On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:08 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote:

You see the same thing for instance in discussions of health-care, where we
> often see harsh criticisms of "bourgeois liberals", whereas in reality,
> liberals like Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman - favor the exact same thing
> as any socialist - an universal single-payer health-care system.
>

*Any *socialist? Most I know don't *favor *that, per se. It would be an
improvement over what we have now - just as Obamacare may have been an
improvement - but in terms of what we actually want, it's health care in
the public domain, not massive public subsidies to private providers.

And this isn't exclusively a matter of political principle. Remember that
mortality rates are noticeably higher in private hospitals than public
ones, regardless of who's paying.

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