The point I think Dana was making, that I was acknowledging, is that the drug benefits thing isn't really government run healthcare. It's a metric crapload of _private_ providers that government is trying to wrangle together into one plan, which is doomed to beaurocratic failure.
On 11/15/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater here. > > There's no doubt that just about every one of Mr. Bush policy > initiatives are failures both domestically and internationally, but > he's a victim of his own good ideas. > > If Jim Collins were a political writer he'd categorize Mr. Bush as > "Great idea, horrible execution", which certainly fits. > > If you're a capitalist, which I am, you know that anytime the > government runs anything bad things are bound to happen. > Unfortunately the absence of the government is no guarantee of > success. That means hybrid solutions, where there's clear market > failure, are the way to go. > > In the case of health care the answer seems to lie in consumer driven > health care (CDHC) and responsible fiscal policy that makes a place > for massive costs to come. > > In short, Mr. Bush had the right idea but the wrong implementation. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182079 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
