On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:41:57PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Yes, because the government is a model of efficiency. Come on. The > > simplest stratedy is to not tax people so much and let them figure it > > out for themselves. > > Fail. That leaves about 7% of the population, almost 47 million people, > without health coverage of any kind whatsoever. > The government's job is *not* to be a nanny.
> > We are not in agreement. Collective, governmnet-run healthcare is a > > necessity in Iraq because they currently lack a functioning market > > economy. We have one of those. > > Barely. Since Bush came into office, Oregon has seen unemployed & > discouraged rates approaching 25%. > Pardon me while I scoff. I *definitely* have to see some credible source citation for that before I believe it. > > In fact, we have arguably one of the best in the world. It would be a > > colossal screw up to introduce socialized medicine here. > > That would be why Luxembourg and Norway have higher GDPs, right? > GDP: Luxembourg - $34.18 billion Norway - $296.01 billion US - $13.22 trillion Hmm, looks like US GDP is two to three orders of magnitude higher. OK, I will assume that you really meant per capita and forgot it. GDP *per capita*: Luxembourg - $80,288 Norway - $64,193 US - $44,333 All that shows is that a smaller economy can be made to operate more efficiently. Nothing more. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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