Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
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.


As far as health care goes, medicare is by far the most efficient
system in the US.

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.


And virtually every other developed nation does have government
provided health care for all of its citizens, free market or no.

-Chris

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