--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex <no_re...@...> wrote: > > "One of my law partners asked me yesterday which > of the Democrats' current initiatives is worse, > the tax on carbon or the health care "public > option," otherwise known as socialized medicine. > > I replied unhesitatingly that socialized medicine > is much worse. Carbon tax-and-trade can rather > easily be repealed once people realize what a dumb > idea it is. > > However, once our health care system has been > destroyed and replaced with "single payer" socialized > medicine, there is no going back..." > > Read more: > > Thoughts on Health Care "Reform" > Posted by John Hindraker > Powerline, June 25, 2009
Single payer is not socialized medicine. Socialized medicine is when the government owns the health care facilities and employs the workers. Socialized means owning the means of production. In this country it is simply used as a scary word to cut off thought. > http://tinyurl.com/lpk9ut >