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Originally Posted by Boreas
Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I prefer to use the exclamation point in place of the "l".
As you say, pure socia!ism doesn't work and social democracies do. That doesn't negate the fact that socialized medicine programs are inspired by and organized according to socia!ist principles and that they can and often do work. Equally, it's undeniable that for-profit health care and insurance does not. When providing the right type and level of care or insurance coverage is first examined on the basis of it's effect on the bottom line, we have a problem.
John
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I agree completely with the idea of single-payer health insurance, though it actually doesn't really adhere that strongly to soc!alist principles IMO (i.e., doctors, hospitals and labs don't work for the state or a publicly owned collective). In fact, if there's any hope for a single-payer system, trying to sell it as inspired by soc!alist principles is a sure-fire way to ensure it never happens.