On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Dan Reese wrote: > I still agree with my initial comment however. From everything I've read > about countries who have adopted something like this approach (several > European countries have done so), the quality of their health care has > *decreased*. Those who can afford it come to America for the best (not > the cheapest) care. > > Without living there, though, it's hard to know for sure. My opinion is > that the good old US of A should stay away from it because I would rather > pay more for better care.
Socialism has basically failed in South Africa, in case you're interested. "Free" housing, "free" health care, "free" electricity--that's "free" as in pay over 50% of your income to taxes and watch millions of dollars disappear into the pockets of dishonest politicians and businessmen that was supposed to be spent on all these "free" projects. On the other hand, I don't think socialism fails because there's no motive to do well without profit. I think the bigger reason is that government bureaucracy tends to be a lot more convoluted and inane than profit-driven capitalist bureaucracy. Down at the lowest level, the people are just as motivated. But when the higher-ups can simply vote themselves a pay increase instead of actually working--that's where you run into problems. Just my ~R0.16 ... Ross ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
