ViRedd
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Well welcome back, JRH ... I thought you were on vacation or something. Missed your insightful writings ... even though we seldom agree.She didn't offer any solutions. She was vague and simply provided ample evidence for what she clearly called a common sense idea - that government intervention fails. Why spend so much time evidencing a 'common-sense' claim? Because she has nothing else to offer. Common sense needs no evidence.
And the only solutions she proposed were so vague. Market driven solutions focused on the patient with an emphasis on productivity. Okay, thanks for that... How about you actually produce productive dialogue. Anyone can criticize and tear down another's proposal. Only the intelligent can contribute. Sarah Palin is NOT intelligent.
And I like how she fell prey to the whole death panel thing. Laughable. There's not even a bill being voted on and she's talking about the death panels and rationed care that those with NO health care would receive. She's pandering to fear and showing NO understanding of what is in the early stages of proposal. This early proposal only provides a public option for those with NO private insurance. And there are NO death panels. The fact that she used this imaginary notion as evidence displays her weakness in argument. If she were debating, she failed.
However, thanks for the article Vi. I've been so busy preparing for the collegiate debate circuit that I haven't been on here in a while. I sign on just after returning from a healthy debate practice and see this - kinda nice. Granted, Palin is not an intellectual and has NO idea how to debate, but I like discussing the issue anyway.
Palin is correct that government intervention fails ... at least most of the time. Medicare is broke. Social Security is broke. Post Office is broke, Amtrak is broke. The deficit this year is four trillion dollars. The national debt is what ... 58 trillion?
Also, if the 45,000,000 uninsured figure is accurate, how does a country add 45,000,000 people to insurance rolls, and at the same time, not increase the number of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics ... and NOT ration health care at the same time?
Taking the example of other countries with government health care, the elderly are the first to have coverage rationed. Why would we be any different?
Sovietized countries place most of their importance on those who are still productive. That doesn't included the elderly.
Vi