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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
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.
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.
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05-09-2008, 09:45 PM
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