Greg G. wrote:
Greg G. said:

Ed Pawlowski said:


"diggerop" toobusy@themoment wrote in message
Everyone, whether privately insured or not, gets hospital
treatment at no cost.

They converted you to a Socialist. Everything has a cost. That is
what scares me about the proposed system, we don't know what the
real cost is going to be. Yes, it would be ice to give everyone
good health care, but who is going to pay how much?

In that case we've been Socialists for years: Roads and highways,
police, fire departments, the military, Coast Guard, water treatment
plants, NASA, the judicial circuits, schools, parks, community power
consortiums... The things people need to live.

Here is an interesting set of charts for your edification:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...20addition.pdf

And a recent interesting story about IBM privatization v. "socialism":
http://www.indystar.com/article/2009...tract+with+IBM

Unfortunately, it is in regards to welfare services, but it could be
there is a lesson in there somewhere...

Business is not designed to give away money--the failed concept is that you
can help people by giving them money without also giving them incentives to
work and the skills necessary to obtain work (which are different from the
skills necessary to _do_ work).