Re: Okay, so tell me why I should vote for your guy...

On Aug 8, 5:53 am, Tom Enright <freddy_ha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 7, 6:13 pm, Huck Kennedy <tempeh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 7, 2:56 pm, rich hammett <bubbaric...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not if you include the taxes it will take to pay for it.
Yes.  Every other industrialized country gets MORE healthcare
for LESS money.
      That's the one point none of the defenders of our current system
can explain away.

Why explain away something that isn't true?

I don't defend the current system, I just don't want to see a crappy
system get crappier.

Well what's wrong with emulating some of the best features of the
countries who *do* get the most bang for the buck in the medical
world?

Also, since you acknowledge that the current system is broken,
what *do* you suggest, other than "passing a law tomorrow dictating
that drug companies must no longer charge for medicines and doctors
and hospitals must
work for free?"


Ralph Kennedy

"This is rsfc, not the Algonquin roundtable."
-xyzzy, 2/16/07


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