--- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note I support Socialized Medicine, not National > Health Insurance.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. "Socialized medicine" I take to mean a system like the UK's, where the whole thing is government-owned (whether it is controlled centrally or locally). By national (or state) health insurance, I simply mean government-provided insurance that pays for people to go to private hospitals, doctors, etc. (like the American Medicare system, but for everyone, not just senior citizens). I really should have said "state" or "government" health insurance, not "national". But either way, both are way, way outside the Democratic mainstream. Most Democrats would simply favor strengthening the private insurance system so that more people have insurance. In other words, they support minor tweaking of the current system so that marginally more people have insurance, but nothing more. Anything more radical would be a political liability. So I would still say that where you veer right, you'd be right at home as a Republican, but where you veer left, you'd be way left of the American political mainstream. Entirely apart from healthcare, legalizing hard drugs in the US would be only marginally more politically popular as outlawing Christianity, and no self-respecting politician would ever dare suggest such a thing. Most American politicians don't even support legalizing cannabis for medical/theraputic purposes, let alone full legalization of soft drugs, let alone total drugs legalization. I'm a radical left-winger by US standards and even I don't support it. New Doug __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
