I'm tired of people telling me how healthcare is something "special" which, unlike every other thing produced by human effort, thought and skill, should be somehow "immune" to market forces.
As though you can simply make a rule that does that, like making a rule that says gravity shouldn't work on Air Force One because it's such an important plane.
I'm not sure public education is the positive example you're looking for. There's a lot of mediocre results that are still costing states more money every year. Education costs per student in the U.S. have tripled in constant dollars in the past 40 years. Are we getting three times the results? Are we turning out better readers and writers now than we were back then? More knowledgable citizens?
Private medicine can't coexist long with a public competitor. The differences would become too obvious. There's a reason the public school bureaucracy is consistently hostile toward private schools, home schools, and other alternatives to the public school system.
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- No need for bipartisanship on healthcare
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- Reality - Conservatives don't want uninsured to have health care. Period.
- re: No need for bipartisanship on healthcare
- We can't afford the current system
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