On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I meant the health-care *payments* system of course, not the system for the actual delivery of health-care. The latter admittedly is more complicated and harder to get a consensus on; the former though is a no-brainer, which is why it is remarkable how much leftists argue with each other over it. Anyway, I don't think the relevant factor is necessarily public v. private, but rather not-for-profit v. for-profit. -raghu.
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