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Tom Brosz — (archived)

Just think it through. You are destroying any market balance structure the medical system has, and it doesn't have that much left now. Obviously the coverage can't be unlimited. You can see where that would go. And without prices putting brakes on things, what else will?

Rationing. The only alternative to the market.

Who decides who gets the care? Politicians looking for votes. What politician is going to tell some indigent they can't have a CAT scan for his headache?

Either some voters are going to get hung out to dry, or the budget is going to go up logarthmically. You tell me what the politicians will pick. The Medicare budget is a great example of this.

Also, it's amazing how liberals who wail endlessly about the corruption of government, and the influences of corporations and special interests, are perfectly willing to turn their health care system over to this entity. A world of Veteran's Hospitals.

Who do you think is going to have more influence on the People's Bureau of Medicine? Patients, or the giant drug and medical industries? The potential for the usual mixed-economy abuse is immense.

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