Re: Re: Re: Monopolies
so how's this for my ability to handle abstract concepts? if the government panel had decided women weren't getting enough mammograms early enough, you would have immediately launched into your "nanny state" meme.
Ummm...they did. They changed their mind. This is a small part of something you see in any potential government-controlled medical system: a meme that advanced and accessible medical care is overrated in some way and that we really don't need as much as we think we do.
There are arguable cases for this in some areas, but what raises my interest is that all the "conventional wisdom" was one way a while back, and now that the Democrats are trying desperately to create a health care system that gives everybody what they need but miraculously doesn't cost any more, we suddenly see the bar for "what they need" being inched downward. By the same groups that held the former views before.
The distant end of this curve is Cuba, where there are medical papers years ago showing how wonderful and advanced folk medicine is.