Text 9051, 56 rader
Skriven 2009-02-09 06:25:12 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 9030 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
Ärende: LIMBAUGH ENVY
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Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to J. Fitzgerald:

 RS>>>  "Neo-Marxists?"
 RS>>>  Straight out of the right-wing talking points propaganda manual.

 JF>>   'Manual'?  That's rich.  Sorry, 'Marxism' can easily be
 JF>>   asserted, given the many parallels between that failed
 JF>>   ideology and the ones many of today's Democrats espouse,
 JF>>   starting with nationalized health care, health care for

 BK>  Yet you won't give up medicare, will you?

 BK>  Marxism has never been tried anywhere in this world. OTOH,
 BK>  socialism has been tried repeatedly. Sometimes it succeeded,
 BK>  sometimes it failed, but it has never been without it's
 BK>  capitalistic elements.

 BK>  Nationalized health care has succeeded everywhere it has been
 BK>  done. Some countries has lower levels of success, some have
 BK>  higher, none show results worse than the American health care
 BK>  system.

 BK>  BTW, the American health care system is likely to collapse if
 BK>  the economy keeps falling the way it is. What will you do then?

If the economy collapses - as seems likely - lack of health care is going
to be among the least of our problems.

One will die a lot more quickly from lack of food than from lack of health
care.
Why aren't you folks pushing to nationalize the food production and
distribution
industries?  You don't suppose it's because every time that has been done the
system has failed miserably, resulting in starvation deaths for thousands of
people, do you?

Take the profit motive out of any industry and those who are most likely to
make that industry successful and productive will find another career path or
move to someplace where their talents and abilities will be rewarded.  That's
already happening in the health care field, with more and more providers
opting out of the Medicare system.  While the big population centers may not
have noticed that factoid it's becoming a problem in rural America, which has
an older population than urban America - and fewer physicians per capita to
start with. There is precisely *one* primary care provider for Tricare
(Medicare
for the military) patients in southwest Iowa, and he's in Glenwood - and he's
booked up for months in advance.

And note that for the past couple of decades physicians have been advising
their
children to *not* choose a career in the health care field.  You don't suppose
they just might have a reason for giving that advice, do you?


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