On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I was astonished by some of the objections I saw to universal health care in
> the US. Seemed to be based on some strange misconceptions that must make
> sense from the inside.
>> From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> That's the insanity. It doesn't make sense from any side.
It makes a lot of sense if you're an insurance company -- or employed by one!
The US spends nearly half its health-care dollars on the overhead of insurance,
but insurance companies have a strong lobby, and no one dares take them on.
Even the lame, watered-down version of universal health care that was proposed
(the "Swiss" model, where everyone is forced to buy insurance, with subsidies
for poor people) doesn't address the REAL problem: that about 6% of GNP goes
into a totally unneeded industry!
Instead, you have "corporate welfare," whereby everyone is forced to put money
-- including tax dollars -- into a system that nearly all other industrial
countries find unnecessary.
If "free market capitalism" is so efficient, why is a whole unneeded industry
justified? Especially one that makes its money from the suffering of others?
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