>>>Too bad it does nothing to control costs and everything to encourage consumption.
>>>How do you think that equation will end up?
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>>My bet, as a "I told you so... see it can't work". Because that's where it's doomed to end. Will not happen in this country.
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>Yes, unlimited demand meets limited resources.
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>Government Health Care for All: Combining the legendary cost efficiency of the Pentagon with the care and compassion of the DMV.
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>The pity of it all is that a great chance was just squandered.
>We could have enacted a terrific system of second-rate medical care.
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>It sounds heartless to advocate second-rate medical care, but we advocate second-rate services of all other kinds.
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>Mass Transit is second-rate compared to private autos, Food Stamp Meals are second-rate to a good steak house, and Community Colleges are second rate compared to the top 4 year Universities.
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>We are a rich country and can afford BASIC medical care for any person who needs it.
>We cannot afford ultra-luxury care for every man woman and child.
>Heck, we cannot afford ultra-luxury automobiles for every person, or super-luxury vacations either.
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>Get over it.
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>It is a fiction that un-insured people cannot get medical services, nobody can be turned away from an emergency room, so our working poor take their sniffling kids there and use $3,000 worth of services when a free / very low price medical clinic could provide a nurse practitioner visit and generic medicines for less than $10.
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>If free/cheap clinics were lawsuit-proof and had long lines, the indigent and working poor could be served without any pressure to serve the middle class at all.
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>The medical "Reform" in congress was originally sold as providing care to the uninsured, but is just an experiment with socialism.
>It's gonna be great.


Where did you get the idea that the reform bills that just passed are aimed at providing "ultra-luxury care for every man, woman, and child"?