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Originally Posted by lendaddy
The answer is to return to a market driven system, not socialize it.
But being realistic I know that we will at some near point have socialized medicine. It's just a matter of when.
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We probably have more of a "market driven" system than a socialized system right now.
I totally understand where you are coming from and the theory is great: let the market determine the costs. But in reality it often just does not work. Problem is that whenever regulations are rmoved all thwe whiz bangs who run the big outfits figure out how to job the system.
If you doubt this, look at nearly everyrhing that has been deregulated over the past 30 years: rail & truck transportation, airlines, banks, S & L's, insurance, gas and electric utility, phones, etc etc and you name one and it probably is worse after letting the big guys use their political and financial clout to write the rules or create monopolies.