Hillary style health plan to save US

anonymous at coward.org anonymous at coward.org
Sat Dec 22 06:08:50 PST 2001



mattd wrote:

> AU has a national health scheme,I used it to have a graft on my eardrum
> several years back.Didnt cost a cent.
> There are gaps in the system such as long waiting lists and poor dental
> cover,its also under pressure from the economic
> 'rationalists' esp in the liberal party.The only reason I mention such a
> creation of the hated state is that it could  soon be a matter of life or
> death for many septic tanks.The foot and mouth outbreak in Britain would
> have been nipped in the bud a lot quicker had computerized tags been
> used.There's some scrambling around now in the US to shore up sagging
> public health infrastructure.What's probably really needed is something
> like I seem to remember Lady C proposing.I'm boosting 2 things here that
> on the surface may seem anathema to anarchists.IDs for all and
> socialized medicine. Am I wrong to?

YES, you are. The aims don't justify the means (initiatory-force regulation
of healthcare which is what will happen). Besides that you're not going to
reach the aims anyways. Look at what is happening on europe: all
insurances are forced on the government standard -- politicians dictate
what medicine should be used, prohibiting expensive and alternative
products and therapies. The REAL price ultimately includes 
governmentalisation and bureauratization of practiced medicine. People
have to pay more and more for public healthcare tax because the public
insurance (and the gov's healthcare standard to which all insurances
have to adhere) isn't rentable.

Public healthcare was Hillary's masterpiece of economic destruction
back then. Be happy that it didn't come to it. Please don't fall for
those lawyer-type destructions and antiindivdualistic intrusions for
Mrs C's often-cited, very own "social good".







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