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Re: What would a partially socialist state look like?
Have people really thought about how the U.S. health system works?
I think the people who say we have the greatest health care in the world should remember just where that great health care comes from. How much medical research is completely funded by private enterprise? How many new procedures and treatments and drugs are developed by completely private funding?
Where I live, I am surrounded by CDC facilities of various kinds. I find the best internet medical information on MedlinePlus. I am a couple years away from Medicare, with an income that will qualify me for a lot of benefits.
It is a heavily socialized medical system that is the best in the world. That system is better than the private enterprise partners it supports. I think those private enterprise partners should be required to develop their own research and procedures without government funding. Then people could have a choice between socialized and privatized medicine. I know which I'd choose.
The people who are afraid of socialized medicine are often, as usual, those who are very happy to use the system they attack. Who knows? They may not have got the benefits of a public education.
I probably should repeat what I've just written, in simple words with uncomplicated thought processes, for those people. But I don't want to waste the time of the rest of us, with our socialized education.
--lemit
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The only second chance we get in life is a chance to make the same mistake twice. --David Mamet
A mind is a terrible thing to close.
Entropy is just nature's way of telling us it's time to slow down.
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