Quote:government monopolies yield only stagnation and mediocre service, and more or less uniform distribution.
That's meaningless george. The government has a monopoly on waging war. Your terms are vague and not compared to anything. Is stagnation holding the line as demand grows. What's mediocre? If it is compared to your ideal I imagine it is condemned to permanent mediocrity.
Sullivan did support Mr Obama in the public prints before the election.
I sense him backing off.
But the real problem is that your health care system is too big to go under. That you can't do anything about it. One might argue that universal health care like ours is the only possibility to prevent the industry running amok. The buck stops with the president then and not in thousands of small companies with litigous customers and getting older actuarially.
But I don't see how you could get there. Can Mr Obama, for example, stick a three-line whip on his Democrats and expel them from the party and run an official candidate against them next time round for failing to vote for his policy.
It isn't really a question george of financial efficiencies. It is a question of discriminatory health care and whether the US is fully civilised if it has that sad characteristic. We still have vestiges of it but there's an agreed level for everybody and discriminations of significance are few. The more expensive methods of treatment are more associated with deference than with anything else. A well washed tramp is not much different to a Duke to a surgeon.
We accept the drain on our resources. And our NHS is disciplined with some rigour.
I see your post as a part of the general filibuster I mentioned the other day.
Some young man recently said on here that he sacrificed a year's wages to pay for his father's treatment. That brought a lump to my throat hard hearted though I am. I consider that a disgrace. And I'm sure there are many more similar cases.