CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

[petro]

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>On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:37:42PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
>>  At 09:07 PM 10/22/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
>>   > OK, granted, the government needs to be kept on a tight leash.  Most
>>   > people will not want the government breaking into their homes.
>>   > However, I think most people would be willing to vote for a bill
>>   > that would guarantee insurance for people with genetic
>>   > abnormalities, even
>>   >  that does mean that some CEOs and stockholders will have less money
>>   > in their already-full pockets.
>>
>>  You cannot provide cheap insurance by punishing insurers, any more than you
>>  can provide cheap housing by punishing landlords.  It has been tried.  A
>>  law compelling insurance companies to insure the unhealthy will merely
>>  raise costs for the healthy, resulting in more people going uninsured.
>>
>>  If you want to guarantee insurance for the unhealthy without ill effects
>>  the TAXPAYER has to pay, and I suspect that if this proposition was put to
>>  the public, enthusiasm would be considerably less.  Indeed the Clintons did
>>  put something very like that proposition to the public, and there was
>>  little enthusiasm.
>>
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>Having socialized healthcare would be ideal.  However, I think that

	You obviously know nothing about socialism or medicine.

	Go learn.
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