere it has
been tried. Always. But that won't keep someone from trying it again.
Those who advocate socialist policies generally fall into one of two
camps: 1) The naive idealists whose deficient educations evidently
taught them nothing about human nature. 2) The power mongers who believe
themselves divinely anointed to rule the rest of us and use socialism as
a convenient vehicle to gain that power. Note that the #1 types become
the tools of the #2 types. I believe it was Lenin who referred to the
#1's as "useful idiots" as Lenin was a #2.
Naive idealism may be cute but it has no place in public policy.
Power mongers must die by the sword since that is the way they live.
Our health care system needs lots of improvement. No doubt about that.
But any real improvement would involve less government coercion, not more.
Michael
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