diggerop wrote:

"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
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In the US, we have 87% of people satisfied with their insurance. For
13%
of our people, we are proposing a government takeover of 1/6 of the
economy
(the only way they will save money is by rationing) and spending over $2
Trillion dollars in the next 10 years) -- and government programs never
cost what they are originally projected nor deliver the results promised.
Seems a steep price to pay.


It will interest me greatly to see where it all ends up for the US.



... and herein lies the heart of the issue. The statists often use the
argument that the United States is the only industrialized country in the
world that does not have socialized medicine and therefore we should get
with it and join the rest of the industrialized, free and oppressed world
in implementing it as well. I would turn that around and state that the
United States is the only industrialized country in the world that has a
free market in health care with which 87% of its citizens are satisfied
with their health care. If elements of the remaining 13% are so intent on
the need for a socialized system and feel so strongly that socialized
medicine is so critical, I would suggest that they leave the remaining 87%
alone and find one of the other industrialized countries with socialized
medicine, there are enough that they can pick the strength of flavor of
socialism they desire and, along with their wealth and skills emigrate to
that country where they can enjoy the benefits of the socialized health
care system they so crave. I am sure that any of those countries would be
more than happy to have productive, useful people add to their GDP. Why is
it that people want to take away free choice from the only country that
still has it?


.... snip of Australian medical advances

Very good, although I think you might get some pushback on the penicillin
credits -- Fleming of England discovered it and Florey's work was achieved
at Oxford. I would also note that a significant number of those
breakthroughs seem to have come before your 20 years ago comment about the
start of socialized medicine.


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There is never a situation where having more rounds is a disadvantage

Rob Leatham