Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:55:56PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

Iraq also does not have a functioning economy. Now, you might argue
that providing National healthcare is simply getting them addicted to
it. Which I think is true. However, I think that in this case it is
the right thing to do.

Probably because, you know, nearly everyone in a society needs healthcare
and pays taxes, so national healthcare is the simplest strategy to cover
the maximum number of people, no?

Yes, because the government is a model of efficiency. Come on. The
simplest stratedy is to not tax people so much and let them figure it
out for themselves.

It would be nice if there were a better way, but I doubt there is.

So since we're in agreement that collectively paying for healthcare is the
way to go, why not introduce it here?

We are not in agreement. Collective, governmnet-run healthcare is a
necessity in Iraq because they currently lack a functioning market
economy. We have one of those. In fact, we have arguably one of the
best in the world. It would be a colossal screw up to introduce
socialized medicine here.

Regards,

-Roberto

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