Re: Socialized Medicine: Communists love it!

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From: Rick Ottolini
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:00

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In article <Forum.889670863.31481.matt@mattsbox.pumatech.com> mnichols@pumatech.snip.this.com writes:
>	Moreover, health care is not driven by direct market forces;
>	it's driven by forces filtered by insurance companies. Medical
>	insurance is the primary reason we have such high medical
>	costs - health care pricing isn't determined by what the people
>	as a market can bear, but rather what the insurance industry
>	as a market can bear. Since insurance simply passes off the 
>	high costs (plus some added profit) to the consumers in the

As long as the government subsidizes health insurance, i.e. not taxing
it, you'll see certain kinds of socialized distortions.
But is this bad?  Government subsidy makes more health care more widely
available, but again at certain costs.

Socialism not not just "pure" government health care, but whenever
government gets involved.

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From: rick@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rick Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Socialized Medicine: Communists love it!
Date: 1998/03/12
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