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Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha
You're so right! and Universal healthcare is just another one of those isms that corrupts the free market. People shouldn't question these things, but they do, and that leads to things like protectionism and universal healthcare which corrupt the system and make it work less smoothly..
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Universal healthcare is better than other forms of protectionism- the kind that will withdraw us from the global market entirely.
Like it or not, policy is run by people. This is one of those things that happens outside of the economy (perhaps an economy all its own). If not the people, then someone uses it to tweek the system in their favor.
And the current state of our "free market" medical system is not so wonderful.
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Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha
And to make sure I prove my point, Don't you think it's odd that democrats are screaming universal healthcare? Is there any other possible way to consider economic "help" from the government? I sure hope so, after all, liberals are the ones that try to impresses everyone with their college intelligence. I would assume that they have better problem solving abilities than that.
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Not sure what all this "proves".
Frankly I'm not all that big on the UH programs that our current crop of politicians are shooting for.
But if they do work in as far as making sure people don't end up with no medical coverage as soon as they lose a job due to global competition... well then, it does the job.
The current system does not. That makes people quite antsy about global competition... makes them not want to compete at all.
You can go ahead dismissing their fears as ridiculous or uninformed or short-sighted or whatever. But those fears are based in a reality... and they aren't going away to convenience you or anyone else.
They will result in either an adaptation that helps us get through this particular period of turbulence... or an adaptation that causes us to withdraw and head backward.
Unless you think you're going to stop all the fear by going up and explaining to people that they will eventually get retrained or fail and someone else will and the market will fix itself.
Good luck on that.